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Page 8 -A VALLEY SUNDAY STAR MONITOR HERALD Sunday, October 31, 1937 Mavoralitv Race Rouses New York As Two New Dealers Wage Lively Fight For Cit Hononj Voters To Decide November 2 Whether To Keep Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Seeking A In FWtmn rnmmnnism An Issue In Present Campaign; LaGuardia Has Four-Party Support And lictciiti hieh-iumoer. He was both Un- and proportion VEW YORK (U.R) New York City's voters will decide on Nov. 2 whether to keep Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia.

campaigning for a second term on his record, in charge of the city government or whether to turn the administration back to Tammany Hall, which has been out of City Hall during the past fonr years opponent is Jeremiah T. Mahoney who defeated Sen. Royal S. Copeland in the Democratic primary and now has the backing as well as The temperamental who made only one speech during the primary which he, too, defeated Copeland, who also sought the Republican confined his electioneering to press statements and addresses in which he took credit for liftinc the city of the where years of Tammany Administration left it, and for impressive municipal improvements, brought about by Robert Moses, his park commissioner. Mahoney Hurls Red Charge Mahoney has campaigned against Communism, which he contends is supporting the mayor: for increased independence of the police department and for economy.

Both men are New Dealers, but Mahoney has won the support of James A. Farley and technically, at least, is the New Deal candidate. That the election has captured the imagination of the voters is indicated by the registration figures, which show that there are 2,483,387 persons eligible to vote Nov. 2, nearly 160.000 more than were eligible in the mayorality campaign four years ago when dia defeated the Tammany incumbent and a progressive Democrat in a three-way race. The odds favor re-election.

Two-to-one is about the average. Ardent LaGuardia enthusiasts, however, are prone to overlook one inescapable Tammany, although it took a beating four years ago and has been rather feeble since, is still the strongest single political machine in the city. LaGuardia has the Republican, American Labor, City Fusion and Progressive City party nominations. Conservative Republicans, however, have a difficult choice to make. They do not approve of leftist tendencies nor do they have any great like for Tam- mrny.

Both candidates were born in New lower East Side, an agglomeration of foreign colonies. La Guardia of an Italian father, Mahoney of an Irish. Both have been long in pol- tics. Mahoney exclusively in New York LaGuardia mostly in Congress. Both possess great physical vitality.

Mahoney is a former Olympics high jumper LaGuardia was an aviator in the World War. Both Attack Nazis Both are well-thought of by New vast Jewish colony by reason of their attacks on Nazi anti-semitism. Opposed to solid Democratic backing, dia has the support of the independents in the city, those lumped loosely under the term and the most of the city's labor elements. A division in labor support occurred, however, when Jhn L. Lewis, Cmmit- tee for Industrial Organization leader, declared for him.

Joseph P. Ryan president of the international longshoremen association and enemy of the CIO immediately came out for Mahoney. LaGuardia Lacks Machine LaGuardia during his term admittedly has failed to build up a well integrated machine. He promised a non-partisan administration and kept that promise. It is generally agreed that he will stand or fall on his record and his personal following.

LaGuardia's most prominent running mate is Thomas E. Dewey, special prosecutor who was drafted to run with the mayor for district attorney of New York County. Tammany has determined to defeat Dewey and has thrown all its organizational power to the fight to elect its candidate, Harold W. Hastings who for 18 years has been an assist- and district attorney. JEREMIAH T.

MAHONEY Mahoney was born on New East Side in 1875, the son of an Irish policeman. He went to public schools, had a $2-a-week, 11 -hour-a-day job, and was graduated from City College in 1895. For the next three years he paid his way through a law course at New York University by teaching school. In 1900 Mahoney got into politics through the city comptroller office, and in 1905 became counsel to the comptroller. He later was made commissioner of accounts and a member of the board of education.

