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NEWS OF MOTORING WORLD American Road Builders and Automobile Association Join Diversion and Taxation Fight—Ohio Town Protects Bicyclists—October Sales Picture Good. By G. Adams Howard. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S an nounced intention to get Con gress to revise the program of Federal aid to State highways does not sit very well with the Ameri can Road Builders’ Association, which terms the plan "a post-Thanksgiving blow delivered to the chins of those who concern themselves with decreas ing the 35,000 and more highway ac cident fatalities each year.” According to Charles P. Upham, en gineer-director of the organization, the step toward a balanced national budget means a complete unbalancing of the highway program. Mr. Up ham states that the highway system at present is inadequate to meet the demands of modern traffic and its deficiencies were responsible for the great number of deaths last year. Automotive experts predict the out put of 5,000,000 motor vehicles by the end of 1937, a majority of which will be added to the 28,000,000 already on the highway. This increase will almost inevitably mean an increase in traffic fatalities unless funds are made available for the construction of more and safer roads to accommodate these speedier and more powerful cars. Yet a proposed diversion of more than $100,000,000 from Federal high way funds is seen despite the millions of dollars already being paid the Government annually in taxes on gas oline, oil, tires and parts and acces sories. An A. R. B. A. statement further comments that with more than 2, 000,000 miles of rural highways totally unimproved; with less than 200,000 hard-surfaced miles in the total rural mileage of 3.000,000; with highway fatalities mounting each year, and with State Legislatures diverting al most $200,000,000 from their highway funds to totally unrelated purposes, the President believes that the time has come to cut Federal highway aid to the pre-depression figure. It would appear at least that the American Road Builders’ Association has a right to deplore the present gloomy situation. The American Automobile Associa tion took up its cudgels against high taxation for the motorists at their 35th annual convention in New York. A bill of indictment charging that motorists of the United States are being unfairly and unjustly taxed far beyond their ability to pay; that a substantial part of the colossal $1, 500,000,000 annual automotive tax bill is misappropriated or wasted through unwise planning and spending; that gasoline is subjected to the double jeopardy of high and excessive taxa tion by the State and Federal Gov ernments, was contained in resolu tions adopted. Repeal of the duplicating Federal gasoline tax, a "temporary," measure enacted by Congress; reasonable tax ation of gasoline by the States so that their motorist citizens, meet of whom earn less than $30 a week, will not be pinched unreasonably in pay ing gasoline taxes; the ending of diversion of automotive tax funds to non-highway purposes, a practice which now absorbs 16 cents of the tax dollar paid by motorists to the States, and the adoption of uniform dates of motor vehicle registration by the various States, were urged in the resolution adopted by the association, representing thousands of motorists in all parts of the country. In advocating better highway planning and wiser expenditure of automotive tax funds, the association "urges that any road construction should be, in every instance predicated on traffic needs; that special motor vehicle tax funds should be applied to major routes; that all beneficiaries of the highway should contribute their fair share to the necessary budgets; that the motorists’ share be definitely predicated not on road needs alone, but also on their ability to pay; and that no program should be so ambitious as to place an undue burden on the motorists or any other class of tax payers.” The association advocated the amendment of the Hayden-Cartwright Act by imposing greater penalties on States misappropriating automotive tax funds to non-highway purposes. Under the present law the Federal Government may withdraw one-third of highway aid grants to those States which practice excessive diversion of road funds. A Cleveland suburb haa taken up one phase of traffic hazzards, the one relating to bicycling. Its results have been good and a study of its plans might be of interest to authorities here. Parma, a city of 15,000, feels that it is not enough to boast of a record of exceptional safety for children. Time and precautions