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Philip D. Bell. of 1872 Irvington

Philip D. Bell. OF 1872 Irvington
street S.W. and leading spirit OF
the Bald Eagle Chess Club, writes:
Can there be formed in the
District Of Columbia a Federal
Chess League. or whatever other
name is suitable? There ought to
be lot of interest in the subject
among local chess clubs such as
the Divan. Federal, G. P. O., Coast
Guard. Paragon, Naval Gun Fac
tory, Library of Congress, Bald
Eagles etc." Such a league existed
and had several very successful
seasons before the war brought it
to an end. and the spontaneous
and unorganized match play which
sprang up last year shows that
1t Is high time for a revival. The
directors of the Washington Chess
Divan have offered their quarters,
at 2445 Fifteenth street NV, for
organizatipnal meetings and play
ing sessions.
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Chess
By Donold H. Mueridee

The above cross table shows
the final results in the mid
summer quadrangular tourney at
the Washington Chess Divan.
Hans Berliner and Stuart E. Wag-
man tied for the first two places,
and Richard s. Cantwell and Os-
car Shapiro for the last two.
Wagman missed several oppor-
tunities and failed to win his ad-
journed ending with Berliner, but
outplayed Cantwell in the final
game. Berliner proved fatal to
Shapiro and Wagman to Can't
well, but apart from these pair
ings the play was completely
level. Wagman and Shapiro are
quite tireless and propose to
tackle the Virginia Open cham
pionship. to be held at Portsmouth
over the Labor Day week end.
BY a general consensus of the
participants. the most interesting
chess Of the quadrangular oc-
Cured in the ending won by Can't
we'll from Berliner in the fourth
round. After 80 moves of a Kings
Indian Defense. the following
position came about: White
(Cantwell. 10 pieces. K at O.:
B at ks: N at QN4: Ps at ORB,
QN2. OBS. K4, KB3. KIM. KR4.
Black (Berliner, 10 pieces. K at
O.; Bs at QN2. KN2; Ps at QR5,
QN4, OBS. ks. K4. KN3. KR2.
Black has two bishops, but they
are constrained and prevented
from cooperating by his pawn
position. which is backward and
vulnerable. White Systematically
restricts Blacks mobility, and
with his 59th move brings about
a position Of unusually complete
and perfect Zugzwang: Black can
not move without losing a second
pawn. The play:
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MWEAR YOUR
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ample, in the metropolitan Wash
ington area there will be mark
ings for Arlington. Falls Church,
Fairfax. Bethesda. Silver Spring
Hyattsville. Takoma Park. etc., as
we'll as Washington. D. c.
Negotiations for the dies were
conducted by Bent Taylor, as
sociate director. Community
Chests of America. The depart
ment was represented by Third
Assistant Postmaster General JOS
eph j. Lawler.
Boys playing a field in the
Bronx, N. Y. recently found
six bundles containing approx
mately 100000 bogus postage
stamps. The Secret Service be-
lieves they were discarded by
frightened counterfeiters.
Representative Donald w. Mich
olson of Massachusetts, is press
ing for stamp for the centennial
of the cultivation of the first
cranberry bog. The design he has
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thermore, the artist frequently
gave her wings and halo, as in
the Stevenson Memorial Angel
(Gellatly collection). 1t is impos-
sible to imagine a young man
begging the 'Thayer girl" for a
date and daring to suggest such
banal entertainment as rug cut
ting or movies. 1t is difficult to
imagine her engaged in 50 much as
a stately minuet. She is at home
in classic draperieS, gazing back
at the observer with her sweet,
grave, thoughtful face, a superior
being, worthy of our admiration.
