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Evening star., 1949-07-10
If Big Words Fascinatc You,
Try Some of These for Size
Prize Contribution
By Drew MeKiIIips, Is
Woodrow Wilson HIGH School

Are Of those people who would have heart failure if
learned suffering something with
sounding name? WE'LL brace yourself
If afraid Of lightning, suffering from all
called astrephoba and thunder
have ceraunophoba dogs fghten cynophoba
Evening star., 1949-07-10

Sweden announces two postal
adheslves-5-ore blue and 15-ore
red brown-for the Second Lin
glad, an international gymnastic
festival which will open at Stock
holm on July 27.
Evening star., 1949-07-10

This years convention of the
Society of Philatelic Americans
will be held at the Hotel Whit
comb, San Francisco, August Il
to 81, inclusive.
New officers Of the Collectors
Club of Washington are: A. G
Galloway, succeeding Ellery Deni.
son as president: L. l.. MacKallor
vice president; John Carver, exec
utive secretary: John S. Costello
recording secretary; Constant
Lambert, treasurer: Ernes
Woodhouse, c. H. Vaughan anc
Mrs. Mabel L. Wilson, trustees.
/ The seventh edition of Holmes
Specialized Catalogue Of Canads
and British North America has
been published by H. L. Lind
,quist Publications. 2 West Forty
sixth street, New York City. 1t in
cludes text and illustrations for
all the revenue issues, stamped en-
velopes, wrappers. essays ano
proofs which specialists in this
branch of philately wish to know
about.
A picture postcard shower has
been arranged for Darlene Guffey
5-year-old patient in the chill
dren's ward (2-C-3), Bell Me-
mortal Hospital, Kansas City
Kans. She is Ill with a mysteri-
Gus blood disease not yet COM
pletely diagnosed. Readers who
wish to cooperate In helping her
toward recovery by sending her
cards are invited to do so i'm
mediately. Please use comme-
moratives for mailing.
A checklist of the Red Cross
postage stamps Of the world. long
wanted by topical collectors. at
last has been compiled by Eugene
N. S. Girard of the American Red
Cross and now Is available for
distribution. 1t comprises nearly
1000 varieties from los stamp
issuing governments and ranges
in denomination from the seen
time of France to the $40 of North
Borneo. The list is based or
SCOTS 1949 Catalogue and was
prepared with the cooperation OF
Mrs. Catherine L. Manning, phila-
telic curator, Smithsonian Insti-
tuition.
Col. Hans Lagerloef of New York
has been named honorary presi-
dent of the Philatelic Museum
Philadelphia, "as a token OF ap-
probation for a lifetime of work
in behalf of stamp collecting gen.
orally and unstinted support
Of the museum since its opening
last year."
A special program has been pre-
pared by the ladies of the Penta-
gon Philatelr Society for a meet
ing in room 3-E-869, Pentagon
Building, Thursday evening. July
2l, at 6 o'clock. The committee
in charge includes Mrs. Mary L.
Renshaw, Mrs. A. N. Niemi, Car
olyn Brennan, Kathleen Cook and
Rose Krog.
The Collectors Club of Wash
ington will meet at 1912 Ninth
street NV. Tuesday evening at 8
Evening star., 1949-07-10

Ali Jinnah. first governor gen.
eral Of Pakistan. is portrayed on
three stamps scheduled for re-
lease on Angst IL.
Evening star., 1949-07-10
Stamp News
By james Waldo Foweett

The jubilee Of the forestry
movement in Finland has been
"commemorated" in two stamps
Of appropriate designs.
Evening star., 1949-07-10
The PoorL little House
Prize Contribution
BY Helen Buehm, 9

~
Bethesda Elementary School
There is a little house
That sits upon a hill
It has a lot of dust
On the window sill
It's doors look like a mouth
The windows look like eyes
And everytime I look at it
It looks as though it cries.
Evening star., 1949-07-10

The United States may join
other nations issuing stamps for
the 18th anniversary Of the Uni
versal Postage Union.
Evening star., 1949-07-10

Oregon is derived from the In
dian word meaning place Of
plenty.
Evening star., 1949-07-10

The Collectors Club of Wash
ington will meet at 1912 Ninth
street NV. Tuesday evening at g..
Public invited.
Evening star., 1949-07-10

Airmail service will be in
augurated at Beeville. Tex, on
or about July II, and covers sent
to the postmaster there for pro-
cessing will be accorded philatelic
treatment.
Evening star., 1949-07-10

