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Evening star., 1937-03-19
HALF OF ESTATE WILLED
TO G. P. O. PRESSMAN

julius w. Burkhardt, a pressnan
at the Government Printing Office,
will receive half of the estate of his
late nephew, Oscar Ives Burkhardt,
according to a dispatch from New
York today. The estate was valued at
s97603 net in an appraisal filed there
for State transfer tax purposes.
Burkhardt lives at 20 Franklin
street northeast
The remaining half of the estate
goes to another uncle, John c. Burk-
hardt of Detroit, who was named
executor
Evening star., 1937-03-19
SOROPTIMISTS FROLIC
Celebrate st. Patrick's Day With
"Night in Kitchen"

District Soroptimists, Soroptimisters
and their friends spent a Musical
Night in the Kitchen" of the Lewis
Hotel Training School, Washington
Circle, Wednesday, in celebration Of
the feast of st. Patrick.
There were food, songs, games,
Evening star., 1937-03-19

dances and instrumental music to
please the guests, whose evening was
ended by a political talk by Mrs Caro-
line Stephen, soroptimist, just back
from Bermuda.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
80 in Spokane Illiterate.

Only per cent of the population
OF Spokane, Wash, are classed il
literate.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
PEACE IS DESIRED
IN C.L. 0. OIL DRIVE
Union Leaders and 0per.
ators Both Hope to
Avoid Strikes.

(ThiS is the last OF a series con-
cerning labor conditions in the East
TeraS oil field, cente rot John L.
LeWiS' c. /. O. organisation driUe in
the petroleum induStryJ
Evening star., 1937-12-19

Peiping postmark of November 8,
with a rubber stamp inscription of
the American Embassy: mo stamps
available. Postage due &c."
Adelaide johnson, sculptor, in q
letter to The Star calls attention to
the fact THAT 200 million Susan 3.
Anthony stamps, reproducing her
marble portrait of the suffrage leader.
now are making their way over the
world"
Those interested in the forthcoming
Swedish Tercentenary stamp and in
the commemorative authorized in
Sweden for the same celebration should
write to the Swedish American Ter
centenary Association, Inc, $50 Fifth
avenue, New York City, for copies Of
an attractive pamphlet by Naboth
Hedin now available. Inclose return
postage.
Mobile Benedetto Capomazza del
Marchesi di Campolattaro, secretary
Of the Italian Embassy and a stamp
collector Of distinction, will be guest
of honor at meeting Of the Wash
ington Philatelic Society, Hotel Carl
ton, Wednesday evening, January 49,.
Ruth Holtgreve, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Holtgreve, 5407 Caro-
lima place NV, has a Scotty dog
which, appropriately enough, she has
named Penny Black.
Collectors are advised TO obtain
good copies Of the Hawaii, Alaska,
Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands stamps
Evening star., 1937-12-19
NEWS OF THE MOTORING WORLD F;
American Road Building Sets New Offered for Best
Articles on Highway Industry-Motor Tax Hardships

the States, but the funds for elimina-
ton of crossing hazards are direct
grants.
Speaking Of road building here is
additional news.
An all-expense trip to the 1888
Road Show and Convention OF the
American Road Builders Association
in Cleveland. Ohio, January II to 81,
will be awarded to the State highway
department employe who writes the
best article on selected phase of the
highway industry and profession.
This trip and 154 other prizes are
being offered in a contest sponsored
by the American Road Builders As
sociation to further its desire for
these employees to become better ac-
quainted with the aims and purposes
of the association and take an in
terest in all its activities. Two Sec
ond prizes of $75 each toward ex-
penses of the trip to the road show
convention, two third prizes of $25
each toward expenses Of this trip,
so fourth prizes of two-year member
ships in the association, and 100
fifth prizes of one-year memberships
are other awards slated for contest
winners. All employees of State high
way departments, excepting chief en-
gineers, commissioners and depart
ment heads, are eligible to compete.
Entries will be received by the State
Highway Contest Committee, 952 Ma
tional Press Building, Washington,
D. G., and n:.:5t De mailed by Decem-
Der %, 1887. Contest results will be
made public not later than January
Z, 1888, and arrangements will be
made at that time for the presenta-
ton of the prizes.
Judges for the contest are Repre-
sentative Wilburn Cartright of Okla
homa, H. K. Bishop, chief, division
of construction, United States Bu-
reau of Public Roads; H. F. Clemmer,
engineer of materials and tests, Dis
trict of Columbia; Roy d. Crum,
director, Highway Research Board;
DR.. H. c. Dickinson, chief, division of
heat and power, United States Bureau
of Standards, and H. C. Whitehurst,
| director of highways, District of Co.
lumbia.
"Used-car motorists" of the United
States, constituting nearly 81 per cent
Evening star., 1937-12-19
YOUAND Y0URCAR
AIDED BY RUSSELL
Incorrect Spacing of Shoes
From Drum Backing Plate
Chatter Cause.
By FREDERICK C. RUSSELL.

