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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-06-03

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - The
curtain fell on the st. Rochus
Lodge 5 Tenpin League with
the reeling of the play-offs
May 22nd between the Koko-
shari, the first half winners
and the Ace Caterers, the Sec
ond half titlists.
The Kokoshari won the
games going 74O-715; 748-752
and 776-737, totals 1854 to
22O4. Kate Kral rolled IT.
499 and John Hockycko 488
to pace the champs, while the
best in thunder among the
Caterers was captain Charles
Novosel with $50 and Leo
Hajko with 491.
The final average listing
shows Carmen Magistro lead
ing with an average of 183 in
67 games while second is Joe
Mesnak with one of 180 for
96 games. Following these are
George Novosel, 172; Charles
Novosel, 172 and Joseph Ma
teljan, 176.
Rita Fishter led the Wo-
men with LAB and. was
trailed by Kate Kral and
Mary Jane Mateljan with
142 and 1872, respectively.
The league will hold a ban
quet, Saturday, June 9Th,
$3.50 Pm. at the Croatian
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0maha's Croafian Day
To Be Held July II At
Church School Grounds

OMAHA, Neb. - The Oma-
ha Croatian colony will host
the Croatian Day Picnic on
Sunday, July IL, at the SIS
Peter and Paul S c h 90 !
Grounds, located on 36th and
x Street.
The affair will be sponsored
by the local Croatian Club,
"SS Peter and Paul. CFU
Lodge 1O1 and Good Shep-
herd" ecu Lodge 16. Co
chairmen for the event are
Blase Cupich and John Rhye,
presidents of the local CFU
and ecu Lodges respectively.
Music will be furnished by
the Croatian Sons Tamburitza
Orchestra and there will be
a short program of dance and
song.
Your favorite food and bev-
erage will be available
throughout the day.
Chances on cash prizes and
other valuable gifts may be
purchased from any of the
members of the sponsoring
organizations.
Mark the date on your cal
endar, July 12.
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Versailles Junior keg|ers End Year
With Fete And Plans For 1959-b0 Run
Youngsters Are Now Looking Forward
To Resuming Pin Operations In Fall

even more boys and girls in
bowling come the next season
this Fall, which will begin for
us Friday, September 4th.
Those interested must get
in. touch with the Nest Man.
ager not later than July 31st
to give enough time to sports
director, Dan Dimich and the
undersigned to lay the basis
for league activity.
Mary Skutlin, Nest Mgr.
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VERSAILLES, Pa. - The
bowling season for a small
group of Versailles boys came
to a close Saturday, April 25.
A banquet was held May II,
1859 at Murphy's Dining
Room in McKeesport, Pa. In
attendance was Daniel DIM
ich, Sports Director Of Lodge
146, who presented trophies
to the boys. He gave an in
spring address, the theme,
"How great is the C.F.U. and
what it does for it's members"
Feted at the banquet
were the champion Pirates,
comprised of f. Zitnik, F.
Chiaverini, T. Stanesic, X.
Pipich and j. Burger.
Aligned wi h the run
ner-up Braves we had D. Sta
nesic, F. Zibrat, E. Chefuta,
E. Kozar and ]. Rednak. 9th
er honors fell to the follow
ing: high series, Thomas
Stanesic; high game, 148-
Edward Chefuta and high
average, 98-Frank Zitnik.
1t was a grand way to end
a sports season for our Nest.
We trust that it is a step in
the direction of interesting
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Youngstown Tournament
Pictures Now Available

