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Evening star., 1935-12-22

cause Of their rarity, as a Government.
made stamp Of low value is too COM
mon to command high premium.
This was the first case in the East
since 1924, according to Capt William
B. Houghton, agent in charge Of the
New York Office Of the secret service.
in which this seemingly curious desire
Of philatelists has been involved. The
reproductions found today we're said
to be excellent limitations Of the real
stamps.
Capt. Houghton said it was possible
that Hoffman's Offices, located in the
downtown financial district, had been
used as a branch once of a stamp ring
which had been operating for some
time.
Evening star., 1935-12-22

tom Of placing burning tapers in
windows.
Tissue paper, himsy boxes and other
Yuletide paraphernalia are hazardous
at all times, especially where there is
an open FIRE and where smokers are
careless with lighted matches and dis
carded stubs. Non-burning contain
ers Of generous proportion should be
freely provided where smoking is prac-
ticed-and these should be kept from
the hands Of children.
Care In Selecting Toys.
In the selection of toys, those with
sharp or ragged edges should be
avoided. Electrical toys should be Sc
lected carefully and supervised while
in use. Moving picture machines are
super dangerous playthings, not only
because the films are easily ignited,
but because fumes from burning film
may be deadly poison. Nitrocellulose-
not used in the more reliable sets for
home use-should be avoided by the
amateur.
AS for the Christmas tree-anchor
it to q solid base and do not place it
near q fireplace or heating fixtures.
Trim it with fre-resisting materials.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Mr.. Christmas Yuletide
with Six Christmases in One House, Day
Promises to Be Merry.

a holiday feature story, and it should
be fun, not work.
But there is one we must mention.
Yes, she's Mary Christmas" and
lives on Twenty-fourth street. Her
husbands name is Richard.
There is a Maj Christmas, U. s. A.,
and we found believe it or not" all
our own-two Christmases who live
in Rosaryville, Md. We didn't call
them up because it would have been
a toll charge, and besides We were 50
afraid they might be enthusiastic.
We did call up the Noel House Boys
Club to find out if it were named for
Noel" The young man at the other
end of the phone scratched his head
his tone indicated that and puck
cred forehead. He said, I've been
around this club all my life, since I
was years old, and I've never been
asked that before I don't know"
But he got another young man who
did know. The club was named for
that Noel, but it's the only French
thing about it. This second young
man reports that it is club for all
nations and has boy members from
nearly all of them.
One Yule and DIR. Claus.
They got together Friday for big
Christmas party, complete with tree,
little gifts, oranges, apples and
candy The members range from
to % years of age, and come from
the neighborhood. The club is
Community Chest beneficiary.
There's one Mr.. Yule in town
Herbert-but he didn't want to talk
about his Yuletide celebration. There's
a DR.. Claus out Cherrydale way and
we called and called to find out if
there is a Mrs. Claus, but got no an
swer. Anyhow. the doctors initials
are H. E. and not S.
The phone book is really Just q
great big Christmas card, full of
Hollys, Pines, Spruces, Noels and
three Bethlehems. (No Mistletoe.)
There are more than three Wisemen
and, of course, the Star.
But we like best of the holiday
names-Mrs. Goldie Newyahr!
Evening star., 1935-12-22
TRAFFIC PROBLEM
FACED BY PLANES
Rapid Development of Fly
ing Makes Situation
Acute, Says Vidal.
BY EUGENE L. VIDAL,
Director of Air Commerce, United States
Department of Commerce.

