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Evening star., 1943-12-19
Legion Auxiliary
Unit 10 Hold
Christmas Party

Sergt. Jasper Unit No. 13, Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary. will hold a
Christmas party with the Sergt.
Jasper Post, American Legion, at
the Legion clubhouse, 2437 Fifteenth
street NV. tomorrow at 8 pm.
for so children of needy families.
Dolls will be presented to the
younger girls and toys to the young
er boys. while the others will re-
ceive suitable gifts. Seventeen fam
lilies will receive baskets of food.
William P. Kershner of the post
will enact the role of Santa Claus.
A Christmas tree will be laden with
the toys and gifts as we'll as we'll
filled Christmas stockings. Re-
freshments will be served at the
conclusion of the program.
Miss Iva Smathers is chairman
for the unit. Those assisting her
are: Miss Bertha Prendergast, Miss
Carrie Coffenberger, Mrs. Margaret
McGinty, Mrs. Hazel McNeely, Mrs.
Henrietta Schubert, Mrs. Agnes
Brady, Mrs. Ann Neal and Mrs.
| buCllle MCMeel.
On Tuesday evening the unit will
assist the department in entertain
ing the patients at Walter Reed
Hospital at the annual Christmas
party.
Plans ARE being completed by
the Ways and Means Committee
chairman, Mrs. Emma Donnor, for
a dance on January at the
American Legion Club to raise funds
to carry on the work of the unit.
| Mrs. Rae r. Zaontz lie demi
chapeau departmental, paid a spe-
cial tribute to the founder of the
District of Columbia Eight and
Forty, Salon Departmental, Mrs.
Irene Arnold, at the Washington
Hotel Wednesday night. 1t was
organized 18 years ago.
Mrs. Helen K. Ware, chapeau de-
partemental, gave her Christmas
message. Mrs Vesta Rodruck, demi
chapeau departmental, also ex-
tended Christmas greetings.
Mrs. Mae Hart, child welfare
chairman and her committee are
arranging Christmas baskets for
families with tubercular children.
Mrs. Ann Zaruba appealed for men,
bers to sell r. B. Christmas seals
at the Benjamin Franklin Post ONCE
booth.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Miniature Museum
Contains 21 Items
Prize Contribution.
BY MOZELLE BIGELOW, IA,

Jerry Speake, president of hel
class at Hine Junior High School
collects miniatures of all kinds
Most of these are relics from the
18th century, but some are quite
modern.
One of the items in Jerry's COL
lection is little British grenadiel
in his red coat, from the Revolu-
tionary War. Representing the Civil
War, Jerry has ball shot from a
gun.
Jerry plays the violin in the school
orchestra and her favorite tunes are
those from Mozart Also in her COL
lection are busts of Mozart, Bee
thoven and Schubert. Other items
are a brass kerosene lamp, brown
jug, frying pan and a dog. There
is also pair of brass candlesticks
and a eowbell.
Jerry began her hobby last sum-
mer and now she has 81 articles in
what she calls her miniature
museum"
Lately she has added some old
books, including a speller used dur
ing the 18th century and hymn
book dated 1852.
Jerry is an "a" student and has
her school letter. Her favorite game
Is chess,
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Uncle Rays Corner

AS colonel of volunteer regiment
in the Civil War. Ulysses S. Grant
soon showed marks of the military
skill which was to make his name
stand forth later. Early in the war
he made quick march to Paducah
KY, and occupied that town few
hours before it would have been
reached by a Confederate army.
Early in 1862, Grant. who had
been made brigadier general took
an active part in pushing control
of the Union armies up the valleys
of the Cumberland and Tennessee
Rivers. In this campaign he cap
tured Fort Donelson and Is 900 Con-
federate soldiers who were stationed
there.
In the following year, Grant had
command of Union forces in the
capture Of Vicksburg, Miss, one of
the leading citadels of the Confed-
crate States. Four months later, he
and his men were in the eastern
part of Tennessee, and new victory
was marked down. AS result OF
the Battle of Chattanooga, Con-
federate army was put to flight.
On February 26, 1864, President
Lincoln named Grant to command
all Union forces, with the advanced
rank of lieutenant general.
Grant planned a strong drive to
split the forces of the South. Will
liam T. Sherman, a brigadier gen.
eral, was ordered to march through
Georgia to the Atlantic Coast, and
the march was crowned with final
success when Savannah surrendered
to Sherman on December 81, 1864.
Meanwhile, Grant had been driv-
ing against Gen. Lee, who was in
command of a Confederate army en-
camped in and around Richmond.
Advancing into Virginia, Grant
met the Confederate Army in battle
after battle. The Union forces met
partial defeat, but Grant drove on
with it's campaign. He gained con-
troll of points along the James and
Shenandoah Rivers and to large
extent hemmed Lee in.
The supplies of the Confederates
were running low, and on April 9
Lee surrendered at Appomattox
Courthouse, about 80 miles west OF
Richmond.
Three years after the close of the
war, Grants friends put him for
ward as a candidate for President.
He had taken little interest in poll
tics up to that time. but he was
elected President in 1868.
After two terms as President,
Grant made a trip around the world,
visiting Great Britain, India, China,
Japan and other countries. Short
ly before his death on July %, 1885,
he finished writing an interesting
book, Personal Memoirs" which
told the story Of his life. He was
buried in New York City, his body
being placed in a tomb near the
Hudson River.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Stamps
n, JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

