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Uncle Rays Corner

approved by the different States.
In each State convention was
held Many men were against it,
among them the patriot, Patrick
Henry. At length, all the States ex-
cept four had approved.
Later, a Bill of Rights was added
to the Constitution. This declared
that Congress should not have power
to make any law to keep people from
saying what they believed. The
right of trial by jury was guaranteed.
Within a few years, the remaining
four States voted to accept the Con-
stitution.
At that time, Philadelphia was the
largest city in the United States. 1t
contained $4,000 people. New York
had a population of $4,000, and
Boston had $4,000.
At the close of the Revolution
George Washington returned to his
home in Virginia. When the Con-
stitution went into force, he was
elected President. After receiving
the news, he mounted horse and
rode to New York City. Along the
way he was greeted by cheering
crowds.
Washington took Office in New
York, which was then the Capital of
the Nation. Thomas Jefferson be-
came Secretary of State, and Alex
ander Hamilton Secretary of the
Treasury.
At the end of four years, Wash
ington was reelected. During his
term of office three States were
added to the Union-Vermont, Ken
lucky and Tennessee. Kentucky had
been part of Virginia and Tennes-
see had belonged to North Carolina.
While Washington was President
mint was started at Philadelphia. 1t
made coins from both gold and
silver. The gold eagle" was coined
at the value of 10 silver dollars.
Among the silver coins was a half
dime which filled the place of the
present nickel.
neA kn1
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Girls Should Start
Young to Train
For Air Jobs
BY I. r. HEGEL.

oy
Girls OF IA write to me and ask
If they are too young to start train
ing for an air career. The answer
is: No girl can start too soon.
Out in Tulsa. Okla, Barbara
Friend completed the weather
forecasting course at Spartan at
the age of II! She has already
passed Government examinations
for instructor ratings in meteorol-
ogy and air navigation. She can
now do any one of three things:
Become an aviation ground school
instructor; get position with an
airline as meteorologist or enter
Government service. Barbara is
perhaps the Nations youngest me-
teorologist, although girls in the
weather service are almost all in
their early 20s.
In Tampa, Fla, 22-year-olds Eliz-
ebeth Jane Buckner reads pilot
balloon runs and is taking flying
lessons in her leisure time. A splen-
did combination of meteorology and
flying.
To begin is the important thing.
Dive into mathematics and physics,
licking these subjects to a finish. If
arithmetic does not come easy, re-
member that it leads the way to
Algebra, geometry, trigonometry,
calculus, navigation and then flying.
Girls who have spare time on
their hands this summer can find
no better way to employ it than to
study practical mathematics and its
allied subjects. That goes for the
boys, too. Mathematics is vitality
concerned with flying. It's the first
step toward those all-important
wings!
Send selt-uddreSSed Gopern-
ntent postal card to I. r. HeoeI,
care OF The Junior Star, for
list OF books on mathematics and
T77eteoroIonu
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hSoA SAh Gal ooy. LilC 1OoSllS al
brought back and sorted; many are
discarded as being insignificant.
William then spends many tedious
hours cleaning his finds with a
needle to get the extra sand and
rock away. Then he tries to iden-
tify them; if this is impossible, they
are taken to the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition for further study. He helps
the psychologists there every Sat-
urday, all the while learning more
about this interesting subject.
Missouri is a much better place
to collect fossils than the District"
William says. The formations there
are much older, and consequently
have different types, he explains.
He lived there most of his life until
a year ago.
William takes his hobby very Sc
riously. After graduating from high
school, he plans to study paleon-
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and Hobbyists