But she is not a goddess. AL
though entirely humorless, she is
human. She was inspired by
Thayer's own daughters, whom he
painted often. He was fortunate
in having children whose physical
perfections made them ideal
models. Yet he was at times dis
satisfied. engrossed in his ideal of
nobility. He said, THE vision
must first be seen, and the con-
ception Of a picture is a God given
gift" His ideal of beauty seems
to have been a woman whose hair,
eyes and skin were all the same
tone. to judge from something he
wrote to friend:
What I need now is q thrilling
all-in-all person to paint. My
Gladys is partly so, but dark hair
and eyes dividing and cutting up
the statuesqueness is a real handi-
cap" He liked to paint women s
hair and eyes in grey umber.
Abbott H. Thayer was born in
Boston August II. 1849. He stud
led at the National Academy of
Design in New York. subsequently
in Paris at the Ecole de Beaux
Arts, chiefly under Gerome. There
he became interested in por-
traiture. He was earnest and sin
cere, Indifferent to public acclaim.
Stunning crowds and liking to be
out of doors, he made his home in
New Hampshire, near Mount Mo-
nadnock and Dublin Lake. There
he painted energetically, but not
prolifically, with the result that
the majority of his important
paintings are in the Freer and GEL
latly collections.
He also investigated extensively,
coloration in the animal kingdom,
and with his son Gerald published
in 1918 an analytical study which
gave rise to system of camouflage
IN military practice.
Thayer' was a restrained and
sombre but rich colorist. Visitors
will notice that the colors which
appear most often in his paint
ings are a dark olive green, deep
wine-red, a pure warm blue, pur-
pie and white, and the afore-men-
toned grey umber.
Popular Works
Perhaps the most popular Of
Thayer's paintings here Is 1.-THE
Virgin" Of the Freer Gallery,
a large canvas depicting Mary
Thayer with her younger sister
and brother Gladys and Gerald
walking in a flower starred mead
ow, with apple blossoms above
them. and clouds suggesting angel
wings against a blue sky. The
children are clad in rumpled dra-
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The Government Printing ONCE
Stamp Club will meet In confer,
ence room &C." in the rear of
Harding Hall. Tuesday afternoon
at 4::40.
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The National Collection OF Fine
Arts owned 10 oils and one water
color by Thayer before he died
Gin 1920. The Freer Gallery
opened in May, 1923, with Mr..
Freer's group Of Thayers. and in
1929, Mr.. Gellatly's Thayers were
installed in the main gallery of
the National Museum, along with
his many other gifts to the Ma
tional Collection of Fine Arts.
Furthermore, in the William T.
Evans collection, there is single
landscape by Thayer. now hang
ing in the lobby. same building.
It is good to have public atten-
ton called to this most notable
array of the creations" of Thayer,
in the words of Thomas NJ Beggs,
director of the National Collection
of Fine Arts, who planned this
memorial show early this year, and
has issued a catalog listing 38 oil
paintings. water colors and draw
ings. with an appreciative fore
word. Most of us are inclined to
take for granted the many beauti-
full things permanently on view in
Washington's great galleries, and
occasionally we need to have our
eyes opened to the fact that there
is as much Gin many instances,
more) enjoyment in periodically
renewing our acquaintance with
these, than in giving all our time
to visiting temporary exhibitions.
Woman His Major Theme
Thayer's major theme was no.
bility of character in women: the
purity Of young girls, the glory of
womanhood. In expressing this
elevated conception of beauty. he
created a type quite as individual
and personal as the women of
Rubens and Renoir, the popular
Gibson girl and many others. The
"Thayer girl" was never $50 far as
I know referred to in this ia
miliar way, however, for she was
too remote. She has classic pro-
portions and length of limb, fea-
lures Of perfect regularity and a
lofty, meditative expression. Fur
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Crime and
Mystery
By Miriom Gutenberg

Below Suspicion, by John Dick
son Carr. Harper 81 Bros; s2.50o
Patrick Butler, variously known
as "the Great Defender" and
that damned 1rishman," was
never wrong. He said SO himself,
frequently. He was, for instance.
quite sure Joyce Ellis was a mur-
deress for all her trying to con-
vince him of her innocence after
ne got her acquitted. He was
equally sure Lucia Renshaw had
not poisoned her husband. But
it took the magnificent Gideon
Fell to demonstrate the signifi-
cance of black dust in a silver
candelabrum. of red garter and
the strange mark on the window
sill. Variations on the locked
room routine, together with hints
of the supernatural and maligr,
place this one In the ranks OF
Carr's best. Who could ask for
anything more?