must extend and im prove the record, municipal and school authorities have resolved. The city where no child going to or from school has been killed in traffic in 15 years and where there has been no child traffic fatality in five years has adopted compulsory safety classes for pupils who ride bicycles. With two-wheeling on the increase, Parma is determined that the accom panying rise in accidents to pedaling children in other communities shall not spread to its streets, if following rules of safety can prevent it. The classes were inaugurated a month ago, and Police Chief Garry Burczyk asserts they have resulted in a striking improvement in bike riding deportment. Parma motorists have observed that they have not found it necessary as frequently as before to step on the brakes or swerve to avoid running down a child a-wheel. The experiment began with 100 cycling pupils of Schaaf High School. The first lesson was a tour of the streets, during which the do’s and the dont's of safe riding were demon strated. Chief Burcsyk issued this bicycling code, violation of which is to incur the loss of the right to ride in the streets: Don’t use the streets to learn to ride. Don’t ride unless the bicycle has a good horn, lights and brakes. ' Never ride more than two abreast; single file is safer. Always keep to the right and close to the curb. Don’t wabfcle, weave or make sharp turns. Don’t carry passengers. Never hold to a moving vehicle. Never turn without first giving the prescribed signal in ample time to warn motorists or pedestrians of inten tion. * At night wear light clothes and burn a white light in front and a red light in the rear. The automotive sales picture con tinues to look up, according to official reports. Factory sales of automobiles manu factured in the United States (includ ing foreign assemblies from parts made in the United States and reported as complete units or vehicles) for Octo ber. 1937, consisted of 329,876 vehicles, of which 298,662 were passenger cars and 31,214 were trucks, as compared with 171,203 vehicles in September, 1937; 224,688 vehicles in October, 1936, and 272,043 vehicles in October, 1935. These statistics, comprising data for the entire industry, were released to day by Director William L. Austin, Bu reau of the Census, Department of Commerce. YOU AND YOUR CAR AIDED DY RUSSELL Movement of Fan Delays Starting of Auto in Cold Weather. By FREDERICK C. RUSSELL Have you heard of the motorist who ordered a spare steering wheel with his new car because his wife lost her voice? One thing that delays the warming up process of the average automobile engine is the fan. If we could stop the fan from rotating during this warm-up period, just as we check the flow of water to the radiator, the en gine would operate more efficiently. There is, however, a simple way to get around this problem. It calls for shielding the manifold stove of the climatic control of the carburetor with some asbestos looming. In this way the engine more quickly receives a warmer mixture. In many cases such a remedy also checks vapor lock, since the asbestos also shields against ex cessive heat when the exhaust mani fold reaches top heat. Ailments From Our Cars. It is a little out of my province to discuss matters of personal health, al though I once was asked by a woman what I would suggest for limbering up her rheumatic hubby, but I have been wondering why it is more motor ists do not consider the possibility of their cars having much to do with their ailments. I remember having agonizing pains in my left hand until I discovered that I was in the habit of twisting my hand when placing it against the back of the seat as I slid behind the wheel. It made me won der how many other aches and pains are directly due to habits in handling or in riding in the car. Now comes a friend to announce that his appendix operation was quite unnecessary. He had suffered noth ing more than muscular pains from driving a car with the seat too far from the brake pedal. Ends Frosen Shaft. For some unknown reason design ers have never paid much attention to the matter of lubricating the brake cross shaft on cars which had or still have mechanical braking systems. The result is that the shafts become "frozen” through rusting, making it impossible to equalize the brakes or to have them release properly. Here is a simple trick that will solve the problem: Drill holes in the shaft supports and screw in grease fittings. The cross shaft can, therefore, be lubricated every time the car is at the service sta tion for a greasing. Mechanic Joe SpeakiAg: “A sure route to trouble with the