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Evening star., 1950-06-29
Flags Are Broken Out
In D. T.. in Salute
To independence

The man who has been putting
flags on the Districts lamp posts
for nearly 20 years went into ac-
ton again today.
He is Walter e. Kern, District
electrical engineer, whose six-man
team has been busy fitting out 130
lamp posts with 800 American
flags. all the way from Blair House
to the Peace Monument, along
Pennsylvania avenue.
The flags will be on display dur
ing the eight days the National
Capital Sesqui-centnenial Com
mission has set aside as a Salute
to Independence" period.
They are broken out on national
holidays and in honor of visiting
heads of state, who also are well
coined with displays of their ma
tive flags, obtained by Mr.. Kern
from the State Department.
The flag flying custom began
according to Mr.. Kern, about
1880, when a veterans organiza-
ton approached the District Gov
ernment with request for flags
to decorate the lamp posts lining
its parade route.
Told that the District had none.
the veterans bought their own
flags and clamped them to the
posts on Pennsylvania avenue.
After the parade. says Mr.. Kern,
the District was given the flags.
fagpoles and clamps. The vet
erans urged that these be put to
use on festive occasions.
Since then, the Electrical Divi-
sion of the Highway Department
has attached special clamps to
the lamp posts along the routes
ledaing from Union Station and
the Memorial Bridge to the White
House.
The record number of flags dis
played by the District is sos,
flown in honor Of the visit of King
George vi and Queen Elizabeth
in the summer Of 1899.
Last November. 513 flags were
brought out for the visiting Shah
of Iran. All but four of the 343
Iranian emblems, Mr.. Kern re-
calls, were unclamped by souven-
ir-hunting admirers of the Shah
The flags, which are three feet
by five feet. cost SITS each and
last about four years. The FIVE
foot, hard pine flag staffs are
bought fro 20 cents each.
Each new flag is soaked a full
day in water. according to Mr..
Kern, to make sure the colors will
not run in the rain.
Evening star., 1950-06-29
30 Years in Marines,
Musician Re-enIists

Sergt. Clayton Lindsay. flutist
Of the Marine Band, re-enlisted
yesterday, after 80 years service
in the corps.
The 58-year-old bandsman said
he was thinking of resigning but
that he changed his mind while
playing at a recent ceremony In
Arlington Cemetery and rejecting
on his first job there with the
band, the burial of the Unknown
Soldier in 1921.
Evening star., 1950-06-29
Dr.. Furboy to Address
Avidtion PurIey Toniohi

DR.. John H. Furbay Of Trans
World Airlines, will address the
George Washington University
aviation conference at 8 O'Clock
tonight in the Interior Depart
ment Auditorium.
DR.. Furbay. according to TWA,
averages 100000 air miles a year
on lecture tours and other activi-
ties, including education. travel,
and exploration.
Evening star., 1950-06-29
Foirfox Stotion Woman
Fined for BootIeqqino

A Fairfax Station (Va.) woman
was fined $50 yesterday and given
80 suspended days on charges of
possessing bootleg whisky.
Mrs. Maggie King, 80, colored,
pleaded not guilty before Fairfax
Trial Justice Harry L. Carrico. She
was arrested May 10 by ABC In
vestigator M. K. Ryan, who said
he found Illegal whisky when he
raided her home.
Evening star., 1950-06-29
ADJUSTMENTS.
Do You Want
to Look Gray?

OF course you don't, when youthful ap-
pearance means so much. And no one
need look gray. A few drops of kolor-Bak
Coz ,ed through your hair each day and
graynsss gradually disappears. To main
necessary. Costs only few cents week.
Money back guarantee. Get an economi-
eM bottle today at any drug store.
Evening star., 1950-06-29
Kcaor-Bok

mERicAS LARGEST SELLING s0LUTI0N
ees ARTIFHNllY c0LoRiNG GRAY HMR
Evening star., 1950-10-29
In New Residences

Mr.. and Mrs. Maury Young and
their young son and daughter are
now occupying their new home
on McGill Terrace.
DR.. and Mrs. Max j. Fischer
and their three young children
also have recently moved to their
new apartment in Alban Towers.
Evening star., 1950-10-29

st. James Catholic Church in
Falls Church was the scene of the
wedding of Miss Sarah E. Shreve,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
G.. Shreve of Falls Church, and
Mr.. S. James Radcliffe, jr., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Radcliffe Of Arling-
ton. The Rev. Edward V. Null
larkey officiated at the recent
ceremony. The couple now reside
In Westover.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Myths and Symbols

