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Evening star., 1940-09-28
80 Stationed Here
Among 113Given
Rank Of General
Number of Others Named
BY President Expected
To Come to Capital

About 80 officers now stationed in
Washington were included in the
record peacetime list Of 113 Army
officers nominated by President
Roosevelt for temporary assignment
and promotion to the rank of gen.
eral. They number of the % new
major generals, the remainder being
among the IS colonels promoted to
brigadier general rank.
In addition to these, War Depart
ment offlcials said, a number of the
new general officers on whose romi-
nations the Senate will pass are
under orders to report for future
duty in Washington.
Aside from these. interest was
widespread in local circles over the
ordered transfer of Brig. Gen. Jay
L. Benedict, superintendent Of the
United States Military Academy
who will head one of the three Army
Tactical Corps with rank of major
general. He is to be succeeded at
West Point by Col. Harvey D. Hig-
ley, chief OF stan OF the 9th Corps
Area. Fort Sam Houston, Tex, who
will hold the rank of brigadier gen.
eral.
Another important assignment is
that of Col. Frank S. Clark, on the
General Staff in Washington, who
will command the Coast Artillery
School at Fort Monroe, Va, with
the rank of brigadier general. Pro-
NOTED also to brigadier general and
placed in command Of the Cavalry
School is Col. Robert c. Rodges Of
Fort Meade, S. Oak.
Presidents Aide Promoted.
Officers on duty here assigned as
major generals include three as
sistants to the chief of the Army
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Air Corps, selected among the five
new commanders Of the Air Corps
districts. Their headquarters have
not yet been announced, as the Air
Corps now is being reorganized. The
three men are Brig. Gen. Barton K.
Yount, Brig. Ben. George H.. Brett
and Brig. Gen. Jacob E. Fickel.
Brig. Gen. Edwin M. Watson, aide
to President Roosevelt, also was
promoted to major general.
Among other newly nominated
major generals now on duty at the
War Department is Col. James H.
Burns, executive officer to Assist
ant Secretary of War Patterson.
Col. Harry K. Rutherford, assistant
executive in the same Office, is
placed in charge of industial plan
ming, with rank of brigadier gen.
eral.
Several of the officers on general
staff duties at the War Department
were promoted, two to the rank Of
major general. They are Brig. Gen.
William Dryden and Brig. Con.
Richard c. Moore, who will remain
deputy chiefs Of staff. Col. John
H. Hester, now executive for Re-
serve affairs, will be a brigadier
general, the same rank applying
to Col. Eugene Reybold, assistant
chief Of staff, Ga.
McNair Gets Advancement.
Brig. Gen. Lesley J. McNair Of
Washington, chief of staff of the
General Headquarters of the four
Field Armies, also will be a major
general. His duties will be in charge
Of training for the field forces.
A new assignment as inspector
general has been given Col. Howard
NJ Snyder, now on duty with the
National Guard Bureau, who is pro-
NOTED to brigadier general. Col.
William v. Carter, at Sd Corps
Headquarters, Baltimore, Is due to
come here as assistant to the
adjutant general.
In the Ordnance Department in
and near Washington, the follow
ing were promoted to brigadier gen.
eral and assigned to duties as fol-
lows: Col. James K. Grain. in charge
Of field maintenance; Col. John B.
Rose, continues in command at
Aberdeen Proving Ground; Col
Richard H. Somers, in charge Of
technical staff; Col. Burton O..
Evening star., 1940-09-28
New Road in Ethiopiu

The new italian road from Adds
Ababa to Assat, in Ethiopia, is 538
miles long and passes through four
tunnels, the longest being 1922 feet.
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Federal Employees
Also Must Prove
Exemption Need
Droft Unit Maps Out
Policy After Series
Of Conferences Here

Government workers will not be
able to get exemption nor deferred
status in the forthcoming conscrip-
ton for military service merely be-
cause they are Federal employees, it
has been decided officially at Ma
tional Selective Service headquar-
ters
This was disclosed by Maj. Joseph
r. Battley, adviser to the Joint Army
and Navy Selective Service Com
mittee in charge Of occupational
deferment, who will supervise this
important phase Of CONSUMPTION
enforcement.
Such policy has been embodied
generally in regulations governing
the problem of occupational defer
ment. which will be presented soon
to President Roosevelt.
Conferences Arranged.
Plans to carry on this phase of
the operation already are under
way. Maj. Battley will leave Mon
day to attend a series Of confer
ences of Army officers scheduled at
HVe cities, WlnQlng up WIN one LOT
the local area at Baltimore October
S. These conferences will be for
State liaison officers on occupational
deferment. Representing the Dis
trict Of Columbia will be Capt. G.
Tinsley Garnett, Signal Corps Re-
serve of this city.
Every Government worker who
thinks he may be able to get defer
ment will have to prove it in his
own particular case to his local
board here, Maj. Battley explained.
He will have to get certificate from
his superior in the Government to
testify that he is necessary" and
then be able to convince the local
board that he should get deferment
on that basis. If an employe is
of the right age and is not dis
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A Dog Lovers Notebook