engine is to indulge in a little care lessness when removing or tightening the sparkplugs. If the porcelain is cracked there will be ignition leakage, and trouble. To avoid this, make sure that you are using the proper wrench for the job. This should be, preferably, a special socket which is found in the tool kit of most cars. An open end wrench of the right size will be good enough for this job on some cars. Un der no conditions use a monkey wrench. It may slip, banging up your fingers as well as the plugs.” Careful With New One. This is a new slant on safety, but it is one that may help to solve your own problem as to why all of us have a tendency to become careless if we run for a long period without an acci dent. I picked the idea from a friend of mine who says he is buying a new car for no reason other than to check his tendency to grow careless with the old one. He says he knows his old car so intimately that he drives it to the limit. Also he doesn’t care par ticularly if he scratches a fender oc casionally. That, in his opinion, is bad. The safest way out is to take delivery of something that he will treat gingerly for a long enough period to tide him over his weak moments. Tell Them Weak Points. Speaking of old cars reminds me to suggest the importance of tipping off friends to the weaknesses of your car if they happen to do the driving. In one 1933 car there is a tendency for the steering gear to cramp occasion ally when the front wheels are cut for a sharp turn. Owners become ac customed to this and hardly notice it, but the stranger at the wheel might be seriously handicapped, if not ac tually endangered. Wipers Swing in Time. I am particularly pleased to note that car makers this year are stress ing the importance of synchronized windshield wipers. This should mark an end to the annoyance of having the wiper blades flip back and forth out of time with each other. Any thing that is irregular is distracting. f Archeologists Learn From Virginia Excavations By Flora G. Orr. WASHINGTONIANS have long known that nearby Virginia la full of histori cal interest and signifi cance, but that it contains sites for archeological excavations and re search is something of a new concep tion. In fact it is customary to think of excavations in connection with pre historic research, rather than as an aid to the better understanding of early American Colonial days dating back only 300 years or so. Extensive digging and collection of artifacts, however, has been carried on by the National Park Service with the aid of C. C. C. labor in and around Fredericksburg, Jamestown Island and Yorktown, with results today which are fascinating as well as enlighten ing in connection with our forefathers* lives on this continent. Visitors to restored Williamsburg usually take the short runs to York town and Jamestown Island to round out their tours. At Jamestown—that early, swampy, unhealthful location where Capt. John Smith and his com patriots lived through such hardships in 1607 and the years immediately fol lowing—tourists are now enabled to view in the little museum there many of the objects found by the careful excavations which have been con ducted there. They are not permitted to approach the digs themselves, and some of those which have now been carefully explored are again covered with sod in order to preserve them for posterity. It can, however, be stated that the original foundations and cellars of many of Capt. John Smith's con temporaries have been found and identified. Within them the thou sands of fragments of glass, pottery, iron and other metals have told stories which will have their bearing on the study of history in the future. Capt. John Smith himself reported something of the drinking habits of these early settlers, and from the great variety of bottles found it is obvious he did not exaggerate. Bore dom and lack of initiative in sinking wells for drinking water made the importation of wines and hard liquors almost a necessity. The bottles found vary from those of the Sack type— globular with a high, tapering neck— which came into common use during the early Stuart period to the later squatty types with short necks and wide bases. 