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it Is collected by mail orderlies and
delivered to the Army Post Office.
Mail for troops who have depart
ed for oversee destinations is dis
tributed by the United States Postal
Service to regiments and like Or
ganizations, and delivered promptly
thereafter to the military authori-
ties at the port of embarkation.
From that point on, its handling
and transportation to the oversee
port is directed and controlled by
the Army and Navy.
I'm the cases of troops stationed
outside the continental limits of the
United States and at various over
sea theaters, they are addressed by
name, rank, serial number and an
Army post Office (APO) number.
Army post Offices located outside
the continental limits of the United
States are for obvious reasons of
military secrecy designated by num-
ber only and all APO addressed
mail moves through designated en-
barkation points on both coasts"
Isaac Gregg, chief of the Post
Office Department Publicity Bureau
from 1927 until the appointment of
Maj. Harold F. Ambrose in 1888,
has been restored to that position
for the duration.
A veteran newspaperman well
and favorably known among stamp
collectors for many years, Mr.. Gregg
is a native of Germantown, Pa,
and was educated there and at
Notre Dame University. He became
a resident of Washington at the
time of the Spanish American War,
and his training for professional
Journalism was acquired under the
direction of Albert, Halstead of the
Brooklyn Standard Union. Sue
cessively he wrote for the Pittsburgh
Times the, New York Evening Mail
and other papers. He was president
of the White House Correspondents
Association during the administra-
ton of Calvin Coolidge Before
joining, the Post. Office. Department
he represented the New York World
for nearly a decade. -. -. , ~.
Mr.. Gregg served as bureau head
under Postmasters General Harry S.
New and Walter Brown. When Maj.
Ambrose was named in his place at
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the start of the New Deal he re-
manned as assistant.
Himself an active stamp enthusi-
asst in boyhood, Mr. Gregg contrib
utes philatelic articles to the stamp
page of the New York Sun and
writes occasional philatelic features
for standard magazines. He mar
ried Miss Alice Acton in 1900 and
was the father of an only daughter,
Josephine, who died in 1929.
Mr.. Gregg's home is at 400 Com
monwealth avenue, Alexandria, Va.
The specialized stamp collection
entitled, Women and Philately," +"
and owned by Mrs. Grace L. Mac
knight, secretary of the Washington
Philatelic Society, will be exhibited
at the open house celebration of the
22d anniversary of the ratification
of the Woman Suffrage Amendment
to be held at Alva Belmont House,
National Woman's Party headquar-
ters, l44 B street NE, Wednesday.
Mrs. Macknight's material en-
braces all the stamps showing
, women and girls available to general
| collectors at the present time. The
! first postal adhesive-the famous
Penny Black of Great Britain--car-
ried a portrait of Queen Victoria
Other royal ladies portrayed on later
issues include: Queen Alexandra
Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth. Prin-
cess Mary, Princess Elizabeth O.
Great Britain, Queen Elizabeth ane
Queen Astrid Of Belgium, Queer
Emma, Queen Wilhelmina ane
Princess Juliana of the Meth
erlands, Empress Maria Theress
and Empress Zita of Austria. Queer
Elizabeth Carmen SYLVIA ant
Queen Marie of Rumania, Princes
Frederika-Lo of Greece, Queer
Giovanna of Bulgaria, Queer
Liliuokalani, Queen Emma Kale
leonalani, Queen .Kapiolani, Princes
Likelike of Hawaii, Queen Salot
of Tonga and others-al to be dis
played
Many distinguished women VIII
were 'commoners" also are i'm
mortal on stamps in Mrs. Mac
Knights collection. Jane Addams
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, Selm
Lagerlof, Sigrid Undset, Nine
Curie, Bertha Won Suttner, Grazl
Deledda, are shown on postal issue
of Turkey. A woman admiral-Las
carina acknowledgements on
stamp of Greek origin. Anita Carl
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Those Washington contract play
ers who wish 10 have one more
whirl at tournament play before the
close Of the summer season OF 1912
will be able 10 have their desires
gratified by attending the NTH
annual Southern Appalachian bridge
championships. These matches are
scheduled for the present week end,
August 28. % and 30. at Asheville,
N. C. After that there will be no
further major events for three
months, or until the annual tourna-
ment of the Washington Bridge
League Is held in November.
The regular local duplicate games
will continue as at present on their
fixed dates and the fall-winter
series of several organizations will
start the middle of next month with
the opening of the team of four
matches of the Federal Bridge
League at the Wardman Park Hotel.