Using drawings as language to
convey ideas is an ancient prac-
tice. An extension to the use of
drawings to express subconscious
emanations appears to be the
basis of the exhibition by Helena
Aramburu Lecaros, just opened
at the Pan American Union, to
remain only through March 81.
Nine. Aramburu is a Peruvian
author of books of poetry and
philosophy, and is also a news
paper writer. While using Ian
guage to express herself profess
sionally, she was privately draw
ing what she calls "vagrant be-
ings" which, she says, made use
of her in order to appear, and slid
down her fingers!"
In November, 1948, she showed
her work for the first time, in
Lima, Peru. The current exhibit
ton is her first public one outside
her own country. It comprises Sc
drawings in pencil, ink and water
colors. Some of them have the
appearance of children's art
Inconsistencies" for example)
Others are semiabstract "Veiled
Woman" like a plant forn). Still
others seem to be a sort of pic
torial shorthand such as several
drawings suggesting dances. There
is certainly plenty of variety.
Mime. Aramburu is the sister of
German Aramburu l., Minister
Plenipotentiary, Counselor of the
Peruvian Embassy.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
By John CIogett Proctor

Indebtedness and gave him an op-
portunity to square himself by
securing him an appointment as
constable. 1t is said that he
proved to be a capable officer. in
all particulars. save that he would
never arrest one for debt.
Following this jail came the Blue
Jug" completed about 1840. 1t
was at the southwest corner of
Fourth and G streets, close to the
old Pension Office Building, where
so many inaugural balls have been
held. Its name was acquired. be-
cause it was for years painted
blue.
After the little Jail on E street
was vacated, Congress made an
appropriation in 1842 for the pur-
pose of making such alterations
as might be necessary to render
the building suitable for the care
of the insane and other public
charges, and also provided for
the improvement of the northern
half of the square. However, in
1874, it decided the site and build
ing were not suitable and the
building was turned over to the
faculty of Columbian College
now George Washington Uni
versity.
One cannot write a story of
st. Elizabeths without saying
more about Dorothea Dix, one of
the outstanding benefactors, and,
although the Medical Society of
Evening star., 1950-03-19
St. E|izabeths Hospital

the District of Columbia teNs US
that DR.. Benjamin Schenkmyer
Bohrer, who was born in this
vicinity in 1888, was the origina-
tor of the project to establish
this institution, undoubtedly Miss
Dix succeeded in making the hos
pital a reality where all others
failed. Nor was her work in be-
half of the insane confined alone
to Washington and to our own
country, but it reached out across
and beyond the Atlantic. In The
Star of March 18, 1899, a we'll
deserved tribute is paid this Won
derful woman as follows:
Finally the establishment Of
the present Government Hospital
for the Insane was brought about
by Miss Dorothea Dix, who had
devoted her life to securing hu-
name treatment for the insane.
She had endeavored to have Con-
gress set aside a large area Of
the public domain to establish
hospitals in the various States for
this purpose, but after she had
secured the passage Of the neces-
sary act it was vetoed by Presi-
dent Pierce. though the civil and
diplomatic act of August 81, 1852,
appropriated 100000 to enable
the Secretary of the Interior to
purchase site in the neighbor-
hood of Washington and for the
erection, furnishing and fitting of
an asylum for the insane of the
Federal District of Columbia and
for the Army and the Navy"
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Aviation's Speed Problem

speeds in the '30s was a faraway
goal to most people, but the Navy
got interested and so did Chance
Vought Aircraft. long time builder
of Navy observation and fighting
planes, including the Vought Cor.
sair of Jap war renown.
Zimmerman licensed his design
to Vought, and in order to preside
over its development he resigned
from the NACA. Working secret
lively and creating and developing
as they proceeded, Mr.. zimmer-
man and his team of Vought
workers completed the plane in
the fall of 1912. 1t was made of
wood and fabric and it's two en-
gines were buried in the short,
wide wing. 1t bore the company
designation V-173, but among the
factory workers it was known as
the Flying Hamburger, the Skim
mer, Founder, Pancake and other
inelegant but thoroughly descrip-
tive names. It made more than
100 flights, and so successful was
the Zimmerman plane in hover
ing like helicopter. taking off
in steep climbs and making steep
deScents and with a high forward
speed, that the Navy, then in the
war, ordered higher-powered.
all-metal fighter version. But
when this bigger, heavier model
was completed it and other pro-
peller-driven fighters, up against
their peak possibilities in speed
at close to 500 miles an hour,
found themselves supplanted by
the jet fighter. for which that
speed figure was just the begin
ming.
Mr.. Zimmerman returned to the
NACA at Langley Field, and now
heads an important branch of the
big laboratory there that is deeply
Immersed in high-speed military
aircraft research. His Flying
Hamburger has been acquired
from the Navy by Paul e. CARRIER,
curator of aeronautics of the
Smithsonian Institution for per-
manent exhibition In the new
National Air Museum to be built
IN Washington as q shrine for
Americas famous aircraft.
Evening star., 1950-03-19

