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MERRILL POSTAL 15,000 Coronation Covers to Be Sold to Philatelists at $5 Retail. BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. • Philatelic profits on the 15,000 coro nation first covers carried to London and back will pay the expense of Dick Merrill’s spectacular trans-At lantic adventure. These envelopes are to be sold wholesale to dealers who are in tending to distribute them through out the philatelic fraternity at $5 each. Plans for the enterprise were worked out several weeks ago. A mimeo 4 graphed circular letter then, on May 8, was sent to a selected list of stamp and cover dealers. This communica ^tion bore the name of the Anglo American Good - Will Coronation Flight, Inc., 1107 National Press Building, and read as follows: “Dear Dealer: We have engaged Dick Merrill to fly to London and • hack to carry a limited quantity of flrst-day covers. These will be the only airmail fliglht covers of the coronation in existence and we are dealing only through recognized stamp dealers in making distribu tion to the public—another innova tion. special uoou-nm cacuci.. “We are using a special 4>i by 9V4 sized lightweight envelope with red, white and blue border. A United States airmail stamp is affixed, and a New York cancellation postmark Is provided, showing day and hour of departure. A special good-will cachet is also stamped on. “Upon arrival at Croydon Airport in London the same envelopes are stamped with a unique special coro nation cachet andi affixed is a special coronation stamp with London post mark showing nearest hour to depart ure on the flight back to the United States. The return flight is planned directly after the coronation cere monies are over. Envelopes are again postmarked date of arrival in United States. • • • All envelopes of the flight are in blank so the dealer may write in any name desired or sell them blank to his customers. "We plan to make distribution only through dealers, allowing a 50 per cent discount on purchases. The advance sale retail price is $3 each, after which Jhe retail price goes to *5. Advance orders at the $3 price are accepted on condition that no responsibility is assumed by us for loss or damage in flight. We also reserve right to limit quantities to 100 covers per dealer, refunding any balance due. Arrangements Held “Usual.” . Merrill, local philatelists estimated yesterday, stands to profit approxi mately $30,000 from the transaction. The covers he carried were stamped with 8-cent airmail stamps with "handed back" or "courtesy” cancel lations at the general post office. New York, May 8. 2 pm., l'jd British stamps canceled in London May 13, 2:15 p.m., and 2-cent Army "com memoratlves” canceled “to order" at the general post office. New York, May 14, 5 p.m. Post Office Department officials said , there was nothing unusual about the arrangements. Similar courtesies, they explained yesterday, have been ex tended to other flyers in the past. BIG D. C. DELEGATION WILL ATTEND PARLEY National Conference of Social' Work to Meet Next Week , at Indianapolis. Washington, because of the number of Federal welfare projects located here, will send one of the largest dele gations to the National Conference on 6oclal Work, which will open a seven day session at Indianapolis next Sun day. Fifty-three other national social .work organizations will meet simul taneously as associate groups of the conference. Between 8.000 and 10,000 delegates are expected to attend the meeting. More than 400 speakers are scheduled to address the daily sessions. More than 300 Individual meetings have been arranged. Seven special committees have been created by the conference to deal with current welfare problems, including special relief, care of the aged, chil dren’s institutions, the adult offender, social aspects of public housing, public health and the use of statistical in * formation in social work. In addition, five permanent conference sections will conduct sessions, covering public wel fare administration, social action, community organizations, case work and group work. Speakers participating in the five general sessions of the conference will Include Miss Edith Abbott, its presi dent; Senator Wagner of New York, Gov. Murphy of Michigan, Charles P. Taft, Cincinnati, son of the late Presi dent; Mayor Neville Miller of Louis ville, Ky.: Judge Florence E. Allen of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Cleveland, and Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Howard Uni versity. , The conference was organized in 1874. It is a discussion organization, adopting no platforms or resolutions on public issues. T)LD ENGLISH STATUTE IS CITED IN APPEAL Town Official* Seek to Evade > Court Costs Using Act as Basis. Mj the Associated Press. GREENSBURG, Pa., May 15.— Counsel far Mayor James Gold and Chief of Police Joseph Lescanac of Monessen, Pa., appealed to an ancient law of King Charles II today in an attempt to set aside $83.10 court costs awarded against the two officials in a damage suit . A Jury awarded $1 to Ira Bird, a teacher In the School of Jehova Wit nesses, a religious aect, who charged he was illegally arrested when the school was closed. Bird asked for $35,000 damages. Defense Attorney Vincent R. Smith tiled a petition with the Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court for a rule setting aside the costs. TIe baaed his petition on an old English law adopted by Pennsyl vania at the forming of the Com monwealth. Smith asserted the law provided basts in a trespass case involving a verdict of less than 40 shillings ($10) could not exceed the amount of the verdict. Shine Before President I Merrill’s Attention to Shoes Delays Roosevelt Reception. The round-trip Atlantic flyers, Dick Merrill (right) ana Jack Lambie, pictured yesterday as they landed at Washington Airport. —Star Staff Photo. