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The Washington times., 1937-10-21

How Fear Of Cancer Made Napoleon
Fearless in Battle. How Tuberculosis
Drove Him to Triumph and How
Gland Failure Sent Him Into Exile
Explained by q World Famous Medical
Scientist in The American Weekly, the
MaEaGino Distributed with Next Sun
days Washington Herald-TimeS.
The Washington times., 1937-10-21

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YOU In preparing result-producing Classified
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The Washington times., 1937-10-21
SAVES SITUATION

SAVES SITUATION
Umberto Mugnai found the gar.
oen scene as difficult as 1t is re.
puted to be and the orchestra be.
came so involved that there was
one OF those dreadful moments Of
The Washington times., 1937-10-21

Off u The football games 81 spin.
ming along 4 country road, yOu'lI feel /
confident Of your chic II you're wear.
Ing one Of these cOlorful sports coats!
SWaggers, boxy and fitted models In
rich Autumn shades. Misses and
women's sizes.
Kann's--Seeond sr1nay h
The Fort Peck press., 1937-05-20

First Plows of Tree Branches
The first farm plows were made
of crooked tree branches and
worked by man power.
The Fort Peck press., 1937-05-20
M4ay!20. 1897


- desk motto is likely to sacrifice
reticence and to no good purpose.
Agenda means things to be done,
items of business at meeting, etc.
You don't begin an epigram and
trust to luck to find a cracker for
the end.
Allow your nature to be thorough
ly explored and you may cease to
be interesting.
If you do your own cooking, you
can get some kick out of hearing
the frying eggs pop.
1t one could live to be one hun
dred he might forget the fool mis-
take he made at twenty.
Agitators owe whatever success
they achieve to the workers dis
satisfaction with conditions.
Men are disposed to have pneu-
monia; but the Almighty gave them
boards and they cut them off.
Failure might bring one a hap
pier life than success that keeps
ones nose to the grindstone.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
Meetings of Stamp
Societies Are Listed

Capital Precancel Club will
meet at the Thomson School
Monday evening at 8 o'clock.
The public is invited.
On Tuesday evening the Col
lectors Club, S. P. A. Branch 5.
will hold its weekly meeting at
Thomson School. Collectors not
affiliated with the club are
urged to attend.
The Washington Philatelic
Society will meet in the Carlton
Hotel Wednesday evening at 9
o'clock. The public is invited.
The Government Printing OF.
flee Stamp Club will resume it's
regular meetings on September
80 at 8:15. The organization
will meet the second and last
Tuesday of each month.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
C2ever Historical N0vel
In Form of Aut0NOgyaphy

"He Did Not Die At Meyer
ling" is as clever a historical
novel as has come to the book
stalls since Anthony Adverse"
In fact it contains some of the
definite romantic atmosphere of
that famous best seller from the
opening of the first pages.
And yet, "He Did Not Die At
Meyerling" is offered not as a
novel but a mysterious autobiog-
raphy. The life story of a
mysterious "R" claiming as his
father the Crown Prince Ru-
dolph.
Rudolph, as all history records,
died at his hunting lodge in
Meyerling with his mistress at
his side. At least the story has
been given credence that the
Emperor Franz Joseph made
everyone tell the story that it
had been a suicide pact.
Now comes "R" to tell us that
he is an American business man.
That he is the son of Rudolph.
That Rudolph did not die where
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
p. 0. assists Collectors
In Obtaining HAWAW C0UerS
Prices
For Stamps
Are Listed

With the 1898 Standard Cata-
logue making its appearance
last. Monday, a cursory glance
at increasing prices of United
States stamps is herewith noted:
noted:
The PROFESSIONALS show no
changes over last year, but
values from 5 cents to IL cents
of the 1851 issue, used, have
been stepped up. There are some
rises in the 1857 issue, with all
of the reprints higher, while
both the 1861 and 1867 issues
were raised in scattered in
stances.
Practically all values of the
1859 issue were increased in
unused condition, with some
used items going up slightly.
The same condition applies to
the 1870,1871 issue, grilled.
Those stamps without grill
showed fewer increases.
COLUMBIAN UP
A mint set of ColumbianS
jumped from $177.30 to $215.20,
and a used set from $12199 to
$148.86. Mint copies of the
1894, 1895 and 1902 issues went
UP generally. with used showing
fewer gains.
The Transmississippi issue
was boosted from 1895 to
$107.O5 mint and from $3.50 to
$685. used, while the Pan-Amer-
leans were raised to 1920 I'm
used: the Louisiana's to $17.55
and the Jamestown's to $3.50.
Appreciate gains were shown
in the 1908 issue, mint, and in
the Blue Papers," with the
three Lincoln commemorative
going to $17.65 (the Blue Paper
is listed at SIS mint. The 1910
issue showed numerous jumps.
but one of the greatest groups
of increases was made in the
sets from 1912 to 1917.
NEW LISTINGS
A change was made in the
Panama Pacific listing. the
orange-yellow becoming No. 400
and the orange No. 40Oa, revers-
ing the previous arrangement.
Another change was made under
No. 563. The 11-cent value, for
merly accorded Nos. 652 and
652a, are now Nos. $3.50 and
563b. respectively.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
Scent Constitution
Stamp Is Probable

