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CAR HOPS

Young men, between 1925, for full
time employment; salary plus tips;
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ply to personnel office.
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Rarest Of all cents is that of
l799-and you're not apt to find
one in an old trunk or bureau.
The 1899 cent in fair to good
condition can sometimes be bought
for $50 to $40, but generally one
sells at $50 to 5000. One of these
coins in "uncirculated" condition
however. might bring more than
$4,000. This is mint" condition
with a coin bright and new with
mint lustre and showing asbolute-
ly no wear.
One 1899 cent in uncirculated
condition is known, and this was
discovered in a London pawn
shop years ago. Until then
no 1899 cent in mint condition
was believed in existence. The
London coin found its way to
American. where it has been in
several collections. commanding a
higher price at each sale.
In many OF the early cents (first
struck in 1888. there are numer-
Gus varieties, but there are but
two main types Of 1899. One has
the figures SO showing under the
80 and the second type Is a nor
NAL date.
The inexperienced collector
should be extremely careful about
buying 1899 cent, because some
altered dates are known. The buy
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and opened the theater
on August 28. 1862. as "Ford's
Theater." Four months later, on
December 80. the building was
entirely destroyed by fire-and
this was the end of the structure
that had once done duty as a
church.
Mr.. Ford was an alert business
man, and in just year from the
burning of the old building the
ruins had been removed and a
modern theater erected on the
spot.
The new building was severely
plain, just as we see it today. but
the interior is said to have been
very attractive, the arrangement
of seats being totally unlike that
of most theaters." The parquette
was equipped with cane-seat
chairs, rising in gradual elevation,
so that a clear and unobstructed
view of the stage could be had
by every one. The first tier, or
balcony. was said to have been
commodiouS and opened into a
salon. brilliantly illumi-
mated. A second tier. correspond
ing to the family circle. completed
the seating part of the house.
There were eight private boxes
in the theater. built on new and
original lines. four on each side
of the stage, two lower and two
upper. The lower ones are said to
have been scarcely more than
loopholes. and to have been excel
lent points from which to see and
remain unseen. If one wished to
do so. The upper boxes were ele-
waited but a short distance above
the stage. and from them any one
might easily leap onto the stage.
The box which the President
occupied included the two upper
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Corner on Coins
Bv Ted Hammer
ny TSu TIUIIIVTIeT
tlibVorion, The American kvrnismotie

kvmismotie A,,oeiotion.) tf-H
er should be wary particularly
if the coin is worn greatly or II
a stranger offers the rarity at a
low price. The altered dates gen.
orally are made with a few min
utes' work with an engraving tool
to change a 1893 into a 1893
merely by making the fourth fig
ure into a nine. The naked eye
generally will reveal altered dates
II strong glass fails to show ii
up. the buyer can still get expert
advice or apply heat test. Get
ting the coin almost red hot
usually will reveal whether any
alteration has been made.
During National Coin Week,
April IA to 81. a special exhibit by
members of the Washington Nu-
mismatic Society will be displayed
at the National Museum, Tenth
street and Constitution avenue. It
contains United States coins from
u cent to $50 gold pieces; cur
rency issues from Scent to 500
notes and Greek and Roman coins
dating to 200 BIC.
At the Smithsonian Institution,
the first section of one of the
finest collections of continental
gold and silver will be exhibited.
The entire collection has 5000
coins from 14th century English
TO King George VI issues.
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The Assassination Of Lincoln
By John cIoaett Proctor

The people of this great country
OF ours have read Of many notable
tragedies, and have mourned the
loss of many of our countrymen
and statesmen, but the greatest
crime of all-the one that brought
the Nation to its knee-the fatal
wounding of President Abraham
Lincoln on the night Of April IA.
1865. and the passing Of that
great soul into eternity the fol-
lowing day at 7::22 am, will never
be forgotten.
The shooting Of James A. Gar
field was certainly a pathetic one.
and even in the Nations Capital
the humble Negro shack was
draped in mourning. and through
out the entire city flags were
placed at half-staff.