A trailer that's not new in the
motor world is the motor cycle cop.
Chatter in some braking systems
shoes from the backing plate Of the
drum, rather than to incorrect clear
ance between the shoes and the in
sides of the drum, or to the condi-
ton of the lining itself Where this
is suspected it is possible to change
the position of the shoes slightly by
putting bolt through each shoe
from the back, locking it in place.
Chatter can often be stopped by this
simple process of pulling the shoe
out very slightly.
Making Axle Types Simple.
I am indebted to an engineer
friend for reducing the technical ex-
planation of the difference between
MITIGATING, three quarters floating
and full-f1oating rear aXles so that
the whole thing is less Of a mystery.
The semi-type has an axle which
goes out through the wheel to which
it is keyed. Thus the wheel and
axle are single unit. The inside
end of the axle is joined to the gear
with a nut.
In the three-quarters floating type
the wheel rides on the end of the
axle housing, the outside end of the
axle being keyed to the hub of the
wheel. It should be obvious that in
this arrangement the axle does not
carry any of the cars weight.
Suffice 1t to say that in the full
Evening star., 1937-12-19
BY James Waldo Fawceff.

According to Die Postmarke, Vienna.
both governments" in Spain ARE so
hard pressed for money that private
individuals are being sold concessions
TO issue stamps" H. e. Harris g.
Co., Boston, say: "Our advice to deal
ers, and We hope they will pass it
along to their customers, is to avoid
the Spanish 'suspiciopals' until tkeir
exact status is clarified and better un-
derstood. To buy them now at the
high prices which are being asked in
some quarters Is particularly risky
business"
The new stamps Of Southern Rho
desia, showing a portrait of King
George vi in military dress, are
available in 13 denominations-1kp,
green; 1p. red; Zap, brown; 4p. Or
ange; 6p, gray; 8p, turquoise blue;
9p, sky blue; 10p, purple; 1sh, green
and black; 1sh 6p, ochre and black;
2sh, brown and black; 2sh 6p, pur-
pie and dark blue, and ssh, green and
dark blue.
Salvador has q new airmail series
Of seven values, listed as follows:
l5c, deep yellow; zoe, dark green; Csc,
purple; 30c, brown; 40c, deep blue;
&c, black; So, carmine rose. The de-
sign represents plane in flight over
the Church Of Panchimalco.
Philip H. Ward, jr., now resident IN
Philadelphia, but still at heart q
Washingtonian, was philatelic Wis
itor at the White House recently. He
Evening star., 1937-12-19