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT was delayed in meeting up with two of the most daring flyers in the world yesterday when one of the pair, Dick Merrill, stopped to get a shoe shine. “Come on, Dick,” A1 Lodwick, a press impressario for one of the airline companies said, shortly after Jack Lambie and Merrill came into the Washington Airport as “dead-heads" on an Eastern Airline plane. “Come on, the President is waiting to greet you.” It was noon and the President wanted to see the boys at 12:15. Merrill had flagged a shoe shine boy in the airport lobby. “Gosh,” the flyer said, looking at his mud-caked shoes, “I can't take all this mud into the White House.” So they let a fast-flying shoe shiner get to work taking off mud from two shoes that had trodden two far-apart airports in two days—Southport, Eng land, on Friday, and Floyd Bennett Field, New York, on Saturday. Lambie, by getting less sleep after the trip, had his shoes shined in New York. Consequently, when Merrill and Lambie arrived at the White House, they were spic and span as tap dancers. Contract With Reception. Arrival in Washington yesterday of these two men, the first flyers ever to complete a round-trip air cross ing of the North Atlantic like an every-day occurence, was in deep con trast to the reoeption given them in New York on Friday. Then 5,000 spectators gathered on the field and almost mobbed the flyers. Yesterday, since no one—outside the official airship family and a few newspaper men and photographers— knew the two flyers were on their way to town, only a small group was on hand to greet them. They were flown r’ i from Newark Airport by their ; buddies of the airlines, Bob Min n.and Leo Cloney. Aboard ship were four other pas sengers, A1 Lodwick, Clint Mosher, Washington correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle; Lowell Harding, air inspector for the Department of Com merce, and Ben Smith, Wall Street broker, who backed the flight. No one knew the boys were on the way to see the President and so no one made arrangements for an official reception at the ariport. There was no police escort from • the airport to the White House. All arrangements for the President’s reception of the flyers had been made hurriedly by Gladstone Williams, a Washington newspaper man. So hurriedly were the arrangements made that even the White House police force was not notified—and the flyers had to be identified as they went through the doors leading to the executive offices. Greeted by McKenna. When they got inside, however, the dean of all White House greeters, Pat McKenna, knew what it was all about, ushered them into the offices of Col. Marvin McIntyre, and final arrange ments were made for a real old-fash ioned presidential reception in the main part of the mansion—as Presi dent Roosevelt had not gone to his office yesterday morning. On the way from the airport to the White House, Merrill and Lambic sat on the back seat of a 20-cent cab with their backer, Smith, and recalled some of the thrills of their trip. It seems the boys had quite a bit of trouble with the gasoline tanks, owing to the way the load was distributed— too far back. V “It made her wobble," Merrill ex plained. “Next time that ought to be rem edied,” Smith said. “You’re telling us,” Lambie re marked, and explained with gestures how the twin-motored monoplane they flew had a fore-and-aft movement they had not counted on, until the best part of the gas was gone. Inci dentally, they plan a round-trip to AVOID ACIDITY And you will save yourself a lot of future trouble from Hlsh Blood Pressure. Arthri tis and Rheumatism. Keep Alkaline by drinking pleas I ant Mountain Valley Mineral | Water from Hot Borings, Arkansas. This natural Di uretic is Nature's four-way ellmlnant of body acids and poisons. Phone MEt. 1062 for booklet and sample. Oood health is precious. Protect yours. 140ft K St. N.W. MKt. lOSt MOTTNTA1W WAFT WiTO OO. j Paris sometime between August 1 and 31. After the session with the President, during which the flyers presented the Chief Executive with an airmail letter that bore a new coronation stamp and told the President details of their two way journey over the Atlantic, the boys were rushed down to the airport, put aboard a 1 o'clock plane and flown again, as "dead heads," back to New York. Today, to get away from flying, they are going horseback riding in West chester—where their backer has a country estate. -• DORIS DUKE TO RUSSIA Will Visit Moscow With Husband as Guest of Davies. LONDON, May 15 (A>).—Doris Duke Cromwell, reputedly the richest girl in the world, will visit Moscow in June with her husband, J. H. R. Cromwell, the guests of United States Ambassador Joseph E. Davies and Mrs. Davies. Cromwell, who is cc-author with Hugo Czerwonky of the newly pub lished book. “In Defense of Capi talism," made the announcement to day. The Cromwells came here for the coronation. They will visit Paris and Berlin before going to Moscow. Berlin Press Is Jubilant Over Gains in Relations in Coronation Era. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, May 15.