'J'HE date of the destruction of one house has been conclusively es established as 1676 (when Nathaniel Bacon set fire to Jamestown) because of the date of the manufacture of the bottles found in a cache in the basement floor. A great collection of interesting glass bottle seals—some indicating the family for which the liquor was made—is now on display at Jamestown. These seals were made by stamping molten glass applied to cooling bottles. At historic Yorktown, most famous because the English general Corn wallis there surrendered to Gen. George Washington, the excavations have proceeded on the sites of the old William Reynolds house and Swann Tavern, probably destroyed by explosions in 1862, during the Civil War. Delicate-stemmed wine glasses, iridescent glass bottles, ink wells, china plates, pottery, stoneware, but tons from soliders' uniforms, gilded officers’ shoulder straps, and many other valuable items have been found. One interesting piece was a Gray beard Jug, found in fragments behind Swann Tavern. This salt-glased stoneware was a product of Freschen, near Ctologne, Germany, about 1700. The identifying mask and beard at the neck gave these jugs their name. One of the uniform buttons bore the figure “41,” which identified it as from a uniform of the Regiment of Soissonnais from France. Hundreds of clay-wig curlers were unearthed, many in such good condition as to indicate that Mr. Reynolds, a pros perous merchant, had never sold them. There were cask taps of metal, tableware, knives and forks with pis tol handles, a silver spoon with a rat tail handle, bearing the Initials “E. P.,” •ad • maker’s mark showing that the silversmith was the little-known John Bnodnax of Virginia, who worked In the early years of the 18th century. In one single cache were found S3 squat, neck-ringed brownish-black glass bottles of the late 17th or early 18th century. Some contained part of the original wine bottled therein— wine which was a bit too old for en joyment in 1837. Upon the body of one of these bottles was a glass seal which carried the crest of the dis tinguished Colonial family, “Digges." % 'J'HE assistance of Trench troops was Important in the Yorktown strug gle, as every school child is aware. Government archaeologists, with the aid of the C. C. C. boys, have now uncovered the exact spots where the Trench trenches ran and the loca tions of the powder magazines. Not only this, but remembering the British vessels which were sunk in the har bor at Yorktown, C. C. C. divers have gone down to recover items from these old, rotting ships at the bottom of the bay, such objects of historical interest as can be used in fitting up an exact duplicate of a British frigate of those days. The divers have been able to get additional details as to construction of the ships by their work. They have recovered four 13-pound cannon, blocks from ships’ gear, numerous bottles and earthenware Jugs, a grind stone, salt pork barrels, pewter table ware. They have been able to dupli cate in the shops such objects as boarding pikes, cannon mounts, hand spikes. Near Fredericksburg on Routs 17, and close by the Mannsfield Hall Country Club, which incidentally is built on the site of Smithfleld not Mannsfield, are the ruins of Manns field—the huge house built by Mann Page in 1770. Mann Page was an ancestor of the late Thomas Nelson Page, Virginia novelist. He married Mary Tayloe, daughter of John Tay loe of Mount Airy on the Rappahan nock River, and this couple passed their entire life at Mannsfield. Many years later—during the War Between the States—Gen. Ambrose Burnside of the Union forces brought his men across the Rappahannock River and through this territory. Mr. Arthur Bernard, then living at Mannsfield, rode out to see Gen. Burnside and pre emptorily ordered him off the prop erty. This action resulted in prison for Mr. Bernard and some little time thereafter the house was destroyed. The Government conducted a rather thorough exploration here and many objects of semi-antiquity were recov ered-old hand-wrought iron hinges and latches, firebacks, andirons and many other objects. Some of these are now on display at certain antique stores in Fredericksburg and others have been made available to crafts men in the vicinity for copying. QNLY recently Government sources announced that considerable suc cess had attended the excavations in Morristown National Park, New Jer sey, where Gen. George Washing ton was quartered with his men dur ing the winter of 1779-80. The Ford mansion, where Gen. Washington lived, has been preserved, but most of the other buildings were gone. The fousdations of five buildings in the vicinity of the Ford mansion have been found and identified, some more or less tentatively until further study is made. Many artifacts have been brought to light by careful screening of the earth—hand-wrought hard ware, buttons, clay pipes, hand wrought nails and flints—and such things as men leave behind them. The present elevation of the land around the Ford house appears to be at least 2 feet higher than it was in Washington’s day. Inasmuch as, in the landscaping of the grounds and in the refurnishing of the house, it is planned to present a picture his torically accurate, this finding is con sidered of great importance. This new excavation in the region of the Ford house is not the only re search which has gone forward in Morristown National Park. Earlier digs have included the sites of the Wick and Guerin houses and the Continental Army barrack huts in Jockey Hollow. 