slblllties. In addition to her Chows,
she now has two cocker spaniel
bitches and three black cocker pup
pies OF Windsweep and Missioner
lines. She plans to extend this
branch of her kennel activities, and
during the coming weeks will intro
duce some unusual and interesting
bloodlines for local enthusiasts in
the breed.
A new use for sporting dogs is
suggested by George Castle. Penn
SylVanla sportsman now visiting in
washington. Many are the yarns
he spins of Pat. his Llewellyn setter
bitch, which intuitive reading of
his mind, he says, has led her to
perform many remarkable feats in
the field, some of them unorthodoy
put always uncannily successful.
However, her sideline is the finding
OF elusive golf balls, and she has
become as useful on the links as a
players favorite club. At first. Pat
would point from a little distance
as for quail or pheasant, and the
bail might still be hard to locate
Now she has learned that the small
white sphere will not rise in the air
no matter how close she comes. and
she presses her nose earnestly
against it until George comes up to
release her and take over RESPONSE
olllty for what happens next.
There is big steak ordered for
the j. A. Honsick home in Chew
Chase next Sunday. Chang, the red
Chow that rules the houshold, will
be 10 years old that day. Being very
chlpper and youthful, with no gray
hairs and the proper supply of
teeth, he is to have good red meat
and a bone to gnaw. in celebration
OF his anniversary. Chang wouldn't
know what to do with a cake. nor
yet with candy, for he has never
tasted sWeets-one reason, perhaps,
1or his SturdinesS and activity at an
age when many of his breed are be-
ginning to feel the weight of the
years.
Various identifying combinations
are resorted to by breeders in nam
ing Etters. Some kennels run the
alphabet ragged with alliterative
double-headers, starting with H or
D or M, or some adaptable letter.
A unique plan is used by William
Averill Hartman, whose Labrador
retrievers bear the Arden kennel
name. Each litter has distinctive
group of names, unrelated to those
OF any other. At a recent Jersey
match, four Of one litter, all bear
ing the names of fish, distinguished
themselves, so that prizes went to
Shad. Bass, Marlin and Tuna Of
Arden.
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shepherds giving gooG accounts Of
themselves and their breed.
Another agency for reinstating the
breed In public favor proved to be
the Seeing Eye in Morristown, N. j.,
where dogs are trained to guide the
blind. While number of medium
sized breeds of the working group
have been used with success, the
directors of this organization have
found the shepherd to be the most
useful dog for this purpose, and
about 80 per cent of the animals
trained there. belong to this breed.
Probably one of the most remark
able records piled up by any dog Of
any breed is that held by Oh. Jill Of
Garastanna, c. D., C. D. x, U. D., a
German shepherd owned by DR.. Will
liam Compton of Mclean. Va. Jill
was one of the earliest contenders
in the obedience test trials and one
of the first four dogs in this coun-
try to win her ~. D." which stands
for utility dog and is a title which
corresponds to the Phi. D. in human
education. To achieve this title,
dog must go through a series Of
tests for obedience and discrimina-
ton which only a few dogs, even to
this date, have been able to pass
successfully.
Jill well exemplifies the breed
standard. In height, she falls be-
tween the two extremes of % and
"a inches. She is a muscular, strong,
alert dog who misses nothing that
is going on. Her proportions are
the desirable ones of approximately
four-ffths as high as she is long.
The head of the German shep.
herd is clean-cut and of medium
width between the ears, with a
moderately arched forehead, very
little stop, wedge-shaped. long,
strong muzzle. and strong, even
teeth. The ears should be erect,
wide at the bases and pointed at
the tops, and face forward. The
eyes should be oblique. medium size
and dark brown. The neck should
be clean-cut, strong and muscular.
The body of the German shep-
herd differs markedly from that Of
other sheep-herding breeds. The
chest should be deep, but not too
broad, with ribs fiat rather than
barrel-shaped. The abdomen should
not show much tuckup. The back
should be straight and very strongly
developed, it should be rather long
and slope toward the sternum.
Angulation and gait are the two
important words in the shepherd
standard. Since the latter depends
on the former, and the former in
wolves technical study of anatomy.
it is beyond the province of this
article
The coat of the shepherd is mod
erately long. very double and
Weather-resisting tail bushy and
long. In color, the German shep-
herd may be silver gray. wolf gray,
black and tan, all black or even
pure white.
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ulated by the moving pictures of
such wonder dogs as Rim Tin Tin,
Strongheart, Peter the Great and
others, who did almost incredible
feats, the whole world suddenly de-
manded shepherd puppies. Every
body who could get hold of a bitch
bred her to whatever dog was avail
able, regardless of temperament,
physical weakness, lack of quality,
nervousness, or anything else. Un-
fortunately, one of the leading studs
OF the period in this country, a dog
imported with mucn acclaim from
the "Fatherland," was Nores Won der
Kriminalpolizei, dog that was of
vicious temperament both by nature
and training. Many of his offspring
inherited his traits. When his de-
scendants were widely enough dis
seminated, the breed began to get
bad name. Matters were not helped
much by frequent exhibitions of
these dogs doing so-called police
work, which consisted almost entirely
of ferocious attacks on heavily pad
ded mock criminals or dummies. Nor
did the widely accepted and still
popular nickname police dog" help
matters. When the turn came, the
shepherd went out as quickly as
he came in
Noble Breed Abused.
However, those enthusiasts who
really knew the breed, knew its vir-
tues and its faults, its strengths and
weaknesses, never gave up. They
realized how noble breed had been
abused and were determined to rec
tify matters. In the last few years
this breed has been climbing steadily
back into public favor and is now on
a firmer foundation in public esteem
than ever before Reform came from
within the breed, and was achieved
in several different ways. Emphasis
in judging and consequently in
breeding has been largely on tenn
perament. Every effort was made
in the judging ring to demonstrate
the steadiness of nerves, the calm
AlCoo VI olopOSltlOll dIlC dUSUlul6 Qe-
pendability and controllability of
the breed in the ring. This was
sometimes carried to extremes. as
when the Judge would suddenly make
a loud, explosive noise right under
the dogs nose, often frightening the
spectator or exhibitor more than the
dog. But since steadiness was at
premium, it eliminated the use of
many shy, nervous dogs from breed
ing operations.
While obedience test classes were
first introduced into this country
by poodle breeders. wide-awake
shepherd breeders soon saw the ad-
vantages of this form of the sport
to their breed and took advantage
OF every opportunity In the be-
ginning. the rivalry between these
two breeds in this phase of dog
showing was most intense. with the
honors fairly we'll divided. But at
every top exhibition of obedience
trials there were sure to be some
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Washington is harboring some
thing very nice in the way of a
future dachshund champion. If one
OF the usual spring dog show sur
prise wins may be taken as fore
cast. The pup is Johannes Rinkton-
berg, son of the great champion
Herman Rinkton. out of Noodle the
Fourth. of the Heinie Flottenberg
line. The black-and-tan Johan-
pronounced with a "Y'-belongs to
Mrs. Raymond P Brandt, whose
husband is head of the Washington
Bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch. At the Middlesex County
Kennel Club Show last Sunday. this
unframed and untried 1O-month-o
puppy won his class. was put over
the adult dogs in winners. and then
went best of winners, for his first
3-point show. Johan was shown by
his breeder. Miss Rosalia A. Scheu-
rich OF Avon-by- -the-Sea. N. j.. who
also showed two of his litter sisters.
both experienced in the ring and
good enough to win blue ribbons
only to see their amateur" brother
go on to higher honors. Johan
picked up another blue on this brief
excursion, but has now returned to
his status as house-pet in the Spring
Valley home. The fall shows will
see him, however, for the Brandts
have caught the fever-and who can
blame them, with such start?
IT you call on the Arthur Schar-
fields these days, you are likely to
find them in the garden of their
new home on Cathedral avenue
NV, she busily arranging a place
for the baby to play on the grass.
he supervising the building of kennel
runs and houses for Popo and Penny
and the other Scarfeld wirehaired
terriers. Their conversation runs to
statistics, for in answer to a question
as to the general wellbeing, you will
hear that Diane has eight teeth, or
that Penny had two puppies by
Caesarean, depending on which
member Of the family you interview.
Baby and dogs are equally thriving
and happy, however. and the lovely
Georgian home which the Schar-
fields have bought has room-and to
spare-for them all.
Mrs. Walter Place of Kensington,
Nd, has been burning joss sticks to
insure the safe recovery of her red
Chow puppy, Shing Flu of Waltonby.
This promising youngster has been
literally under the weather as
result of the trip TO Morris and
Essex, where a thorough wetting
combined with severe case of car
sickness sent him home a very i'll
puppy. Ching is feeling much bet
ter, thank you-which Is just as well,
In view Of Mrs. Places new respon-
Evening star., 1940-06-09