healthy, active, alert. pleasant and
an ardent champion of the value Of
hobbies.
Mrs. Thompson believes in the
creative types of hobbies. She likes
to produce with her hands any Of a
great variety of small objects. If
it's made of paper, thread, cloth or
shells she can probably reproduce
1t Living, as she does, in a fairly
small room at the Methodist Home,
she has limited space and equip
ment. Add to the above matelia ials
the occasional use of bits OF wood
wire. nuts, twigs and buttons and
hold it together with model cement
and many attractive small objects
will result.
1t would be very difficult to de-
scribe all the things Mrs. Thompson
has made, but We shall select few
at random to give some idea of their
variety. For example, she has made
land given to people all over town,
from the postman on the street to
an official in her bank) hundreds of
small parrots. They are fabricated
from wood, paper, glue, paint and
peanut. The finished product is a
very good reproduction of a parrot
on its perch. The body is a whole
peanut in its shell. The gay plum
age is provided by a. covering of
crepe paper of the correct hues. The
perch is short length of wooden
doWel, the base a wooden button
form. and the whole is a gay bird.
indeed.
Another of her trinkets is copied
from one purchased by her mother
during the Civil War. 1t is a finger
puppet. A piece of cardboard cut
to the shape of the body, head
and arms forms the base. A dress
or coat of cloth is cemented on and
a face painted where the face be-
longs. Probably the hardest part
of the puppet is the feet. They,
with the lower portion of the legs,
must be carefully made. They are
attached to the body with a piece
of shoestring. and loop of the
same material is provided on the
back of the figure. To operate the
puppet, place two fingers through
the loop and insert the end of one
finger in each boot.
The manufacture of these and
many other novelties has, as Mrs.
Thompson puts it, kept her busy and
out of trouble for the 10 years dur
ing which she has resided at the
Methodist Home
Mrs. Thompson and her husband,
the late Rev. A. H. Thompson, were
well-known residents of Washington
shortly after the turn of the CEN
tury. Mr.. Thompson had been pas
tor of three local churches, staying
longest at Waugh Methodist, where
he served for six years. HIS also was
at Wilson and Kensington. The
Thompsons later travelled over most
of the country, staying for time
at various churches clear out to the
West Coast. But when the time
came for Mr.. Thompson to retire,
they returned to Washington.
There is a little story connected
with the making of each of Mrs.
Thompson's little oddities, but space
limitations bid us to call halt here.
We can only suggest that you visit
her and hear about them from the
source.
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Potato Chip Maker

Ann Benefits money-making
project started with her wanting to
earn money to 60 to camp and it
turned out to be a very profitable
venture.
Making potato chips is hard work,
besides being hot work in the sum-
mertime, but I like doing it," Ann,
who is IA, writes from Westerville,
Ohio.
Il slice the potatoes Friday eve
ming and fry them Saturday morn
ing. I sell them for Is cents a bag,
each bag containing 6 ounces. The
first three weeks I sold them 1 made
a profit of $305."
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Her schooling will include the basic
two-year college course and the one
year of social work which every po-
Icewoman must have.
Ruth's actual experience with the
fundamentals of her future profess
sion includes the typing of state
ments and confessions of criminals
for the fifth precinct. She also has
toured the FBI and looked through
the "Rogue's Gallery" and has Wis
tied the rife range where detectives
In training practice.
A big thrill came when Ruth at
tended the Police Academy gradua-
ton last year with her father.
Some day she hopes to participate
In similar exercise.
Ruth lives at 3235 T street Sc.
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caliber rifle to
a machine gun.
Becoming in
terested in guns
a n d detective
work as soon as
she could hold
h er detective
fathers auto
matte pistol in
her hand, Ruth
has become so
engrossed with
the study Of OBJ
servation a n d
deduction that {
she plans to be
- ~oIio1,-1~.o-
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Riddles

/. From what word can you take
away the whole and have some left?
Elizabeth De Jong.
2. What kind of monkeys grow on
a vine?-Irene Jensen.
3. What did the water say to the
stove?-Peggy Forestal.
4. What did one ear say to the
other ear?-Samuel Thompson.
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Takon1a Park
Girl Collects
Autographs
PrIxe Contrihufion.

BY KATHLEEN FAULCONER, IA,
Takoma Parkt Md Junior High School
A girl of many interests is Laura
Nicholson, 904 Borifant street, Silver
Spring. Md.
For one thing "Nicky." as she is
called. collects autographs. Among
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iilC HiOS1 p lNCu
items in this COL
lection are the
S | G n a t ures of
Vincent L OPT e z,
r ay E b e r ! e,
H or a C e Heidi,
Virginia Weld
Ter, Tony Pastor,
Frankie Carle,
Walter Compton
and Art Brown.
But the prize
of thun all is
of C o u r S e--the
a u t o g raph of
the newest sing
Evening star., 1943-07-11

9 h o u ! d t h e y
h a V e? H o W
should m on e y
be raised to
carry on public
affairs?
For six years
after the treaty
Of Paris was
signed, Congress
was supposed to
run the affairs
of the Nation.
But the power
of Congress was
so small that
the States were
almost like sep
arata roIIntrjec
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Meetings This Week.