Mrs Eva E. Abcrnathy. oldes,
smploye OF the Philatelic Agency In
terms Of years OF service rendered
retired December IL. She was ap.
pointed TO the Post once Depart
mcnt In 1918 and assigned to the
stamp collectors special branch In
June, 1923. The number Of stamps
which she examined and accounted
for during the ensuing two decades
has been estimated at two and q
half billion. Fellow workers testi-
fed to their friendship by present.
ing her with a wrist watch to re-
member them by. 20
H. E. Harris e. Co., Boston, an
nounces the publication of q guide
to airpost philately, entitled Air
mail Stamps Of the World" to which
DR.. Lowell Ragatz of George Wash
ington University, writing under the
name George van den Berg, con-
tributes a chapter.
According to the Associated Press,
the Island of Jersey, in the English
Channel, now Occupied by German
military forces, has been granted its
own postage stamps. Six different
issues are reported, each one show
ing different coastal scene. The
denominations and colors are: I'D,
green: Id, red; lid, brown; I'd, yel-
low; 21ad, blue, and Sd, violet.
The Soviet Union, as announced
November 6, has produced a stamp
showing the Russian, British and
American flags "in celebration of
the tripartite understanding" con-
Evening star., 1943-12-19

firmed at Moscow and Teheran. An
inscription on panel of the design
according to the Associated Press
may be translated: Hail Victory
Anglo Soviet American Alliance
Stalin"
A. M. Davis Of Philadelphia, who
died recently In that city, left his
stamp collection to the Episcopal
Academy where he attended classes
as boy.
Readers desiring copies of the
1943 Christmas seal with inscrip-
ton in French are advised to COM
municate with the tuberculosis So
cieE of Quebec, Canada, where
specimens possibly may be obtained
Harry L. Lindquist, writing in
Stamps Magazine, questions the ad-
visibility of reading papers at the
annual meetings of the American
Philatelic Congress. Such procedure
he says, has never proven success
full
Bolivia commemorated the cente-
nary of the founding of the state
of Benz with five regular postage
and five airmail stamps. The full
length portrait of Gen. Jose Bal
livian, President from 1841 to 1847
Is included in the design for both
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Make These Gifts
For Your Friends
This Christmas
Prise Contributes
by POLLY WRIGHT, IS,
Coolidge High School,


Here is q way for girls-and boys,
too, for that matter-to give nice
Christmas presents and still be able
to buy War Stamps. You can make
things. for less money than you can
buy them.
To make q set of three guest
towels, buy a half yard Of cotton
material in three pastel colors. Cut
out three pieces, each IL by 20 inches
Mark in pencil 2 inches from both
|l2-inch sides. Pull thread from
the material so that line can be
seen where the thread was. Con-
tinue pulling threads on both sides
Of the piece until the space meas
ures one-half inch. With colored
embroidering thread, separate 10 of
the threads and sew around the
middle; knot and break thread, and
repeat all across row. Hem edges
of material and there Is the finished
towel.
A slightly different kind of set can
be made by following the same di-
rections but emitting the thread
pulling. Embroidered flowers can
be used on both ends of the material,
instead.
With the leftover materials, you
can make potholder sets. Cut three
6-by-12 2-inch pieces. Cut three more
pieces the same size from scrap ma
terial and place on the good ma
terial. Fold the whole thing over
so you have 6-inch square. Bind
the edges with contrasting binding
or whipstitch close together with
contrasting yarn or embroidering
thread.
Another gift to make is an apron.
Buy yard of striped, plain or
fiowered cotton material. Cut a
piece "a by So inches long. Make a
hem Of 2 inches on one 36-inch side
and OF one-half inch on the oppo-
site side. With heavy embroidering
thread, make two rows of running
stitches an inch apart and l inch
from the one-half-inch hem. Pull
thread till tap measures about l3
inches. Cut two strips of material
2 inches wide and 20 inches long
Hem edges and sew to sides OF
apron.
If you feel particularly ambitious
you can make a set of napkins. Buy
as much material as you want to
make the number of napkins you
want. Cut 12-inch squares. One
inch in from the edge and all the
way around, pull the threads the
way you did in making the guest
towels. Pull enough to make space
one half inch wide. With colored
embroidering thread, sew centers of
each 10 or IL threads. Hem edges of
napkin and there you are.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Safety Chalk Talks
By Dick Mansfield