Yelled Murder. by Alice Camr
bell. (Random House; $2.50o
The barrister who saved Rs
Wrayborne from the gallows no
finds Rex's wife standing over he
husband with a smoking revolvc"
in her hand. Was Andrea really
guilty or had her American
friend come to take revenge on
Rex? OF course, Rex's trio of
doting females might be suspects
but they all worshiped him. And
there was the matter OF the
strychnine which some one might
have slipped into Rex's god
fathers food shortly before Rex
got a bullet in his back. The
writing is on the florid side-up
to and including such fine phrases
as vile embraces the plot
is sufficiently intricate.
Hangman's Choice, by Clifford
knight. (E9 P. Dutton & Co.;
$3.50.
Gilt Edged
Years before an archeologist
had been shot mysteriously at a
canyon camp. Now members of
that party were rapidly becoming
corpses. Prime suspect was Peck
Mooney. q character who should
have started confiiding in the
police instead Of running. How
could the police or any one else be-
lieve him innocent when he was
spotted leaving the scene of one
murder. suddenly shaved OF his
identifying beard, was on hand for
murder No. 2 and left his finger
prints all over the scene Of murder
No. 8? Seems to us his girl friend
took an awful lot on faith, but
then, the hero is never supposed to
be killer. T'isn't cricket.
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Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Con-
stitutton avenue and sixth street
Paintings, sculptures by masters,
seulpture and Freneh 18th g esnturS
art: South African art. through
NATIONAL MUSEUM, National COL
lection OF Fine Arts. Constitution
avenue and Tenth street-Ameri-
Potomac nns crsit ac societs S1a ana mas1srI kim
tion.
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. Division
of Graphic Arts, Independence ave-
nue and Tenth street-Dahlsreen
acquisition, through Labor Day.
street and Jefferson drive-orien-
ings and etchings by whistler and
other American artists: changing
exhibits. Thayer centennial ex-
enteenth street between New York
avenue and = street - American
W. A. Clark collection. American
ssien. ttsn eS0fs Ss kanen ane snS Smith
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY.
1900 Twenty-first street-Paint-
paintings from the collection.
ARTS CLUB, .2017 I -street-Mem-
bers' show, through September.
DuMBARToN OAKS COLLECTION,
lTO3 Thirty-second street NV
Closed until September 8.
PUBLIC ss1.s;s klERAEY 5Ehth and s..ts
Hartnell, through August.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIvER-
SITY, library, 1923 G street NV.
ABBOTT School exhibition, throuSh
August.
PAN AMERICAN UNION, Seventeenth
Sc sss.s ti5ssss E.Ssin:Hss S%h4hssSn hsss2 Ct sf
WHITE GALLERY, 1913 connecti-
artists. Prints.
ALFRED FOWLER PRINT GALLERY,
l7l4 Connecticut aver Nv
through August.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Capt.
mortal exhibition.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY GALLERY
OF ART, Sixth street and Howard
place N.W.-Student show.
CHEoUIRE HOUSE. sOs King street,
Alsx.ndrin tarx. s,riid - Washington sculp-
PLAYHOUSE THEATER GALLERY.
727 Fifteenth street NW.-Retro-
spective exhibition by Richard La
hey. through August.
SILVER ..SPRING ART GALLERY,
S216 Flawer avenue, Silver Spring,
through the summer.
BARNETT ADEN GALLERY. 127
Randolph place N.W.-Group exhi-
bition Of water colors.