YOUNGSTOWN - Anyone
wishing to order pictures
from the 25th Tenpin Tour
nament may do so by writing
directly to the photographer.
Many pictures, other than
those which will be published
in the Zajednicar, are avail
able.
Lepore Studio
6215 Market st.
- Roo Rdr,nom 0hio
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M Kordck Lodge S59, Cleveland O. ...........1oS 621
All-Events
S. Bruchee, Lodge 749, Chicago ILL., (Scratch) e. 1858
H. Relic Lodge $780, Cleveland, O. ........m.1S9 1888
High Single Game
S. Bruchee, Lodge 749, Chicago ILL., (Scratch) 222
Low Single Game
NJ A. skocich, Lodge 80, Chicago ILL., (scratch) 70
High Series
s. Bruchee, Lodge 749, Chicago ILL., (scratch) 80. SIG
Team High Game
Lodge So ST. Louis Mo- (scratch) .....,......... s43
JUNIOR DIVISION BOYS
Fve-Man Team Event
"Golub Funeral Home N. 55 Cleveland (Scratch) 1886
Two-Man Team Event
R. Mclean j. Skorich, N. 55 Cleveland (Scratch) 1O41
Individual Event
R. Mclean, Nest IS, Cleveland o. (scratch) So. 600
High Single Game
R. Mclean, Nest SIS, Cleveland o. (Scratch) .. 219
JUNIOR DIVISION - GIRLS
Five-Man Team Event
Queens, Nest S. Cleveland, O. (scratch) ...,. 1889
Two-Man Team Event
P. Dale J. Brian, N 143, East Pittsburgh Pa. ..
(ScTdIcn) oIL
Individual Event
j. Bicic, Nest 55 Cleveland, o. (scratch) ...". 412
High Single Game
P. Dale Nest al, E. Pittsburgh, Pa. (Scratch) 157
Frank Braidic, Director
Sports Educational Dept.
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The Croatian Fraternal
Union Children's Home at
Des PLANES, ILL.,, is one of
the finest institutions of its
type in the world.
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Our Favol'ife Recipe"

BY The st. Joseph's 2. "A.
Gary, Indiana 7aa
An unusual Cook Book containing
S87 foreign recipes Of yesteryeAr!
Exact measurements for the
Cook Of today.
Price (incl. >postage) ......&.25
Order Yours NOW from the
Cook Book Committee, I
c/o st. Joseph's r. TIA.
4404 Washington St., Gary, Ind.
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25th C.F.U Tenpin Tournament
May 14-1516-17, 1859
Youngstown, Ohio
Scratch and Handicap Champions
MEMS DIVISION
Five-Man Team Event
"st Rochus" Lodge s. Johnstown Pa. (scratch) 272s
est Lawrence" Lodge Is, Steeton Pa ...516 3O36
Two-Man Team Event
R. Goretta NJ Goretta, L. 351, Detroit Scratch 1884
M Minarich M Minarich, L. 141, E. Pgh, Pa 210 1247
Individual Event
c. Barkovch, L. IT, Detroit Mich. (Scratch) 632
c. Mucheck Lodge 745, Benwood W. Va. 99 726
All-Events
S. Safko Lodge s. Johnstown, Pa. (Scratch 1845
j. Spak, Lodge g. Youngstown, 0. ......".216 1912
High Single Game
r. Goretta, Lodge 351, Detroit, Mich. (Scratch 277
Low Single Game
J. Turkall, Lodge 600 Massillon O. (Scratch) s6
High Series
r. Goretta. Lodge 351, Detroit Mich (Scratch) 642
Team High Game
"Goub Funeral Home, L. H. Cleveland (Scratch) 9S6
WOMEN'S DIVISION
Five-Man Team Event
"zumberaks No H. L. $50, Cleveland (scratch) 1927
Two-Man Team Event
L. Bujan S. Bruchee, L. 749, Chicago (Scratch) 1O41
NJ Yancch M. Tadey L. 1885, Ind Harbor Ind. .21O 1920
Individual Event
M. Petrn, Lodge sc, Youngstown O. (Scratch) 554
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Results Of South CHICAGO Sweeper

Adam Soich, Secy.
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WEATHER
Continued From First Par,