Today-National Aquarium Soci-
ETY., field trip. Shaw's Lily Gardens,
Kenilworth avenue and Douglas
street NE, 8 am.
Neurological Society, field trip
"petrified forest" Queens Chapel
road and Northwest Branch NE,
2:30 pm.
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But that will
probably be a
gain for Uncle
Sam, b e C a u S e
Don expects to
enter the Navy.
Don, who is 6
feet tall, has
been interested
in track athlet-
les since he be-
came old enough
TO run, instead
of just toddle.
He entered his
first track meet
while still in ele-
roepfary cphool
Evening star., 1943-07-11
Rain
'rixe Contribution,
BY ELEANOR ERICKSON, 16

BY ELEANOR ERICKSON, Is
Central Hish School
The clouds moved on beyond the
town,
Urged gently by the breeze;
A few clear drops came splashing
down
To glisten on the trees.
With sticks and leaves, the children
came
On bare and nimble feet,
To play some sort of water game
In rain upon the street.
Their closed umbrellas on their
arms,
Their gaze toward the sky,
The people smiled, for now they
knew
The storm was passing by.
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of the type used by Bering and in
the background is Saint Elias Noun
tain in Alaska, which Bering sighted
on one of his two voyages. The
slate green 60-kopec, reproduced
herewith, pictures the sailing YES
sci against a background of a map
showing the location Of the Bering
Sea and the route taken by Bering
in his voyages. A 1-ruble yellow
green is the same design as the
30-kopec, while the map scene is
portrayed on the 2-ruble brown"
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principal interest is in art, especially
drawing in black-and-white. He was
one of the most enthusiastic stu
dents of the Roosevelt art course.
After the war, Don hopes to be-
come either professional tumbler
or an athletic coach.
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gIls Junior
sl1NDA & I,1 IsIss,.
Anacostia Girl
Is Expert With
All Firearms
Prize Contribution,
BY JANE FENDRICH, 16.

Annie Oakley had little on Ruth
Bean, 16-year-old Anacostia High
School student, who "hits what she
aims at" with anything from a .22-
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lust Between
Ourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE-
Editor. The Junior Star.

Jeanne Barinott, Mckinley High
School correspondent of The Junior
Star for the last three years, seems
to have the knack of pleasing South
American readers.
Several months ago, story by
Jeanne brought a complimentary
letter from a boy in Colombia. Now
comes letter from boy in Brazil,
praising another of Jeanne's prize
contributions, one she wrote on the
bank operated by Tech students.
Frank Howard Briggs introduces
himself thus:
This is from a Manaos
reader Of The Junior Star. AS most
Of the girls and boys who read your
wonderful Junior edition may know,
there are lot of North Americans
now working in Manaos, in the heart
Of the rubber country of Brazil
along the Rio Negro, close to where
1t joins the Amazon River. My
father was from Richmond, Va, but
has lived here = for 40 years. My
mother, Brazilian senhorita, won
his heart many years ago, and I am
their youngest son-now Is years
old. L have always spoken both
English and Portuguese in the home,
and on several occasions have made
prolonged visits to the United
States"
Getting around to the Mckinley
bank, Frank writes:
please congratulate Jeanne Bari
mott on the fine article she wrote
for the April Is issue. We have no
banks in the schools of Brazil. When
we go to the bank, we have to go
upstairs, put in our request to cash
a check. All the bookkeeping is done
FIRST, while we sit and wait. They
hand us card with a number on it,
and we then go downstairs, sit on
benches around the wall and wait
until the teller calls our number. II
everything is all right, we then re-
ceive the money for our check"
But Jeanne's stories are not the
only things that Frank likes about
The Junior Star, as you will learn
from the rest of his interesting
letter:
Because there is shortage of in
terpreters in Manaos have
been employed by one of the rubber
offices to be the go-between for the
North Americans and the local work
ers, who are cooperating in the ef-
fort to get rubber from the jungles
to the proper consumer sources
Every imaginable boat that comes
down the river brings rubber to
Manaos, the largest inland harbor
in the world.
Many of the employees subscribe
to The Star, or have it sent out to
them by their home folks. That
how have been lucky enough to get
to see your fine paper week after
week. You might be interested to
know that I have translated it to my
friends at Colegio dom Bosco, where
/ am in my senior year. The course
is equivalent to American high
school courses. hope to attend
school in the United States next
year.
Il wish the Manaos paper, o
Journal, would carry a section like
The Junior Star. - ."
For any readers who may wish to
correspond with Frank. here is his
address: Care Of Rubber Develop
ment Corp, Commodore Plaza Coco
nut Grove. Miami, Fla. (Forward to
Manaos, Brazil.)
Evening star., 1943-07-11

When the Revolutionary War
came to a close in 1888, there were
many questions for the Americans
to solve. What kind of country
Evening star., 1943-07-11