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A more fitting sub ject, says an official release from the organization's New York headquarters, could not have been selected to an nounce their greetings, through their 2,0D0 affiliated State and local asso ciations, to the people of the United States, Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands and Puerto Rico. The crier not only heralds their greetings, but also their tuberculosis slogans of "Health for All,” "Protect Your Home,” "Preventable" and "Curable." The design features a three-quarter figure of the Town Crier in a heavy, dark, caped coat, a Napoleon hat and red mittens and muffler. A bell is held in his uplifted right hand while he carries a lantern in his left hand. It is evident that he is just starting out on his rounds, from the blue twi John K. Hedler (left) and Robert A. Truax entertained fellow members of the Washington Philatelic Society, Hotel Carlton, Wednesday evening, with a co-operative display of United States stamps and covers. They are “local boys" who have “made good" in the scientific study of the postal history and philatelic issues of their country. Carol M. Farquhar, also an authority on the stamps of the United States, assisted in the program. —Star Staff Photo. light glow that is reflected in the snow on the ground and on the roof of the house which farms part of the background. Smoke from the chimney and the glare of lights through the windows of the house indicate that all is well and com fortable within. At top. in the dark blue sky, is ‘‘Greetings” in white let ters. to the left and above the house is the double-barred cross in red and in the snow in front of the house is the date “1937” in black. Each of the four spaces for the slogans has a large, red double-barred cross, while a ray of light shines at the upper left from a small black "1907,” the date of the first seal issued, and ex tends down to the right to a larger red date “1937.” This year the four slogans have been placed in the cen ter of each sheet of 100 seals or three spaces in from the margins of the sheet. Four printers received contracts for the printing of the supply of seals required for this Christmas. To each one was sent a set of four negatives which were necessary for the four colors used. These negatives were made up from a master negative, so that the seals produced by each printer should be identical. In order that each printer might recognize his product a mark is placed on the print ing plate for identification. The po sition selected this year for the identi fication mark was on seal No. 56, in the sixth position from the left in the sixth horizontal row, counting from the top of the sheet. The Eureka Specialty Printing Co. placed its mark, an "E,” on the black plate on seal No. 56; the Strobridge Lithographing Co. an “S” on the red plate for the same, and the Edwards it Deutsch Lithographing Co. a “D” on the black plate. The United States Printing it Lithographing Co used a “U” on the black plate for seal No. 55. All of these marks are on the snow in the lower right-hand corner of the design. A few flaws appear to be constant, as follows: On seal No. 95, a red dash on the town crier’s cheek; No. 55, a red dot at the elbow of the arm holding the lantern in the Edwards and Deutsch sheets; No. 35, a path in the snow which crosses the date ’T937,” United States Printing and Lithograph; No. 43, white space in the blue to the right of “1937,” same company; No. 54, small white space in the blue to the right of ‘the lantern, same company, and No. 67, white scratch over the “9" of “1937,” same company. The Eureka shop used a comb per forator 12 *i by 12*4 guage; the other printers rotary perforators 12'2 by 12's. Plate numbers for the 3-cent Virgin Islands stamp, to go on sale at Char lotte Amalie, December 15, will be 21730, 21731, 21732 and 21733. The designer is Victor S. McCloekey, jr., and the engravers Carl T. Arlt, vig nette and ornaments, and James T. Vail, frame and lettering. First-day sales at San Juan, where the beautiful 3-cent Puerto Rico ter ritorial stamp went on sale on Thanks giving Day, are