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Evening star., 1947-05-04

bright, clear day, the 21st OF July,
we were introduced, along with
about TOO other Army dependents,
to the U. S. A. T. Holbrook, con-
verted luxury liner.
That. evening We left New York
Harbor about o'clock and as we
gazed at the receding Manhattan
skyline we got our first taste of salt
spray.
In the nine days we were on the
ocean there were many interesting
things to do. We played cards, wove
lariats, read. played records, danced
and sought the company OF the at
tractive girls on the ship with us.
AS for the weather, our voyage
was a delightful surprise; the ocean
remained as smooth as glass and
seemed calm and beautiful at night
| in the light of the full moon.
When we arrived in Bremmer-
haven, Germany, we observed some
unusual sights. was particularly
impressed by the obvious differences
between the German and American
ways of life.
In Germany the automobiles were
very small, about half the size of
our cars, and the roads were difficult
thoroughfares built of cobblestones
The houses, too, were strictly Euro
pean, small and uncomfortable, and
| the starved land was cultivated to
the greatest possible extent.
Wherever I went I saw the effects
of the intensive Allied bombings
However, there remained a number
of old castles dating from medieval
times, and in one place I even
viewed the remains of the old
Roman wall.
I travelled extensively through the
American Zone of Occupation and
especially enjoyed a visit to the
Zukspitz Mountain in Bavaria, the
highest in Germany. I also had a
wonderful time on trips to the Rhine
River and Heidelberg.
1t was therefore with mingled
feelings of sadness and relief that
left Germany to return to the United
States.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Trinity Girl Boasts
Study of History
Prize Contribution
By Lois Grohom, II
Holy Trinity School

History can be most interesting
but I know some find it very dull
I didn't like history at all until
entered the sixth grade. I an
studying ancient history now ant
find that the people had very queer
customs. Ancient history tells III
about great leaders like Caesar
Justinian, Clovis and Cyrus tht
Great. It tells about cities thai
have been captured and recaptured
1t even goes up to the time of Marco
Polo and his adventures.
One thing which interested me
very much was the story about the
Obelisk, which can be seen in Cen
trail Park, New York. This was
brought from distant Egypt to oul
country. 1t was cut out of solic
rock about 5000 years ago. The
Obelisk is covered with peculiar
pictures cut into its sides: these
pictures tell the story of the king
in whose honor the monument was
raised and something about his
reign.
After the summer vacation, some
of you girls and boys will be enter
ing the sixth grade, so try to get
interested in history, and you will
enjoy 1t through the year.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF AHT, Con-
stitution avenue and Sixth street
masters Prints by Paul dauguin
and Edward Munich, through June /.
NATfoNaG nS1Ssa1aiM MdsEuM Hsi Il n Rs.ionsi Col
/. lection Of Fine Arts. Constitution
lean paintings from private collee-
ARTs s1Sps AND aDd 1sn6srkiHs Hs1sF E s3fLpa.
Jefferson drive and Ninth street
PAINTINGS by Peter Helck, tsrouSh
today. Pictorial photographs By
Justin Locke, through May.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING, Division
of Graphic Arts, Independence ave-
nue. and Tenth street - Benton
Spruance exhibition OF lithographs,
through May 25.
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive Oriental
and Far Eastern arts. Paintings and
etehings BY Whistler and other
coRcoRAN aseasdi GALLERY or ART,
Seventeenth street between New
York avenue and e street--Amer-
the w. A. Clark collection. Twen-
tieth biennial exhibition of corA
temporary American painting.
Water colors by artists Of WASH
mgton ana VICINITY.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY,
1900 Twenty-first street-Chang-
sing exhibitions, paintings and
LIBRAiRsYi OF CONGRESS, East capi-
tot and First streets--Diyision of
Prints. Fifty Books of the Year"
through May 10. Annual Pennell
ARTS CLUE. 20I7 I street NV
56th annual. society Of wash
ington Artists. calicolors by Amelia
A. Muller, both opening today.
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY, 127 RAN
dolph place N.W.-Paintings. by six
TEXTILE MUSEUM OF THE DIS
TRICT OF COLUMBIA. 1880 g
ether aa te5tilss 1 Il a the Near ana.fsr and fsr
By card obtainable at ONCE OF
George Hewitt Myers. 730 Fiji
:. teenth street NV. -
WATKINS GALLERY, American Uni-
versity campus-Watkins neI,o-
Sundays, 2 pm. to pms week
days, 10 am. to 5 pm. Spring
Annual through May 81.
PUBLIC LIBRARY, Eighth and x
streets N.W.--Exhibition Of .pastels
HoWSARp n Hs50ef5 ESfHsssF nf9san sy
/, OF ART, Founders Library. Sixth
street and Howard place NV
Two new exhibitions.
DUMBARTON OAKS COLLECTION,
1903 Thirty-second street NV,
Byzantine art. Tuesday through
Saturday, 8 to A: Sunday, 2 to s..
ARTISTS COOPERATIVE, 1920. M
street N.W-'.Meet the Artist"
exhibition of self portraits OPEN
ing soon; open 10 am. to 8 pm.
Mondays through Saturdays, pm.
to 6 pm. Sundays.
PAN AMERICAN UNION, Constitu-
tion avenue and Seventeenth street
NW.-Artists commemorating Pam
American day. through Tuesday.
WHYTE GALLERY, at United Ma
tions Club. 1701 Nineteenth street
N.W.-Painings by Alice Acheson,
through Saturday.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Safety Circus Talks
By Dick Mansfield