Inspector Dick Mansfield, di-
rector of The Stars school
safety program and former,
chief of detectives, is giving a
series of chalk talks on safety to
pupils of elementary and junior
high schools. The talks are
presented under sponsorship of
The Junior Star, in cooperation
with school authorities of the
District and nearby Maryland
and Virginia. This weeks
schedule:
Monday. 10:30 am, Woodside
School, Silver Spring.
Tuesday, 1870 pm, Lyndon
Hill School, Capitol Heights.
Wednesday, II am, Holy
Name School.
Thursday, l0:45 am, Somer-
set School.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
bridge
By FRANK D. LORD.

The Federal Bridge League has
concluded the 10 games which con-
stitute the qualifying rounds Of the
first half of its 1s43 season series of
team-o of -four matches, and last
Tuesday night at the Wardman
Park Hotel began the playon con-
tests In the several sections. There
will be two more games in the play
off matches, one on January 4 and
the last on January IL.
The scores made in these games
will be added to those made in the
qualifying rounds to determine the
half-season percentage. The winner
of the first half will play at the end
Of the season against the winner Of
the second half for the Luther
Stewart Grand Trophy. which is a
presentation Of the Union of Fed
eral Employees, Of which Mr.. Stew
art is president. There will be Sec
tional prizes in each division going
to the teams having the highest
aggregate sectional scores in the
playof games.
The second half of the series will
start January Is. Some OF the
teams will be reorganized but most
OF them will continue with their
existing personnel. George Kathan.
president of the league, announced
at the last meeting that several
new teams will be added to the
present number when the second
half of the series opens.
| In the first of the playoff games,
the Cascade team, which has been
trailing the Army and Government
foursomes in their see-saw strug-
gle for first place, leaped to the
front by winning 15l2 out Of "a
boards, while the Government team
had only IS and the Army lads tied
with the Zillahs for third place with
14i2 boards.
The Parto team took the initial
honors in the second division, win
ming 16 out of "a boards The Stays
well toward the bottom of the Sec
ton, were second in tie with the
4 Ms.
The Scotties had successful
game in the third section. taking
1872 out of "a boards. The Strangers
were second with IA boards, and the
Wild Cats third with 49,
The following is the percentage
standing of the several teams In
the three sections at the end OF
the qualifying rounds. The aver
ages will be changed somewhat as a
result Of the playoff games which
are to be added to constitute the
final half-season score:
Evening star., 1943-12-19
Fleet Reserve Association

Branch No. will meet tomorrow
at 8 pm. at 1912 Ninth street NV.
Branchmates and all eligible service
personnel in the Metropolitan Area
or its environs are cordially invited.
Refreshments will be served.
The Ladies Auxiliary will also
meet there at pm. Mrs. Carl Hais-
loop, president, will preside. A
Christmas party will follow.
Mrs. Joseph Sally, national presi-
dent, will be a guest.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
.VFW Posts 10 Hold
Officers Meetinq
InKansasCity