Remember Ashton Mossburg? He's
the Washington-Lee High School
boy whose hobby is going places by
the travel folder" route. Well, he
has finally got around to doing some
real travelling. On post card from
Chimney Rock. 225 feet high, West
ern North Carolina" he writes: I'm
keeping up on my hobby-only this
time In at the places in my folders.
This is really nice place" And
from Masonic Marker at Black
Camp Gap Entrance to Great Smoky
Mountains National Park, II miles
from Waynesville. N c." he post
cards: Here's a rather interesting
item for you. I'm beginning to feel
like a mountaineer. Mildred
Cabell, June graduate of Central
High School, has two pets, dog
named Tommy and white rat
called Cimarron. And the animals
are the best of friends. .. Just be-
fore school closed, section Al of Hine
Junior High formed two new clubs,
one devoted to debating and the
study Of history and the other to
dramatics, says note from Mozelle
Bigelow, 13. -. The physical educa-
ton periods at La Plata Md High
School highlighted the year for Bar
bara Seitz, Is. . Visiting York
town, Va, is one of the hobbies of
Susan Powers, 10, Stafford VaD
High School. Il hope to go there
soon again after the war is over"
she says.
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Coolidge Sophomore's Hobby
Is Science Of Paleontology
Prize Contribution
BY JOY SAALFRANK. II,


William Saarank,
interested paontology
collecting classifying
fossils He has several
In cigar boxes partitoned off squares.
The first collecting fossils country
Evening star., 1943-07-11

All the flags copied In the "con-
quered nations" series are taken
from Flags of the United States
and Other Countries" compiled by
the photographic Office of the Navy
Department.
Evening star., 1943-07-11

The 1943 duck hunters license
stamp. 81, went on sale at all first
and second class post Offices in the
United States July /. 1t reproduces
an etching by Walter E. BOIL OF
Wisconsin - two wood ducks in
fight.
Evening star., 1943-07-11
News of Stamp
Collectors and
Their Interests
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

by JAMES WALDO FAWCkII.
The Scent Czechoslovakian stamp
will go on sale in Washington ex-
clusively tomorrow morning at Q
o'clock.
New German semipostal stamps
include one for the 1943 DAY of
the Postage Stamp" an old post
coach, plus 24pfg, brown yellow
and gray-blue.
Manchukuo announces two COM
memoratives for the 10th anniver-
sary OF nationhood-3f, group under
tree; 6f.. five women dancing.
Six semipostals to raise funds for
war victims have been issued by
the post Office authorities of Hum
gary. The subjects are: King Lads
laus, King Bella and King Ludwig.
Part of the stamp collection Of
the late Col. E. H. r. Green, sold
by Percy Doane in New York,
realized s24,95o.40.
The Accent King George VI stamps
of Canada now are available in coil
form and in small booklet panes
of six.
Several European countries have
brought out stamps for the new
postal union organized by Adolf Hit
Ter.
Copies Of the 1912 Pro Juyentute
semipostals of Switzerland have
been received. Girls heads are the
theme Of the 10c plus brown and
the zoe plus orange. Portraits Of
Niklaus Riggenbach and Konrad
Escher Won der Linth adorn the
SC plus green and the 30c plus 10
blue.
The Associated Press Feature
Service says: THE Aleutian Islands
are pictured on two values of a set
of four stamps issued by Soviet RUS
Sia to commemorate the 200th an
niversary of the death of Vitus
Bering, discoverer of the sea which
bears his name and separates the
continents of North America and
Asia
Although Bering died in Decem-
Der, 1741, the stamps were not is
sued until April of this year and
have just reached this country. The
30-kopec, chalky blue in color,
pictures a two-masted sailing vessel
Evening star., 1943-07-11
Roosevelt Boy Stars in Track
Events and 1umbling Feats
Prize Contribution,
BY SHIRLEY TURNER, IL

ltUUSeVcIG f1Iku ErNOUI.
With the ending of the school
year, Roosevelt High has lost one of
it's track and tumbling stars, Donald
Swami, 18, of so Farragut place NV.
Evening star., 1943-07-11

The Bowery Savings Bank OF New
York is using reproduction of
5O-milliarden mark stamp of Ger
many to illustrate an advertisement
discussing the tragic ends of infia-
ton.
Evening star., 1943-07-11

Finland has released four Red
Cross stamps showing coats of arms
sop plus 5, green and red, Lapland:
2mk plus 20p, brown and red, Taras-
bland; 2:35mk plus 35p. carmine and
red, Oesterbotten, and 4:50mk plus
Asp, blue and red, Savolaks.
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Riddle Answers