Inspector Dick Mansfield, director
of The Stars school safety program
and former chief of detectives. is
giving Safety Circus series of
chalk talks to pupils of elementary
and junior and senior high schools
The program is sponsored by The
Junior Star. in cooperation with
school authorities of the District
and nearby Maryland and Virginia
Schools at which Inspector Mans
field will give cartoon talks this
week are:
Lincoln-van Ness, Monday, BIS
am; Turner, at Garfield, II am;
Morgan, Tuesday, 9:15 an: Briggs
Montgomery, Wednesday, 9:15 am; !;
Banneker Junior High, Thursday.
9:l5 am: Mott, Friday, Oils am.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Legion Film Ready

American Legion produced movies
are now available for use of all
posts upon the payment of 81 ex-
press charges, bookings to be made
directly through the newly-organ-
lied motion picture branch of the
Public Relations Division at national
headquarters.
The films embrace the American
Plan of Universal Training, the
1916 National Convention at San
Francisco. Calf, the American Le-
gion Baseball Program, the national
commanders dinner held here for
members of Congress and a wide
variety of other selected subjects.
Evening star., 1947-05-04

Add to the list of service personnel
IcolIecting stamps the name Of PIC,
Bruce Clymer, q. 8. N. q. Hebron
Air ELANT. Cherry Point. n. g.
sigurd Berg, : night watchman
lin Minneapolis, makes . hobby Of
|collecting stamped covers bearing
1.-THE autographs Of disting guished men
land women. eventually. he plans to
give his albums to the public library
In his home town.
Two snow geese Ia flight are pic
tured on the 1947-1948 duck hunters
license stamp. Jack Murray. . Bos-
ton artist, Is the designer. Release
date WIN be July !. Face value, as
usual, 81.
Dr.. Josef Tiso, recently executed
after trial for treason against
Czech oslovakia during the Nazi oc-
|cupation, win be immortal in the
worlds philatelic gallery. His por-
trait IS shown on nine Sloyakian
stamps.
Paul and Frederika-Louise, new
King and Queen OF Greece, were
portrayed on three Greek stamps
issued ia 1898 in celebration Of their
wedding.
Readers desiring copies Of the
new Post Office Department regu-
lation forbidding stripping Of stamps
from letters In transit are requested
to write to Robert E. Fellers, super
intendent Of the division Of stamps,
for them. Inclose self addressed
stamped envelope in each instance.
George A. Scott. philatelic writer
for the Associated Press. says: "At
about the same time King George
vi and the British royal family were
winding up their tWo-month visit
to the Union Of South Africa and
neighboring colonies. the last Of the
royal visit commemorative - from
Evening star., 1947-05-04
At the Arts Club