Continued From First Page
were paralyzed when water
hort circuited underground
wiring.
While minor rescues were
numerous, the performance OF
Pvt. Ayres stood out.
En- route to work from his
home in Gainesville, Va. the
26-year-old policeman reached
a fash flood on Rock Creek
parkway near Waterside drive
where he found seven cars
stranded in hood-high water.
He waded in. carried an
elderly. unidentified woman
from her husbands car and
returned to lead the man to
higher ground. Another Park
policeman, David WOLF, helped
them. The water was threat
ening to wash the car into the
rushing, main stream of Rock
Creek.
Woman Rescued
Pvt. Ayres went back into
the water to carry out a young
woman who was screaming 81
can't swim" from a stranded
taxi. The policeman then led
the cab driver out.
. Rudolph Washington, 81. of
4719 Minnesota avenue NE,
was asleep in his first
floor bedroom when he was
awakened about 1880 pm, by
water flowing into his bed. He
made his way to the front
porch and was standing atop
the railing when police took
him to safety.
Police received countless
calls on flooded Easements and
at the Fourteenth precinct sta
ton the basement was flooded
too.
Furniture Floats Out
Overstuffed furniture fioated
out of the Warehouse Furni-
ture Outlet, 1925 Minnesota
avenue NE, where Owner
Michael Ciuffreda estimated
damage at $4,000.
The Adeline Shops and the
F. w. Woolworth store in the
same block also reported ex-
tensive water damage.
Firemen went out in boats
and one waded up to his neck
to check nearly submerged, but
empty autos stranded near
Minnesota and Deane avenues
N. E.
Lightning struck the home
Of Walter M. Ketchum, 1419
Nashville drive, in the Falls
Church area and another hit
the residence of M/Sergt. OAR
rell H. Smith at 2502 Herbert |
street less than a block away. |
Part-time inhabitants Of the
Capitol found themselves slop-
ping up water like so many
home owners.
Drains around the Capitol
Dome were apparently stopped
UP earlier in the week by work
men. The resulting overflow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-09
WEATHER
Falls Church Homes
Hit by Lightning

splashed down into the Senate
reading room and into the office
of Librarian Richard d. Hup-
man. No serious damage was
reported.
Slight flooding was also spot
ted in the old Senate Once
Building.
4 Greek OverfiOws
In Prince Georges County,
Beaver Dam Greek overlooked
in the Kentland-Landover Hills
section. Firemen used sandbags
to protect homes along Cooper
lane and in the $500 block Of
Parkwood street in Radiant
Valley.
Flowing southwesterly, the
creek flooded Seventy-fourth,
Seventy-f1fth and Seventy
sixth streets near the Kent
Village apartments.
The Cottage City rescue
squad used a boat to take a
trapped motorist from his car
in the underpass at Kenilworth
and Eastern avenues.
Route / Flooded
Route / was flooded from
Hyattsville through Riverdale
and Route 301 north of Upper
Marlboro was temporarily
blocked when earthworks
formed during road conStruc-
ton washed across the high
way.
It was a different story at
Peace Cross, plagued for years
by floods. The newly completed
f1ood-control project performed
as was expected and traffic
moved uninterrupted.
Several lightning strikes, but
little damage, were reported in
Prince Georges.
Alexandria police reported
flooded streets at two points
Braddock and West streets,
Russell road and Executive ave-
nue..
River Road Closed
Arlington police said the 1900
block Of Roosevelt street at the
railroad overpass was flooded,
but the waters receded quickly.
In Washington, River road
was closed to trafflc at West
.ern avenue, where the torren-
tial runoff undermined the
street, and at the Brookside
drive and Little Falls parkway
intersection with River road in
Montgomery County.
High water on Bradley boule-
ward at Howell street and Fern
wood drive. Bethesda, forced
street closings.
Two other lightning strikes
were reported in Fairfax Coun-
tvs Broyhill Crest section, but
the bolts caused minor damage.
Wind and water knocked
down tree limbs and disrupted
telephone service for Q time
in the Rockville and Bethesda
areas.
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NUMISMATIC NOTES

San Francisco closed its
electrolytic refinery in 1947.
Today it remains an assay
Office and bullion depository.
AS a result of the Gold Re-
serve Act of 1884, the neces-
sity arose of storing demon
etized gold. A depository
was established on the Fort
Knox military reservation in
Kentucky in 1887. It's original
bullion inventory was over
SIS billion. This reached
S12,483,414,000 at the end Of
1857, more than half of our
$22.5 billion gold supply.
Another law, the Silver
Purchase Act of 1884, made
necessary the creation of a
silver depository. This was
set up at West Point, N. Y.
and now holds a third of our
total silver bullion, valued at
about $1,764,897,0O0. 1t is
stored in 1000 ounce ingots.
An interesting part played
by our coinage silver during
World War II has recently
been told by the Mint. A
critical shortage developed in
the copper used for electrical
conductors in defense plants.
Attempts to conserve coin
copper by changing our cents
over to the wartime steel
type proved insufficient. In
May 1912. the Treasury
agreed to lend the Defense
Plants Corp. more than 524,-
$4,000 ounces of silver
bullion.
Coin silver, a good electrical
conductor, was delivered
from the West Point Depos-
itory. 1t proved satisfactory,
and the entire amount was
returned with interest in
1947. ". L. G. MATELIS.
The Washington NuntiS-
matte Society, whose mem
berS haze prepared this
series OF articles, ,O,u an
Swer questions on COINS and
paper money addressed to
NumiSmGtic Notes, The
Sunday Star, Washington
3, D. c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-30
U. S. Mints-10