WATKINS GALLERY. American Uni
versity csmpus-Gates and group
shows. Closed Saturdays.
GINN'S ART CENTER, 1914 Georgia
avenue, Silver Spring - Paintings
by Donald Robertson, through Au-
gust 20.
ALEXANDRIA LIBRARY. 71e Queen
street-One-man show by John c.
Rogers.
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AT the annual banquet Ol tIlc
Association Of the Oldest In
habitants, in December. 1881, one
of the speakers referred to the
difference in the weather condt-
tions in late years and the intense
cold days and heavy snowfalls
of 40 and so years ago. The
writer called the gentlemen's at
tention to a statement. apparently
emanating from the Weather Bu-
reau, printed In The Star or
March 6, 1927, in which the rec
ords for more than so years prior
to that date conclusively showed
that the climatic conditions here
about were Just about the same as
they had ever been.
There is not a great amount OF
information available regarding
the early climatic conditions of
the District of Columbia. although
reports on general weather con-
ditions were made as early as 1917
by registers Of land Offices, sup
plemented a little later by re-
ports from medical officers at
Army posts. BY 1848, the Smith
sonian Institution was receiving
weather reports from telegraph
operators throughout the country,
wherever they happened to be
stationed Little of this infOE-
nation, however, has come down
to us ard even then, seemingly, in
scattered form.
People in the majority Of States,
worry more about the cold
weather and heavy SHOWS than
they do about the warm weather.
at least the writer finds it 50 when
the oil and gas bills must be paid
about on an average OF eight
months in the year.
Record in 1879
Many of the Older Washingto-
mans can tell about the July 16,
1879, when the thermometer
reached a record of lot degrees,
and frying eggs on the concrete
would have been perfectly feas-
ible. On September 7. 1881, 1t
was 1o4 above. On July Is.
1887. it was 1903: July 20. 1880.
it was 1856. and six days later 1t
was 1903: August 6, 1918, 1t was
LOG. which nearly reached the
record Of July Is. 1879.
Richard p. Jackson. q little
more thoughtful than some other
writer's on local weather condi-
tions. takes in the reverse side OF
the weather and tells us in his
Chronicles Of Georgetown that:
The winter Of 1927 was Of re-
markable severity in this latitude.
Alexandria. then q part Of the
District of Columbia, was nearly
burnt down on the 18th day Of
January Of that year. and many
citizens OF our town skated
on the ice to Alexandria and as
sisted in extinguishing the con-
hagration. The winter of 1829-
80 was very cold, and the ice
broke up with a freshet. carrying
away the schooner Washington
from Crittenden's Wharf. where
she had been made fast with nu-
merous cables. which were rent
like pipestems, and the vessel
carried down the river until she
grounded on Easbys Point. At
the same time the Long Bridge
was shattered to pieces by the ice,
IA gaps being made by the force
of the fNeshet. Congress then
purchased the remnant of the
bridge from the Potomac Bridge
Co. for $4,000. and in its place
erected another structure.
THE winter of 1872 was very
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submitted to the Post Once De-
partment Is reproduced herewith.
Readers favoring the idea are re-
quested to communicate with Mr..
Nicholson directly.
Senator James p. KEN Of Mis-
souri is advocating a stamp to
mark the Tooth anniversary Of the
birth OF the poet. Eugene Field.
September 3. 1850.
The health Of King George VI
has improved SO much that 1t is
likely that he will be able to make
the visit to Australia planned for
last fall and postponed because
Of his illness. This means that
the stamps announced to pub
licize his trip to the Antipodes
may be issued in a few months.
Stephen G. Rich Is the author
OF an interesting article on the
first postage stamps of France in
the Society of Philatelic Ameri-
cans Journal for August.
st. Giustro's Cathedral in
Trieste is pictured on a 20-lire
reddish brown stamp of Italy
publicizing the first administra-
tive elections held in that city,
June IL.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph F. Bernays
Iof Pasadena, visiting Washington
last week en- route to the Ameri-
can Philatelic Society convention
at Boston, announced the engage
ment of their daughter Marie to-
Donald c. Adamson of Visalia,
Calf. The wedding will take
place next month.