In 1906 the first modern athletic games were held in Athens. Mahoney went along as a high-jumper. He was both United States and Canadian champion. Mahoney is Democratic leader of the 13th District, and is running for Mayor on the Democratic ticket backed by New Deal Democrats and Tammany. FIORELLO H.

LA GUARDIA LaGuardia was bom on New York's lower East Side in 1882, the son of an Italian immigrant. His early youth was spent at an army post in the west, and public life began at 19 when, with his higher education limited to an Arizona high school diploma, he entered Consular Service. When this country went to war LaGuardia joined the air corps, and shortly found himself commanding a unit in Italy where he immediately became unpopular with his and proportionately popular with his slicing red- tape. Upon being transferred to GHQ, LaGuardia made such a fuss that they sent him back to Italy where he announced to the Austrians that he would fly daily in a bomber known as the Despite repeated enemy efforts to shoot him down. Mayor Guardia made his daily flights unscarred.

In 1922 LaGuardia went back to Congress where he stayed until 1932 when the Democratic landslide caught him. A year later he was fighting a bitter, three-cornered battle for the New York mayorality on a ticket of reform and Fusion. In 1929 Mayor James J. Walker had beaten him, but this time the Democratic party split helped him win by a 259,000 majority. Valuable Collection Of Envelopes To Famed Persons Revealed Mrs E.

Anderson, San Benito, Follows Unique Hobby Of Collecting Envelopes Addressed To Great; Finds The Greater The Person, The Simpler, More Courteous He Usually Is; Response From Such Men As Kings, Diplomats, Explorers, Warlords, Dictators, Authors And Others Is Excellent, She Says; Keeps Huge Book By MINNIE GILBERT gAN BENITO Envelopes that carried letters to the great and near-great over much of the world rub corners in a unique collection assembled by Mrs. W. E. Anderson, 708 North Reagan Avenue. Started as a hobby during a period when Mrr.

Anderson was temporarily incapacitated by an eye ailment, the scrapbook has received envelopes addressed to kings and queens, dictators and war lords, explorers and patriots. Assassination, exile, and abdication have removed some of the contributors from their accustomed spheres of power and Mrs. book has been recognized as having definite historical interest which will increase with the passing of time. It is already replete with human interest. To a stamp collector, the book is a treasure store, since the envelopes bear an indescribable variety of stamps.

But straight-edges, cancellation methods, and first flight cachets take no special hold on the imagination but an address penned to Haile Selassie in faltering script stirs the curiosity. And the bewildering titles that march across the envelopes emphasize the lack of ceremony in the United States as compared with other countries. An envelope addressed to the fantastic Agha Kahn, one for Mira disciple of Mahatma Ghanda, another a rare one bearing the British royal crest from Buckingham Palace each tells an interesting story. Greatest satisfaction derived by Mrs. Anderson from establishing her collection was the personal and often humorous notes that accompanied envelopes sent in compliance with her written requests.

Sigrid Undset, Nobel prize winner. sent what is probably a characteristic note typed on ruled paper. -Dear the letter reads, I think collectors of autographs are nuisances which ought not to be encouraged. But your idea to collect envelopes strikes me as too funny! How do people come to collect all these strange objects? However, so here you have one item for your collection. The sender, Chr.

Fraskamp in Munich is a German poet. Yours truly, Sigrid Th cover 1 to Miss Jndset at her home in Norway. Here is one addressed by George Bernard Shaw to his secretary in i cript, undersized writing. The name is merely i with her address and one wonders whether the great B. S.

the rest of her name or was ving a in not using it. Equally in- is a response from the wic. of President Cleveland. She ld -vIrs- Anderson she would vor to an envelope ad- ci.es. to her late husband, s' ce she.

too, made a hobby of collecting and concluded with the opinion thut should i'tand together. Later she said she nrd ruled to get the envelope. Mrs. Anderson particularly delighted by the military note dispatched by his own hand by the late Lord Allenby. He "Dear Madam, Herewith envelopes of letters addressed to me as desired by your letter of 15th.