department. u
The rapid development of flying, and
particularly of instrument and radio
flying in or above clouds or fog along
the airwayS and around large air ter
minals, has created a necessity for air
traffic control.
Basically it is the same problem that
has resulted in stop-and-go lights on
the streets and highways, and in
block signal systems for railroads. In
detail, the aeronautical problem is
much different and in some respects,
more difficult.
- The Bureau of Air Commerce long
has enforced air traffic rules governing
altitude Of fight, passing and over
taking in the air, precedence Of one
type of aircraft over another, and the
like, but these rules are not sufficient
to cover the new situations created by
instrument and radio flying.
Permanent regulations governing air.
way and airport traffic control now
are being drafted by the Bureau of
Air Commerce with the advice and
assistance Of the aeronautics industry
the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast
Guard and Weather Bureau. These
regulations will cover procedure for
flying the airways and for position
reporting. Traffic officers, to COM
municate with airplanes along the
way. receive their reports and give
them instructions, probably will be
necessary.
For airports, the regulations will list
the equipment necessary at traffic
control towers, the experience anc
qualifications necessary for contro
tower operators, standard signals tc
be used with lights and radio to direct
the movements of aircraft. and proce-
dure to be followed by airplanes after
they have been given instructions tt
take of or land.
(Copyright, 1885, by the Associated Press,
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Fathers Suicide
Brings Christmas
TOBettyM yMaySdtti
BY the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, December 21.-Betty
May Satti, who is only 3, is going to
have Christmas tree after all. And
under it she's going to find presents
from such far-removed States as Cali.
fornia, Washington and Minnesota.
Less than two weeks ago her 23
year-old father, Alfred ]. Satti, on re-
lief and unable to obtain funds to
heat his home or buy food, hanged
himself in a police station cell.
He was charged with tapping gas
and electric lines and diverting the
current to his home. But because he
died Betty May is going to have her
first real Christmas
Mrs. Emma J. Satti today had hid
den in various places in the bare
little home marvellous assortment of
gifts from kind-hearted readers of the
story of Satti's suicide. Money, food.
toys and dress goods have been coming
daily.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Christmas Fire Perils Bring
Warnings Il gainst Tragedies

When father puts on his Santa Claus
beard and red suit Tuesday night,
have him make sure they are flreproof.
Boards burn easily, the American
Red Cross warned yesterday, joining
Fire Chief Charles e. Schrom and the
National Board of Fire Underwriters
in giving instructions for avoiding
holiday fire and accident hazards.
"The costume of Kris Klingle and
other decorative materials can be made
safer if sprayed with some hame-proof
material such as q solution of water
glass, obtainable at all drug stores,
Chief Schrom declared.
Now-before the District has been
shocked by a tragic Christmas acci-
dents the time to remember simple
precautions, all agree.
Tragedy Last Year.
Last year, it was recalled, two chill
dren in nearby Virginia were fatally
Evening star., 1935-12-22
BY DOROTHEA ]. LEWIS.

r. CHRISTMAS is going to
M say Merry Christmas" to
W Mrs. Christmas. And all the
4 ' L little Christmases are going
to stand about the bright tree and
reach happily and eagerly for pres
entS and tumble over each other
just like all the little Smiths and
Joneses.
But even if Mr. and Mrs. B. Frank
Christmas of Varnum street insist
that their Christmas is to be cele-
brated in ''just the regular way" it
can't help having little extra glow.
Why, it's their namesake holiday!
Christmas at the ChriStmases''-it
even sounds like bright red holly
berries and plum pudding and tur-
key and cheer.
So we called up to see if it would
be that way. A woman's voice an
swered. Mrs. Christmas?" we asked,
feeling somehow as if we weren't quite
awake. Yes" she said, so matter
of-factly that we came back from
the North Pole to Washington with
q jerk. We stated our errand.
Four Little Christmases.
She vas very nice about it and
asked Mr.. Christmas, and he said it
would be all right, and then they
both explained about lust the regu-
lar" celebration. There are four lit
tie ChristmaseS-Franklin. who is
Il; Betty Jane. IL; Billy Gaines, 10.
and young Master John Whitney, 6.
Happy and Betty Jane don't believe
in Santa Claus, and Billy is a little
sceptical, but John Whitney knows
there's one, with very long white
whiskers.
Yes. the children like their name.
Even the 6-year-old is used to it now
No, not many people annoy them
about it-"annoy" was our word.
The family is French and the
name was originally Noel, but when
they came to Louisiana some gen.
erations back, it was changed to the
English form.
They sign their Christmas cards
"from the Christmases," and once in
q very great while get tired and abb
breviate it to the convenient Xmas. "
One Mary Christmas.
They sounded like very nice holi-
day people over the phone.
There are other Christmases In
town-about nine of them, but some
didn't want to talk about their holi-
days and others don't have phones
and we weren't going out to hunt all
over town for Christmas, with 1t just
around the corner. (Besides, this is
Evening star., 1935-12-22
COUNTERFEIT STAMP
RACKET UNEARTHED
Man Held for Alleged Plan to Sell
Known Fakes to Philatelists
at Premium.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. N. Y, December 2l.-
Jacob B. Hoffman, AZ, was held In
5000 bail today by United States
Commissioner Garret w. Cotter on a
charge of having In his possession,
with intent TO sell. 1000 counterfeit
current 2-cent United States postage
stamps.
Hoffman was specifically charged by
secret service agents with having sold
counterfeit stamps to dealers and COL
lectors of stamps who, although they
knew the stamps we're counterfeits,
were said to have placed higher value
on them as a result. Government
agents explained that philatelists re-
garded such stamps as valuable be-
Evening star., 1935-12-22