Austria is bringing out a series
of semipostals showing the devel-
epment of the national coat of
arms; also a 30-groschen violet
black commemorative for the
1,000th anniversary-the millenary
of st. Gebhard. Bishop of
Bregenz.
The Collectors Club of WASH
ington will meet at 1912 Ninth
street NV. Tuesday evening at 8.
The Government Printing Office
Stamp Club will meet In confer
ence room &C." in the rear of
Harding Hall. Tuesday afternoon
at 4:40.
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The Collectors Club of Wash
ington will meet at, 1912 Ninth
street NV. Tuesday evening at 8.
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Washington Weather

cold winter Of 1855. The centen-
nial year of 1875 was very warm:
the heat set in about the goth Of
June and never broke until the
18th of July, when we had a few
pleasant days. when the heat set
In again and lasted until the first
of September. The winter of
1875 was severe. The extreme
cold set in on Saturday, the 9th
of December. and continued to the
18th of January. when we had q
thaW,"
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By John CIoeett Proctor

long and extremely cold. The
chronicler was, at that time, a
scholar at Prof. Hallowell's School,
located in Alexandria, and we'll
the severe coldness OF
the weather. The cold weather
in November. 1881; the
Potomac River was soon ice-bound
and the boys enjoyed fine skating.
On coming home to spend the
Christmas holidays we crossed the
river at the ferry near the aque-
duct and saw on the ice, at the
time, a wagon loaded with wood,
being drawn by four horses. The
mercury Gn the thermometer sit
uated constantly in the shade on
the west side of our dwelling) in
dicated 4 degrees below zero. In
the first part of January, 1882, we
had thaw and the ice passed
quietly away, but in the latter part
of the month the weather again
turned suddenly cold, and the
Potomac was frozen over. On the
28th of January of that winter,
after two nights freeze, attempt
ed to come home by way of the
Long Bridge. On arriving at the
bridge I found no track broken
for the Nrryboat. and to cross on
the ice was considered impossible,
as the river is more than a mile
wide. Having my skates with me,
and not liking to turn back. I put
them on and, taking the branch of
a tree in my hands. I crossed over
in safety to the satisfaction of the
crowd who stood looking on at my
foolhardy venture. AS I skated on
the ice it was so thin that it would
crack and bend under my weight,
and I could distinctly see the
leaves and twigs floating in the
water under my feet"
Bridges Washed Out
"The winter of 1s39-40 was
long and cold. The ice broke up
in the Potomac on the 10th of
February. 1s4o. and carried away
the Chain Bridge and the draw
of the Long Bridge. The winter
Of 1s40-41 was long and cold.
though the degree Of cold was not
as great az some previous winters.
The 18th of February, 184l, was
the coldest day during the season
and it is well remembered by the
inhabitants of this town as the
day that Gen. Harrison paid
Georgetown visit just before his
Inauguration as President Of the
United States.
I'VE all remember the winter of
1855. 1856 and 1857; the SHOWS
were deep and the cold was severe.
During the winter of 1857 sleigh
ing was enjoyed by our inhabi-
tants. Fleet horses were brought
on from other cities to race on
Pennsylvania avenue. and when
the divers would be arrested for
driving at an improper speed,
they would pay the fine, crack the
whip over the head Of the justice
and 60 do it again. This was the
winter that q locomotive was run
on the ice across the river from
Maryland to Alexandria: also
sleepers and rails were laid upon
the ice at Havre de Grace across
the Susquehanna River and trains
of cars crossed over for more than
q month.
