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Evening star., 1939-01-07
BY LAWRENCE CROLIUs.

II your oil or gas heating plant
has been busily eating chimney
f1ues and vent pipes you should
welcome with open arms a new de-
vice which the manufacturers claim
will stop all that difYlculty. As YOU
probably know, the moisture which
causes all the trouble is q product
OF combustion and is laden with
chemicals which delight in disin-
tegrating tin pipes and even brick
chimneys themselves.
The unit we have reference to
was developed to do away with this
condensed moisture. 1t doesn't do
anything about eliminating the
moisture in the flue gases, but in
stead 1t removes 1T before 1t can
do any real damage. The whole out
Mt consists of small metal unit
which Is placed in the chimney
where the t1ue pipe is connected.
The unit is made entirely of enam-
eled iron, so that it is impervious
to attack itself, and is connected
to the bottom of the chimney liner.
Thus when moisture is condensed
inside the chimney it falls back
down into this eliminator, which
has a special collecting pan built in
the bottom. This prevents it from
rusting out countless f1ue pipes and
holds it there until the fire be-
comes sufficiently hot to evaporate
it into the outside air.
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Five Local, Realtors
Given 6. P. M. Title

The title of certified property
manager" has been conferred upon
five members of the Washington
Real Estate Board by the Institute
OF Real Estate Management, profess
sional body of the National Associa
ton OF Real Estate Boards, it was
announced today.
Members OF the local board hon.
bred include: Paul o. Drury. presi-
dent Of the Drury Realty Co.; Fred
l.. Chapman. assistant deputy ad-
.mlnlstrator of the Federal Housing
Administration: T. H. Evans, asso-
elated with Weaver Bros; Charles
G. Koones, associated with r. Mar
bury Stamp IL Co., and Earl M. Mac
kintosh. vice president of Weaver
Bros.
The title, indicated by the letters
C. P. M, was adopted a year ago to
Indicate persons who have met the
requirements for individual mem
hership in the institute, created to
bring better understanding of es-
aentials in this important field and
tn identify to the public competent
and reliable managers of real estate.
Evening star., 1939-01-07
Aereoees Near OrIeon
Sold to T. G. Anderson

WARRENTON, Va. Jan. T.
e, T. Anderson heirs have sold to
Thomas G. Anderson 14N acres and
llSA acres near Orlean, according
10 deed recorded in the clerks Of
face OF Fanquier County.
Other deeds recorded to date are:
Edwin l.. Burgess to James Milton
Burgess, one-half interest in so acres
OF the Sarah M. Burgess land, in
Center district: Hibart l.. Howe and
VIE TO George M. Washington. 20
acres. near SoWego: Mr.. and Mrs. S.
II. Edwards to Carlin c. Embrey, rs
acres. near Lois; L. j. Payne to Her
bert E. Wyne, two tracts, 1882 acres
ana 143 acres, near Marshall
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The unit also eliminates the COM
mon draft diverter which we see
on top side Of all gas furnaces
combating the danger Of down
drafts. BY installing one Of these
devices the quantity Of. heat which
Is lost up the chimney through the
draft diverter Is kept down in the
cellar, where it will do more good
keeping the first noor warm. This
Is done by 4 little door, called an
up-draft door, which permits onE
minimum OF air to pass up the
chimney as required for perfect
draft conditions.
The dangerous down drafts are
diverted by small batle inside the
unit so that they pass through an
other small door. called = down.
draft door, placed in the back Of
the device for the purpose. Thus
your heating plant has it's con-
densed moisture taken care Of, the
heat losses up the chimney are
lessened so that your tirst floor will
be kept warmer, and the various
up and down drafts are controlled
accurately and safely.
Back in the old days people didn't
have any painting done in their
houses during the winter because
Of the ill-smelling odors which were
part and parcel OF every paint job.
Naturally the doors and windows
had to be closed during the cold
weather, making the obnoxious and
Evening star., 1939-01-07
Sale Contract Signed
For Eastwood Estute
sps eial Disps teh 10 The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
WARRENrON. Va, Jan. THE
Contract of sale was signed In
Warrenton Thursday for Eastwood,
120-acre estate on the Auburn road
near Warrenton. formerly the rome
Of Mrs. E. G. R. Blickle OF Pitts
burgh, Pa.
j. Green Carter. Warrenton,
agent for an undisclosed principal,
was the purchaser.
Eastwood is one of the best known
places in the Warrenton community
and Is located in the heart Of the
Casanova hunt country.
1t contains large, modern, up
to-date residence, stables and
handsome swimming pool.
known to oId-timers a. the
Kitchen" place, 1t has passed
through . number of hands in the
last generation. 1t was once the
home of the late Mrs. r. Scott Car
ter. 1t was also owned at one time
by Capt. and Mrs. Richard j. Kirk
patrick.
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Loan Units Financed
Year-Round Jobs
For &,5OO
S20] SOC, 900 Was Spent
On New Homes and
S54, 598, 900 for Repoirs