OF the total car owners of the Nation,
have approximately one-third more
children than the buyers Of new cars
in the higher-income groups, studies
by the American Petroleum Industries
Committee have revealed.
Families in the $40 10 $50 a week
income class, which comprises most
OF the used-car owners in the country,
have an average of as persons in the
family. Those with incomes of more
than $50 week, on the other hand,
average about 3.75 persons, consti-
tuting family with one third less
children.
With more mouths to. feed from
lower incomes, the burden Of excess
sive automotive taxation falls heav-
lily on the Nations "used-car motor
ists," whose incomes have never been
large enough to permit the purchase
of a new car, Industries Committee
concludes. These motorists pay an
average of more than $50 year in
automotive taxes, of which $50 or
more Is gasoline taxes. The annual
automotive tax burden is equivalent
approximately to two weeks wages of
each of the millions of "used-car mo-
torists" in the United States.
Since car-owning families with in
comes of more than $50 a week-the
so-called new-car market constituting
one-third of the Nations families
are not having sufficient children to
reproduce themselves, the population
level is being sustained by the used
car families and the no-car families
Pointing out that the great ex-
pansion in automobile ownership dur
ing the last decade has been largely
in the low-income groups and that
the burden of the great increase In
gasoline taxes falls heaviest on those
least able to pay them, the commit
tee asserts that those facts should
stimulate Federal and State legis-
lators to afford some measure of tax
relief to the millions of "used-car
motorists" Fifteen years ago, when
most automobiles were owned by fam
lilies fairly we'll off, the annual gasoline
tax burden per car was about IS.
Now, when majority Of the cars on
the road are owned by families with
incomes of $40 to $50 a week, the
annual gasoline tax burden is above
$50.
Evening star., 1937-12-19

floating type the arrangement is
much the same as in the three
quarters, except that the outer end
OF the axle is not keyed to the
wheels hub. The joining at the hub
Is by means Of spider which has
teeth interlocking with other teeth
in the hub. The main feature of this
third type is that the axle can be
removed without disconnecting it at
the differential, there being no nut
to hold it.
Output Was Slipping.
A reader who checked over every
thing he could think of in an effort
to solve the problem of low generator
output finally remembered that the
drive of the generator on his par
ticular car is by belt 1t naturally
suggested looking to the belt to see
If it was slipping.
Another common cause of low out
put is dirty commutator. This
can be cleaned with the aid Of a
little fine sandpaper. Never use
emery paper, as the fine particles Of
emery are conductors of electricity
and will cause trouble if they work
into the commutator Sudden ces-
sation Of current is usually due to
a brush sticking to the point where
it "hangs up"
Mechanic Joe Speaking:
Several years ago engineers dis
covered that leakage of Oil into the
clutch was largely due to vacuum
in the clutch housing. To kill this
vacuum they put a vent in the hous-
ing. Now they are discovering some
what the same situation with the
differential.
If grease is sucked from the
transmission back to the difTerential
on your car it is probably due to
excess vacuum in the latter. To kill
this vacuum remove the top cap
screw that holds the cover on and
drill small hole in it lengthwayS.
When the screw Is replaced there
will be sufficient vent in the housing
to stop the unwanted movement of
lubricant"
Here Is Your Proof.
Car owners who are weary with be-
ing warned against oyeroiling certain
Evening star., 1937-12-19

parts Of the car, such as the springs,
the distributor shaft, the water pump
shaft and other important units of the
car, should be interested i'll the ap-
pearance of the new types of springs
for rear ends of cars. These have been
adopted chiefly to eliminate the fac
tor Of fabrication. Since no oiling Of
these springs is required, there is at
once an end to the problem Of how
to keep the springs balanced between
an excess of oil and not enough Of it.
Evening star., 1937-12-19

called upon President Roosevelt with
a specialized collection of United
States stamps appraised at 100000.
A. j. Moore, writing to Mekeers
Weekly, says: II have just broken up a
collection in which the stamps were
inclosed in one of the patent covers,
cellophane folded in strips to be cut
to length as wanted and found nearly
every mint stamp stuck tight to
the protector. Most of them were re.
moved without injury, but the gum
in every case, through pressure of
album leaves, had taken on a smooth
ness and gloss equal in every wa 20
the finish of the cellophane to which
1t was stuck. The stamps now re-
semble regummed items"
Radio commentators, like newspa-
per writer's, find it difficult to forget
that the tuberculosis Christmas seals
once-until 1920-were called Red
Cross seals" Perhaps, however, the
error does no particular harm. The
seals, regardless of name, do the work
for which they are intended Stamp
collectors find them an interesting
Side-line.
r. H. Feltwell Is in receipt Of q fas-
cinating philatelic souvenir of the war
in the Orient 1t consists of blood
red envelope addressed to Rev. and
Mrs. A. P. Wilson, 4217 Sixteenth
street N W washington and bearing
Evening star., 1937-12-19