Large frames of stamp proofs
prepared by the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing will be fea-
tured in the Post Office Depart
ment's display at the fifth ma
tional convention of the Universal
Ship Cancellation Society at the
Penn Harris Hotel, Harrisburg,
May 6 and 7.
H. R. Harmer, Inc, 80 East
Fifty seventh street, New York,
will sell at auction April "a and
25, rarities, including revenues,
from the collection of Adolphe
Menjou, the movie star: also IA
James M Buchanan prepaid
covers of Baltimore-12 showing
the scent provisional with sigma
ture, blue on buff; one in salmon
and one 10-cent rate on buff
GIVE" in red and five" in blue)
The Buchanan items belong to
Mrs. Hamilton A. Gale, ST., and
Hamilton A. Gale. jr.. of Annapo-
lis, and are estimated to be worth
between $4,000 and $1,000.
Cuba will celebrate the centen-
NAL of the martyrdom of the pa
triot Narcisco Lopez with a series
of stamps showing the national
flag which he was the first to
fly in Cuba in 1850.
SWitzerland's 1850 Pro Juven-
tute stamps will be adorned with
butterflies and other insects, in
stead of flowers.
To publicize the Sixth Interna-
tional Games of Central America
and the Caribbean, the postal au-
thorities of Guatemala have
brought out half a dozen stamps
showing the stadium where the
meet is to be held, as we'll as ath-
letes swimming, running, pole
vaulting and playing tennis.
The Red Cross World, a quar-
terly published at Geneva. SWitz-
erland, has added a department
relating to Red Cross stamps of
the different nations.
Max Pool, ii West Eighty-sixth
street, New York, has brought out
a handsome illustrated catalogue
for an auction of United States,
airmails of the world, British En-
pire and general foreign-2,226
lots-scheduled for March % to
81, inclusive.
Linn's Weekly Stamp News says
that the 20-cent parcel post stamp
of 1912 shows the late Gen. Henry
Evening star., 1950-03-19
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unprecedented size; who see a
group perhaps as large as so mil
lion people who do not now
patronize the airlines fighting for
tickets. and who guarantee an
end to all the current economic
woes of the airlines and the Gov
ernment.
The happy day is still some
what distant, but not as far
away. now as it seemed in the
early and depressing ''30s when a
young Olathe, Kans., aeronautical
engineer. working in the mysteri-
GUS and complicated wind .tun-
nels of the NACA at Langley
Field, Va. fearlessly arrived at
the conclusion that the conven-
tional airplane could never be a
completely satisfactory means of
transportation and boldly said so.
However. the Government and the
people in those dark days were
more concerned with overcoming
the Nationwide economic blight
than debating with young Charles
H. Zimmerman of the class of '29,
University of Kansas. Mr.. Zim-
merman's ideas called for what
already has been discussed here.
Combining the best qualities of
the helicopter and the wing
airplane, the way he saw it, would
produce something that might not
look exactly like an airplane, but
he went ahead anyway and sure
enough when it was built, it looked
more like a hamburger sandwich.
(If flying saucers had been re-
ported then, it promptly would
have been dubbed just that.)
In the four years of study and
research he devoted in his spare
time to the scientific aspects of
the Zimmerman plane, he saw in
creasing possibilities for its de-
velopment as carrier-based fight
er. Wind-tunnel tests on models
convinced him that the plane
could be developed for a straight
away speed of 500 miles an hour
and landing speed of zero! Five
hundred-mil an hour airplane
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Stamp News
By jones Waldo Fowcett