First-day sales Of the three
cent Constitution commemora-
tive postage stamp at Philadel.
phia, on September II,
amounted to S8O,1OO and the
number of covers Cancelled to-
tailed 281,478. At the Philatelic
Agency here, on September 10,
the total sales of the Constitu-
ton stamp amounted to $4,000.
No covers were Cancelled at the
agency.
Concerning the possibilities Of
additional Constitution COM
memoratives, it is rumored that
a five-cent denomination for
world carriage may be issued in
the future. AS the celebration
of the Sesquicentennial is not
completed until 1899, it is highly
probable that such an adhesive
will be forthcoming.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
ENGLAND APART

1T was largely a matter of geo.
graphical chance. The mainland
of the continent included many
countries of widely differing
character, but was still all Of a
piece. You needed a map or a
signpost when you were cross
ing the frontier from one to an
other. England lay apart, I'M
mistakably something separate.
Again from his birds eye view
there was no natural way Of dis
tinguishing Sweden from Nor.
way, France from Spain, Rus
STA from Germany, or Italy from
Austria. But at a glance, there
was England, conspicuously it.
self"
England lies apart in Robin
sons heart. What went before
is as important to him as what
might happen tomorrow. Tradi-
ton and instinct are one. SO it
was with Drinkwater and so we
find it with Robinson.
C"RobinSon OF gl1nd."
DrinkWater'S last book. Pub.
lished By Mdcmilldn.)
The Washington times., 1937-09-25

his father the Emperor made
everyone say he did.
Also the author of this quite
interesting and intriguing tale
has a lot of other things to tell
about the Hapsburg dynasty.
The story although done in first
person and very personal in de-
tai was written IN collaboration
with Henry Lanier. author and
editor. Mr.. Lanier disclaims
having done anything but help
in the construction and COM
position. The facts all belong to
"R."
An idea of the intensity and
dramatic possibilities of some OF
the narrative can be found in
the opening where he records
the story of his birth. His
mother was not at all pleased
with finding herself the I'M
recognized wife Of the Prince,
so she tried to throw her baby
out of the window a few hours
after he was born.
("He Did Not Die At Meyer
Hng," By "R," published By
LipDincOtt,)
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
Best Sellers

FICTION
And SO Victoria
Vaughan wilkins Macmillan
Northwest Passage
Kenneth Roberts Doubleday
The Citadel
A. J. Cronin Little
Life With Mother
Clarence Day Knopf
Seven Who Fled
Fred Prokosch Harper
Let Your Mind Alone
James Thurber Harper
NONFICTION
How to Win Friends
Dale Carnegie Simon
The Life and Death of a
Spanish Town
Elliot Paul Random
Education of Hyman Kaplan
Leonard Q. Ross Harcourt
Mathematics for the Millions
L. Hogben Norton
How to Lose Friends
Irving Tressler stackpole
Ordeal in England
Philip Gibbs Doubleday
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
By ]. EARLE MOsER

Two time-honored beliefs in
regard to retirement in the Fed
eral service are shattered in
the Civil Service Commissions
actuarial report to Congress,
disclosed today. Briefly, Cd
few Government workers are
willing to quit before they must
and 90 they live longer after
retirement than had been sup
posed.
Both in tables and support
ing comment the Board of Actu-
aries shows that the number Of
voluntary retirements from the
service is far less than had been
expected, and that many annui-
tants upset a popular belief by
living to a ripe old age. The
Board expresses definite sur.
prise.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25