This years convention of the
Society of Philatelic Americans
will be held at the Hotel Whit
comb. San Francisco, August l8
to 81, inclusive.
Evening star., 1949-07-10

/ A stamp to mark the 175th ami
versary of Patrick Henry's speech
on Liberty or Death" at ST. Johns
Church, Richmond, March %,
ITS, has been requested by Rep
resentative Stanley of Virginia.
Evening star., 1949-07-10

Representative Dean P. Taylor
of New York has filed an applica-
ton for a stamp to publicize the
worlds skiing championships at
Lake Placid. N. Y, and Aspen,
Colo. next January and Febru-
ary.
Evening star., 1949-06-12

ant to Canadian trade and COM
merce minister. voiced ofiicial well
come on behalf of the Canadian
government and pointed to "a
greater flow Of trade between the
two capitals - and coneurrently
the two nationS-which is devel-
oped and maintained by personal
contact created by this and similar
historice visits"
Ambassador Gives Reception.
Afternoon bus tour of the city
and metropolitan area was cli-
NAKED with an informal reception
at the Rockcliffe residence of Law
renee A. Steinhardt, American
Ambassador to Canada.
Washingtonians will arrive in
the District in their chartered air
lines plane about 4 pm. tomorrow.
With party are 1t. Col. L. A. Cox.
Clyde E. Kellogg, Sterling A. Parks,
w. Russell Lamar. chairman.
Also, Pascal Della Badia. Joe M.
Baker. Casey Britt, w. r. Carpen-
ter. Charles Ferrara, Herbert r.
Grinder, Edward Lawrence, AL w.
Lee, Emil c. Nobs, Claude Owen, A.
Davis Pardington, George Pope,
Robert H. Ross. Leonard r. Smith.
Garland E. Taylor, w. 8. Warren,
William II. Press and Bruce Bryan.
Col. Cox represented the Dis
trict Commissioners and re-em-
phasized the invitation to the Of
tawa board to return to Washing
ton. =
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Ecclesiastical Review
AtC. u. Blessed by Pope

The Rev. DR.. Joseph Clifford
Fenton. editor of the American
Ecclesiastical Review, has re-
ceiyed a message that Pope Plus
XII had given his apostolic bless
ing to the editors, contributors
and readers of the magazine pub
lisoed at Catholic University.
The Pope's message was sent
on the occasion Of the 10th an
niversary of the publication,
which was founded by the late
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Herman Houser
of the archdiocese of Philadel-
phia. Father Fenton was ap-
pointed editor in January, 1914.
Associate editors include the Very
Rev. Francis J. Connell. the Rev
DR.. Edmond Darvil Bernard, the
Rev. Eugene M. Burke. the Rev.
DR.. Thomas Owen Martin and the
Rev. DR.. Alfred c. Rush. The
magazine is published monthly.
Evening star., 1949-06-12
Trade Board Group
To Fly 10 DC. Today
After Visit 10 Ottawa
SpeeioI pispoich 10 The stor

OTTAWA, June l1.-Twenty-
four Washington Board of Trade
members here for a good will"
trip as guests of the Ottawa Board
Of Trade were scheduled to wind
up their four-day visit tomorrow
and fly back to Washington.
Leaving Washington Thursday
afternoon by plane, the visitors
were met at the Canadian border
by Ottawa Board of Trade officers
and taken by bus to Chateau
Laurier with city and Royal Ca
madam Mounted Police escort.
At dinner that night by the
Ottawa men, continuing good will
generated by such visits was
stressed. Leon Chatelain, jr., i'm
mediate past president of the
Washington board, pointed out
that trip served two purposes: To
return a similar visit made by
Ottawa group to Washington in
194S and work for the mutual
benefit of businessmen from two
capitals.
Good viii Seen Assured.
The letter from President F. P.
H. Siddons, who was unable to
make the trip because of previous
engagements, said further interna-
tional good will is assured and
invited the Canadians to visit
Washington next year for the Ses-
quicentennial.
High light of dinner was brief
talk by another Washington past
president, Claude Owen, who said
1--WE can say my friends and
really mean it,"
He voiced opinion that Should
such close association exist today
between businessmen of European
nations, There might be
continual peace rather than
rumors of war"
Omar G.. Armstrong, Ottawa
board president. presided and Of
ficially welcomed the group.
Yesterdays activity began with
the placing of wreaths from both
boards on Canadian War Memorial
at IL am, preliminary to tour Of
parliament buildings. George j.
McIlraith, Parliamentary assist
Evening star., 1949-05-15