The Society Of Washington Artists
will open this afternoon its 56th
annual exhibition in the gallery of
the Arts Club. In the reception
rpoms there will also be an exhibi-
tion, notice of which was inadver-
tently omitted from the Arts Clubs
monthly bulletin. This show is COM
posed of "Calicolors," by Amelia A.
Muller, who invented the name to
designate her pictures made with
pieces OF calico, percale and ging-
ham. This art form originated in
the appliques of the Egyptians. Miss
Muller has developed its possibilities
using the bits of cloth as painter
would employ pigments,
Evening star., 1947-05-04
News About Stamps
y Iomss Waldo Fowcett

(philatelic material addressed 10
President Roosevelt and subseuuent-
~ sold at auction as part Of his
estate passed through Mr.. Smiths
hands.
Brother Albert, founder Of 4 chill.
Idren's asylum, Is commemorated IN
9 2z brown adhesive Of Poland
recently issued His secular name
was Adam Chmielowski. he was
born fn I846 and died in 1915.
Reunion Island has been provided
with 10 bicolored scenic stamps Of
considerable beauty. but unfortun.
ately beyond the reach of the aver
age collector In price, ranging as
they do from l0c to 200fr.
Laios or Louis Kossuth, patriot
journalist and orator. is one of 10
national leaders portrayed on new
series OF Hungarian stamps.
II has been announced in Mon-
royia that the postal authorities of
Liberia will bring out a set Of four
stamps to mark the Tooth anni-
versary of the first postal issues Of
the United States. The values will
be: 5 cents. regular postage; IL, IS
and so cents airmails.
Austria observed the l50tf ami.
verSary of the birth OF the composer
Franz Schubert by placing in circu.
lation 12g stamp showing his por-
trait.
Philately. st. Louis calls attention
to the fact that the current stamps
OF India show King George VI with
the imperial crown, whereas, In fact,
he has not yet received that emblem,
OF supreme authority and perhaps,
with Indian independence coming
up, never will receive 1t.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Retired Enlisted Men

William j. Branigan. who was
retired from Coast Artillery; Jack
Muller, from 5th Coast Artillery;
William Kuminski, from Engineer
Corps, and Benjamin Kraxetz, from
Air Corps, were admitted to menu
bership II Association No. /.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Spring
Prize Contribution
by Catherine Butler, II

Chevy Chose Elementary School
Spring is the time when flowers
sprout
All along the postman's route.
The trees and hedges all are green,
And plants along the road are seen.
Spring is the incest time of year,
And fishermen come to the pier.
The sunshine strives with all its
might
To give its very best of light.
Evening star., 1947-05-04