These will be followed by other
bridge groups as the season ad-
vances.
The meet at Asheville although a
regional affair has grown to rank
favorably with the big national
events In respect to the program
which 1t presents and the char
acter Of the players attending it.
The tournament is sponsored by the
Junior Chamber of Commerce OF
Asheville as a sectional champion
ship of the American Contract
Bridge League, and the little city In
the mountains of Western North
Carolina features 1t as one OF the
notable gatherings which it enter
tains throughout the year. Sam
Holt, who has made all the arrange
ments, has left nothing undone
which will contribute to the pleas
ure and enjoyment Of the visitors
not only in indulging in their fav.
orite pastime, but also in added rec.
reational diversions Some loca
players who were obliged to foregt
this year the usual extra attraction
Of the Summer Nationals at Asbur,
Park are counting upon making VI
their loss by going to Asheville.
The schedule of events is an In
viting one. The opener will be
special pair game on Thursday nigh
to be followed on the afternoon Q
the next day with a double -heade
event, the mems pair championshi
and the women's pair championship
These two games will be run concur
rently. Championship among tn
men were won last year by Je1
Click. John Gerber, Milton Verno1
and Walter Wilson. The women
prize, the Pilot Club Trophy at tn
same time was captured by Mr.
Nellie p. Stout and Miss Julia i
Farmer. On the evening of tina
day will occur the mixed pair cham
pionship for the Land Of the SIX
Trophy. Last years winners wer
Mrs. J. E. Folline of Richmond. an
B. o. johnson of Spartensburg, s.
both of whom figured with Wash
ington players in the recent Sum
mer Nationals at New York.
The open pair championship, tt
feature event OF meet, will be playe
in two sessions on Saturday. Chan
pions of 1941 were Murray Gross ar
Mrs. Milton Vernoff. The prize
!, to be the Asheville Chamber
Commerce Trophy. The team of fol
! championships for the Battery Pa
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w. ~! CHESS =
The Game and Its
Players
. By Paul J. Miller,

New Jersey is a State where one
chess champion does not suffice.
Usually there Is a southern and a
northern champion. Once in blue
moon the half-State titlists meet on
a common battlefield, level off their
lances and give each other battle.
The winner then acclaims himself
as champ" Ohio is another State
that also feels the need of two
champions. California often divides
herself into two chess champs.
But this story is about a New Jer-
sey feminist who did not begin chess
in her youth nor did she participate
in Jersey chess braWls. Edith Lucie
Weart of Jersey City decided to wait
until she was 27 to begin this chess
business. But meanwhile, her pre-
vious accomplishments in other
fields were many.
She attended Oberlin College and
was graduated in 1919 with an A. B.
and a chemistry major. She tried
free lancing as writer, drifted into
abstracting and turned to producing
advertising copy. Somewhere along
the road of experience she became
an analyst and when Civil Service
Commission offered her a position
as an associate industrial analyst in
Washington she hurriedly packed
and quickly bridged the bap between
her home in New York City and the
Nations Capital.
Bridge, birds and chess are her
hobbies-the latter she learned by
herself from Edward Lasker's Chess
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baldi, wife of the hero of italian
liberation, accompanied her hus-
band into battle and is pictured
on a stamp of Italy, brought out
in 1882.
The public is invited to visit the
Belmont House while the frames
lent by Mrs. MacKnight are being
exhibited.
The stamp dye hoax deceived
George Riley and Page Huidekoper
Of the Washington Times Herald on
Monday. They reported that the
Order of the Eastern Star has been
persuaded to sponsor campaign
to collect used postal issues to be
processed for their colors. But in
later editions of their paper the
paragraph very properly was
dropped.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
Tomorrow evening at 8-Wood-
ridge Stamp Club, residence of Mai.
James L. Brewrink, 1929 Randolph
street NE. Program and exhibition.
Tomorrow evening at 8--Capital
Precancel Club, home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Anthony Suess, 5303 Forty first
place, Hyattsville, Md. Program and
bourse.
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors
Club of Washington, Thomson
School, Twelfth and L streets NV.
Program, exhibition and bourse.
Wednesday evening at 8-Wash-
ington Philatelic Society, Lee e-Shera-
ton Hotel, Fifteenth and L streets
NV. David D. Caldwell will giye a
report on the convention Of the
American Philatelic Society at
Cleveland.