Enough construction work to give
year-around jobs to A. 500 men was
financed by savings, building and
loan associations during the first
II months of 1898, the United States
Building and Loan League reported
today. Out of s734, 4,0s2 900 lent by
the associations for all purposes
from January through November,
the league shows that s201, ,306 900
was speEt for the construction Of
new houses and s54, ,59S 900 to repair
and remodel existing ones.
On basis of average weekly
wages of $29 in the construction
industry, according to Bureau of
Labor Statistics, and the percentage
Of construction and remodeling ex-
penditures usually paid to labor, the
league finds that a weeks work
for 2,518.8 800 men or a years work
for 48,500 has been financed from
Ehis source.
In both construction and moder-
i7ation loan volume, November. 1898,
made better showing than the
same month the year before, ac-
cording to A. D. Theobald, Chicago
assistant vice president of the
league. About 81 400 900 more went
into new construction loans and
nm ut
and repair advances. November
was thus the fourth successive month
of the year in which construction
loans were made in greater volumn
than during the same month of 1897
and continued to some degree the
margin of advantage in building VOL
lime which the year just past had
over its predecessor from the sum-
sner month on, he said
The November loans made by as
4 4sociations for all purposes showed a
seasonal fall-off from October, but
. considerably smaller one than ex-
perienced in either 1886 or 1887. &C.
cording to Mr.. Theobald. The
months total of $64O7O, 900 savings,
building and loan advances was only
$40 of one per cent below Novem-
her. 1887. 1t was above the total for
November. 1896, by some 100000.
The Leagues analysis of Novem-
ber loans according to purpose
, follows:
Psrpose and Estimate Leans Made By An
AssoetatioDs in the United States.
New construction $l8,627 900
Repair and modernization. 1921 900
Homo purchase----- 81, ZOE, 900
Reflnancing ------- 12,182,OO0
Other purposes s------ 7,235,O0
mn mn
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with hands before factory, repre-
senting industry; and l peso blue,
symbolizing public lands. transpor-
tation, industry, commerce, popula-
ton and construction.
Among the proposals discussed at
the recent American Philatelic
Society convention in San Francisco
were: organization of a board of
contributing editors for the Ameri-
can Philatelist; publication of a
series of handbooks on different
aspects of stamp collecting; pre-
liminary work toward the compila-
ton of a philatelic encyclopedia: !:
cash prizes for philateic research; /;
regional conventions as substitutes
for national conventions; designa-
ton of an organizing secretary to as
sist local chapters; exchange of
stamp monographs and exhibition
material among clubs radio broad
casts under organizatio auspices; a
new program in aid of junior collec-
tors: publication of a news clip
sheet at regular intervals; and a
membership campaign to double the
number of members now enrolled.
Herbert N. Sapp, a nonresident
member of the Washington Phila-
telic Society, was a prize winner at
the annual exhibition of the Dallas
(TeX) Stamp Collectors Club.
Yugoslavia has brought out series
of four semi-postals to publicize an
automotive competition. The de-
signs show racing cars and motor
cycles.
New Zealand has withdrawn from
sale the last Queen Victoria stamps,
issued nearly so years ago.
The stamp editor of The Star
spoke at the Texas State Fair, Dali
las, on Sunday, October IS.
American stamp collectors are
wondering what, if anything, has
happened to the Government Phila-
telic Museum of Poland, established
in Warsaw in 1919. Exhibits included
postal history relics, models, uni
forms, instruments and national
and army stamps as we'll as foreign
issues. The entire display was housed
in two large halls in the Posts and
Telecommunications Building of the
Polish government. Whether OF
not this edifice was damaged during
the siege remains unreported on this
side of the Atlantic. The fate of
the Postal Museum of Czecho-Slo-
vakia at Prague also is a mystery.
Evening star., 1939-10-29