Representative Robert E. Luce Of
Massachusetts, believes that "only per-
sonages of national Importance should
be honored by postage stamps"
Evening star., 1937-12-19

Eugene Klein of Philadelphia has
announced the acquisition of the Law
ton collection of United States en-
velopes, generally regarded as one Of
the largest in existence.
Evening star., 1937-12-19

The late Col. E. H. r. Green, wealth.
lest of stamp collectors, used a special
adhesive of his own design on mail
sent from his home at Round Hill,
Mass, but his letters probably did not
travel very far without ordinary
United States stamps affixed.
Evening star., 1937-12-19
STAMPS.

STAMPS.
s. Gisaptio ~ Bhopal Trianrle. Turks c.ieO,.
Everything Sc with approvais. Vitinr
III Hanson Place. Brooklyn. NY.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
,,s -, 8, 'G%Ssi T%sh4 '1s sHSf Sf'a
GIVE STAMPS FOR CHRISTMAS
a complete stock Of packets, albums,
PoToMAC STAMP SHOP srs st. NV.
Come in and look around" ""'
WHITNEY'S STAMP MART
40. 10th st. NV. Met. 1911.
UYENO'S STAMP SHOP
1908 Penn. Ave. NV. Met. soI4
NATIONAL STAMP MART
1917 st NV. Rm. al. Dist. s.17
STAMP ALBUMS
stsea soSk;i Catalogues, New Sets. sinrls
HARRY B. MASON, SIS F NV.
STAMPS FOR eHFMI;sIMAs M;yt GIFTS
Set National Parks, perforate, is TO 1oe SO 80
Set Fariey,s: complete t2O)-----.--a.e5
Set Nationai Parks. Farley's: 1c to 100 100
times the price Of singles,
RAYMOND l.. TAYLOR
123 Euclid st. w. Adams 1890
National U: s.. Album m-S598 (ReE. Sf.eO
J g3S standard Catalog $3.50 (Res, S3j
1888 U. :. Coin Currency Catalog so
SCOTS Specially Albums & Sheets
Honduras Constitution STAMP kO
New Belgian Princess (S) 'SS
New switzerland Projuventute (D C.35
New LuxemberE, Wenceslas Statue f6) IS
Advance orders for Guatemala Shs>xe
CULLEN'S STAMP SHOP
900 G. st. NV. Open Even Until Xm..
Evening star., 1937-12-19

There is possibility that a minia-
ture sheet will be authorized for the
1888 convention Of the American Air
Mail Society.
Evening star., 1937-12-19

Otho Rogers. philatelic agent, was
host to the Rev. Father John F. OHur-
ley and friends at supper at the Army
and Navy Country Club, Thursday eve
ming. Those present included Repre-
sentative James M. Mead Of New York,
Acting Third Assistant Postmaster
General Roy M. North, John M. Smith,
superintendent Of the Postage Stamp
Evening star., 1937-12-19

The report that the Post Office De-
F .rtment is considering new stamped
envelopes for regular and airmail use
has been denied by certain philatelc
writer's, but future developments will
show who Is right.
Evening star., 1937-12-19

Robert A. TrauX, member Of both
the Washington Philatelic Society
and the Washington Collectors Club,
won a silver plaque for his exhibition
Of street railway cancellations at
the National Stamp Show, Newark.
Evening star., 1937-12-19

The Chamber of Commerce, Beth
lehem, Pa, announces that all Christ
mas cards and letters sent in their
care for mailing will be marked with
special Christmas seal. All covers,
of course, must be addressed and fully
prepaid for postal transmission,
Evening star., 1937-12-19