burned the night before Christmas
eve. Flames were believed to have
started when 7-year-old boy at
tempted to connect electrical orna-
ments to tree.
Electrical appliances, it is pointed
out, offer hazards that every family
should guard against. Small bulbs
generate little heat and decorations
can be kept from bulbs. Inspection
and overhauling Of last years equip
ment is a good idea. New lighting
sets should bear the approval of the
underwriters laboratories.
Experts for Installation.
Large displays for interior or ex-
terror decorations should be installed
only by experts, with outfits approved
by the Underwriters Laboratories.
When old-fashioned lighted candles
are used, extraordinary precautions are
needed. Dangerous, also, is the Gus
Evening star., 1935-12-22

Charles o. Gridley of the Denver
Post was elected vice president, sue
ceeding Simpson.
Three other officers were elected
without opposition. They were Ken
meth G. Crawford, Philadelphia Record
and New York Post, secretary; Charles
A. Hamilton, Troy, N. Y, Times and
Binghamton, N. Y, Press, treasurer,
and Cecil B. Dickson. Universal Serv-
ice, financial secretary.
Three vacancies on the board of
governors went to Paul Hodges of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Richard l..
Wilson of the Des Moines Register and
Tribune, and Henry D. Ralph of the
Chicago Journal of Commerce.
Evening star., 1935-12-22

Mrs. Florence Jones Vining.
special assistant to the director Of
the Field Division, Federal Hous-
ing Administration, and Col. Hart
G. Foster, also of Federal Housing,
who will marry in the Spring. The
engagement is to be. formally an
nounced tomorrow by Mrs. Winnings
parents, DR.. and Mrs. Neil 3. Jones,
of this city.
Harris Ewing Photos.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
Tariff War Ended.

MADRID, December 81 CP-A
Frsnco-Spanish tariff war, which for
the past five months had prevented
the transfer of many products pre-
yiously exchanged between the two
countries, was ended today with the
signing Of a commercial treaty.
Evening star., 1935-12-22


full term, sue
c e e din 6 Mark
Foote of the
Booth papers oi
Michigan. He was
unopposed for
the office.
Simpson, who
was vice presi-
dent, took over
the reins when
Foote left for the
Philippines as an
observer of the
launching of the
new island gov
am - AT
Evening star., 1935-12-22
1,000-Pound Safe Stolen.

BUFFALO, N. Y. OP).-Because the
Ripley Feed & Grain Co. wants its
pound safe, back in good condi-
ton. it ran an advertisement in a
newspaper giving the yeggs who stole
it the combination. The thieves left
a note requesting the combination be
published to save them the trouble of
blowing it open and destroying records.
Owners of the safe said it contained
500 in cash and all the company's
books.
Evening star., 1935-12-22

Paper. cotton and celluloid decorations
are highly inlammable.
Evergreens dry out quickly and
become q tinder box. Keep the tree
green longer by using base construc-
ton to hold water.
Evening star., 1935-12-22
simpson ELECTED
HEAD OF PRESS CLUB
Acting President for Last Two
Months Succeeds Mark
F0ote.

George w. Simpson of the Houston
Post, who has been acting president
Of the National Press Club for the past
two months. yesterday was elected
Evening star., 1935-03-26
Random
REVEILLES.

|HERE are some people who leap
from bed with the dawn and
presently are heard singing IN
Il their shower; and there are
the rest of us. the great ma
iority, with an infinite capacity for
Sleep and an inexplicable attachment
for a pillow.
Lures have to be devised for them
to begin their day. Alarm clocks SUI
flee sometimes, alarm clocks placed IN
tin pans awake the heavier sleepers,
and there Is one Washington man who
has to be awakened each morning by
his wife, who has learned the quickest
way to get him up Is to put cigarette
in his mouth and light 1t.
One couple here. married four years,
still depends on the brides father to
awaken them each morning with a
ring on the telephone.
And, you'll have to believe 1t. one
early morning singer in -the-shower.
who reaches his office each am. before
7, has list of friends whom he calls
on the telephone at specified hour
each morning to awaken them in time
to get to work. His name is withheld,
he has too many per ons to call now.
FISCAL NOTE.
TOR the benefit of those who read
and run or run and read. the
cornerstone in the old Pension
Office, now housing the General Ac-
Evening star., 1935-03-26

constant crying Is part Of his stock In
trade. 1t shows the K street market.
ing public that one may believe In
signs-his sign. at least.
His sign reads: Fresh Grated
Horseradish!"
FIERY CORRESPONDENCE.
4 SEDAN drew up in front Of Ca
n thedral Mansions on Connect
cut avenue and the driver
alighted.
About an hour later he returned.
On getting back into the machine.
however, he smelled a slight odor Of
burning cloth. Shifting, he traced 1t
to the back seat. Sure enough, there
was a large burned spot-probably
caused by a cigarette tipped from
some passing car.
Beside the burned spot was a note
attached to the seat with pin. II
was brief and fully explanatory.
Evening star., 1935-03-26
Z h / 4
ROMANCE 6v EVAN EVANS