Yours truly One of the envelopes the titles G. C. G. C. V.

O. after the name Field Marshal Viscount Allen by but the signature of his no.e to Mrs. Anderson seems wholly in keeping with the character of the man who led the triumphant entry into Jerusalem bv walking on foot through the narrow Jaffa Gate without any medals or other show of honor or force. A heart of a sorrowing woman js frankly revealed in the personal Jeder sent by the widow of los. old man of Wf0te Mrs- Anderson that she ok in sending a postally used envelope in her handwrriting be added to your scrapbook.

I that the only one in my possession is the one addressed to She adds, my great sorrow, it is a consolation to find so many friends that grieve with me and to lize also that Greece has understood what the disappearance of so great a statesman means to her national A heavy mourning band edges her letter as well as that accompanying an envelope addressed to the former king of Greece. The letter with the latter is signed by Master of Ceremonies to H. M. The envelope bearing stamps commemorating the initial flight of the China Clipper, reads H. M.

George of Greece A fascinating glimpse into the mysterious region of Tibet is given in a letter Mrs. Anderson received from Gordon B. Enders in response to a request to assist her in obtaining a cover from the Grand Lama of Pachen. In a letter carefully written with pen, Enders, who is first foreign adviser to the Lama of Pachen, says, to the Grand Lama, he is now in the heart of Tibet, marching toward Lhassa with an escort of 2,000 mounted men and followed by thousands of camels, laden with gifts and radios and dismantled motor cars. sorry to be of so little immediate use but patience is the greatest virtue when dealing with Enders said he expected to join the Lama in a few months and would endeavor to get the envelope she coveted.

Recent international developments have indicated that the great Lama and his mystery- shrouded country may soon receive the spotlight. He has made the assertion that Tibet is to be Belgium of the expected Japanese-Russian conflict. He predicts that the route of battle will follow the lines laid down years ago by Genghis Kahn, the greatest conqueror in world history who marched with his armies from Manchuria to Budapest. An envelope addressed by Lawrence of Arabia seems to parallel the simplicity of the man that be a Puzzle to the world. Plainly written in small, of Mrs.

W. E. Anderson, 708 N. Reagan Avenue, San Benito, says that the most notable trait she has observed in connection with her hobby of obtaining envelopes addressed to famous people over the world is their almost unvarying courteous and obliging response. Many sent personal letters in addition to the envelopes requested.

Queen Marie of Roumania herself addressed the package which held three interesting postally used envelopes that had been mailed to Her Majesty. Mrs. scrapbook of stamped letter covers constitutes an interesting cross-section of outstanding events in world history during the past few years. erend Eminence, Secretary State to His France is represented in the odd envelope library by a cover addressed by the late Monsieur Do- umergue, a former president of France, to Marshal Petain. A number of covers addressed to King Alexander, who was assassinated during a visit in France in 1934, hold interest for the variety of titles and addresses.

Another envelope reads. Selassie, K. of and Everett Colson Addis Ababa, Colson, one time American financial advisor to the ill-starred Ethiopian ruler, has since died. Remindful of the other side of the Italo-Ethiopian struggle, is a cover addressed to Graziani, governor general for the conquering Italian forces at Addis Ababa. The only one of the democratic governments formed following the world War that has remained unchanged is represented by an envelope addressed to the veteran T.

G. Marsaryk, a figure of particular interest to Americans because of his American wife. Prezydent Rzeczypospoli- tez Prof Ignacy Thus reads the envelop directed to President Mosciki of Poland. Letter covers sent to Marshal Pul- sudki, Polish war hero who is credited with giving instructions to President Moscicki until death ended his dictatorial powers in 1934, reminds how often the hand of death has removed powerful figures in European affairs. slightly irregular script, the address is to Capt.