New Yorkers can be expected
to take joyously unto their col
lective bosom the latest fad In
slashing summer vacation costs.
II, indeed. they already haves not
done so. Notoriously smart in the
ways of money, all Broadway and
Park avenue know by now that
they can save Is per cent on COM
mercial transportation costs to
any part of the globe that's re-
manning within the United States
travel tax zone. That zone takes
in a wide vacation area. includ-
ing the United States and its
possessions. Canada, Mexico and
Central America. Hawaii, Ber-
muda and the West Indies area.
The system of avoiding the tax
and it is legal. so far-is not
exactly new. 1t involves simply
the purchase of transportation
tickets in foreign area which
has no similar levy. The present
fad dates from March %. when
Canada removed its Is per cent
tax. That made it easy for an
American. visiting in Canada, to
buy his transportation there for
a trip within the United States,
or elsewhere, tax-free. 1t has
exceptions. and applies particu-
larly to airline travel.
Until recently, the tax avoid
ance was carried on in a sort of
hush hush way. A large part OF
the business was done by mail to
countries not taxing transporta-
ton. Mexico was one. The In
ternal Revenue Bureau knew 1t
was slyly going on. But sales
had not reached stable proper
tions prior to Canada's tax can
collation. action and the bureau
apparently has preferred generally
to ignore the practice. According
to many persons in the transpor-
tation field, little else than q
change in the law can bar Ameri-
cans from purchasing 500 worth
Of travel, plus a SIS levy, for q
fiat 500.
Meanwhile, American travel
agencies are up in arms. AS news
of the dodge spreads and is taker
up by price-conscious vacationers
they are losing more and more
commissions. First to suffer were
agencies in United States cities
Evening star., 1949-05-15

*Yov'lI find q warm welcome wherever you
goa neighbourly eagerness to make your
vacation the best ever. You II visit exciting
new cities, historic places rich in the lore of
centuries. Or perhaps you'll go exploring
in next-to-Nature playground areas - see
wild life, camera-shoot, sail and paddle
and swim. Wherever you 60, whatever you
do, you're never stranger, always guest
in this friendly foreign land. PROMPT M:
FORMATION SERVICE: Air mail your letter or
thecoupon. twill get immediate attention.
conadan Inssrnosienul Trade Fclr
Terenie Ontario May %. June 10. lS4s
Evening star., 1949-05-15

near the Canadian border. Not
only are certain American busi-
nesses losing a substantial part OF
their income. but the Federal Gov
ernment Is losing revenue.
Evening star., 1949-07-10

HERE Is q one-day trip ii
III you're wise enough to get
on to a very early start. Ap-
proximately 100 miles, the
journey from Capitol Heights
to the capital Of Maryland or
from Bladensburg to Beverley
Beach and return-depending
upon which way you choose
to 60 and come back-will not
tax your driving strength. and
it will give you an opportunity
for a brief swim or sun bath.
1t viii be a popular trip on
week ends when the swelter-
ing heat hits Washington and
you long for the cooling ef-
fects of the Chesapeake Bay
air and salt water.
Assuming our start from
the Capitol, we take Maryland
avenue. then Benning road to
Capitol Heights. then Mary
land 2l4 to Hall and on past
the juncture with u. s. sol,
then cross the Patuxent River,
up which the British fleet
sailed during the War of 1912,
Evening star., 1949-07-10

DONTl let your figure spread false
- reports about your age! You'll
look. act, and feel years younger
with a Spirella foundation!
In the privacy of your home, the
Spirella Corsetiere will take your
individual measurements with the
patented Spirella Modelling Gar
ment. You1l get \ preview of all
the things Spirella does for you.
Your own Spirella lets you bend
and twist As you please, thanks to
exclusive Spirella designing prin-
ciple and the famous Spirella stay.
Can't ride up. can't oonstrics at the
waist. can't pull on hose supporters.
Lifts as nature intended, upward and
Evening star., 1949-07-10
BY Walter w. Hubbard