(Hap) Arnold at the controls of
the plane in the center of the
design. 1t also has been suggested
that Gen. Arnold is shown in the
plane in the 2-cent Aeronautics
Conference stamp of 1923.
The Supreme Court on February
19 decided that the officers of the
Federal Government have the
right to search and seize without
a warrant if such action is part
of a lawful arrest. Attorneys for
a stamp dealer had argued to the
contrary and their position had
been supported by the United
States Circuit Court in New York.
The dealer was convicted of selling
falsely altered Cancelled United
States stamps and with possession
of similar stamps. January 27,
1949. Fake overprinted Kansas
and Nebraska stamps were in
volved in the case.
Frank Goebel, Box "a, Chatham,
N. j., Is. sponsoring a cachet for
the dedication of a new post Office
in that town April /. Send
stamped, self-addressed, standard
size ga envelopes for marking.
Denmark on April / will release
a handsome 20-ore red stamp to
mark the 25th anniversary of the
national radio system. The de-
Evening star., 1950-03-19
LocuI Rebekuh News
Lodge meetings this week:

Lodge meetings this week:
Monday-Naomi and Ruth, 419
Seventh street NV.
Tuesday - Fidelity. initiation,
2022 Rhode Island avenue NE.
Thursday Martha Washing
ton, 419 Seventh street NV
Brightwood, Masonic Temple
Takoma, D. c.
Friday-Class initiation. honor
ing Shuyler Colfax, founder OF
the order. by Garden City Lodge
Of Baltimore, 4a9 Seventh street
NV.
Evening star., 1950-03-19
Art
Evans Collection
Is InspirotionoI;
Recalls Earliest
Movements Here
By Florence S. Berrymon

The National Gallery of Art,
nine years old last Friday, is so
much a part of Washington that
only a minority of local residents
remember that efforts to achieve
a National Gallery began half a
century ago. Shortly after 1900
Charles Freer made his initial gift
and Harriet Lane Johnston, niece
of President Buchanan, bequeathed
her collection to the Nation. A
decision of the Supreme Court Of
the District of Columbia approved
the view that the Smithsonian In
stitution could properly constitute
a National Gallery of Art, and
hence could accept the bequest.
The late Leila Mechlin, art critic
of The Star for As years, who
was then at the beginning of her
career, worked indefatigably for
the establishment of a National
Gallery of Art. Early in 1907 she
called on William T. Evans of
Montclair, N. j.. who had an i'm
portant collection, and brought up
the National Gallery project" ="
saying she was sure he must be
interested in it. He assured her
that he was, and in a few weeks
she arranged a meeting for Mr.
Evans with DR.. William H.
Holmes, one of whose official posi-
tions was curator of the National
Gallery of Art" In the spring of
1907 Mr.. Evans made his initial
gift of so paintings.
Clouds Lifted by Gift
DR.. Holmes wrote Mr.. Evans
that after the acceptance of the
Johnston bequest there was "still
uncertainty in the minds Of all
those interested as to the possibil-
ity Of reasonable development.
But the cloud of apprehension has
been lifted and the success of the
National Gallery assured by your
timely gift. The names of
the artists included in your list is
a sufficient guaranty of the value
Of the collection"
The National Gallery Of Art,
brought to realization by the Mel
Ion gift, took the name away
from the collections in the Ma
tional Museum, which became
the National Collection of Fine
Arts" Thomas M. Beggs. director,
feels that William T. Evans was
one of the most generous donors
(and one of the earliest to the
art collections of the Nation. Said
Mr.. Beggs:
"The liberal terms by which
Evans gave the finest examples of
the work of the living American
artists of his time were such that
the paintings are scattered, many
Of them being hung in halls and
Offices of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition in which they are not seen
by the public"
In order to call the public's at
tention to Mr.. Evans generosity,
Mr.. Beggs selected 35 paintings
from the initial gift of so, and
hung them in the foyer of the
Natural History Building this
month (through next Sunday.
This group was the subject of a
Star editorial and has been brief
ly mentioned in these columns.
Compared to the magnificent
old masters in the (Mellon) Ma
tional Gallery, Mr.. Evans Ameri-
cans make q modest collection.
Evening star., 1950-03-19

Harry L. Lindquist has an
nounced that the NBC Stamp Club
of the Air broadcasts of April Is
and % will be devoted to the
Sesquicentennial of Washington
as the Capital of the Nation. This
program now is heard every Sat-
urday morning at 11:15 over Sta
tion WRC.
Evening star., 1950-03-19