B. H. Liddell- Hart, author of Lawrence The envelope was fur- TirtiSii3wrS' Anderson by Captain rvS -5k rt after the death of aliL FTS, EdWard lias T. E. Shaw, as a result of a motorcycle accident in England.

sa1, who was helped to the throne of the Caliphs by Lawrence and who was responsible for adoption of the Arab ftartrf MrS' started her collection of envelopes. cut his son and successor as ibn Feisal. obliged her by having forwarded her letters addressed both to himself and to his father. A note accompanying the envelopes, cov- Raan impressive stamps and 5 was dispatch- secretary to prime Addresses on the envelopes, in imrlY Cwfacters occupy little cpace) usually more a r'rnJe line. quaint -pology came from Madame Chiang Kai- shek, of the generalissimo of the Chinese armies and the most powerful and respected worn- an in China today.

She generously sent several envelopes with can- 1 stamps addressed lerself and to her warlord husband. Her letter, signed Please pardon the tmg these off to you are following the armv We constantly it hard to ule The letter Sal I as not written China but a few out a few yerrs earlier -ime t-iau, by an English se when Chang Kai-shek strengthening and developing his army and doing spasmodic fighting. An especially intriguing item in the Chinese section of the scrapbook is a notice of a death in the imperial household. It is banded in red. the Chinese symbol for anouncing death, and the inside folder presents rows of large marching characters, apparently executed with nicety of detail with a brush.

A cover sent to Pearl S. Buck, widely famed writer on China, is addressed to her at 3 Ping Tsang Hsiang. Nanking. China. In the Japanese collection are envelopes addressed to ambassadors and other high officials.

Mrs. Anderson chuckles over the letter she received from the Japanese embassy in Washington in reply to her request for envelopes addressed to the emperor of Japan and to the crowned emperor of Manchoukuo. He explained, As you see under the Japanese Imperial Household Law, w-e are not allowed to address a communication to His Majesty, the Emperor, and I think the same applies to the Emperor of She does have an envelope, however, that boasts the chrysanthemum crest of the Emperial household of Japan. Mrs. efforts to secure souvenirs from StaLn and Mussolini were unsuccessful and her letter to Trotzky, sent when he was hiding in exile, was returned after having been sent to several European capitals.

Mrs. Rudyard Kipling sent a personal note saying that she did not possess an envelope addressed to her late husband but she had found a label on a parcel which she hoped wrould serve the purpose. An envelope which had contained 1000 rupees for ihe Quetta earthquake fund is an interesting exhibit in the India collection. It is addressed to the Viceroy of India at the Palace, Delhi, India. A large number of persons killed in the disaster and a special stamp issue was ordered to increase the fund for relief.

It is entirely reasonable to suppose that money, perhaps a huge sum, was conveyed in the linen lined blue envelope once sent to Agha Khan since it forwarded by a bank. The fabulous sums received by the leader of the Moslems from his followers everywhere probably never have been approximated by guesses. The imposing address reads: Hazrat Maulana Dhani Salamat Datai "His Highness Sir Sultan Mohomed Shah Envelopes addressed to Madame Chian g-shek, wrife of the generalissimo of the Chinese army now in decisive struggle with forces, are among the interesting collection of letter covers in Mrs. scrapbook. Madame Chiang-shek employed her fluent English in the letter which explained the delay in sending the envelopes was because they had been on th move constantly following the army.

Photographed on the opposite page is a notice of a death in the Chinese imperial household. Cover for the funeral notice is decorated with a wide band of red in accordance with a time-honored Chinese custom. Khan, P.C., G.C.S.I., G.C.V.O., L.L.D Queen Marie personally addressed the letter to Mrs. Anderson which contained the postally used envelopes the latter had requested. Writing of the manian queen was easily identified comparing the address with photostatic copies of her let- Queen Marie ters used in a newspaper in connection w'ith her comments on early training given her grandson.