The third and most i'm
posing branch mint struc-
ture in San Francisco was
begun in 1884 and completed
in 1887. 1t stands on an
eminence at Duboce and Bu-
chanan streets, some distance
from the old mint building
in the principal business
center.
California ranked first in
United States gold produc-
ton for many years, but in
1948 South Dakota edged it.
Today it is outmined by
Utah and Alaska as well.
Mounting costs of produc-
ton and costs of moderniza-
ton led to the decision to
abandon coinage activities
at San Francisco on March
81, 1855, after 101 years OF
production. Coming machin-
cry was moved to Denver.
In the last year, only cents
and dimes were struck. Fore
warned of the stoppage. col
lectors acquired these coins
in rolls, with the result that
their value is unlikely to rise
very much for many years.
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Bridge Calendar

TODAY: Playfsir. 1881 Harvard:
pairs, 1:45; GOren, 8 Dupont cir
Gle: pairs, z.
TOMORROW: Gersn. 6 Dupont cir
Gle; pairs. 1870. Andrews, Andrews
ABB Ofncers Club; MP pairs for
senent Of American Red Cross
Disaster Fund, 7;45: Ari-Fax'
7:45. CHEVY Chase, $500 west
Fort Meade, Commissioned oncers'
Mess. Fort Meade; pairs, 7:45.
Goren Junior Masters, 6 Dupont
s i5sl'i OS sl4o Sixteenth Es:%ss G Dsas
TY Sis54,v A Rim. 5000 s.. Lss
Hotel s4OO Sixteenth: pairs, 7:46.
GAO. ofncial dining room. General
Goren BEGINNERS, 6 Dupont circle;
pairs, 8. Justice, main cafeteria,
Justice Department zo Mf Nor paiTs
drive: pairs, 7:45. Ofieers' Serv-
ice Club, 1914 TVenty-first;
pairs, 8.
WEDNESDAY: Bethesda. women's
Club Of Bethesda; pairs. 1918
Am. Belle Haven Country Club,
Alexandria: MP pairs 7:45.
Chess. Apt. 2Ul. Hotel 240O Six
tenth: pairs. 7:45. Congressional
Secretaries, New House once
Building: pairs, z. State-USIA,
executive dining room, General
Services Administration: MP
pairs, 7:3O.
THURSDAY: Falls Church. 500 8.
Cherry. Falls Church: pairs, GAS
am Goren. Dupont circle; MP
pairs, 1890 Washington Bridge
Ieague (ACBL until, Sheraton
Park Hotel: MP pairs. 7:45.
FRIDAY: Lyon Village. no game.
Walker. 600 Forty-second place.
Hyattsville: pairs. 9:15 am.
Chevy Chase Juniors 5000 West
avenue, Bethesda: pairs, 7:45.
Euclid, Apt. 100. 244O Sixteenth:
pairs. 7:45. Goren, 8 Dupont cir
Gle; pairs, 8. Irving Street, no
game. Rockville. Civic Center.
Rockville; pairs, 7:45 Walker,
800 Forty.second place. Hyatts-
vile: pairs. 8
SATURDAY: Chess. Apt. 2O1, Hotel
2400 Sixteenth: pairs. 7:45.
Walsh, 1882 Massachusetts,; pairs.
.7:45.
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AROUND THE BRIDGE TABLE
Bridge Tournaments
Listed for Holidays