Juan-Silva parted his lips from his
long teeth and laughed.
Maria came in the same way 10
years ago. She had found out that
her two sons had been sent here not
many months before. But one of
them was already dead, and the other
she met crawling down the road. The
chains had been taken from him. He
was free!" Juan-Silva interrupted
himself to laugh again. And so she
is still here-and she is only waiting.
She is paid by expectation"
Waiting for what?" asked the Kid,
For my DEATH" said Juan-Silva.
Montana learns, tomorrow, juan
SiIya's secret.
Evening star., 1935-03-26

Of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial.
The guard will tell you this was
required as early as six months after
the Memorial was opened. because too
little respect was shown for the Eman-
cipator in the pictures being taken.
Whether you remove your hat be-
Evening star., 1935-03-26
FREEZONE
Prompt Help For
Itching Eczema

It's wonderful the way soothing, cool
ing Zemo brings prompt relief to
itching, burning skin. even In severe
cases. Itching soon stops when Zemo
touches tender and irritated skin be-
cause of its rare ingredients. To re-
Iieve Rashes, Ringworm, and comfort
the irritation of Eczema and Pimples,
always use clean, soothing Zemo. In
sist on genuine Zemo. Approved by
Good Housekeeping Bureau, No. 4S74.
S5c, 6Oc, 81. All druggists.
Evening star., 1935-03-26
P%*??zIy;r:x$:%5z@@&z@@zz?: P*?I;:$:5z @2:@!:z

And that's going some! For look at the headlines
that Arow has written in the year automotive news
In day, IS world speed records came tumbling
down before an Arfow De Soto.
Across America this car, with its famous Auto
matte Overdrive, blazed new economy record.
At Monte Carlo, an Airfow was awarded the
Grand Prix as the most beautiful car in its class.
And now, over $4,000 happy Airfow owners who
have driven more than 100 900 miles, testyng
that the AiroW the worlds most amazing They
costs less to than any owned
But the biggest Arflow thrill is you will have to
discover for yourself For there's no way to measure
words to describe the Arows Floating Ride"
This thrilling experience awaits you at any De Soto
Dealers The new price is only $10l5* for all r9odes.
Evening star., 1935-03-26

attendants who deplored the fact the
guests would have to stand.
1T should like to give you all seats"
he said, but tn empty ones Is all
full"
A LACRIMOSE TALE.
livery working morning for four
T. years. at least, one Washington
man has wept as he carried on
his business. In that length of time,
and for so long before even that he
does not mention the number of years,
he has cried. copiously-literally,
bucketfuls Of salty tears.
Is the man sad? Has some great
sorrow cast a blight upon his life?
Is it some vast bereavement that he
will not divulge but keeps heroically
to himself except for his outward
weeping?
No, 1t is none OF these.
The man is j. H. Heitmuller. and
Evening star., 1935-03-26

THE TIME for questioning is The last skeptic
has been sienced The car that shattered a thou
sand out worn traditions is here to stay.
And as proof fit-here brilliant new AirAow
De Solo, even daring more beautiful and surpris-
ing as may be- better performer than its predecessor
Evening star., 1935-03-26
Washington Wayside
Random Observations of Interesting
Events and Things.

counting Office. furnishes an appro-
pirate note on the growing cost OF
Government over the years.
When the structure was erected in
1888. during the administration of
President Chester A. Arthur, the in
scription on the stone shows revenues
of the United States were 1898, ,287,-
582, Of which s99,460,000 went to
military and naval pensions.
For the fiscal year 1896. the esti-
mated receipts are 1891 ,904 ,639,
while veteran benefits will total
$704, 1886, 500.
y X X
DO YOU KNOW
VXyHAT is the largest city west OF
w the Mississippi River and east
of Reno, New?
Los Angeles, of course Get out your
map.
Evening star., 1935-03-26