Pharmaceutical Association. has
gathered the signatures and will
present them to Postmaster General
Farley.
The annual auction sale of un-
claimed stamps. covers, coins anc
currency, accumulated in the Di-
vision of Dead Letters and Dead
Parcel Post, will be held at room
3O05. City Post Office Building
North Capitol street and Massa :
chusetts avenue NE, Thursday
June 27. A catalogue listing 203
lots has been prepared and ma
terial to be sold will be exhibited
Wednesday, June 26.
A plan for the establishment OF
a permanent home for the American
Philatelic Society will be discussed
at the annual convention, Hotel
Statler, Buffalo, August II to 16
Similar proposals have been put
forward from time to time for many
years past and a considerable fund
has been accumulated for building
and furnishing the projected ma
tional headquarters.
1t is announced by the Liberian
Philatelic Agency, 277 Broadway
New York City, that the time limit
for first-day covers for the Liberia
Centenary stamps has been extended
to June "a.
Charles j. Phillips, II, philatelic
adviser to the late King George V
and author of Stamp Collecting
The King of Hobbies and the Hobby
of Kings" died at his home in New
York City, Sunday. June 2. He was
a nonresident member of the
Washington Philatelic Society and
had many friends in the Nation S
Capital
Alden H. Whitney is in Pittsburgh
for the first day sale of the 10-cent
Ethelbert Nevin stamp tomorrow.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock
Woodbridge Stamp Club. 2206 Rhode
Island avenue NE. Albert F. Kunze
speaker
Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock
Capital Precancel Club. Thomson
School, Twelfth and L streets NV
Trading night. William B. Caviness
Raleigh, N. c., guest of honor.
Tuesday evening at o'clock
Collectors Club of Washington
Thomson School. Ladies of the
Philatelic Agency, guests. Exhibi-
ton by ladies of the club Special
program Nominations.
Wednesday evening at o'clock
Washington Philatelic Society
north room, Hotel Mayflower, Con-
necticut avenue at De Sales street
NV. H. A. Kemp will display and
discuss portions of his collection OF
United States proprietary stamps.
Thursday evening at 9:15 o'clock
Evening star., 1940-06-09