John Philip SOuSd, former
leader of the United States
Marine Band, 7rho 1Uill be hon
Ored on q stamp to be placed
on initial sale in Washington.
Composers group: John Philip
Sousa, Washington, D. c., where he
was born and spent his life. Edward
A. Mcdowell, New York City,
where he was born and spent most
of his life. Stephen Collins Foster,
BardstoWn, KY, "Old Kentucky
Home" is said to have been written
as result of Fosters visit to the
home of Judge John Rowan at
>Bardstown. Victor Herbert, New
York City, came to America when 80
and lived in the metropolis. Ethel
bert Nevin. Pittsburgh, Pa, born
and lived much of his life there.
Educators set: Horace Mann,
Boston, Mass, perfected free public
school system, for which he is
famous, while secretary of School
Board of Massachusetts,. Charles
w. Eliot, Cambridge, Mass, was
president of Harvard College at
Cambridge for 40 years. Booker T.
Washington. Tuskegee, Ala, founder
of Tuskegee Institute. Frances E.
Willard, Evanston, ILL.,, resided many
years there where she was a teacher
at Northwestern University. Mark
Hopkins. Williamstown, Mass,
president Of Williamstown College
for many years and died there
Inventors honored: Alexander
Graham Bell. Boston, Mass, his in
vention of the telephone actually
was perfected while he lived in
Boston. Eli Whitney, Savannah
Ga; Whitney spent several years on
plantation in. Savannah during
which time he invented the cotton
gin. Samuel F. B. Morse, New York
City. lived most of his life at
West Twenty-second street, where
he invented the telegraph. Elias
Howe, Cambridge. Mass, while en-
ployed in machine shop in Cam
bridge he conceived the idea of a
sewing machine. Cyrus H. Nc
Cormick, Lexington, Va, born in
Rockbridge County, Va, on a farm
Is miles from Lexington, which is
the county seat.
Poets selected: Henry w. Long
Fellow Cambridge, Mass, where he
was professor of languages at Har-
ward College and where his greatest
works were published. James Whit
comb Riley, Greenfield, Ind, birth
place and where his old home is now
National shrine Walt Whitman.
Camden, N j., his home was in
Camden, where he wrote much of
his poetry. John Greenleaf Whit
tier, Haverhill, Mass, his birthplace
r there is preserved as a public shrine.
James Russell Lowell, Cambridge,
Mass, where he was born and died.
Scientists group Luther Burbank.
Santa Rosa, Calf, settled there in
early life and experimental on
plants on his 5000 acre farm. DR..
Crawford w. Long, jefferson, Ga,
performed first successful surgical
operation under ether anasthesia at
Jefferson on March 3O 1912. DR..
Walter Reed, Washington, D. c., his
life was more closely connected with
Evening star., 1939-10-29
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Patec World Its Interests and PeopRevew
the Stamp Press-Lst of Local Meetings

view, and Mrs. Houseworth; DR.. E.
Albert Aisenstadt, DR.. and Mrs.
Prichard Won David. Mr.. and Mrs.
c. N. A. De Bajligethy and William
w. Wylie.
Mrs. j. Eustace Guest of Dallas,
Tex, wife of the sales superintend-
ent OF the American Philatelic So
ciety, collects miniature elephants
as well as stamps. She also designs
houses, and in her new home pro-
vided for cabinet for the display
Of her pachyderms. The animals
are authentic works of art, FASH
ioned from ivory, bronze, ebony,
teakwood, glass, etc.
The A. p. Feature Service reports
the release by Mexico of a set of
six stamps to mark the national
census which is being conducted
this year and next.
Three are for regular postage and
three for air mail. These are the
designs: centavos, buildings, red /;
SC, green, symbolic hand planting
seeds, with cows in background; a
10c brown with hands symbolically
holding up package and dollar
sign, to portray commerce. These
three are the upright oblongs in
tended for regular postage.
The stamps for air mail are: zoe
blue, with airplanes, denoting trans
port. 40c orange illustrated here)
Evening star., 1939-10-29
Automotive Briefs

The Owens Motor Co., Chevrolet
dealers since 1922. has been taken
over by Mcmahon Chevrolet. Inc,
632l-6333 Georgia avenue NV, ac-
cordlng to an announcement by
James F. Mcmahon. president of the
new corporation. In announcing the
transfer. Mr.. Mcmahon stated there
would be no change in the basic
policies of the Owens Co.
Mr.. Mcmahon is an experienced
automobile man, we'll known In the
Chevrolet field, both here and in
Baltimore. Previous to coming to
the acknowledgment section,
he was associated for nine years
with the wholesale department of
the Chevrolet Division of General
Motors, with headquarters In But.
falo. N. Y.
The organization of the former
Owens Motor Co. will be held in.
tact" Mr.. Mcmahon said.
George Banning, for Is years sales
manager of that organization, will
continue in the same capacity, di-
recting the same group of Is Chevro.
let experts in his sales division.
George Bakersmith will continue as
parts and accessory manager; Clyde
Garner as service manager, and Miss
Annie M. Stinson as office manager
and accountant.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
NEWS OF THE MOTORING WORLD
Highway Transportation Held Vital Defense by Automobile
Manufacturers Association Official