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Competition will last a full week
with the Texas Chess Association
acting the genial host. Approx
mately $500 in prizes will be awarded
to the players. Games are clock
timed at the rate of 40 moves for
the first two hours and 20 moves for
every hour thereafter.
In 1910 Fine captured the title
at Dallas and successfully defended
it the following year at st. Louis.
Four special prizes are to be given
in the ladder tourney that begins
tomorrow evening at 8, at 306 Ninth
street NV, In the Servicemer :
Building. by the progressive, enter
prising Federal Chess Club. New
players are welcome to enter the
matches. Beginners have the op-
portunity Of improving their game
and also coping IN award.
The chess editor Of The Star win
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competed in the clubs initial wom-
ems tourney and in many subsequent
events. In 1888 she placed fourth
in the national women's tournament
at New York City and tied for third
honors in the title fray for women
held at Boston under the aegis of
the American Chess Federation.
There came an interlude due to
injuries suffered in an auto crash
and no more chess for months.
When Miss Weart arrived in Wash
ington she affiliated with the Chess
Divan and somewhat reluctantly
entered the 1912 District chess
championship tournament for wom-
en- as she still was unsettled and
scarcely unpacked from her hurried
trip. At the outset she drew
game and dropped one before she
caught her playing stride. Should
she win her adjourned game against
Miss Felicia Lamport. then runner
up ranking for the queen of District
chess may be hers.
Open games are preferred to
close ones and over-the- board
chess to chess by mail. She has
no favorites when it comes to
books masters or openings. Chess
is hobby, magazines and chess
columns amply meet her pastime
requirements.
Evening star., 1942-08-23
Ne,us From Dogdom
By r. n. TaysfoW.

The enlistment record of dogs IN
excellent The Armys call for
l2S 900 dog volunteers Is likely 10
he oversubscribed before adequate
quarters can be established for the
canine corps. However, II you have
suitable dog do not hesitate TO
enroll him in Dogs for Defense. Inc.
Suitable dogs are those that stand
at least 18 inches at the shoulder.
weigh SO pounds or more, are free
from nervousness and shyness and
have reasonable intelligence They
must be sound. healthy and between
the ages of and years. Regional
director for the District Of Columbia
and Maryland is Edward T. Boswell,
1903 Munsey Building, Baltimore,
Md. Regional director for Virginia
is Miss Julia Shearer, Locust Dale,
Va.
August 81 Is the closing date for
the collection of funds for the Her.
man E. Mellenthin Memorial Fund.
Shortly after that date the Execu-
tive Committee will meet and allo-
cate prizes and prize money for the
shows at which the memorial awards
will be made for the next five years.
Donations should be sent before that
date to Lewis H. Marks, Sugartown
Kennels, Paoli, Pa.
The cocker spaniel match last
Sunday held at the Downtown
Parking Station was most enjoy
able affair. The second parking
deck was an ideal place for a small
show, protected from sun and rain
yet open to whatever breezes blew.
Bill McNaull did very competent
Judging job and everybody seemed
to be having a good time. There
were number of exhibitors and
spectators who had never before
been to dog show of any kind and
who thoroughly enjoyed their in
PRODUCTION to the sport. There were
also spectators who neither owned
nor ever intended owning cocker
spaniels, but who were hungry for a
dog show and came to the spaniel
match because that was the only one
available. Which means that it is
about time that some of the other
kennel clubs in the neighborhood
had match show of some kind
Where is Old Dominion's annual
puppy match? What's the matter
with the bulldoggers? How about it
choWists and fox terrier enthusiasts?
Exhibitors, spectators and the
United Nations War Relief Fund
will all benefit from the second an
nual Afghan match, to be held Sun
day. September 20, on the estate OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry A. Florsheim at
Darien, Conn. In addition to the
main attraction. an Afghan match
judged by @, A. Shaw Mexican
president of the Afghan Hound As
sociation, there will be a regular
variety show featuring many Broad
way favorites. Charles Stark OF
Station WOR will be master OF
ceremonies. Among his performers
will be the famous dance team OF
Gallo and Giralda, Uncle Don OF
radio fame, Nine. Stella Andreva OF
the Metropolitan Opera, Olga
Schwenker of the metropolitan
Ballet, dog act from Priorities o1
1912 and many other celebrities.
This seems to be another aggra.
waited case Of the tale wagging the
dog. The date was chosen because
it follows the annual licensed o,
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Hotel Trophy will be PLAYED In two
sessions on Sunday against the title
holders. n Baltimore team composed
Of Col Robert J. OH. Clagett Bowie,
Mrs Olga Hilliard and A. Liebowitz
washington players have heretofore
been in on some OF these prizes and
hope 10 repeat.