Doubleday, Doran has added
the following titles to its Janu-
airy 7 publication date: "Theo-
DORA" by Rene Kraus translated
from the German by June Head;
1.-THE Dead Don't Care" by
Jonathan Latimer; ooh Promise
Me-" by Kenneth Koran; "A
Bullet In the Ballet" by Caryl
The Washington times., 1937-09-25

u n / t, M RS.
Henrietta C.
Wright h a S
r e t urned to
Utica, where
her husband,
+ o r merly of
Treasury, has
a &C e pied a
p o 81 ton
Mrs. Eva o.
Steiner will
C on t n u e
work of the
unit, dissent
mating infor-
m a tion re-
nnnelinr alan
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
W|1nged Vict0ry Stamps
To Be Issued at L0uUre

from the Louvre-the present
home of the statue-and later
at other national museums.
They will be sold together
with picture post cards, issued
by these museums, and will be
attached in advance.
The postal authorities have
produced the stamps at the in
stigation of the administration
committee Of the French ma.
tional museum.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
NaZiS Using
Old Plates

Greece will incorporate the
coats of arms of Turkey, Ru-
mania and Jugoslavia with its
own in a set of two stamps is
sued to honor the Little Entente.
Several weeks ago, The
Washington Times published
illustrations of the new Ruman-
ian adhesives commemorative
the Entente.
Germany's reissue Of the
Brown Ribbon stamp in Grim
son and overprinted with a de-
sign of linked horseShoes and
inscribed 81 August 1887 Mum
chen Reim," has given rise to
rumors that the Reich has be-
come so economical that it uses
old stamp plates over and over
again.
The reissue of the Hitler
sheets in several different
forms and the end of sets COM
memorating Nazi achievements,
gives credence to the rumors.
Since the ascension of the
Brown Shirts, Germany has
had a flood of new issues that
marked events which the aver.
age nation would ignore.
However, since the advent Of
the first Hitler sheet no other
commemorative stamps have
appeared.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
First AirnaaiL Route
Started MGy Is, 1918

The first regular airmail
route in the United States was
1naugurated May IS, 1918, be-
tween Washington, Philadel.
phia and New York.
The last Government flight
was made on August 81, 1927, be-
tween Chicago. Cleveland and
New York.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
DrlnkwAter'S Last Book
Tribute to Land He LOUed|
Dol Bonner
New Sleuth,
Makes Bow

Rex Stout, who made Nero
Wolfe" famous as a private de-
tective, is far and away on the
road to doing the same thing
with DOL Bonner"
Dol is a nice young lady who
is through with men. She, Mr..
Stout vaguely explains in The
Hand In the Glove" was done
dirt by a male in the bloom Of
her youth and she is marked
forever.
PLEASANT SLEUTH
Leaving these lame Freudian
reactions behind for the better
things, the reader will find that
Dol Bonner is really about the
most pleasant detective one
could follow.
In the first place she is a
rank amateur with about as
trained a mind as any laymen
who would be a detective. In
the second place, she has no
weird seventh or eighth sense
by which she "just knows who
the murderer is" Dol Bonner
doesn't know up to the last
and she doesn't reveal him until
the reader is ready to do the
thing himself.
NUMBER ONE THRILLER
Even with all these ifs and
butts, The Hand in the Glove"
is a Number i thriller.
P. L. Storrs hires Dol to get
a creepy religionist away from
his wife and daughter. Dol
takes the job with the under
standing that she would accom-
plish the removal process by
vamping him and then discredit-
ing him before Mama.
It just doesn't work out that
way because when Dol goes to
her employers house to start
on the job she finds him neatly
hung. The cops being no
dumber or brighter than usual
have to wait for Dol to point
out a few clues and then they
start in the routine fashion to
harrass everyone on the place.
Their work" keeps on until
another man is killed and Dol
turns up the killer.
r"The Hand In the GloUe,"
by Rer Stout, published by
F1TrGr and RinehGrt.)
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
West Coast
Ship Sailings
Announced
By CHARLES A. KENNY

Washington Times Stamp Editor
In order to be of service to
the collectors of first-day covers
ranked with United States Com
memorative Postage Stamps, the
Post office Department has
worked out the schedule Of
steamships conveying mail from
the Pacific Coast to Honolulu,
so they may make connections
whereby they will be able to Sc
cure the Hawaii covers"
Deadline of port of departure
is October IL at San Pedro
where the S. S. Mariposa will
depart for Honolulu to arrive
October 10, date of the first day
sale.
Air mail service to Honolulu
leaves San Francisco every
Wednesday at 3 p. M. arrive in
Honolulu the following morning
at $50. The postage rate is
20 cents per half ounce. The
final connection for this service
is Wednesday, october 10.
The following schedule, show
ing date. port of departure.
mails close, steamship, and
when due at Honolulu, was ar.
ranged by the Post Office De-
partment:
October /. San Pedro. p M; Ma
lolo. October 6. October 2. San Fran
cisco, 1910 a. M: President Cleveland.
October s. October ). san Francisco,
9 a. m: L. S. Grant October II. 90
tober 5, San Francisco. 1910 a. M:
Maliko. October IL. October Z. San
Francisco. 1910 a. M; Taiyo Maru.
October 10. October 9. San Fran
cisco, 1910 a M: President Adams.
October 16. October 12 San Fran
cisco. 1910 a. m. Mariposa. October
IS October H. San Pedro. p. M:
Mariposa. October Is.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25