The shooting of President Nc
Kinley at Buffalo. N. Y. on Sep
tember 6. 1901, and his death
eight days later. is n tragedy still
in the minds Of many. as are the
words uttered by his venerable
mother: Why did he kill my
baby?" But, after all, the passing
Of the martyr Lincoln is hardly
comparable to any other homicide
in this country.
1t was Just IS years ago that
Abraham Lincoln, the 18th Presi-
dent Of the United States. passed
away at the home Of William
Petersen. SIG Tenth street NV.
opposite the old Ford's Theater,
where one of the foulest deeds in
American history was committed
the night before.
Both buildings still stand as
mute reminders of the dastardly
tragedy, and since both structures
are the property of the Govern
ment, the chances are that gen.
erations to come will view them
with awe and sadness. Indeed,
the farther we get away from the
Civil War, with its many unpleas-
ant memories, the greater will the
martyr President loom in the
the hearts of the American peo-
pie. for some day all will know
him alike for his sympathetic ma
ture, his kindness of heart, his un-
selfish motives, his high ideals and
his devotion to his country.
The First Baptist Church origi-
nally occupied this site, with
Rev. Obadiah Brown as pastor.
The building was erected in 1884.
and the first services held there
were on June 26. A quarter of a
century later the church property
was offered for sale and was sold
December 10, 1861, to David w.
Meath, who soon conveyed a part
interest in it to John T. Ford
A month prior to- this, however,
the building was first used as a
theater by Miss Carlotta Patti.
"the celebrated cantatrice"
(Which in plain words means a fe-
male professional singer, who
opened November 10.
Fire Destroyed Building
George Christy and his min
strels followed Miss Patti, and the
theater is referred to as George
Christy's New Opera House" ;"
ChriStv'S lease having eypiraS
John T. Ford got control of the
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serve as chairman and will well
come all guests.
Kansas City, Mo-, is using an at
tractive slogan cancellation die
showing q civic flag and the
inscription. Kansas City Centen-
nial-185o-1s50." Send self-ad-
dressed. stamped envelope to
postmaster with clipping Of this
notice.
Bert C. Gardner will address q
meeting of the Woodbridge Stamp
Club. at 22O6 Rhode Island ave-
nue. NE. tomorrow evening at 9
o'clock. His subject will be. "The
Vatican" Visitors invited.
Three stamps Of modernistic de-
sign have been brought out by
Belgium for parcel post purposes
The 1l-franc. orange. shows two
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boxes on the right-hand side Of
the house. facing the stage. With
John Wilkes Booth everything was
planned with exactness, Our
American Cousin" was being
played, the lines of which the
assassin was quite familiar with.
and so he sought a time when the
action of the piece required the
stage to be almost vacant. and
when all eyes would be turned
toward the stage awaiting the en-
trance of Florence Trenchard
(MiSS Keenel. when she would
say. What do you mean by do
ing all these dreadful things7"
This came about $50 o'clock.
Mrs. H. Huzzy, as Mrs. Mount
chessington in the play. had just
retired from the stage. saying to
Asa Trenchard Harry Hawk a.
she was leaving:
II am aware. Mr.. Trenchard.
you are not used to the manners
of good society. and that alone
will excuse the impertinence OF
which you have been guilty"
1t was then that Booth leaped
onto the stage. crossed some feet
in front of Mr.. Hawk. passed Miss
Keene and w. j. Ferguson, then
standing in the paSSageway.
rushed past Withers. the orches-
ira leader, made his escape by
way of a rear door. and a crime
was consummated that made a
Nation weep and the whole world
mourn.
Ploy Mode Three Fomous
Our American Cousin" was
comparatively a new play when
it was being performed at Ford's
Theater an the night of April IA.
1865. having had its initial per-
formance at Laura KeeneS Thea
ter. New York, on october IL.
1858.
The play was In three acts and
proved a great success. 1t made
a reputation for Joe jefferson and
for the elder Sothern, who created
their respective parts OF Asa
Trenchard and Lord Dundreary.
and fame for Miss Keene. the
Florence Trenchard Of the play.