Master point awards will range all
the way from Is. and 3 for the
leaders in order In the open pair
match down TO two and one for
the womens pair Convertible
master points and national rating
points will also 60 10 those further
down on the lists.
William f. McKenney. executive
secretary of the American Contract
Bridge League, will head delega-
ton Of the Executive Committee
and ofiicers of the league. who will
20 to Asheville for the purpose OF
ofYicially announcing the details OF
the ACBL's war fund drive in which
local players have displayed much
interest.
1t was originally intended that
Russell J. Baldwin would direct the
tournament. but inasmuch as he has
Just Joined the Ordnance Corps of
the Army in the capacity Of an ex-
pert mathematician it is considered
likely that his place will be filled by
George w. Beynon or AL Sobel.
ic hn "a hi nfo
representative on the Appalachian
Committee.
Federal Bridge League winners
last Tuesday night we're Mrs. A. J.
Steinberg and Mrs. Dora Schwartz
first and Louis Newman and Mrs
Frederic Eberson second.
The Capital City Chess Club has
started its new series of plaque
games which will continue for six
months. Members and holders oi
guest cards are eligible. C. w. STARK
won the last series and also the one
before that. T. j. Buford was sec
ond. Mrs. Vessel Stewart won The
womeols prize.
Here is an interesting hand whicl
has recently been going the round
in bridge circles and those to whom
it has been presented are asked
North and South can make a gam
with It, The first impression is tina
with five plus top honors in spades
four odd in that suit might be mad'
A little study. however, will sho'
that it Is impossible. and Ave dia
monds are then suggested.
The distribution of the cards Is:
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Ridge Kennel Club show Al Darien
on the ieth The sanction match
nov bids fair 10 outshine the license
show And the added attractions
bid fair TO outshine the sanction
matchl
There is more TO breeding puppies
than most novices realize. Take the
case OF DR.. John H. Elvin, bulldog
enthusiast. For four or Ave years
he has been trying to get litter of
bulldog puppies. He bought bitches
and had them bred. He bought
bitches in whelp. He bought puppies
and raised them in the hopes of get
ting a brood matron. But every
time something happened. They
missed, or they aborted, or they got
sick, or the puppies died, or the
mother died, or something! But
recently he hit the jackpot. On
Sunday one of his dogs whelped 10
pups and within 48 hours another
whelped eight. Now he has puppies
at home. in his Office and with Mrs.
Hosmer. The first litter is being
hand raised, and Dr. Elvin is get
ting a complete course in the joys
of raising puppies.
Latest addition to the growing
circle of nationally known dog
fanciers resident in Washington Is
Elrick Davis, breeder Of French
bulldogs. He Is with the National
Lumber Mems Association and Is
likely to be quartered for the dura-
ton. Mrs. Davis, Susan and the
dogs plan on joining Mr.. Davis
as soon as a suitable house can
be found. AS with all dog breeders,
the first question asked about
likely place for rent is Does 1t
have any outbuildings that can be
used for a kennel?" Household
accommodations are not nearly SO
important.
other members of the recently
arrived canine fraternity include
Orrin H. Baker of Kerry Blue fame
and Mrs. Margaret Welsh, Gordon
setter exhibitor.
The Clay Glover veterinary phar-
maceutical house is now engaging
in the publication of dog maga-
zine, 1t is issued quarterly, is edlted
bv Edward Faust and containsein- :
teresting editorial matter.
Florida, apparently, has a brand
of fleas unknown to these parts
and long may they remain SO. Tney
are small, dark brown in color and
very lethargic in habit. They fasten
themselves to the skin OF the dog
in clusters and are seemingly I'M
mune to the usual insecticides. The
only effective method Of removal
seems to be scrape them out with
the fingernails and to kill them by
cracking or burning AS their IA
vorite places of adherence are In
the tender skin around the eyes
and on the muzzle, their removal is
a painful business for the dog.
Most people seem to know now
that long haired dogs should rot
be clipped in not weather. If the
undercoat is combed out, the long
hair acts as an insulator from The
sun and as a protection from file:
and other insects. The dog is more
comfortable with his long coat thar
he would be naked. Leave it on.
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p ! e mented her
studies with per-
S o n a ! lessons
from Matthew
Green and David
Poland, N e W
York experts.