Lee, walter Mann Thomas Throop.
2-ITma Abrams-Kathleen clancy.
Frank oarner-James A, Parker.
Montgomery, flames BAtes.Dr.
Robert Bates, Robert Shankle.Wil-
liam walsh. Mrs. Edward White
II. Col Jeanette Blech. Mr.. and
Mrs. Irving Feingoid
plAyfairi 1-coi. and Mrs. Roeer
ert stephens. I'D. Meade PEBBLES,
jr.-Mathew Solomon. Clara ster-
necker-chester Watson.
Rockville: Mrs, Marie Engle-
man-E, ]. Fitzpatrick. 2-Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Brothers. Series Win
ners: Mrs Marie Engieman
lb0.7D, I'D. Fitzpatrick lpz.a9l
3-charles N Boteler, ir, (b7.a6)
wBL Wemen's Auxiliary; fseetion
A. Mrs. Harry Kaplan. Mrs
Mary T. Phillips. Mrs Robert Carr.
McMahon-Mrs, J. J. L. Young. IL
Col. Ruth Anderson-Mrs Hazel Lof-
tin. Section b Mrs Carl Tes-
mer-Mrs. Jack A. Weber, Mrs. Viz.
ginia Dye-Mrs. Martha Hiett. p
Mrs Marianne Bosehan. Mrs. Majors
Christman, Mrs. Claudia Horn-Mrs
Beatrice Crockett,
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Other Winners
At Duplicate

Alexandria; Mrs. Beverly Torrey-
Norman 0ormsen.
Andrews: Mrs. 10 Burgess-Mrs,
Wayne ONO, Col. John oeddes-Paul
Ari.-Fax.: Mr.. and Mrs. Murray
Weinberger. Mrs. Madeline Solomon
T. c. Fang.
Arlington: Constance Ciark-simon
Gerber, 1t. and Mrs. c. y. Perry.
Belle Haven: Mr.. and Mrs. W. A.
Weiss.
Bethesda: Mrs. Alice Robinson
william Nazzaro.
Chess; August 1917. Mr.. and Mrs.
F snIs. ,r TIron nsn Edsas Lill Mt.
John @. Fletcher-Mr Violet zim-
mer, 1t. Col. and Mrs. ri Baldwin.
Chevy Chase: Mrs. Muriel Fargo
William Navarro. DR.. Barbara Moul-
ton-Mrs. William Lubbers. Series
winners: IL. v. Donnally i.635).
&C. H.. W. Sedgewick (.620l. D.
Bud Montee 5000.
Chevy Chase Juniers: Mrs. D.
Meade PEBBLES, jr.-Ricardo Elbo.
Conversational Secretaries: Mrs.
Elinor ooodwin-Hon. Page Beleher.
Euclid: Mrs. Gladys Morgan-Lt.
Kay Mowery.
Falls Church: Mrs. Leo Durkee-
Mrs. Edward Hruby. Mrs. H. M.
Clinite-Mrs. Ruby Thompson.
Federal: Lawrence Lerner-Herbert
Lerner, Abner Parker clos Angeles)-
Alan Stuts ALLENTOWN, Pa.
Fort Meade: Mr.. and Mrs. Z. p.
Bonadio, Mrs. Richard Roberts
Mrs. Walter Lusby.
GAO: Beatrice Crockett-lrwin
Un 81 . e
thews.
Goren: august 2o) Bill possett.
Al Duncker. tAugust 23l M. and
Mrs Ferdinand M: Ney, D. R. An
derson- Frank Holtzman. (Ausust
2D Capt. Viola Lanks-E. c. Smith.
Goren Beginners: Richard Bach
Don Stetzer: Chrystie Eager-George
Easer tied with Mr.. and Mrs. r. II.
Emerson.
Goren Junior Masters; Mrs. shir-
ley Bernstein. Harry Loberman,
Thomas A. Ricci-victor Ricei.
Irving Street: Mrs. Violet thinner
kulgi Iacono, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur
Justice: Mrs. J, D. Boyd: Mrs.
Marx D; Yager. Mrs. Julia Eide
Kenwood: Mrs. Richard W. Beers
Mrs. Leslie T. Lipscomb.
Lyon village: Mrs. Baseom Boyle
Lloyd Tubbs.
Monday: Mrs. June Hodgkins-
Mrs. E. r. Shepard. Mrs. Roy
Hackett-Mrs. j. A Weber.
NH: Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin
Brown tied with Rose Leiberman-
Mrs. Marvin Wofsey.
Oficers Service Club: Nell Ann
Humphrey-J Stanley Young, Grace
Wray-Anya Smith.
State-USIA: Mary Beebe-Nellis
Sheppard, Paul Moore-zvonko Rode.
Walker; (MorningD Mrs. Erwin
LeClerg-Mrs. David Brown. Eve
ningD Mr.. and Mrs. George Lassise,
Mrs: David Brown-Mrs. Henry A,
walsh: Section Al Mrs. Mary T.
Phillips-Mrs. Claudia Horn, Mrs C.
virginia Dye-Gene Whitehead. (Sec-
ton b Mr.. and Mrs. Lynn d. Car
rier, David Freedman-Alex Perrin.
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BY A. J. WEDDERBURN
Curator of Photography
The Qmithsonian InStitution