—Newspaper ban nerllnes and other officially-controlled manifestations indicated today that powerful forces are at work to Im prove Oerman-Brltish relations. To international observers it has been evident for some time that Ger many is at least considering the rela tive advantages of British and Italian friendship. Yet Italo-German friendship, In so far as it goes, seems to remain stead fast. Prom this situation may be drawn this conclusion: Germany would like to carry water on both shoulders. She would like to be good friends with both Italy and Great Britain, which are hav ing new friction. But both Rome and London are pressing her for an outright choice. If such a choice becomes inevitable, Germany will be able to weigh all pros and cons and command an attractive price for her favors. On the side of better Anglo-Ger man relations are these factors: Press Halls “Successes.'* The controlled evening press spoke Jubilantly of the “great successes” Marshal Werner von Blomberg, the war minister, has achieved in recent “negotiations” in London during the coronation period. Diplomats profess to know that Sir Nevile Henderson, the new British Ambassador, is charged with the spe cial mission of making clear that further support of Italy and the in surgents in the Spanish war may some day prove embarrassing to the Reich. So pleased were German authori ties with the possibilities of rap prochement held out by Henderson that the press was instructed to give the coronation of King George VI a big and sympathetic “play.” (Italy, on the contrary, boycotted the coronation as a news story because British news papers have Jeered at the prowess, or lack of it, of Italians fighting in Spain.) The English sent the Duke and Duchess of Kent to a coronation re ception given in London by Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Am bassador. warmth Toward Home cooled. Baron Konstantin von Neurath, the Reich foreign minister, was cour teous and friendly on his visit to Rome recently but declined to com mit Germany to anything beyond “a parallelism of intellect and views.” It is an open secret in the Welhelm strasse that Mussolini wanted, in stead, whole-hearted German sup port in Spain. British diplomacy, it 1s believed, kept Germany from this. But here is the other side: Germany does not intend to fall blindly into British arms. An indi cation of this is the fact that Adolf Hitler refrained from giving one of his newly devised “decorations for foreigners” to George VI. He sent him porcelain instead as a corona tion gift. Italy, some persons say, might have been righteously offended if King George had been chosen as the first foreign recipient of the new German medal. It may be given to the English King after It Is presented to Mussolini on the occasion of n Duce’s expected visit to Hitler. Italy has showered decorations on recent German visitors. FRENCH ROLE BEEN. Ganelin Talks for an Hoar With Marshal Von Blomberg. LONDON, May 15 64»>.—Authorita tive observers saw strong Indications tonight that England, Germany and France have been holding hands under the cloak of coronation excitement. Premier Benito Mussolini’s declara tion today that Italy will make her self economically self-sufficient was taken here as an indication he had heard about this development. The British press has borne down on the “personal success” being scored by Marshal Werner von Blomberg and German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop’s coronation party easily received the best "press” of any simi lar function. At the Rlbbentrop party Marshal von Blomberg met Gen. Marie Oustave Gamelln, French Army chief of staff, and they chatted together in the library for more than an hour. Diplomatic circles considered a luncheon meeting today between Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos highly impor tant. The Evening Star editorially said: “There is a definite prospect at long last of a conference between British. French and Germans about differences between the three countries.” Art Exhibit Next Sunday. The work of pupils at the King Smith Studio School will be displayed next Sunday In an art exhibit at the Playhouse, in back of the Shoreham Hotel. It will include work done under C. Law Watkins in the field of fine arts, Hugo Inden in commercial drawing and stage design, Ada Klein peter in costume design and Genevieve Hendricks in interior decorating. On the same afternoon Martha Graham will give a demonstration of modern dancing. WINDSOR CONFLICT Dominions May Act on Dis pute Over Title for Duke’s Wife. By the Associated Press. LONDON, May 15.—Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was believed in au thoritative quarters tonight to have taken his renewed difficulties with British royalty to the premiers of the Dominions. As the square-jawed head of the cabinet retired to Chequers, his offi cial country house, for the long Whit suntide week end, accompanied by same of the Dominion’s leaders, two outstanding problems on his mind were empire economics and Wallis Warfield. Close observers considered Baldwin leader of the government element which would prevent the bride-to-be of the Duke of Windsor from becom ing "her royal highness” when she becomes a duchess, probably early in June. The former King Edward VIII, who opposed Baldwin in the crisis of last December, once more is opposing him by Insisting that his wife shall enjoy a royal title. This controversy, like the December crisis until it neared the climax, is being kept from public knowledge. 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