The outlines are thick and black and probably formed with a quill. Addresses on the covers she sent vary as Her Majesty, Queen Marie of Roumania, Palace of Catroceni, Queen and Majesta, La Reine Marie de Roumaine, Modling, Wien, serene Highness, Regent of is the way a correspondent addresses a missive to Admiral Horthy. Royal Majesty, King Boris of Bulgaria, is the imposing title on another interesting envelope. To build the mental image of personages represented by the envelopes, Mrs. Anderson has included well-selected clippings giving interesting sidelights into the history and cnaracter of the people represented in her amazing scrapbook and has added pictures.

King Boris is presented as an unimportant political figure, a model husband a.id father, and an action-loving man whose hobby is operating locomotives. A Vatican postmark is imprinted on the envelope addressed to Pope Pius XI September 1936. One posted at the Vatican and addressed to Cardinal Hayes bears a special Vatican stamp while another sent to Cardinal Pacelli has the prelminary title, Most Rev- Another dictator. Hitler, is represented in Mrs. collection.

Address on one envelope is typed in purple ink on violet stationery bordered in purple and vio- iet and marked personal. The other bears the interesting leg- Reich shanzle Adolf Hitler, Italo Balbo, Italian aviation idol, who has been kept out of the spotlight of public favor by Mussolini the past few years, has furnished an envelope addressed to him at Tripoli. Adhering to an established rule, members of the British royal family through their representatives politely declined to furnish covers to Mrs. Anderson. However, the Countess of Oxford and As- Hitler quith, perhaps recalling her American birth, forwarded an envelope addressed to her with a personal note saying it was penned by Prince George.

Duke of Kent. Lady envelope is addressed, Rt. Honorable Lady M. House of Commons, Westminster, London, Stationery bearing the crest of Buckingham Palace and heavily imprinted with mourning border, as well as envelopes from the Lord Mayor and Lord office with respective seals are suggestive of the formal ceremony that British royalty must preserve. Interesting British addresses on envelopes in the scrapbook include, Lloyd George, O.M., M.P.”; Rt.

Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P.”; Eden, M.C., M.P., secretary of state for foreign affairs; and Grace, the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Lamberth Palace, S.E.I.” One of the envelopes received from George Bernard Shaw, sent from Boston, bears merely a small picture of Shaw clipped from a newspaper, and the words, Explorers have contributed to the interesting collection of envelopes. Vilhjamur Stefansson, Arctic explorer. Father Benard R. Hubbard, glacier priest and author; Harrison Forman, Tibetan explorer and author; Mrs.

Martin Johnson, woman explorer and collector pf wild animals; and Phil Sven of Hedin, Swedish explorer and author of the Gobi are represented by one or more covers bearing fascinating looking stamps. Dr. Sven Hedin was honored by a special stamp issued by the Chinese government to commemorate an expedition he led to Central Asia. An envelope sent to the late Admiral Robert E. Peary and one addressed by the discoverer of the North Pole to Henry A.

Bryant furnished to Mrs. Anderson by the The latter. Mrs. Peary Stafford, recently revisited the frozen land of her birth during a voyage commemorating the first successful trek to the North Pole. Romance and adventure are hinted by the stamps from far corners of the earth but pomp and ceremony come to mind when one reads the imposing titles on many of the covers.

One reads, Mohanlal Goverdhandas, Sheth Seri-Sankheda, Baloda State, on a cover that was accompanied by a humorous letter written in English except for one line. Adding "etc. seems to suffice if one is not quite certain some titles may not have been overlooked in inscribing a missive to an important statesman. One envelope is addressed thus. Ronald Lindsay, P.C.G.C.M.G.KC.

B.C.V.O. etc. etc, etc, British embassy, Washington, D. Americana has not been neglected by Mrs. Anderson in making up her unique collection.

Finft envelopes i her book were mailed from various coun- tries to Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt. One reads, der Vereeni gole Staten, Washington, Ameeri- Mrs. contribution was forwarded with a note from her secretary say- ine, she was complying with a request from Colonel Howe. Especially interesting covers w'ere furnished by the Garners, John Nance, vice president, and Ettie, his wife and former secretary, the letters having been posted in many interestingly remote places.