With the object of drawing
public attention to the works
of art to be seen in French gal
leries and museums, the French
postal authorities are issuing
new stamps showing the famous
Winged Victory Of Same
thrace."
The stamps, which are in two
denominations, 80 centimes dark
green and IS centimes pale red.
will be obtainable at first only
The Washington times., 1937-09-25

Ralph Turner, Social Sc
curity, is circularizing 1000 U.
F. w. A. members here as to
their educational ambitions for
the District Organizing Com
mittee Gertrude Evans. Of
vets Administration, Arnold
Steinbach, of Social Security,
and Virginia Dean, Farm Sc
curity, are helping him ere
alive writing, cultural courses,
group singing, dancing, dra-
mates, radio script writing and
photography are among subjects
mentioned in early returns.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25

Mary Bieber,
Carroll Di-
mond, Harry
Keller, Kath-
ryn Williams,
Lillian Fowler
and P. j. Fitz-
gibbons a re
delegates to
A. F. G. E.
District De-
D a r t m e n t
from A. G.. O.
. Fitzgib-
bonS is also
president of
the A. G. o.
Lodge Nh q
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
2 Works Suggested
On the Constitution

Little. Brown and Company,
is suggesting for reading in con.
nection with the Constitution
celebrations The Making of
the Constitution" and Con
gress, the Constitution and the
Supreme Court" by Charles
Warren.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25

S ON e t h ing
that was con-
stantly stress
ed by Claude
B a b C o C K
when he was
president OF
the A. F. G.
E. . Bah
cock used this
argument in
his fight for
optional r e.
tirement aft
nv On uOorS'
service, point
ing out that
the Govern.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25

ton laws and arranging tours
to the metropolis AS local reg
stration dates for New York
are from October 4 to 8, spe-
cial trains will leave Washing
ton October 8 and 8 for those
wishing to register. Office Of
the unit is in Room 210, Colo
RADIO Building, Di. TAI.
Tempest Over Error
A mild tempest invaded
WPA's Walker-Johnson Build
ing the other day when a re-
cently.furloughed worker dis
covered the office had sent a
message to his five references
stating he was still employed
;. the worker worried because
his references-all old friends
might think him fibbing when
he told them he was out Of a
job investigation disclosed
a clerical error as the cause.
and WPA assured the former
employee his references would
each get a letter of correction.
StengIe to DenUer
october II will be Pulaski
Day, in honor of the famous
Polish general mortally wound.
ed in the Revolution, and Octo.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25

a 70 r m e r
n e W Spaper
executive and
a native Of
Chicago. :.
E. C ! a u d Q
Babcock IS in
Asbury Park,
N. j., and to-
day is prin-
C1~1 SPCdA~
er b e t o r e
Jewish Di
abled Ameri-
can Veterans.
Federal
Surplus Com
m0ditieS iS to
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
Story About DOG

Marshall McClintock, sales
manager Of Vanguard Press, has
written a story for Saturday
Evening Post. It is built up
around an utterly useless but low
able dog owned by the McClin-
tockS.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
Men Hate to Quit

Men have a greater distaSte
for voluntary quitting than
women, statistics reveal :.
During the five-year period
ended June 80, 1885, but $685.
men voluntarily left the service
among workers whose normal
retirement age is 70, although
the actuar1es had expected a.
351 in their computations
Among women in the same
group $500 out of an expected
1873 quit of their own accord.
The figures were likewise
borne out among those retiring
at 81 and IS.
Among the male clerical and
administrative employees, LAS
were retired for all types Of
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
Speaking Of y. S. Government Workers

reasons during the five years.
ATS reached the age Of IS,
315 reached 80, 174 lived to be
IS, 104 survived until 80 and
three entered the 100-year
class,
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
Red Ink Needed

It was the A. F. G. E. also
which broke" the first news Of
the retirement funds insolvency,
Babcock informing Congress of
the condition in the autumn of
1884 Today it's even worse
than ever, actuaries report,
Uncle Sam owing almost two
billion to the annuity fund If it
is to be solvent.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
The Story
OF a Day of
Suspense