reported to have reached $14,507.31, representing 483, 577 stamps. The Philatelic Agency distribution, Friday, November 26, totaled $17,394.78, or 579,826 stamps. Charles A. Kenny, philatelic editor of the Washington Times and Wash ington correspondent for Linn’s Week ly Stamp News, has compiled an in teresting list of “heroes of peace” for the guidance of Post Office Depart ment officials in the selection of char acters to be honored in the projected Great Americans series. The roster conforms in general to that proposed by Michael L. Eidsness, jr., several years ago. It includes: Fulton, Edi son, Morse, Bell, Westinghouse, Mc Cormick, Whitney and Orville Wright among inventors: Longfellow, Whit tier, Poe, Mark Twain, Emerson, Low ell, Hawthorne and Noah Webster, writers; John Harvard, Elihu Yale, Horace Mann and Mark Hopkins, teachers; Gilbert Stuart, Whistler and Sargent, painters: Foster, Nevin, Sousa and Herbert, musicians: Morton, Rush and Walter Reed, physicians and sur geons. The Irish Free State will cease to exist on December 27, when the new Irish constitution goes into effect. New stamps, of course, are indicated. A new stamp club for children is being started at Langley Junior High School with the active assistance of P. D. Weeks, a member of the Wash ington Philatelic Society and the Washington Collectors’ Club. Amerique, New York, • says: “The Rising Sun Tavern in the village of North Berated, Sussex, England, has a unique distinction. The interior is a mass of postage stamps. “The walls are covered with stamps from floor to ceiling. So is the fur niture. And overhead there is a solid canopy of stamps. “The late owner of the tavern, Rich ard Sharpe, got his inspiration dur ing Queen Victoria’s jubilee of 1887. It took him years to complete the decorations. It is estimated that there are now over eight million stamps on the walls and ceiling, a collection that would have a great value if the stamps had not been varnished when pasted.” Don Houseworth, St. Joseph, Mo., announces a new philatelic Journal to be known as the International Stamp Review and to appear January 5 and each Wednesday thereafter. W. H. Barnum, oldest active mem ber of the Garfleld-Perry Stamp Club of Cleveland and formar secretary and vice president of the American ■ Philatelic Society, died on November 11. He began to collect in the 90s and in recent years had specialized in the Netherlands and Sweden. Philip Simms Warren will be chair man of the committee in charge of ; arrangements for the Christmas party of the Washington Philatelic Society, Decer#>er 23. Representative Elmer E. Wene of New Jersey wants a stamp to pub- j licize the World Poultry Congress in j 1939. 1 Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Mcduer of j Kansas City celebrated their golden * wedding anniversary on November 21. ! An offloer of the American War Moth ers, Mrs. McCluer is well known in 3 Washington philatelic circles as one of the sponsors of the Mother’s Day stamp of 1934 and as the author of t “Women as Presented on United States < Stamps." - i Formation of a national commit- i tee to determine who and what should > be honored on special stamps has been ( urged by Representative Robert E. Luce of Massachusetts. The fanner portrayed in the S-cent Alaska stamp is plowing with a "left handed plow,” according to Harold Kief man, writing in Mekeel’a Weekly. Stamp News for November 29. Miss Blanche Bezuchova of the Czechoslovak Legation is a stamp col lector. Referring to the Guatemala minia ture sheet showing portraits of George Washington and President Roosevelt, C. G. Alton Means, stamp editor of the New Haven Register, says: "The issue of these sheets is for no good purpose. The stamps will fill no prac tical need, and they will be sold purely for profit. Honor to our Constitu tion is a secondary matter, which serves only as a good excuse for the issue of another sheet, of which there are altogether too many. It is an amazing circumstance that philately, by the collecting of these ridiculous novelties, sometimes of doubtful au thenticity, should have fallen to such a low level.” Photography as it relates to phila tely was the subject of the November 24 meeting of the Washington Phila telic Society, Hotel Carlton. Members of the Washington Pictorialists, in cluding Morgan W. Wickersham and Lewis N. Willman, were guests of honor. Others participating in the program included Royal H. Carlock and Dr. Albert C. Schwarting. Harry Goodman. Star staff photographer, demonstrated picture-taking methods. The exhibition of the meeting con sisted of several hundred prints. G. A. Lyon, associate