Commander in Chief Carl J.
Schoeninger, Veterans of Foreign
Wars OF the United States, last week
notified Jack Holiday, commander
OF the District of Columbia Depart
ment, he will hold a meeting of ma
tional officers, department COM
manders. adjutants and quartermas-
ters at Kansas City, Mo, January
1928.
He said the conference will be to
discuss membership, rehabilitation
OF war veterans, finances and war
activities.
Comdr. Holiday. Adjt. Arthur C.
Fowle and Quartermaster Edward
T. Spedden will represent the Dis
trict.
Meetings this week are:
Monday-Equality- Walter Reed
Post, 7l3 D street NV: Federal
Post. Thomas Circle Club, 1926
Massachusetts, avenue NV: Inter-
nal Revenue Post, 1903 Fourteenth
street NV.
Tuesday-T. N. T. Pup Tent, Mil
itary Order of the Coolies, 935 G
place NV.
Wednesday-Potomac Post. 1915
Rhode Island avenue NE: Nc
Kimmie-Catterton Police and Fire
Post, 7l3 D street NV: v. F. w
Guard of Honor, department head.
quarters, 1707 I street NV.
Front Line Post met Monday
night. with Comdr. Garnett M. Mat.
tingly presiding. Thomas J. Cram
9th Aero Squadron. United State.
Army; Herman H. Heuonimus, phar-
macist mate. United States Navy
Joseph Iaconangelo. United States
Navy, and George D. Caldwell, F M
first class, Marine Corps. were
initiated to membership. Phil Tai
bott. United States Army, 115th Am
bulance Corps, 9th Division, was re-
instated.
Frank Benedetto. captain of the
bowling team, selected the following
members on the team: DR.. A. V
Cercell. Daniel R. Forno, Albert
w. Masters, Harold w. KERN
Charles B. Jennings, Joseph Moffatt
Eli Busada, Victor c. Guillermain
William j. Keefe and Joseph L
King. Arrangements are being
made with the Equality Walter Reed
Post for opening game.
Junior Vice Comdr. CLYDE w
KERN. chairman of Armistice ball
submitted his report
Department Comdr. Holiday was
= speaker.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
PrfEe COntributi0n.
BY MARY JANE PRATHER, II.
Anacostia High School,

Servlcemen and sewing stuffed toys
for refugee children.
OF course, many people are doing
! these things, but we of Anacostia
were given a project that we are
going to put over in a big way.
There is a Red Gross Nursery School
which takes care of 20 small chill
dren whose fathers are in the Serv-
ice and whose mothers are doing
war work. Our job is to give these
children a Christmas party. And
this party is going to help four
groups of people.
First, we are going to see that
these babies get the kind of Christ
mas their mothers are too busy to
provide. We are going to have
apples and oranges for every child.
Our home economics department is
making cookies in all the shapes
that thrill little children. And. as
la final step, each member of the
club is going to make stuffed toy
as a present. These toys are SO
cute, so cuddly. that they even de-
light high school students.
Second, this party will do Won
ders for the fathers of these chill
'dren. Nothing is better for their
morale than the knowledge that
their children are happy.
Third. the mothers are going to
be happy that their children will
get a real Christmas and this will
help their work
And last, but by no means least,
We Red Cross Club members are
getting a big kick out of it!
Evening star., 1943-12-19
lust Between
Yourselves
by PHILIP N. LOVE
Editor, The Junior star,


The Junior Star extends hearty
Christmas greetings to all its
readers.
There are many reasons why this
Christmas cannot be the superla-
lively happy day that some other
Christmases have been. Happiness
is bound to be tinged With sadness
when our relatives and friends are
fighting-yes, and being killed and
wounded, too-in all parts Of the
world.
But we have much for which to
be thankful, much to give us q meas
ure OF happiness in spite Of all the
sadness. Remember our first war
time Christmas? The Japanese had
just bombed Pearl Harbor; our Navy
was badly crippled; !. all over the
world, the Axis seemed to be win
ming the war. Remember?
It's kind Of hard to remember
simply because we have come so far
since then. Now we are winning
the war-deflnitely. We have
snatched Africa away from the Ger
mans and Italians; Italy has not
only surrendered, but is trying to
fight on our side; and the Japs are
being slapped wherever we en-
counter them. Victory is within
hailing distance. even If 1t is not
clearly In sight. So, all things con-
sidered, this ought to be our hap
piest Christmas since December Z,
1941.
A few unthinking boys and girls
may be made unhappy by the fact
that Santa's sack is little on the
anemic side this Christmas. Toys
are not too plentiful, and other gifts
are lacking in variety, it's true, but
there's a simple solution to this
rather minor problem: War Bonds
and Stamps. These are gifts that
not only bring happiness now, but
promise even greater happiness In
the future.
An interesting new radio program
got under way last Monday over
WMAL. It's the High School
Forum Of the Air" modelled after
the famous Town Meeting of the
Air" The initial broadcast was
from the Central High School audi
torium, and the speakers repre-
sented both Central and Wilson
Teachers College. The next broad
cast will be from the Mckinley High
School auditorium. Watch for 1t
in The Stars daily radio guide. It's
a program well worth following.
I had a lot of fun Friday, De-
cember 10, at the annual high
school journalism conference at
Wilson Teachers College And I
learned once more that high school
journalists take their work seriously
and that many of them are intent
on devoting their lives to newspaper
work
At least a couple hundred high
school journalists submitted to
talk by me on feature writing and,
after it was over, bombarded me
with questions. The most searching
questions came from Faga Gold
smith of the Roosevelt High School
Reporter and Cicely Davenport of
the Woodrow Wilson High School
Beacon. My admiration for high
school journalism increases each
time I attend one of these confer
ences.
Mott School purchased $2,050 in
War bonds and stamps in two
months, thus earning its first jeep,
says note from Dolores Kerrick
Karlen McAlpin bought the most
bonds and stamps, S92 worth. The
jeep delivered by the War Depart
ment was christened Mott Meteor"
by Edna Hopkins. Mrs. Edith w.
Cook was in charge of the drive and
had the full cooperation of the
schools new principal, Mrs. M. K.
Brown.
Evening star., 1943-12-19