The motor truck industry goes
into the closing months Of 1899
with factory sales far in advance
of 1888, according to Robert F. Black,
chairman Motor Truck Committee
of Automobile Manufacturers Asso-
citation.
A total of 493, ,227 motor truck
units were produced by American
manufacturers for the f1rst eight
months of this year, as compared
with the 366,477 vehicles made dur
ing the similar period of 1898. This
represents "a per cent increase.
The average wholesale value Of
each truck produced amounted to
approximately $675. This is an in
dication that the expansion and
demand for motor trucks is due
as we'll as to the services that motor
trucks perform for all lines Of busi-
ness-to the fact that three trucks
can be bought today for what it cost
to buy one in the early days of the
industry.
Sales of American motor trucks
abroad have steadily increased to
the point where this year 2l6,OOO, or
% per cent of the total number
of units produced by American
manufacturers, were sold in foreign
countries.
Bus Industry Improves.
The motor bus industry also
showed increases in recent months
due to added replacement of this
type of transportation in large and
small municipalities for trolley lines
and among other factors, the travel
to the San Francisco Golden Gate
Exposition and the New York
Worlds Fair. There are now A.
400 900 motor trucks and 1876 900
motor buses registered throughout
the country.
The gravity Of the situation in
Europe causes the American public
to think more and more in terms
of national defense as a means of
preserving our neutrality and Sc
curity. To further this end military
experts and engineers at this time
are directing their attention to sur
veys OF our existing highway Ia
cilities and motor equipment to de-
termine how they may be adapted
efficiently in moving troops and sup
plies in any emergency.
The rapid advance Of the Ger
man Army into Poland in motorized
equipment presents grim, but in
escapable, testimony of the indis-
Evening star., 1939-10-29

Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Florida, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
Port of Entry Laws
Interstate commerce over the
highways is improving due to the
reaction of the American people
against state border trade barriers
in the form of Ports Of Entry Laws.
During the 1899 legislatures Okla
homa repealed its Port of Entry
Laws applying to highway transpor-
tation and New Mexico modified its
statute. Proposals for Ports Of En-
try Acts went down in defeat in
Arkansas and Nevada.
The spotlight was focused this
year on the 100000 motor trucks
operated by agricultural and indus
trial concerns in practically every
line Of business. Hearings we're held
throughout the country by the In
terstate Commerce Commission for
the purpose of determining whether
there is need for Interstate Com
merce Commission jurisdiction Of
privately owned motor trucks.
AAuAAoA S0o Va WlIllCSSCO 1Cpl CSCllLs
ing farmer owners of motor trucks,
as we'll as those representing packers,
dairies, bakers, brewers, and other
industries, presented evidence at
hearings in twelve cities Their testi-
mony on accident prevention indi-
Gated the rapid strides that motor
truck owners have made through
their voluntary contributions to in
crease safety on the highways.
Data Presented To I. c. C.
Data presented by The National
Council of Private Motor Truck
Owners, representing a large cross.
section of industrial and agricuI-
tural owners of motor trucks, was
presented to the Interstate Com
merce Commission to show that in
addition to the enviable record of
safety that had been achieved by
Its members, there has been definite
trend on the part of the States to
bring their statutes and regulations
in conformance with the recon-.
mendations of the National Confer.
ence on Street and Highway Safety
as far as uniformity could be made
amenable to conditions of highway
traffic in particular areas.
The council maintained that an
effort at duplication of State regu-
lations by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, in order to control the
comparatively few interstate motor
trucks operated by shippers and
farmers, would provide duplicate
cost in government, add to the cost
of highway transportation, disrupt
distribution practices of long stand
ing, and would offer little if any,
thing at all in the way of increased
safety on the highways.
Proponents of the regulations ar
gued that the private operators
should be controlled by the commits
sion since there are provisions in
| the Motor Carrier Act for regulation
OF the safety operation of common
and contract carriers, and that regu-
lation by Federal agency would aid
in bringing about uniform laws.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
In Washington the games will be
played at 2010 r street NV.