Mr.. jefferson, after the play
had long run at Miss Keene's
theater, left the company to star
for himself. and finally met his
greatest success in RIP Van Win
kle." He was especially popular
in Washington. In his autobiog-
raphy. he says: Il may almost
say that was born in a theater.
At all events, my earliest recol-
lectionS are entirely connected
with one: 1t was a rickety old
frame building with broad gable.
facing on a wide avenue and
situated in the City Of Washing
ton. The door from our back
entry opened upon the stage. and
as a toddling little chap in q
short frock. was allowed full
run of the place"
This reference by Mr.. Jeffer-
son is evidently to the old Circus
Building on c street between
John Marshall Place and Sixth
street which was demolished in
August, 1898. The Washington
Theater-that is, the one erected
in 1921 on Louisiana avenue TO
the north of the Circus Build
ing-was a brick structure, and
would not At the description of
the building remembered by Mr..
Jefferson from his childhood days.
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STAMPS AND COINS

MADISON STAMP SHOP
1885 Eye Street N.W.-Bought and Sels
GRUEsoME MURDER SET, Sc, WITH AP-
pR0VALS. EISENMAC, 719 1lth ST.
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Stamp News
By jones WoIdo Fowcett

Postmaster General Jesse NJ.
Donaldson on Tuesday last an
nounced the dates and places Of
release of commemorative stamps
for the remainder Of the year"
as follows: Three-cent Armed
Freedom, Washington Sesquicen-
tennial, Washington. D. c.. April
20; Scent Casey Jones. Railroad
Engineers. Jackson. Tenn. April
%; Scent Gateway to the West,
Midwest Centenary. Kansas City.
Mo-, June 3; Scent Executive
Branch of the Government, Wash
ington Sesquicentennial. Wash
ington, D. c., June IL: Scent Boy
Scouts of America, Valley Forge.
Pa, June 80; Scent Indiana Ter
ritory Sesquicentennial, Vincennes.
Ind, July 4; Scent judicial
Branch Of the Government, Wash
ington Sesquicentennial, Washing
ton. D. c., August 2; Scent Cali
fornia Statehood. Sacramento.
Calf. September Q; and Scent
Legislative Branch of the Govern
ment. Washington Sesquicenten-
nial, Washington. D. c., Novem-
Der %.
OF course, other commemora-
tives may be added to this list.
Stamps with political connota-
tions are likely in years in which
important national elections are
held.
The Judicial stamp probably
will show the Supreme Court
Building. and the Legislative the
Capitol. But the Executive Branch
stamp is not apt to picture the
White House in it's present condi-
tion of reconstruction. It may
represent the Blair House, tenn
porary residence of the President.
Stamp collectors are invited to
attend meeting of the Washing
ton Lincoln Group in memorial
observance of the anniversary of
assassination of Abraham Lincoln
at the Lincoln Museum, Ford's
Theater, 511 Tenth street NV.
this afternoon at 2::30. David
Chambers Mearns, director of the
Reference Department of the Lii
brary of Congress and well-known
Lincoln scholar, will deliver the
principal address. His subject
has been announced as: Lincoln,
the Reluctant Contemporary"
The Rev. Melvin E. Lederer will
give the invocation and benedic-
ton, and the National Press Club
Male Chorus will sing. Comdr.
John E. Allen. secretary of the
Columbia Historical Society. will
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"OAISA az POoS OAAASC "AAlOOWs
13-franc, green, clerks sorting
mail; 16-franc, grey, parcels be-
ing loaded into a train.
sgd Kronish, writing for the
Associated Press, says: "A reader
in Buffalo has asked If there are
any companies buying used stamps
for their dye value. This brings
up a rumor that has been floating
around for quite some time. OF
course, the stories are completely
untrue. If such a commercial
process were invented, it would
take millions of stamps to make
a thimbleful of dye" And it might
be added that the thimble would
be worth much more than the
dye retrieved.
latham Stamp & Coin Co.,
Springfield, Mass, has published
a booklet entitled Catholic Post
age Stamps of the World" COM
piled and annotated by DR..