"Your seat was on fire - I put 1t
out"
4 4 4 Il
ETIQUETTE SIDELIGHT.
AZ NATIONAL park service rule pro-
~ hibits any persons from appear
ing in snapshots with the statue
The Washington times., 1935-01-19

spread the principles of true
Christianity. Today you have
got to think of something else.
And since this is the era when
economic considerations rule
the world, the best excuse is
one that has a practical back
ground of dollars and cents.
For example, you can claim
that the Emperor Of Senegambia
has a lot of highly profitable
oil wells within his domains
which he neglects to exploit,
thereby depriving mankind of a
further supply of cheap gaSo'
line. Or you can draw atten-
ton to the lamentable way in
which the ruling sheik of lower
Arabia has allowed the harbors
of his land-locked country to
fall into utter neglect.
The propaganda bureau of
your foreign office, ably aided
and abetted by their ambassa-
dorS and consuls and the pub
licity bureaus Of the large banks
that have loaned you money for
your expedition, will then do the
rest.
NO EXCEPTION
And so, therefore, as soon as
Signor Mussolini decided to ex-
pand the Italian possessions in
Eastern Africa, it was discovered
that the territories of the NeguS
of Abyssinia were rapidly falling
into the hands of the japanese,
that the Japanese intended to
marry him or his son (if any)
to a princess Of the Imperial
Nipponese family, and that soon
the whole Of Abyssinia would be
flying the Rising Sun Of the
Great Empire of Eastern Asia.
AS few people ever take the
trouble to interest themselves
more than specifically in those
problems that do not in any
way seem to affect their own
lives, the clever publicists of
most foreign powers have long
since discovered that in the mat
ter of foreign propaganda amy
thing goes"
The Italian-Abyssinian quar-
rel will be no exception to this
rule, and thousands of charm
ing, dark-eyed boys from the
Appenine peninsula will give
their lives "to save Western Civ.
ilization from ASiatic aggrandize'
ment. Hooray! hooray! hoo
ray!" Cor whatever they said
when they got dysentery or a
spear through their bowels.
This is such an old story
that hesitate to repeat it
here. But I would like to re-
mind you that birds, historical
The Washington times., 1935-01-19
Politics in the Schools
Let The Public Beware

It should be obvious to the dumbes politician the
people of Washington don't intend to let their schools be
turned to the spois system.
Making the jobs of teachers and others in the school
tenn rewards political aid would convinced bring
about MUCH MORE THAN PASSIVE RESISTANCE on
the part all those who live in and pay taxes in Washing
than that it would probably create terrific
tional revuson against the patronage dispensers
Yet there are two stories going rounds the effect
that the POLITICIAN IS TRYING TO GET HIS HANDS ON
THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.
These stories have already raised storm of protest and
have brought notice that the decent citizens of the commu
nifty will fight against making the school jobs political pap
The first these stories centers around the bill which the
District Commissioners considering and which would give
power direct veto action by the Board OF Educa
tion
The second story the demagoc demand by
the District subcommittee Of the House Appropriations Com
mtee for list of school teachers with the States from which
they were appointed.
We hope that neither these what
some fearthat the HACK POLITICIANS having exhausted
all other Of jobs trying to cH1sEL in on the local
public schools.
seems and probably s preposerous to think that any
Board of Commissioners would countenance much less
ges that the politician be allowed to run amuck in the schools
It is not so preposerous to think that members Of
Congress would desire obtain DICTATIoN OVER AP-
PoINTMENTs IN THE SCHOOLS It will be recalled that
least Representative feels that he has the inherent
right appoint lawyer from his district, who aids him
politically, to post in the District government
But the perls of letting down the bars in the public school
appointments obvious Washington has the patron
age system in action too long not to know that within few
years. the politicians dictated appointments THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS WOULD BE COMPLETELY DEMoRAL1ZED.
The cys schools right in bad enough shape with
adding the impossible situation which would be created
by making the TEACHING JOBS POLITICAL PLUMS.
The very Congressman who to be fostering this danger
toward school politics the who through
ideas of false economy denying the school system the
funds which it needs
Take look at the pending District appropriation bill and
see what provision these Representatives making
ward building up and developing the school system They
are the same ones who DRAST1CALLY CUT THE APPR0-
PRIATI0N FOR NEW BUILDINGS and who refused to in
Gude in the bill penny for purchase of ground
It is impossible to believe that these actually in
terested building up the school SYSTEM and when they start
inquiries to personnel believe that THE PUBLIC
SHOULD BE ON ITS GUARD.