/. Wholesome. 2. Gray apes
Grapes. 8. You make me boil!"
4. II didn't know you lived on the
same block"
Evening star., 1943-07-11

c. H. Vaughn has been reelected
president of the Collectors Club Of
Washington.
Evening star., 1943-07-11

washington.
Donald F. Lybarger of Cleveland.
next president of the American
Philatelic Society, is librarian gen.
eral of the National Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution.
The 25th anniversary of the con-
secration of Pope Plus XII as an
archbishop is commemorated by a
set of four stamps issued by the
papal state of Vatican City. Al
though probably issued last year.
since May 13, 1912, was the an
niverSary date, the stamps have just
reached this country.
Printed vertically, the stamps por-
tray the Pope's conservation by Pope
Benedict XIV at the time Plus was
undersecretary of state at Vatican
City. The stamps are bicolored.
with the words "Poste Vaticane'
| and the value appearing in a cor
| responding but slightly different
color than the central design. The
25-centissimo value is myrtle green
and olive green in color; the 30
centissimo is dark brown and
orange brown; the 125-lire. sapphire
blue and violet blue, and the 5-lire,
gray and violet.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at the Thomson
School. Twelfth street NV, Tues
day evening at 8; and the WASH
lngton Philatelic Society will meet
at the Hotel Lee Sheraton, Fifteenth
street NV, Wednesday evening at s.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-30
Girl Scouting
Leaders Meet

Some $50 youth directors and
other persons active in girl scout
ing viii assemble an p. m. Sat
.urday at Marygrove College for
the Girl Scouts educational con-
clave, sponsored by the arch
diocesan committee for scouting,
il was announced today
Principal speaker for the con-
clave. the purpose OF which is TO
interpret the program and recruit
adult volunteers 10 direct whole
some activities of the more than
10000 girls on the waiting list OF
the Detroit council. will be Mrs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-30
Ndzi TorfureS
In Subjugdfed
Nations Pictured

WASHINGTON. .Nov 30 GNS)
Maj Germany has concealed The
executions Of Czocho Slovak
womcn forced Greek women and
children 10 dig graves FOR muir
dcrcd relatives and sent Norwc-
gian Youngsters 10 concentration
camps. the intcr-alhcd niorma-
ton committee rcVcalcd today.
Examples ~ sadistic beat
ings and torture. sometimes
ending In death, are not infre-
quent and the compulsory en-
rollment of women for forced
labor under slavery conditions
and for brothelS frcquented by
soldiers is common" the report
said.
The information committee said
its report was based on eyewitness
accounts and official AXIS an
nouncements and newspaper ar
ticlpS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-30
Sales Tan
Fight Is
Dropped

WASHINGTON. Nov 30 CUP)
Two leading congressional adj
vocates Of n general retail sales
tax ~ Senator Nancenberg and
Senator Byrd said today they
probably would not seek TO -in-
corporate a sales levy in The So
l40o00000 tax bin now before thc
Senate finance committee
Their stand strengthened be-
lief that the committee would
recommend little 81 any increase
in the yield of the tax blll as II
was passed by the House
Nandenberg said he had decided
not TO press for a sales tax AS
result of the hearings Nestor-
day az which Secretary OF the
Treasury Morgenthau and treas
ury general counsel Randolph
Paul opposed such a levy
Il just wanted Ia find cat
how badly the treasury wants
additional revenue" Nanden-
berg said. apparently they
don't want anything like the
$40, 500, O0O.0 they ask"
Buy War Savings Stamps the
convenient way. Order them
delivered Ia your door from your
Detroit Times carrier-salesman.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-30
You Cant Beuf Their
MILDER BETTER TASTE

There's no buster place than Washington D. C. It's the
control room of Americas mighty war machine And
Chesterfield the busiest cigarette in It's the
job every minute giving smokers what they want It's
Ider Cooler, Better Taste makes it the capital smoke.
v :, ~ -, D.,r :, =. 80,
worlds best cigarette obaccos for real smoking pleasure
Make your next pack Chesterfield :. You can't buy
better cigarette.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-30
Death Of Seaman
On FurIouqh Probed

Medical authorities today will
investigate the death of Thaddeus
Skoura, 1S-year-old second class
seaman from Great Lakes naval
training station who became
fatally in while home on leave
last n.ght/./ I
Skoura. with another sailor,
Arthur Rutkowski, 10, OF $3.50
Dubois visited friends early in the
evening and later went 10 the
latterS home for some beer
Skoura became IN and was taken
10 his home 3l45 Palmer. His
father. Anthony, sent hum 10 Re-
ceivIne Hospital lie was dead on
arrival at II p. m.