sets, but the regular postage series
pictures the cathedral at Trinidad
and the airpoSt series illustrates a
pack horse train crossing a bridge
with an. airplane overhead-old VS.
new methods of transportation
Values range from SC to 2.10B anc
10c to 5B, respectively.
-Four beautiful scenic stamps have
been released by the little princi-
pality of Liechtenstein. One repre-
sents a valley with mountains ir
the background, the other three
agricultural operations and dredg-
ing.
The Cathedral Age, quarterly
magazine of the National Cathedra
Association, Washington Cathedral
soon will publish a comprehensive
illustrated article on stamps show.
Ing cathedrals.
Brazil has brought out a com
memorative for the fourth centen-
nial of the Misericordia Hospital ir
Santos and similar stamp for the
centenary of the birth of Barbosa
Rodrigues, botanist and ethnologist
Douglass Graham, in Stamps Mag
azine, criticizes the flag of the Al
banian stamp as being wrong ir
color and in the dimensions of the
double eagle; also the shade of blue
In the Greek stamp, which he in
sists is "green-blue" instead of pale
blue-blue."
H Carlton Stewart, formerly
stamp editor of the Schenectady
Union Star and past president OF
the Schenectady Stamp Club, died
at Ballston Spa, N. Y, November
81, aged As.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
Tomorrow evening at 8-Wood-
ridge Stamp Club, 3102 Twenty
fourth street NE.
Wednesday evening at S-Wash.
ington Philatelic Society, Lee She.
ration Hotel, Fifteenth street NV
The next meeting of the Collec.
tors Club of Washington will bt
held at the Thomson School
Twelfth street NV, Tuesday eve.
ming, January 4.
Evening star., 1943-12-19
OES Activities
In Local Chapters

Gavel Chapter on December 81
will have a Christmas program.
Fidelity Chapter viii have initia-
ton and a Christmas party Decem-
ber 81. Members are requested to
bring a gift.
Naomi Chapter on Wednesday will
have Christmas program.
Mizpah Chapter on Tuesday will
hold Christmas party.
The Ways and Means Committee
of Cathedral Chapter will meet with
Mrs. Margaret Thompson tomorrow
evening.
The chapter will meet Wednesday
evening at $500 Sixteenth street
NV. Entertainment.
Hope Chapter on Wednesday will
have initiation.
Hope will be guests at Naomi S
Christmas entertainment.
Chevy Chase Chapter meets
Wednesday evening.
The Tuesday Evening Card Club
will meet at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Purcell on December 81.
Harmony Chapter will have a re-
ception for the new officers on
Thursday evening and also Christ
mas party. Other members of the
family are invited.
The Home Board of Martha Chap
ter will meet Tuesday evening at
the home Of the matron, Mrs. Irvel
S. Prospect.
Ruth Chapter, on Monday at
pm. in Stansbury Hall, will have a
Christmas program and will honor
members having December birth
DAYS.
Evening star., 1943-12-19

The annual meeting of the league
will be held January II, at which
time officers and directors will be
chosen for the new year. James
G. Stone is chairman of the Nomi-
mating Committee, which will pre-
sent list of names for selection.
The Red Cross benefit game OF
the league, which will be held next
Tuesday night, promises to be the
biggest in the history of the organi-
cations. Already the number of
tickets sold indicates that the at
tendance will be we'll over 200. The
s25 door prize is an added incentive
Tho money for this, however, will
be taken from the leagues treasury
as the entire proceeds of the game
will go to the Red Cross.
The Women's Auxiliary conducted
a l4-table game for the benefit of
Children's Hospital last night at
the rooms of the CAPITAL City Chess
Club. Arrangements for the play
were made by Mrs. Dora Schwartz
and Mrs. Violet thinner. DR.. j. v.
Waits acted as director and the club
donated its equipment. In addition
to the card fee each player donated
toy for the hospital children.