Since l 9 2 4,
when she first
t a c k ! e d chess,
Miss Weart has
played in several
important tour
neys for women.
She was a men,
ber of the Mar
shall Chess Club
and in 1Q33.
Evening star., 1942-08-23

Practically all lobbyists, whether
modelers or collectors, have some
thing tangible to show as the result
of their efforts. This week we pre-
sent something different. T. j. Nc
Kee collects information on GER
tain subject. Whenever it is posi-
BILE he obtains possession of the
Evening star., 1942-08-23
Sicilian Defense.

Played in round No 2 at Ventnor City,
N. j., in the 1912 masters tournament.
Abe Yanofsky, champion of Canada, cap
tured first prize.
The 43d annual congress of the
United States Chess Federation
opened yesterday in the Baker Hotel
at Dallas, Tex, with Reuben Fine
Of Washington holding the national
open title sought by al" Horowitz,
who excelled in the just concluded
New York State Chess Association
tournament at Cazenovia, N. Y.
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present prizes to winners In the
1912 District chess championship
for women tomorrow at 8 pm. at the
Federal Chess Club.
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IN THE LOCAL BRIDGE CIRCLES
News of Clubs and Tornamrn and of the Activities o Anna
teurs and Experts Special Hands and Problems

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South Is the Declarer and the
opening lead is the kins Of clubs.
This deal originated in San Fran
cisco. where Mrs. Maureen O'Brien.
who is tops in all matters pertaining
TO bridge on the Pacific Coast, has
puzzled her head over II and con-
tends that with expert defense, game
cannot be made. II 1t is possible,
she wants to know how.
Some Washington players say II
can be made, but others agree with
Mrs. OBrien that it cannot be done
without an error in play by West.
In all their winning calculations
West must make this very natural
error which almost every one except
superexpert would make.
Vests king of clubs is trumped In
dummy with the four. The ace OF
hearts is then led followed by three
rounds of spades. II West trumps
the third spade his side loses and
South makes the contract: II IN
stead he discards club which at
| first might seem to be unwise. then
Declarer Is set one trick. In the
| instance where West trumps the
third spade, he Immediately finds
himself in difficulty. He has no
heart to return and the lead OF
another club will be trumped. or II
small the queen will win in dummy
Any diamond he leads will be won
by Declarer who will return q dia-
mond to the king In dummy. West
then has but one trump and dummy
forces it out by leading the fourth
spade while South discards a second
heart. Another and necessary club
lead puts North in with the king
of diamonds and he leads and wins
with the last spade and South dis
cards MS last heart. Then dummy
leads heart which Declarer trumps
leads the queen of clubs and dis
cards a heart In dummy Soutf
then has a good trump and thu
wins Ave odd.
. Now try it out by having Wes
, refuse to take the third spade ant
see how differently 1t works. South
must then lose. two diamonds ant
a heart
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entry In 1912 International Two-Move
Problem ComposinR Tournament)
BLACK MEN.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-12-10
Disbonding WPA
Will Release Is
Men in Lincoln Co.

BY order of President Roosevelt,
the WPA will be discontinued on
and after Feb. |, l943, the time de-
pending somewhat on conditions in
the various communities.
The closing of WPA will result
in releasing Is men from employ
ment in Lincoln county, said Ira
Peterson, county superintendent.
Seven of these are at Eureka, six
at Libby and II at Troy.
Mr.. Peterson said recent ex-
animation of WPA rolls disclosed
that the average age of WPA work
ers for some time past had been 81
years. At present the average age
would be about 81 years, he said.
Of late the WPA has been in
charge of scrap iron collection and
that work will have to be carried
on by some other agency hereafter.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-12-10
Civilian Defense
Corps Arronges For
Emergency Signals

j. A. Krall announces that ar
rangements have been made with
the j. Neils Lumber Co whereby
the siren at the mill will be used to
give the alarm in case of air raids
or other emergency happenings. The
alarm will be a series of short blasts
by the mill whistle extending for q
half minute. The all clear signal
will be one long blast of one min
ute.
Mr.. Krall, who is commander Of
the local civilian defense organlza=
ton, says the alarm will positively
not be used except in case of an
air raid by enemy forces or to an
nounce practice blackout ordered
by the army. Mr.. Krall said the or
ganization had had considerable
difficulty in securing a suitable sig
nal for this purpose, and wishes to
express his and the organizations
thanks to the company officials
for their ready compliance with the
request and their willing cpopera-
ton