Time is running out in The
Stars Annual Amateur Snap
shot Contest. Mid-Septem-
Der will see the windup of the
first five class Including
COLOR competition held by
this newspaper. However.
the last weeks winners will
have just as much chance at
the local final awards and a
crack at the National Snap
shot Awards as those that
have won earher-so keep
your snapshots coming. You
may be the next to win.
Don't be discouraged if
you have sent in a number
Of entries and have gone
unrewarded. 1t well may be
that you missed an award by
q whisker.
And. more often than you
think, just such a slim mar
gin may be the difference
between a prize winning
snapshot and one that might
have been. If you have been
keeping a weather eye on the
weekly winners that appear
each Sunday you will have a
pretty good yardstick by
which to judge your own
pictures.
Learn by Comparison
Take one of your prints
that failed to make the grade
with The Stars panel of
judges. Compare your snap
shot to the one that took
the money in the class in
which your picture was en-
tered. Chances are that right
away you will spot the point
or points which made the
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PHILATELIc NEWS
First Chicago Settler
Is Honored by Haiti
BY BELMONT FAIRIES
Star Stamp Editor


Haiti has commemorated
the Pan American Games
which opened Thursday in
Chicago with a set of stamps
recalling Chicago's first set
tier, a French-speaking free
Negro from San Domingo
named Jean Baptiste Paul
Dessables.
Dessables is pictured on the
rs centimes regular and so
centimes air mail denomina-
tions, and his trading post,
the first house built in Chi
cago, on the Is confines reg
ular and / gourde air mail
values.
A more conventional sports
design, the famous Discus
Thrower of the Greek sculp-
tor Myron against the flag of
Haiti. is used for the so CEN
times regular and $50 gourde
air mail stamps.
DessableS, usually referred
to as Point de Sable in con-
temporary records, was born
at st. Marc in what is now
Haiti about 1745. According
to one account, his father,
Pointe Dessaible, was mate
on q pirate ship that harried
the Spanish galleons and
ports in the Caribbean, his
mother a freed slave.
After his mother was killed
in a Spanish raid on st. Marc
the boy was sent to school in
France. AS a young man he
set out for Louisiana on d
trading venture in 1854. but
was shipwrecked and reached
New Orleans penniless and
without credentials, just at
the time the Spanish were
taking over the city from the
French.
DesSables knew that q
Negro without papers would
be sold as a slave in any
Spanish colony. He headed
up river, first to the frontier
post of st. Louis and then
deep into Indian country in
what is now Southern Il
linois. quickly establishing
himself as a fur trader.
Among the Indians he was
known as a friend of the
great Ottawa Chief Pontiac,
and he joined the Potawa-
toni tribe to marry an In
dian girl, settling on a farm
near what is now Peoria. A
year later lin 1772) he estab-
lished a trading post on the
portage between the Illinois
river and Lake Michigan at
a point the Indians called
ESchikagou.
His substantial log house,
first building in what is now
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six-man Confederate group
here to win the CSA grand
award. DR.. Griffin Frazier
won it in 1854 and David
Kohn in 1855.
Textile Stamp Urged
Forty-eight Senators have
Joined in a letter urging
Postmaster General Sum-
merfield to issue a special
stamp next year honoring
the textile machinery indus
try. 1t would be released in
conjunction with an Inter-
national Textile Machinery
Exhibition to be held at At
lantic City, N. j., May 1927,
1860.
The exhibit will be the first
international textile machin-
cry show to be held in the
United States and the largest
and most comprehensive ever
held anywhere, Mr.. Sum-
merfleld was told. The letter
noted that in recent years,
commemorative stamps have
been issued for the steel,
trucking and oil industries,
and that the exhibition of
fers a splendid opportunity
for the Post Office Depart
ment to issue a stamp hon.
oring the textile machinery
industry"
New Issues
PHILIPPINES The fifth
anniversary of the Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization
will be marked by two COM
memoratives to be issued
September 8. .-