Greece soon will issue three low
value stamps to commemorate the
wedding of Crown Prince Paul.
Evening star., 1937-12-19

Arthur H. Lamborn left his stamp
collection to be sold for the benefit of
the Westtown School and Union Theo-
logical Seminary.
Evening star., 1937-12-19

Filatelikus, the Columbia University
Stamp Club, is sponsoring permanent
Nicholas Murray Butler trophy, to be
awarded for the best frame of stamps
showing original research exhibited at
the Annual intercollegiate Philatelic
Exhibition, to be held at Columbia
University February % to 26.
Evening star., 1937-12-19

Because OF the holiday there Is no
meeting OF the Philatelic Luncheon
Group scheduled this week.
Evening star., 1937-12-19

Harry A. Fox is preparing an exhibi-
ton Of all the miniature sheets thus
far issued and c. H. Vaughan soon will
be ready to show his surface-printed
stamps Of Great Britain Both will
appear in the 1888 program of the
WASHINGTON Philatelic Society.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-20

with Carol and you went let
me see ."
How did you know that ?" he
asked quickly.
"You wrote me-" she answered
gently. "And I'll tell you the rest.
After the bouts you and Carol
went out somewhere for a bite of
supper and you danced. You had
a good time and your wife was
far away, and on a lonely night,
you thought you'd call Carol up
and ask her if she'd take pity on
you and she did. Right 2"
Right" He said it before he
thought of a better answer.
"And So" she said slowly but
lightly, "it got to be habit. First
thing you knew people were say
ing that the reason Janet Paynter
had gone east was because she
was leaving her husband. Before
you could blink an eye, the scribes
were linking your name to Carols
and your public didn't like the idea
of an idol deserving his faithful
wife and the studio heads called
you in and said you'd have to do
something about it."
Janet didn't realize as she made
up her tale how closely she had hit
the truth. She had Aunerringly
found the outline. And she had
avoided the filling in as neatly as
though she had arranged it. She
avoided it even in her own think
ing. -
Joel reached for her hand. She
gave it to him but she didn't relax
it in his big one,
Honey" he said, you're a
woman in million! I've heard
about understanding women but I
never thought I'd be lucky enough
to marry one. Where do you keep
all those brains in your pretty lit
tie head?"
Janet felt the weight of his
anxiety lift as though she had car
ried the burden herself.
why should be understanding
Joel? There isn't anything for me
to understand, is there ?"
"No, Of course not" he said
hastily. Janet thought: If only
he wouldn't answer so quickly as
though he were telling me that
I'm making up the story he wanted
to tell me and not the truth.
"XOu know how folk are out
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-20

here" he was saying, "they make
mountains out of molehills. Just
because Carol and ;"
Carol and /! Jealousy was a
rapier-thin, red-hot knife cutting
through Janet's heart. Just to
hear him say it so Intimately!
g. happened to meet occa-
sionally in the commissary for,
lunch, they got buzzing."
Janet wanted to say that Carol
wore his orchids. She didn't say
it.
sCarol's a darn sweet kid and
she had nothing to do with it. She
said she didn't want to see me any
more but I told her I'd tell you all
about it,"
Two thoughts crowded in on
Janet. She didn't think that any
woman who had divorced three
husbands was correctly classed as
"a darn sweet kid". And she
thought that the future tense
wasn't very fiattering. Joel had
said, It'd tell you all about it."
She doubted very much if Carol
Griest had said she wasn't going
to see Joel any more for any other
reason than that she knew her men
and she knew that was the. one
thing to say to Joel.
She hated Carol Griest but she'd
never let her know that; or JOEL
either. a
She was prepared for her own
benefit and for the benefit, Of all
who might see to greet CarolF
Griest-should she be at that party
like long lost sister. She was
going to, be so close to Carol
Griest, she'd perplex even that
lady.
But she wasn't prepared to seel
Carol greet her husband with al
lingering, "Darling!" Or favor
him with a glance of such pityI
after a quick glance at Janet that
there was no one in the room who
missed it's implication "You poor,
dear Joel, with that dreadful little
wife come back again" it seemed
to say.
Hello" she said to Janet, show
nice that you're backw
isn't it," Janet said. "Now
We'll all have a lot Of fun to-
gether"
ITO Be COntinued
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-20