Washington Stamp Club of the Air,
Station VOL. Philatelic romance
in cooperation with American
Union.
All week-Centenary exhibition
of philatelic literature, stamps.
proofs, essays, ETC.. Library of Con-
gress, regular hours daily.
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his hobby prospers less conspic-
uously because of the prevailing
quiet.
For the Leipzig fair which opened
March 3 Germany brought out four
stamps showing views of the expo
Evening star., 1940-06-09

sition grounds. The values and
colors are: 3pfg, brown; 6pfg
green; l2pfg, red brown, and 25pfg,
blue.
The Argentine Republic has
brought out a souvenir sheet in
commemoration of the centenary OF
the first adhesive postage stamp.
The Associated Press Feature
Service reports: Sweden enters
the stamp news with two issues
One is re-engraving of a stamp
bearing portrait of King Gustav
V, with a lightened background
The other issue, previously an
nounced, is a. commemorative of
the 200th anniversary of the birth
of Karl Mikael Bellman, national
poet, who was born the son of a
civil servant, became the favorite
companion of King Gustav III, pub
lished a book of religious medita-
tlons at 19 and a satirical poem
called The Moon at 20, wrote many
odes and folk songs in later life.
died in 1875 and is represented in
a monument in the public gardens
in Stockholm
DR.. Charles S. Banks. botanist
and philatelist, born in the District
of Columbia but long a resident of
the Philippines, died in Manila No
vember 10.
Bulgaria, it is reported, will issue
two commemorative for the cen
tenary of the first adhesive postage
stamp. The denominations are 10
and 20L.
A set of 10 stamps is to be issued
by Chile to mark the 400th ami
versary of the founding of the
city of Santiago.
Scott Publications, Inc, l West
Forty-seventh street, New York
City, announces that loose-leaf
album pages for more than $50 diff
ferent countries now are available
in sections. Complete lists will be
sent on application.
A new airpost series is announced
for Albania.
Portugal has indicated that a
series of commemorative for "the
9th centenary of Portuguese unity
will be issued.
Kent B. Stiles. writing in the New
York Times for May S, reported:
"Britain's penny black was the first
of nearly 100000 major and minor
varieties now available for philatel-
lists collections. Up to January,
l, 1910, the total was 98,483, and at
least CTS more have been issued
since. Of the approximately $4,000
the United States has produced
about 1900 During the first decade,
1840-1849, only 181 different stamps
were released. In 1920 appeared
3,153, the record for a calendar
year."
Germany has issued a set of Is
official stamps for use in the Ger
man part of Poland. An eagle and
a wreathed swastika are features of
the design. The denominations and
colors are: 6gr, yellow brown; 8gr,
gray; 10gr, green; 12gr, blue green;
20gr, brown; 24gr, henna red; 30gr,
lake; 40gr, blue violet; 48gr, olive;
50gr, blue; 60gr, olive green; 80gr,
red violet; 1zl. black and brown
violet; 3zl. black and red brown,
and 5zl, black and orange.
The marriage of Ralph Edmond
Carpenter. I'd, and Janice Isabel
Hemenway at Tucson, Ariz., June 4,
has been announced. Mr.. Carpenter
is stamp collecting journalist and
world traveller whose boyhood home
was in Washington. With his bride,
he will make his residence in New
York City, beginning June IS.
Pharmacists and their friends to
the number of 100000 have signed
petitions to Congress asking for
stamp in recognition of the service
given to the people of the United
States by practitioners of pharmacy
during the last $50 years. DR.. E. F.
Kelly, secretary OF the American
Evening star., 1940-06-09
In Local Bridge Circles
Capital Teams Win Two VIRGINIA Events
By Frank B. Lord.