Photographs in the Garner collection as w'ell in several other pages in the book are autographed and sent with personal messages. The late President Calvin Coolidge is represented by commission to W. E. Anderson, husband of Mrs. Anderson.

The document designates the latter as "a special commissioner on the part of thj Affixed to the commiision, dated Dec. 27. 1934, is the seal of the United States and signatures of President Coolidge and Charles E. Hughes, then secretary of state and now chief justice of the supreme court. Cordell Hull, secretary of state.

Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the U. S. Mint, Frances Perkins, department of labor secretary, JiKlge Florence E. Allen. Federal Circuit Court of appeals, and Ruth Bryan Owen, ambassador to Denmark compiled with Mrs.

request by forwarding envelopes. The latter sent a hand-written note, recalling scenes in congress when her father, Wm. Jennings Bryan, and Mrs. the late Congressman Pee! from Arkansas, were active on the house floor. Her envelope, she said, wras addressed to her by Vilhjalmur Stefansson.

Mrs. Woodrow Wilson sent a cover addressed to herself but said she was unable to supply one to her president husband. Early America is pictured with glimpses of a few very old envelopes. One of the oldest, mailed in 1827, is addressed to Wm. Wirt who was ting counsel in 1807 under President against Aaron Burr.

To a granddaughter of Jefferson Davis, president of 'the Confederacy, Mrs. Anderson is indebted for a letter cover mailed to him from Vicksburg and for some Confederate stamps. John H. Reagan, Palestine, Texas, postmaster general under the Confederacy, is the name on another time-stained envelope. Wide divergence in personality and aims as wrell as nationality and residence is emphasized in interesting envelopes with postally used stamps sent to Lord Tweedsmuir, governor-general of Canada; the late Brand Whitlock, wartime envoy to Belgium; Dr.

Hugo Eckner, commander of Graf Zeppelin; D. Abelardo L. Rodriguez, former president of Mexico; J. Sancheez Mejorada, Mexican minister to Great Britain; D. Gustavo P.

Serrano, Mexican ambassador to Guatemala; Josephus Daniels, U. S. ambassador to Mexico; Armando Santa Cruz, high ranking Mexican official; Admiral David Foot Sellers, commander-in-chief U. S. fleet; late Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago; Frances Parkinson Keyes, travel writer; Mrs.

Charles Dana Gibson, a girlhood friend of Mrs. Anderson; James N. Hall, coauthor with Charles Nordhoff of the Bounty triology; Floyd Gibbons, internationally known war correspondent; the late Will Rogers; Kapitan Achmed Abdullah Kahn, author who Rogers Roosevelt United StJles of America to cooperate with representatives of the United States of Mexico in a study regarding the equitable use of w'ater of the Rio Grande below Ft. Quitman, life as an Afghan prince; Winifred Holtby, British author of doa, Miss Hortense New' England woman archaeologist and explorer in New Guinea; the late Schuman- Heink; Walter Damroicb; President P. E.

Svinhuford, Hel- ingfors, Finland. The list could be increased considerably, for there are numerous other well-known names in Mrs. Anderson's book. Simplicity is a typical characteristic of great persons. Mrs.

Anderson believes as a result of the courtesy and general responsiveness with which her requests for envelopes were received. Typical of the punctilio with which her solicitation usually was granted is a letter written from the governmen house at Darjeeling. The writer said he was enclosing a postally used envelope addressed to His Excellency, Sir John Anderson, British Governor of Bengal India. explained that the burn marks around the edAt resulted when the Imperial ways liner was wTecked and most of the contents burned. And he included newspaper clippings and photos of the disaster.

Mrs. Anderson has successfully developed other interesting hobbies during her stay in the Rio Grande Valley. After her arrival in Brownsville a number of years ago she undertook a study of native shrubs, trees and plants and it due. partly at least to her efforts, that planting of native rather than imported trees became popular..