Southern Rhodesia-were received
in this country. The two newcomers
make a total of 26 stamps from six
countries In the series. Inscribed
Royal Visit, April, 1947,' the South
ern Rhodesian stamps present en-
tirely different designs from those
issued by the Union of South Africa,
Bechuanaland, Basutoland, Swazi-
land and South West Africa. Indi-
vidual portraits of Princess Elizabeth
and Princess Margaret Rose appear
on a half-pence green and black
value, and portraits of King George
and Queen Elizabeth are on l.
penny red and black denomination. !"
Collectors of stamps relating to
religion are advised that the nation
al conference of Christians and
Jews, sponsoring Religious Book
Week beginning today, have pub
lished an informative religious book
list of which copies may be had by
applying to the conference office,
38l Fourth avenue, New York is,
N. Y.
Secretary of Commerce w. Averell
Hartman was the honored guest at
f1rst-day ceremonies arranged for
the 10-cent air letter sheet at the
Post Office Department Tuesday. He
received the first specimen official
ly released, the presentation being
made by Postmaster Vincent G.
Burke. In response, he spoke Of the
new air letter service as being Gin
line with our efforts to promote two
way trade and to build closer ties
of friendship between people every
where"
1.-The philatelic hobby, according
to Philately, st. Louis, is not merely
"a kids hobby" On the contrary
s'it amounts to millions of dollars
each year. 1t is for this reason
that racketeers have entered it
have plotted with officials of various
governments to mulct the collectors
These racketeers are not interested
in the development Of philately, but
solely in their own profits. II
through their manipulations they
should wreck the hobby, they can
turn to other fields for their nefari-
out practices-and the philatelist
holds the bag"
It has been announced that Cham
bers Magazine has taken over the
International Stamp Review, st.
Joseph, Mo. This may mean that
Don Houseworth, formerly its editor
and publisher, will be available for
other, larger work. He is a phil
atelist of distinction, well-known
through the United States for his
friendly and cooperative bearing as
well as for his scholarship.
The Woodbridge Stamp Club will
meet at the Public Library, 2206
Rhode Island avenue NE, tomorrow
evening at 8. Joseph A. Toussaint
will speak on Water Transportation
as Shown on Postage Stamps" +"
Public invited.
A meeting of the Collectors Club
of Washington is scheduled to be
held t1012 Ninth street NV, Tues
day evening at 8. Visitors welcome.
Ira r. T. Smith, chief of mails at
the White House. recently complet-
ed half a century of service there
and retired. He was appointed
in 1897 and came up
through the grades to occupy his
top position at the Executive Man
yiry, frny,, 1OQ7 orynr VI AH,,oI, ~ fha
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Anacostia Pupil Tells Of Trip
To US. Zone in Germany
Prize Contribution
Prize Cosfribafios
By Robert Carpenter. IS
Anasostio High School

My trip to Germany shall
father left for Germany in April s45 expected would
way European
theater of operations.
After waiting ensely month orders
Evening star., 1947-05-04
In Firelight
Prize Contribution
BY Mory Kothryn IIsIey, II

Ntoiy NotHtyH iiSiSys ~
Trinity Preparatory School, Leicester, Nd.
In freight, where fantasy
Enchanted with her mastery,
Mg golden boy, with head BEN
low,
Would watch adventure stories
glow
With love and tales Of heraldy.
Knights, kings, and castles he could
In the leaping fires witchery;
Brave heroes bold, he loved them SO
In freight.
Dreams he still Of chivalry
And wondrous lands across the sea,
AS when, those many years ago,
He watched adventure stories
grow
With every-changing pageantry
In freight?
Evening star., 1947-05-04

years ago with six fish and q 10
gallon aquarium. Now I have three
additional aquariums-two 2O-gallon
ones and a 31-galloner.
One Of the 20-gallon tanks Is for
breeding. When I sold the angel
fish to some one. who wanted them
for breeding purposes, I used the
money to buy the 81 gallon
Evening star., 1947-05-04

| Leonardo Da Vinci was a painter,
sculptor, architect. engineer, musi-
clan, anatomist, inventor, stage de-
signer and moral philosopher.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Prise Cossribssios
By Bill Hortgroves, n
Ksnsinuton Junior Mich SeheoI

Your mother probably wouldn't you you one
little nn could be worth $40 In her family marketing
But is nevertheless recently sold two tiny angel nh
for $40. - - . -
You hobby tropical this hobby about four
Evening star., 1947-05-04

aquarium. This large tank Is used
as a community aquarium" In
which ] keep = variety OF tropical
fish.
My idea Is to make my hobby self
supporting. The money ! make by
breeding and selling fish will supply
my aquarium with the things needed
to carry on my hobby.
Evening star., 1947-05-04