editor of The Star, displayed views made in Japan, Ha waii, Egypt, Italy, Central America and the United States: Mr. Carlock, Washington scenes; the Washington Pictorialists, portraits and "story telling” compositions. Earlier in the evening a meeting of the Washington Federation of Junior Stamp Collectors was held in the same assembly room. Robert C. Bilsborough, president, conducted a philatelic questions contest, with prizes for the most accurate answers. Copies of the Third American Phila telic Congress book, containing all papers read at Chicago, may be had from R. A. Kimble, 8118 Dante avenue, that city, at $1 each. oiuiupa raasiumr reprmus ine 101 lowing from St. Nicholas Magazine for May, 1880: "We cannot share the enthusiasm of those deluded persons who hoard up defaced and used United States postage stamps In the vague hope that a certain large num ber of thousands of the worthless things will bring a tremendous price somehow and somewhere. The postal authorities‘say that these old stamps are worth simply their weight in old paper.” H. M. Konwlser has suggested to Post Office Department officials that they issue a sheet of 50 stamps, one for each State, one showing the Amer ican flag and one representing “per haps a map of the United States.” The 48 State “commemoratives” would be pictorial in character. Such a production might solve the problem of neighborhood issues, eliminate them forever. Many collectors believe that national stamps should be exclusively national in purpose. No “com memorative,” they argue, should be issued to publicize any event of purely local importance. Max Wulson, a New York dealer, has announced the discovery of an other unused copy of the rare No. 594 type of the 1-cent stamp of 1922 1926, rotary press, perf. 11. Roy M. North, Acting Third As sistant Postmaster General, is re sponsible for the use of the new magenta ink in the production of the Constitution and Puerto Rico stamps. Stamps Magazine credits him with the recommendation. The Niagara 25-cent stamp of the United States shows the Canadian Falls, and the Niagara 20-cent stamp of Canada shows the American Falls. Doubtless, the philosophy of reciproc ity is represented in the exchange of rnmnlimpnt.c Prizes for exhibition frames dis played during National Philatelic Week have been awarded to C. Hercus Just for a map showing of United States commemoratives, Mrs. Grace L. MacKnight for a genealogical ar rangement of royal portrait stamps of Great Britain, Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands, and Francis B. Leech for airmail covers. Mrs. Frederick J. Roy, wife of a well-known Washington philatelist, died on Wednesday. Stamp meetings for the week are listed as follows: Tomorrow evening at 7:30. Wash ington Stamp Club of the Air, from Station WOL. Albert F. Kunze will discuss stamps and history. Tuesday evening at 8, Washington Collectors’ Club, Thomson School, Twelfth street. Program, exhibition, auction and bourse. Public Invited. Wednesday evening at 8, Washing ton Philatelic Society, Hotel Carlton, Sixteenth street, quarterly business meeting. Members only admitted. Saturday afternoon at 1, Philatelic Luncheon Group, Hotel Harrington, Eleventh street. Round-table discus lion of stamp news. Guests welcome. _ STAMPS. ?jr*ntje Bhopal Triangle. Turk* Cairo*. (S U. S., Cayman*, genuine Baden. Every thing 3e with approval*. Viking. 1-L lanson Place. Brooklyn. N. Y. S TAMPS—CO INS—AUTOGRAPHS Bought and Sold HOBBY SHOP til 17*h St. N.W.__District 1273 WHITNEY’S STAMP MART 402 12th 8t. N.W._Met. 0593 UYENO’S STAMP SHOP I20B Penn. Avo. N.W._Met. 9014 GOLD OFFERS lig bargain* on rare British revenues. S. Mints in blocks and tingle. Special, !ft Pern. gift. A23 Mb St. N.W. • NATIONAL STAMP MART 1317 P St N.W.. to. 411. Plat. 8217 STAMP ALBUMS Stock Book* Catalogue*. New Sot*. Single I tamp*. Philatelici Supplle*. Call and mo IARRY°B. ffisoiCtlS F N.W. STAMPS FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS , . U. S. Mint let Bicentennial*, le to lOe __ (1 AA let National Park*, perfarate, le to 10c .90 let Farley’*, complete (20) _ a.tft let National Park*. Farley’*, le to 10c 1.00 Block ot four priced at four times the price of singles. RAYMOND L. TAYLOR 123 Euclid St. N.W._Adam* 1890 • YOUR LAST CHANCE 'o purchase Cpl. Coronation Sett (204 tamps) at our low price of S17.00. (dor nation stamps will be obsolete after Dec. il and prices will be higher.) r. Set Coronations (45 Dill.)_S1.75 Irltlsh American Coronations_3.00 leadquarters for Xmas Suggestions for the ihllatelist. CULLEN’S STAMP SHOP 29 G St. N.W. Open Evening* Until Saw