of NV ndge players captured of the three
Beach, - N' ~ N -" 'NeA-'N
M Wfred de ST. Aubin
sentatVes Joined with
" stone Who with Mrs de St Aubn
ID einoirar
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STAMPS.

STAMPS,
Inaugural Voyage "Seapost" Cover s. S.
lroquois using Mexico ''Penny Black" Com
memorative. 15c. Cuba Mail Philatelic De-
partment, 81 Park Row, New York.
sTAMPS-CONS-AUT
Bought and Sold
71e 18th ST. NV. District 1879
UYENO'S STAMP SHOP
1908 Penn. Ave NV. Met. eO14
COLUMBIA STAMP SHOP
3406 14th St. NV.
2nd Floor Col 6S,O
Evenlnss, to All day Saturday
'WHITNEY'S STAMP MART
402 18th St. NV. Met. 1911
BUT WHY
Pay more for stamps elsewhere?
Harry B. Mason, 918 F NV.
WASHINGTON STAMP co.
e37 Pennsylvania Ave. NV.
WEEKS STAMP SHOP
e08 18th st. NV. MA. 5e5s
NATIONAL STAMP MART
1917 F St. NV. Rm All. Dist. se17
cULLEN'S .':s' s:s's
1919 St. NV. Suite Eli Second Floor.
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graduate the threshold of noble
the subject of design submitted to the Post Office Department
for the stamp homage the profession
Hospital officials physicians clergymen teachers socoogists
and other citizens hare joined in appeal for author
isaon OF the Collectors interested to aid the
inuited communicate h Deputy Third Assistant
M North-Copyright Johnson Johnson
Evening star., 1940-06-09

Pharmacists and their friends to
the number of 100000 have signed
petitions to Congress asking for
stamp in recognition of the service
given to the people of the United
States by practitioners of pharmacy
during the last $50 years. DR.. E. F.
Kelly, secretary of the American
Evening star., 1940-06-09

Portugal has indicated that a
series of commemorative for "the
9th centenary of Portuguese unity"
will be issued.
Evening star., 1940-06-09

The marriage of Ralph Edmond
Carpenter. I'd, and Janice Isabel
Hemenway at Tucson, Ariz., June 4,
has been announced. Mr.. Carpenter
is stamp collecting journalist and
world traveller whose boyhood home
was in Washington. With his bride,
he will make his residence in New
York City, beginning June Is.
Evening star., 1940-06-09

A new airpost series is announced
for Albania.
Evening star., 1940-06-09

Scott Publications, Inc, l West
Forty-seventh street, New York
City, announces that loose-leaf
album pages for more than $50 diff
ferent countries now are available
in sections. Complete lists will be
sent on application.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1940-12-29
Hair Steamino

OILY TRESSES are improved
by oiling and steaming. believe
IL or get mad and make a face
at me. Lubrications and warmth
recondition the scalp and that
IS what IS necessary If the glor-
ious crown is to be in a normal
state.
Apply hot mineral oil with a
medicine dropper. Massage the
scalp vigorously. moving II
about. lifting up the flesh. When
the oil is distributed. apply d
thick towel that has been
wrung out Of hot water. Give
this treatment the night before
the shampoo
Use melted soap and a strong
current Of water fairly hot
Many a case OF oily hair gets
that way because the soap suds
are not entirely removed.