Charles j. Riley. A hasty exami-
nation of the text indicates that
81 different countries have
brought out stamps showing the
Christ Child and II Christ as He
appeared as a man. The list of
ecclesiastical edifices shown on
stamps fills eight pages. DR.. Riley
is a physician who was educated
at Georgetown University.
Harry L. Lindquist, editor and
publisher of Stamps Magazine
and president of the National
Federation of Stamp Clubs, will
be guest speaker at a meeting of
the Washington Philatelic So
ciety, 2017 I street, NV, Wednes-
day evening, April 26 at 8. He
will display one of his demonstra-
ton collections and discuss cur
rent events in the world of
stamps.
The National Philatelic Mu-
scum. Philadelphia, published a
handsome Illustrated handbook
for its centennial exhibition of the
stamps of Austria, March Is to
April 13, and all collectors spe-
cializing in the postal paper of
that country are advised to OBJ
tain copies for systematic study
in aid of their activities.
Mrs. Mabel Green, 70, widow
of Col. E. H. r. Green, celebrated
stamp collector. died at Miami
Beach. Florida. Tuesday.
Earl Goodwin, WRC radio COM
mentator, calls attention to the
fact that Casey Jones, the good
engineer" owes his fame to Wal
lace Saunders, a Negro engine
wiper who wrote the original
Casey Jones ballad. If Mr.. Saun-
ders still is living, he may be in
cluded in the program at Jack
son, Tenn. April 20.
President Truman will be the
central figure in a ceremony at
the White House Offices when the
Scent Freedom stamp goes on
sale, Thursday, April 20. He will
receive from the Postmaster Gen.
eral the first official sheet of the
commemorative released, Other
representatives of the Post ONCE
Department attending will be
Third Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Joseph j. Lowler and Deputy
Third Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Robert E. Fellers.
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Uysno's Stomp Shop
12eB Penn. Ave. NV. Tel ME MaIA
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THE OUTLANDER
BY Germaine Gueyre

by Iermalne GUeVremOnG.
(Whittlesey House; s3.)
This is a translation of a
French-Canadian novel which has
been highly praised in the authors
native Quebec and by some Amer
lean critics. 1t is the story of a
stranger who dropped in on a
farm family on an inlet of the st.
Lawrence River and stayed on
for a time, always doing his share
of the work. never disclosing his
identity. It is more particularly
the story Of the Beauchemin fam
lily. in season and out. THE Out
lander" unquestionably is an au-
thentic, earthly story of some
"habitants." and yet it is far from
the classic certain critics proclaim
it. The narrative moves too slow
ly and is too discursive to add up
to more than a passably good
novel.
CARTER BROOKE JOHNS.
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Communist doctrine in the years
which preceded the last war.
II repudiated Communist poll
cies in 1940."
In his book, published in 1882,
called "The Coming Struggle for
Power" Strachey called the Com
munist Party that indispensable
instrument of the workers will"
In THE Theory and Practice of
Socialism" published in 1886,
Strachey said:
1T is impossible to establish
communism as the immediate
successor to capitalism. It is ac-
cordingly proposed to establish
socialism as something which we
can put in the place of our present
decaying capitalism.
Hence Communists work for
the establishment of socialism as
a necessary transition stage in
the road of communism.
In 1941 Strachey wrote a news
paper article urging absorption of
British Communists into the Labor
Party.
Arrested in U. S.
THE merging Of the remark
able men and women who have
given their lives to socialism into
the main stream of the move
ment," he said, would be of i'm
mense benefit to it and to them"
Strachey went to America in
1884 for lecture tour. On March
IL, 1895, he was arrested in Glen
coe, ILL.,, by immigration author
tiles. They charged he had given
a false answer to the question
whether he belonged TO an organ
ization which favored the over
throw of the United States Gov
ernment by force.
At the end of the month Stra-
chey sailed for home, as sched-
uled. Deportation proceedings
were dropped.
He went back to the United
States in October, 1888, but was
detained at Ellis Island as non
immigrant not in possession of
properly visaed passport" While
he was in midocean the United
States Consulate General in Lon
don Cancelled his visa on the
grounds that it had learned Stra-
chey was a member of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the British
Communist Party"
Strachey told the press: IT am
not and never have been a mem
ber of the Communist Party or
the Third International"
He got out on bail-on condi-
tion that he refrain from lee
turing.