There is a law of nature that
one extreme is followed by an
other. The extremely hot Sum-
mer of 1884 was followed by the
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Art and Artists
Seraphic Womanhood Is Characteristic
Of Work of Abbott H. Thayer
By Florence S. Berrymon

be studied
Smithsonian Institution custodian Of
American masters work To cee
last Friday centennial exhibition
History Building National Museum and
the Freer Gallery through December
In sense than 20
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115h Infantry scompanyK
Plans 30th Reunion Sept. II,

Elaborate plans are being made
for the 30th reunion of Company
K of the AEF's 115th Infantry
Regiment on September II at
Jesup Blair Park. Silver Spring.
The affair will be attended by
Gov. Lane of Maryland, Senator
Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland
and Gen. Milton E. Reckord, all
of whom served with the regiment,
which dates back to the early
days Of World War I. Another
guest and veteran will be Col.
Carey Jarman, superintendent Of
the Maryland State Police.
E. Brooke Lee, wartime COM
mander of the company and life
time honorary president Of K
Company Association. is chairman
of the committee in charge Of the
The reunion formation is sched-
uled for $3.50 pm. and will be
followed by supper at $50 pm.
Gen. Reckord, who was World
War I commander of the 115th
Infantry. will be the principal
speaker.
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5-Day'Week Will Add.
Few Virginia Rail- Jobs
By the Associoted Press

RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 5.-The
start of the five-day week for nom
operating railroad employees ap-
parently will mean only handful
of workers recalled or new ones
hired in Virginia.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Rail-
way has announced that it will
add some 1000 additional workers
throughout it's system. How many
of these would be in Virginia is
uncertain.
The Seaboard Air Line Railroad
has no present plans for recalling
employees furloughed earlier this
year because of slackened busi-
ness, according to President L. r..
Powell. jr.
This paralleled a statement
from William A. Aiken, jr.. super
intendent of the Richmond, Fred
ericksburg & Potomac Railroad.
who said the same force will be
used.
Mr.. Aiken said this is the slack
season and that if it had not
been for the institution of the 40
hour week some employees would
probably have been laid off.
A spokesman for the Norfolk g.
Western Railway at Roanoke, Va,
said he had no comment to make
on the effect of the f1ve-day week.
Officials of the Atlantic Coast
Line at Wilmington. N. c., were
not available for comment.
Evening star., 1949-09-05
Arlington Schools 10 Have
Speech Education Staff Of ;

Arlington schools will have a
staff of three for the speech edu-
cation program in elementary
schools this year.
Started at the beginning Of the
1948-49 term by Mrs. Zelda Horner
Kosh, supervisor of speech educa-
ton. the program again will be
headed by her.
Working under Mrs. Kosh's di-
rection will be Miss Mary Eliza
beth PEBBLES and John M. Kier-
nan. both of whom hold masters
degrees in speech education from
Teachers College of Columbia
University.
School officials said the addi-
tional teachers will make possible
more individual instruction for
children in need of remedial speech
work as well as a richer speech
program for all pupils.
Evening star., 1949-09-05
UItro-Modern Fick|in School
Opens Thursday in Alexandra

outdoor recesses, the children can
play in a huge indoor recreation
room that runs the full length of
the basement on one side of the
building. Adjoining the play room
is a cafeteria. The schools audi
torium has $50 permanent seats.
One of the conveniences most
appealing to the principal, Miss
Molly B. Whitlock, is the two
way sound system. She can talk
to all the classrooms at once from
her office. or to only one room
at a time. Teachers can answer
her through the system. and radio
broadcasts or records can be re-
layed to the classrooms.
For all its modern conveniences,
the schools name is reminiscent of
the first public schools in Alex
andria. Theodore Ficklin, Who was
with Gen. Robert E. Lee when Lee
surrendered at Appomattox. taught
in Alexandra schools for 43 Years
until his death in 1919. In 1871,
when the old free schools became
part of the first public school sys-
tenn of Virginia, Mr.. Ficklin was
one of the teachers.