Norma May LOngnecker
Norma May Longnecker of Tray.
erse City, Mich, writes verse, but
she also can bake cherry pie. She
is so adept at the latter that she
has been selected champion cherry
pie baker of Michigan. AS such,
she completes with girls from
other states in Chicago, Feb. q.
for the title Of Americas No.
cherry pie baker.
s-CentrGI Press
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-20

Custody of Sheila Ann Tomlinso0.
four-year-old daughter of D. W
Tommy Tomlinson, experimen.
tai flyer, and Mrs. Virginia s.
Tomlinson, author, was given to
sisters Of Notre Dame de Sion in
Kansas City, Mo-, following a
dramatic court fight. Pending a
hearing, Mrs. Tonlinson was de.
MED temporary custody following
the awarding of divorce to Tom.
linSOn.
Central Press
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-20

Labor's two giants, William Green left, president
of the American Federation of Labor, and John I,
Lewis right, president Of the United Mine Work.
ers Of America and leader of the rebel Committee
for Industrial Organization, have come to grins
over control of the nations labor forces. At the
moment Green is fighting custer proceedings bv
the United Mine Workers, the union of which he
has been member for AZ Years and through which
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-20

he climbed to the presidency of the A. f. of l.
Angered because Green had termed the General
Motors strike settlement g. Surrender on the
part of Lewis, the mine workers policy committee
passed resoutionto expel Green for his treason
able attitude. Green who theoretically holds his
A. f. of L. position through his active member
ship in the u. M WA, declared he would Aght
custer proceedings to the last ditch
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-20

Attempted Jail break at NeosnO,
Mo-, was frustrated by Mrs. JOIN
Brock, above, wife Of Deputy
Sheriff John Brock, in the face o.
death threats to her HUSBAND
Mrs. Brock heard a comnloIio"
In a jail cell. She found her nus
band nenaced by three prisoners,
one Of whom brandished a KlliIe
and all of whom threateneu "
kill Brock unless she opened llso ".
door. Brock commanded his VIZ
not to do so. She ran Tor ne'P'
The prisoners were subdueu'
Central Press
The Washington times., 1937-09-28
400 TO ATTEND
POLICE FARLEY

Catching crooks, no matter on
which side of the Canadian border
they elect to hide, will be the
theme of speeches when the
twenty-thiru annual convention Of
the International Association for
Identification opens here tomor-
row.
Four hundred delegates, promi-
nent in police work in this coun-
try and Canada. are expected at
the convention, which closes Satur-
day.
Father Edmund ]. Walsh, Of
Georgetown University, will open
the meeting Several Senator and
Representatives will speak.
, Deputy Commissioner s. T.
Wood, of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, tomorrow will dis
cuss international Cooperation
in Identification Problems"
The Washington times., 1937-09-28
TRIO IN $4,000
STAMP BATTLE

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Sept.
% ON. S0.-Three-way battle
over a $250,O00 collection Of
stamps today featured a probate
court trial over division among
heirs of a 100000 estate left by
the late Frank R. Sweet, mayor Of
Attleboro.
Principals in the battle were
four-year-old Frank r. Sweet, jr.,
and his half-brothers, William O..
Sweet, 10, student at a Boston
school, and Herman r. Sweet, pro-
fessor of Botany at Harvard.
Clarence R. Barnes, attorney
for the youngest son, claimed the
stamps, now in possession Of Will
liam, as well as thousands of dol
lars in other assets, were trans
ferred by the late mayor to his
sons for the sole purpose of es-
Gaping taxation, that the mayor
always held strings" on the gifts,
and that they should go into the
estate. Mayor Sweet, Barnes said,
never paid a personal tax Of more
than $50.