Western High School, later went to
the University of Colorado.
His work is fresh and youthful
with varied subject matter, and well
worth seeing.
\ + X \
Corcoran Purchase
The Corcoran Gallery announces
the acquisition from its Goth bien-
nial exhibition Of contemporary
American oil paintings of Walter
Stuempfig's 1.-TWO Houses" which
received the second w. A. Clark
Prize of $500 and the Corcoran
Silver Medal. 1t was reproduced in
The Star March 80 and appraised
in these columns as one of the two
best prize winning works.
Walter Stuempfig. a native OF
Philadelphia (1914 was a student
at the Pennsylvania Academy OF
Fine Arts, where he won the Cresson
Travelling Scholarship for European
travel in 1884. He is represented in
the permanent collections of such
outstanding institutions as the Mu-
Seums of Modern Art and the Whit
ney Museum of American Art, New
York City. the Art Institute of Chi
cago and the Pennsylvania Academy
Of Fine Arts.
Evening star., 1947-05-04
Bat Radar

i Bats find their way In the dark by
sensing the echoes of their own
shrill, supersonic screams system
akin to radar.
Evening star., 1947-05-04

Ira r. T. Smith, chief of mails at
the White House, recently complet-
led half a century of service there
and retired. He was appointed a
messenger in 1897 and came up
through the grades to occupy his
top position at the Executive Man
sion from 1887 onward. Much Of the
Evening star., 1947-05-04

A meeting Of the Collectors Club
of Washington is scheduled to be
held t1012 Ninth street NV, Tues
day evening at 8. Visitors welcome.
Evening star., 1947-05-04

the orders finally came, and on q
Evening star., 1947-05-04

The woodbridge Stamp Club will
meet at the Public Library, 2206
Rhode Island avenue NE, tomorrow
evening at 8. Joseph A. Toussaint
will speak on Water Transportation
as Shown on Postage Stamps" !"
Public invited.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-28
U. {. SHIPS BEGIN
VISIT ON FRIDAY
U. S. S. Dayton Will Head
Flotilla Into Turkish
Waters Al Instanbul

IN THE EASTERN MED1TER-
RANEAN, April 27-U.D-U. S.
Naval forces in the Mediterranean
will begin their official visit to
Turkish waters next Friday when
task force units arrive at Istanbul
The U. S. S. Dayton, a light
cruiser and the present flagship
will fire a 21-gun national salute,
which will be returned by a Turk
ish fort. A five-gun salute will
be fired for Adm. Ulgen, COM
mander Of the Turkish fleet, with
additional salutes when Turkish
governmental and naval officials
visit the American ships. U. S.
Ambassador Edwin c. Wilson also
will come aboard.
During the ceremonies Vice
Adm. Bernhard H. Bieri, U. S.
Naval commander in the Mediter-
ranean, will shift his flag from
the Dayton to the Carrier Leyte.
Social events will include visits
by Turkish cadets and 1stanbul
citizens to the ships, tennis, wrsst-
ling and baseball matches.
The American vessels will sail
May Z. The Leyte is expected to
visit Alexandria May 10 and Naples
May 20.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-28
CRISSETT TRIAL
Continued From Page One)

day afternoon before the 12-man
jury could be completed Friday at
noon.
AL of Friday afternoon was spent
in arguments to the jury by Moore,
James King and Emmett Bellamy
of the prosecution and Ebert
Brown, S. Bum Frink and Ozmer
Henry of the defense staff.
Panel Tired
The jury received the case at
10:40 Saturday morning and was
in continuous session with the ex.
ception of a couple of short re-
cesses until the tired panel filed
back into the courtroom shortly aft.
er 1870 yesterday.
Court attaches and attorneys re-
NAMED in the courtroom all OF
Saturday night awaiting the YER
dict.
Another case involving a former
police officer, H. l.. Gurley, still
ha- not been disposed OF. He faces
a count of breaking and entering
the Market street Grocerteria.
Grissett entered a plea of guilty
at the February term Of court but
Judge Luther Hamilton declined to
sentence him after a jury acquitted
Grissett on the first of the five
charges.
Judge Hamilton, in refusing to
pass sentence on Gurle said al
that time that he woul not sentence
a guilty man to the p%enitentary
while an equally guilty man went
free.
Gurley's case is expected to be
disposed Of at the next criminal
term of court here:
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-28
PLASTIC EYE FOUND.
THAN GLASS
Eye Being Custom Built
For Thousands OF
Soldiers