BY Walter w. Hubbard
zone OF q series Of trips jor
Washington area motorists
prepared for the Pictorial
Magazine by the American
Automobile Association.
and drive northeast to the
junction with Maryland 253.
Here we may head southeast
to Mayo, Triton Beach or
Beverley Beach. Or we can
skip 253 and follow State 2
to l8l, then turn right to Bay
Ridge.
Bay Ridge, Beverley and
Triton have dancing pavil-
ions. serve meals, have bath
houses. provide picnic tables
and have special areas set
aside for safe play by the
youngsters.
II we are not inclined to
swim we may motor north to
Annapolis. capital of the Old
Line State, and hire q row.
boat, get some bait in the
form Of old and stale meat.
sections of eels. chicken feet
or tainted fish. and 60 crab
Evening star., 1949-07-10
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bing. There are q number of
places in and around Annap-
oils that rent boats and the
long handled nets used to
scoop up the crabs, once they
have been slowly drawn near
the surface of the water as
they cling to your weighted
bait. Put your crabs In an
open basket or burlap bag
with wet seaweed to keep
them alive until you get them
home and into the steam pot.
II fishing, grabbing or SWIM
ming doesn't intrigue you
there is still the old city of
Annapolis to be enjoyed. Once
the capital of the United
States. the city was at one
time known as Proctor's
Landing. after an early set
tier. Richard Proctor. Later
it was known as Anne Arun-
del Town, then As Severn (the
name of the river still sur
yiveS) and in 1905 n was for.
mally named Annapolis, In
honor Of Princess Anne tlater
Queen Anne, of England.
Anne Arundel County. Of
which Annapolis Is the seat,
was established in 1850 as q
memorial to the Earl Of Arun-
del's daughter. who became
the wife Of the second Lord
Baltimore.
After visiting the Carroll
Mansion, birthplace of one of
the signers of the Declaration
OF Independence: the State
House and what we may be
permitted to see of the Naval
Academy. we resume our
drive. this time taking U. s.
SO. better known as Defense
highway.
In crossing the Patuxent it
Is worth while noting that
at this spot the military and
naval forces under Admiral
Cockburn and Gen. Ross de-
barked and marched west
ward over the Bladensburg
road toward Washington.
They passed through little
settlements known as Col
lington and Lanham, and at
Bladensburg contacted an
American force numerically
superior. There, on August "a,
1914. the American Army un-
der Gen. Winder, who had
made but scant and indiffer-
ent provisions to meet the
enemy. was so sOundly de-
feated that 1t fled In panic.
and the British moved past
abandoned cannon and rifles
and into Washington. where
they set fire to the most i'm
portant buildings.
And, following the same
route the British took, we are
back again in the District.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15

of a general nature. This condition IS expected to
be widespread and adversely affect this forecast
area. 1t will retard pastures and ranges and may
be serious enough to injure the smal1-grain crop.
Three principal shower periods are indicated as
follows: 18th to 21st, 9th to 10Th and May 81 to
June 2. Showers during these periods may be suf-
ficient to terminate the corn and other late crops
but are not expected to be in sufficient quantity
nor wide enough coverage to break the dry spell
The trend to dry weather will continue. There will
be a few changes to cooler weather along with
frontal disturbances, but above normal tempera-
lures are expected to prevail most of the time.
The chances for late frost damage are rather small
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15
Montana Experiment Station

THE SUGAR BEET webworm is
a major insect pest of sugar beets,
truck crops and home gardens in
Montana.
When unchecked, their feeding on
sugar beets, garden truck and flax,
often results in complete destruction
of these crops. This is especially
true if the plants r quite small
when they are attacked. When COM
plete or nearly complete defoliation
occurs as a result of 1arval feeding,
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15

and killing frosts for the remainder of May are not indicated as a
threat. The frost outlook is better than average.
Weather Changes
Cool weather at the beginning will be follow by rising temperatures
and a frontal disturbance to reach western Montana and northern
Wyoming by the 10Th for a few days favorable to showers and season
al temperatures. A disturbance over the weekend may bring lower
temperatures and scattered showers to this forecast area, becoming
warm by the 26h with a new disturbance and shower period from
the 9th to 29th. Fluctuatng temperatures and unsettled weather are
likely at the close of the month, followed by a disturbance and light
showers to cross Montana and Wyoming from May 81 to June 2
Precipitation: Average well below normal Temperatures: Above
normal.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15
SO Homesteads Open
in Wyoming