Hall of Mirrors" by Lenore
G. Marshall, stems from that
school of writing fathered by
Call it a Day" and Time at
Her Heels" 1t all takes place
between one morning and the
next dawn. By virtue of some
serious character study and a
warm, convincing style, Hall
of Mirrors" makes a more pro-
found impression. Call it a
Day" was delicious domestic
farce and Time at Her Heels"
was a page out Of practically
any woman's diary.
Nevertheless. if you liked
either one you'll probably like
them all.
Hall of Mirrors" is the por-
trait Of a woman In passing.
She is seen through the eyes of
her servant. her children, her
husband, her secretary, her en-
ployer, her friend, her mother
and her doctor. In turn we see
each of these characters as they
see her. Finally We see Mar
garet alone. threatened with
blindness. filled with a terrible
dread-and the picture is COM
plete.
FATE UNSETTLED
People who shun anything I'M
pleasant will be appalled, at the
author for leaving her heroine's
fate unsettled. Readers in quest
Of reality will say that what
happened later was another
story. The author set out to
show Margaret as she was, at a
particular time in her life, and
the author succeeded.
Besides, Margaret Is not
actually blind. There is uncer-
tainty about her vision, but
hope. The optimistic reader may
plot his own ending along hap
pier lines if he wills it. At any
event Margaret has found suS-
tenance in self-evoked courage.
Mrs. Marshall concludes with
the conviction that her heroine
will be ready for whatever
comes.
TRUE TO LIFE
Hall of Mirrors" therefore, is
true to life and consistent to
its final chapter. Mrs. Marshall's
facility of expression and great
understanding of why we behave
like human beings make every
thing she writes memorable.
("HaU of Mirrors" the story
of a day of suspense, By Lenore
G.. Marshall. Published by Mac.
milldn.)
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
Will Appeal
Children
And Adults

John Drinkwater is dead but
he will go on living in literature
so long as there are books to
read and people to read them.
1t Is not our purpose here to Sc
lect which Of his works will best
endure but merely to report on
Robinson Of England, his final
salute to the land he loved.
1t has often been said that a
book with a wide appeal for CHI
dren has the greatest chance of
immortality as witness such
sweet but lightweight stories as
"Pollyanna" and "Anne of
Green Gables" which began by
being read by adults and ended
as school girl favorites.
GOOD CHILD's BOOK
Robinson of England" has
nothing in content or treatment
similar to these two books. 1t
will, however, be just the thing
to put before a young and in
quiring mind. 1t might almost
be called a child's history of
England. Not that adults will
be bored by it. To the contrary,
Mr.. Drinkwater's sly sense of
humor and the novel device en-
ployed in linking real and fic-
tionary figures completely safe
guard the interest of his older
following.
Robinson is best described as
man in love with England. To
read of his enthusiasm is to
share it. And to share it is to
read on with increasing delight.
AS he expressed it, England,
had throughout history been a
particular object of attention in
the civilized west and a magnet
to foreign influences.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
A Free Tip

Tip: Somebody with a lunch
wagon or cart could make a
moderate sum daily at Third st.
and independence Avenue S. w..
where IS G. A. o. workers are
stationed IN the Firestone Ga.
rage but have no cafeteria ia
cilities anywhere near.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
Do You Like IT.?
Mary Lair, ct al.

Add pleasant Federalites:
Dark.haired Mary Lair, of d.
vision of Grazing, Interior
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
The Other Side

The other side Of the story,
however: One Of the councils
most powerful figures says he
doubts" the rumor and doesn't
"look for any such action"
Admits, however, that after the
A. F. L. convention the budget
committee, including Stengle.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
BabcOck's Prediction

While the actuaries were sur.
prised at the reluctance to quit
voluntarily. this tendency is
The Washington times., 1937-09-25

buy up apples to raise market
prices. Agriculture'S 1888
year book will be devoted to
soils; the 1899 volume with nu-
triton for both humans and
animals.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25
Books Announced By Doubleday DOran

Brahms and S. J. Simon and
1.-THE Tree Drops a Leaf" by
Ruby M. Ayres.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25

1.-THE Enemy Gods"
The new Oliver LaFarge novel,
1.-THE Enemy Gods" will be pub
lished in November by Houghton
Mifflin.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25

Cecil Custer, Berniece Heffner
and Vice Proxies James Camp
bell, of Dayton. and John Dan
iels, of Philadelphia, will go
over the pay roll to decide finan-
cial program for the coming
year Also admits that Glass,
while charter president, is &C
tually an employe of national
office. and legally could be de-
prived of duties and salary,
leaving only his title Gen.
eral opinion that Glass knitting
would deal A. F. G. E. a black
eye remains unchanged.
The Washington times., 1937-09-25

menu WOulQn 1OSS UGCduSS lew
employees are willing to step
down.