NEW YORK W.H-Plastic, artifi-
cial eyes, so durable that they can
be dropped to a concrete floor and
stamped on without breaking,
have been demonstrated here.
The eyes are being custom built
by the thousands for American
soldiers who came out Of the war
without one OR both eyes.
At the Valley Forge, Pa, veter-
ans hospital alone, more than g.
500 of the artificial eyes have been
used, Maj. Steven F. Smolcznski,
chief of the plastic eye service at
Valley Forge, said.
The major is of a group of
army medical men who are in
charge Of a medical crops exhibit
at the American Museum of Nat
ural History.
Eyes Won't Explode
Plastic eyes, according TO Smol-
czynski, have numerous advan-
tages over the glass eye. The car
dinal factor, of course, is that they
won't break. Furthermore, they
won't explode in the eye socket
Explosions have occurred, the
major said, usually because OF a
quick change in temperature.
There also is no logging" on the
plastic eye and it absorbs but lit
tie secretion. That prevents the
artificial eye from becoming
rough, thereby eliminating the
chance of an inflamed eyelid.
The first step in readying a sol
der for an artificial eye fitting is
preparing the socket. Sometimes
tE-ere is no socket shot away or
burned away. In such cases, there
must be considerable plastic sur
gerry and skin grating. Even the
eyelids are made" and some
times it is necessary to build an
eyebrow. Major Smolcznski said
many times" he has called upon
WACS to furnish some strands of
their hair for this purpose.
Extraordinary efforst are made
TO find the correct color, whether
its is blue, gray, brown or hazel.
vartificial eye from the natural on
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-28
WORK STOPPACE
Continued From Page One)

fected by the union action. C. D.
Maffitt, local agent for govern
ment ships and tugs, said last
night that the Trinidad Head made
port here at 11:45 a. m. Saturday
and was scheduled to leave right
away" towing the S. S. Black.
man from the Brunswick river
storage basin to Charleston.
One of the largest towing COM
panies in the world, the Moran
firm also operates approximate
100 harbor tugs in New York har.
Dor, but these were not affected
by the union action as they are
not under government ntra ct,
according to Of the crew mem
be-s.
Expect settlement
Crew members remained on the
ship, as they said tits moi d
strike, but a work stoppage'
They expressed the opinion that a
quick settlement would be made
and they would get the six per cent
increase asked, as I'VE always
have"
The last work stoppage called
by the STU was in 1a46 when thew
received a IL per cent increase in
wages, it was said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-28
JOE LIVES AGAIN
IN

EBENESBURG, Pa. W.D - Joe
McEvoy has some good friends and
a new philosophy to bolster his
journey through life in a wheel
chair.
About six years ago. Joe de.
veloped a form of arthritis in his
left leg. Treatments at three hes
pitfalls failed to help ard he re.
signed himself to the life OF an
invalid.
One day two school chums tried
to interest Joe in a wheelchair.
AT first, he rejected their pleas
but finally gave in.
Now. a year and a halt later,
patrons at the Ebensburg Bowling
Garden watch a young mar roll
ten-pin balls from a wheelchair al
most nightly. His friends take him
to dances, parties, and basketball
and football games. Last summer
he went camping for two weeks.
This year he hopes to take in some
major league baseball games and
tc 60 fishing.
As a result, Joe has lost his
inferiority complex d self-con.
seriousness. He goes willingly to an
office job in an Ebensburg garage.
"It makes you feel like living
again." Joe said.