FIFTY NEW FARMS averaging
118 acres of irrigable land each are
open to homestead entry on the bu-
reau of reclamation's Riverton prof.
ect in central Wyoming. The farm
units will also include some nom
irrigable land suitable for pastures.
Details of the opening and appli-
cation forms may be obtained by
writing the commissioner of recla-
nation, Washington, D. c.; regional
director at Billings; district man.
ager at Cody, Wyo.; project engi-
neer at Riverton, Wyo., all offices
of the bureau of reclamation.
Applications for the homesteads
received before 2 p. m. Aug. 2 will
be considered filed on that day.
Those received after Aug. 2 will be
considered in the order filed if any
farm units are left unclaimed after
the first public drawing of names.
Veterans of World war 2 are given
preference of application.
Homesteaders making application
must have had two years of full
time farming experience after reach
ing the age of Is, have $4,000 in
cash or assets and must be of good
health and character. If the appli-
cations are found to meet all re-
quirements, the applicants will be
allowed to. select farm units in the
order established at the drawing.
Since the Riverton projects lands
were formerly a part of the Sho-
shone Indian reservation, home
steaders must pay $1.50 per acre for
his land. Fifty cents an acre must
be paid on the date of entry and
Is cents an acre each year for four
years. The money goes to the In
dams as payment for the land. The
minimum charge for water deliv-
cred to the farm in bureau of rec
lamation canals, is $1.50 per irri-
gable acre, with two acre-feet of
water being furnished for this
charge. Additional water may be
had if needed.
Each homesteader will be given
the equivalent of one barracks
building, 20 feet by 120 feet, located
at the Heart Mountain relocation
center about 120 miles northwest
of Riverton, for use as farm build
ings. Information concerning an
other current homestead opening on
the Heart Mountain division of the
Shoshone project near Cody, Wyo-
may be obtained by writing the
project superintendent.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15

sever damage in a very short time.
Heavily infested surrounding waste
lands, etc., should be sprayed in the
same name as the crop to prevent
damage caused by migrating larvae.
HOW
Apply a spray directly to the
foliage at the rate of l to liz pounds
of technical toxaphene (chlorinated
camphene) per acre. This material
is by far the best insecticide which
has been tested against the sugar
beet webworm. Following the spray
application, the larvae cease to feed
in a matter of a few hours, crawl or
fall off the plants, and burrow into
the ground. They may stay alive in
this semi-paralyzed state for several
days, but none of them has been
observed to recover.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15

Vehicle mileage in 1913 is esti-
mated at 7 percent above 1947 and
10 percent above 1941. The National
Safety council says the traffic death
rate per 100, O00, 900 vehicles miles
was estimated at 8.1-the lowest
rate on record.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15
Possible 1949 Infestation

The population numbers and thus
the severity of infestations of the
sugar beet webworm, like so many
other economically important crop
destroying insects, vary greatly from
year to year in local situations. Pc
~riodically, natural factors become
such as to favor widespread in
creases in insect population.
When these conditions occur, a
general i~nfestation results over large
treas. Studies conducted at the Mon
tana agricultural experiment station
have shown that nutritional factors
can and probably do play an i'm
portant role in the fluctuations in
sugar beet webworm population
numbers.
During the past two years, there
has been a noticeable build-up in
the populations of this insect in
many sections of the state. On the
basis of previous experience, it APP
pears as though a general outbreak
can be expected to occur in the 1949
season. However, it should be
pointed out that these predictions
cannot always be 100 percent cor
rect, because of the completely and
interrelationship of the factors
which control population numbers.
Farm operators should make fire.
quent inspections of their fields to
determine the presence of larvae
during the latter part of May and
during June. The presence of large
numbers of moths does not neces-
sarily indicate that an infestation of
larvae will result, because occasion
ally the moths are sterile and do not
produce any eggs.
Seasonal History
This insect has five stages in its
life cycle. They are the egg, larva,
prepupa, pupa and the adult moth.
The winter is spent in the prepupal
stage. In the spring the prepupa
transforms into a true pupa and the
moth usually emerges during May
or early June. This emergence Pc
Rod is variable and depends pri-
marty upon climatic conditions. The
moths begin laying eggs about a
week after they emerge and they
may lay from $50 to 800 eggs each
The eggs hatch in from 7 to 10 days
and the young larvae begin imms'
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15

fields.
The moth or adult stage of this
insect feeds on plant nectar. These
moths are occasionally present in
sufficient numbers to reduce the
nectar supply enough to starve out
beets in the area.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15

About one out of seven of the
deaths and injuries in traffic of
youngsters S to IA years old occur
when the children are on bicycles,
according to the National Safety
council.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15
17-Day Weather Outlook
Momtama-W yoming Forecast: May Is to June I
By OSCAR L. M~OLDENHAUER

WARM AND DRY is the Montana Wyoming outlook most of the
time during the remainder of May. We are approaching the height of
the expected May drouth and as a result Montana Farmer-Stockman
territory can expect a big moisture deficiency and very little rainfall
Montana farmer-stockman., 1949-05-15

the grow t h of the
plant is seriously re-
tarded.
u G b e e t field
men have estimated
between IS and S o
percent loss in ton
mage and l to 5 per-
cent r e d C o n in
G content where
severe defo1iation has
occurred in sugar beet