Here is ruling by the American
Contract Bridge League which may
be applied in the coming District
championships, should a situation
like the one described arise:
Two players entered a two-session
pair game and qualified. At the
beginning of the final session one
OF the players became i'll and a
substitute was obtained. The sub
stitute had not participated in the
qualifying round. The partner with
the substitute won the event. Who
should receive the master point
award? The committee ruled that
the one player who had partici-
pated in both sessions should re-
celve his full award, while the
other two players should divide it.
:. APong last weeks winners were the fol-
Nh Mrs ,nd D,sIs %Is J Wrisa.s y stusslo-Monda,;
Mrs L. V crane second don MnS Est Ksfs.1ins Mf ans
Irenton and DR.. w / Werner. @ ehesit lied Win ite
s., Mr.. WTisht Mr. w.ss .na Charles lyons Thurs
as Mss Msie Atslnso1 sna samde anu MI Keeme
D. Roberts. second; Prof. J. F. Fenwick
Ah1 william aulsbury, third
Roosevelt Hotel-Tom HamIin and
NJ SHEPPARD. first: Mrs Herman White
and Morris Portugal second: Mrs. Vann
Clarke and Clarence Edelson. third
Kennedy dy-Warren-Mrs Mildred Rosson
snd Miss Mabel Tobln. first: Mrs. T D.
Sheldon and Mrs. M R. Reddy. second.
-, American Association of University
Women-Miss Georgia Armstead and Hor-
ace g; Torbert hrst; Miss Ellen Brown
and N. B. Sheppard. second: Dr. Emily
Grewe and Mrs; T. d Sheldon. third
Mrs. D. E. stephans Studio-Tuesday
afternoon, Prof J. =. Fenwick and Mrs.
R2s H9se ROBINS ari tTst; idax Ms; !: R Belt and
art and Mrs. Curtis. third. Tuesday eve
ming Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Hamlin. first: Mrs
D. Z. STEPHAN and Clarence Edelson, sec
ond: Ben Kedrick and Mrs Cotter, third
Wednesday. Morris Portugal and Martin
May. drst: Mrs. Harold Young and Mrs
lrma Gilbert: second: Mrs Ralph Woodside
and Louis Newman. third Friday. Joe
GRANGER and w: A. Bolinger. first; Mrs D.
E. .Stephan and J. A. BeuR. second: MI.
and Mrs. Ben Rosson, third Saturday A.
n; Sheppard and Howard Campbell: irst;
Miss Mabel Tobin and s. g. Churchill. sec
ond: Dr. Agnes McNutt and Herbert
washington Whist Club, Grafton Hotel
Clarence Hall and Mrs Frederick Van
Nuys. hrst: Miss Mabel Tobin and s. G.
Churchill. second: Gene Herman and Al
Roth, third.
Evening star., 1939-10-29

pensability of the first-class high
ways In modern warfare.
The highways system of the
United States far surpasses that
of any other country. New con-
struction expansion and improve
ment Is paid for largely by motor
vehicle owners, relieving the gen.
eral taxpayer Of nearly all the cost
OF a necessary bulwark of national
defense.
Special Truck Taxes.
II there were no motor trucks
or buses on the highways for
commercial purposes or passenger
vehicles for business and motoring
we would still have to have our
vast system Of highways and con-
tinue to improve them to meet mil
itary requirements. These highways
would Of necessity have to be
financed out of general taxation
were 1t not for the fact that they
are paid for largely through the
81 ,529 ,000, 900 In taxes paid by mo-
tor vehicle owners annually.
Motor trucks alone pay enough
each year in special taxes to span
the country three times with con-
crete roads. The motor truck tax
bill in 1888 amounted to s416 ,22O, 900.
This Is for special highway-use
taxes and does not include personal
property taxes on trucks in op-
GRAFTON, income and property taxes
on garages, terminals, repair shops
and trucking companies.
The early months in this wear
for highway construction were
marked by several thousand bills
OF all varieties proposing taxation
and regulation of commercial We
hicle transportation. While the ma
jority of these measures were de-
signed to place more onerous re-
strictions on highway transporta-
ton comparatively few of the meas
ures in that category were enacted.
On the other hand, scores of the
measures adopted were designed to
bring about uniformity in size and
weight restrictions and safety reg
ulations In particular regions.
In spite of further efforts ex-
erted to cut down on the size and
weight Of vehicles, several States,
whose drastic weight laws have
been burdensome to the shipping
public, increased their maximum al
lowable weight on buses and trucks.
Among the States that increased
the weight limits were Tennessee,