st. EliZabeths Hospital got its
start in 1852, when Congress ap-
100000 for the pur-
chase of a site and the erection
of suitable buildings, later to be
known as "the Government Hos
pital for the Insane" and where,
as provided, ''the most humane
care and enlightened curative
treatment of the insane sof the
Army and Navy of the United
States and of the District of
Columbia" is rendered.
BY January, 1855, a portion of
the old main building was suffi-
GENTLY completed to be occu-
pied, and on the 18th day of
that month the first patient was
received. Thomas Sessford was his
name He was from the District
of Columbia and was a native of
On the 22d of the same
81 District patients were
transferred from the two institu-
tions in Baltimore, where they
were being supported at Govern
ment expense, for Washington at
this time had no adequate facili-
ties for caring for its mentally i'll
residents, and the Federal Gov
ernment was in a similar position.
The common jail and poorhouse
were the only places where the
insane might be kept. unless pri-
vate parties were willing to act
as custodians for 50 a week for
each person, and probably no one
cared to do it for that amount,
when the patient was unruly or
had criminal tendencies.
For a long while the Jail used
for this and other purposes was
in Judiciary Square, on the north
side Of E street, between Fourth
and Fifth streets, for the erection
of which Congress appropriated
a small sum in 1902, to which was
added $1,000 the following year.
The building was completed at a
total cost of nearly $4,000. 1t was
a plain. oblong building, one end
of which was fitted up for the
private use of the jailer. ...
Wed Keepers Daughter
Cartright Tippett was one of the
first jailers, being succeeded by
Thomas Williams, who filled the
Office until about 1847, when Rob-
ert Ball. sr.,s was appointed, being
assisted by his son, Robert Ball,
jr., then a mere lad, but who some
20 years later was placed in full
charge.
During the early days of this
old building. a prisoner, sent here
for failing to pay his debts, eloped
with and married the jailer's
daughter. 1t should be explained
that at this period prisoners COM
mitted for such offenses were al
lowed to circulate during the day.
time anywhere within the bounds
of the Jail, the limits being First
to Fifteenth streets and G street
to the canal, or what now would
be Constitution avenue.
So it happened that this young
man, while exercising the freedom
granted him, met by prearrange-
ment the jailer's daughter, while
she was on her way to the Marsh
Market" for the family supplies.
This market-of1icially the Center
Market-occupied the site of the
new Archives Building. The plans
were well carried out; she hurried
through with her marketing and
he made tracks for the court
house and the marriage license,
and both for the minister's resi-
dence. When the proud debtor
reported to the lookup at sun
down, as he was required to do,
he was introduced to the jailer, by
the daughter, as her husband.
The father went security for his
-U NkE Il
Evening star., 1950-03-19
ChiIdren'sArt

An exhibition by the students OF
Creative Art Studio is on view to
the public through today. Cor
nelia Yuditsky, director, feels that
a child's needs as a creative in
dividual are too often given little
consideration. Hence, there are no
general rules in teaching at her
school. The child is ION his own
to do as he wishes, until he asks
for help.
The school has been invited to
send a collection of pupils works
to an international exhibition OF
children's art to be held in the Art
Museum of Denver, Colo, April Is
to May 80.
Evening star., 1950-03-19

The Silver Spring Philatelic
Society will meet at the County
Building, Colesville road, Thurs
day evening at 8.
Evening star., 1950-03-19

sign represents the broadcasting
and receiving station at Kalund-
borg with the skyline of the city
in the background. Viggo Bang
designed the adhesive. Bent Jacob
sen engraved it.
Stamp collectors specializing in
the issues of Portugal and Brazil
will be interested in the Luso-
Brazilian Colloquium which will
take place at the Library of Con-
gress, October 4 to 7. Program
arrangements call for five Sec
tions devoted to cultural an
thropology. literature, history, fine
arts and the instruments of
scholarship. The prospectus may
be obtained from the Information
Office at the Library.
The Zenith Stamp Co., 95 Mas
sau street, New York, announces
a catalog for an auction of
United States and foreign stamps
and covers to be held April %.
Copies on request. -
National Wildlife Restoration
Week begins today. The 1850
series of wildlife poster stamps
including 36 natural color subjects
painted by Walter Weber, is avail
able at the office of the National
Wildlife Federation. 1903 Four
teenth street NV, at 81. Profits
go to the conservation work OF
the organization.
The latham Stamp and Coin
Co.. Springfield. Mass, has pub
lished the 36th edition of their
trade catalog of United States
stamps.
Nations which have issued Boy
Scout stamps include: Australia
Cape of Good Hope, Czechoslo-
vakia, Dutch East Indies, France
Hungary, Liechtenstein, Lithu-
ania, the Netherlands, Nicaragua
the Philippines, Romania, Siam
Turkey. Readers may obtain
copies of a mimeographed check
list from August Howard, 2 Park
avenue. New York. Send stamped
self-addressed envelopes with re-
quests.
Evening star., 1950-03-19

The Collectors Club of Wash
ington will meet at 1912 Ninth
street NV. Tuesday evening at 8.