Issue Wasn't Cleared
Eventually a Federal court
ruled that the Consulate General
had exceeded its powers and that
Strachey had been improperly
barred. The immigration authori-
ties said they would press on with
the deportation proceedings, but
in February. 1899, Strachey elected
to return to England and again
deportation proceedings were
dropped without taking into court
the central issue Of whether Stra-
chey was or wasn't a Communist
within the meaning of United
States law.
In 1941 Strachey joined the
Royal Air Force and worked his
way up to the rank of non-fying
wing commander. He broadcast
weekly radio commentary giving
Royal Air Force views on the
course of the war.
In l943 he rejoined the Labor
Party.
In 1945 he was swept into Office
in the big landslide. running in
constituency in Dundee. Atlee
promptly chose him as Undersec-
retary for Air and in May, 1946,
upped him to Minister Of Food.
The Food Ministry was a
thankless job. Strachey became a
favorite whipping boy Of press
and public.
He gamely stuck it out and
after the last national election he
got his reward-the War Ministry.
distributed b. the Associated Press.)
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bari is here, most arrestingly with
a large panoramic view of Venice.
the size of which, with attending
difficulties in printing, extended
production for three years.
Masters Of the 10th century in
clude Lucas van Leyden, iMarcan-
tonic Raimondi and Jean Duvet,
the first important French en-
graver. These and 17th century
masters, Callot, Rembrandt,
Claude; 18th century French and
English masters of anecdotal
prints. Pimanesi with this impress
Sive Prisons" are familiar names
to print lovers.
The great 10Th century masters,
Goya, Delacroix, Daumier and
Manet, exploited lithography and
raised it to a fine art. Etching
came in for a revival after 1860,
and the present show has ex-
amples by Carot, EnSor, Degas,
Pissarro and others. Autographs
by Renoir and Lautrec, large
monotype by Gaugin. until now
undesribed and unpublished, and
prints by contemporary European
and American artists, bring the
exhibition up to the present.
Worthy of the show in every re-
spect is the catalogue ($2). Law
ishly illustrated with 80 collotype
reproductions, many as large as 7
by 10 inches. 1t has a compre-
henSive introduction by Elizabeth
Mongan, which adds much to the
visitors interest and knowledge.
Imaginative ChiIeon
The first exhibition in the
United States by the Chilean art
ist, Pablo Burchard, jr., is on view
at the Pan American Union
through April 20. This young
painter is third-generation art
ist, grandson of an architect and
son of noted painter who also
studied architecture. The junior
Burchard. too, acquired a degree
in architecture, and was named
professor of that subject at his
alma mater, the Catholic Univer-
sity of Fine Arts in Chile. At
present he is studying painting
with Abraham Rattner in New
York City. and some of the oils in
the current show are results of
this association, which has OBJ
viously affected his former tech
nique and approach. although not
his choice of themes.
His paintings deal with Chilean
landscape, birds and indigen-
GUS objects such as Indian pottery
figures and animals which he pre-
sents in a spirit of whimsy and
with unique flavor. knowingly
designed. these paintings of fan
tastic little objects are rich with
the spirit of a place remote to us,
and suggest an atmosphere en-
tirely different from ours.
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Water CoIorists' Show
The Washington Water Color
Club is holding local members
exhibition at the Arts Club
through April 28. More than 40
water colors. pastels and graphic
arts comfortably fill the gallery
and reception rooms, with no
sense of crowding.
One of the two oldest profess
sional organizations in Washing
ton. the Water Color Club is pre-
dominantly conservative. Aside
from the technical competence of
most OF the paintings in the cur
rent display. and their pleasing
subject matter Cboth characteris-
tics Of former Club shows the
major impression I got was the
large size of the water colors. In
most instances. each painting
could "flll" a wall by itself.
The exhibition comprises work
by many members well known as
frequent exhibitors in local exhibi-
tions, also by longtime members
as Helen Nicolay, eminent Wash
ington author of many biographies
and most notably of historical