TWOTHE EAST HAMPTON STAR OCTOBER 31. 1946

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WORLD AIR PIONEERJuan T. Trippe, who spends much

of the year at his summer home on the dunes here, is perhaps most widely known subscriber; that is saying a great deal, for we very proud of the notable name The Star's mailing list; practically all of our summer residents tak. paper the year round, and it goes to all parts of this country and far afield as China and the Philip­pines in peacetime, as it did in time. Mr. Trippe, as president of Pan American World Airways since 1927, is known on every continent. Within the past ten years he has re­ceived the highest decorations from the government and universities, in science and trade in this country, and from foreign governments. These awards have been given in recogni­tion of Mr. Trippe's pioneer work in overseas aviation. At the present time Mr. Trippe is endeavoring to get the permission of the Civil Aero­nautics Board to allow Pan Ameri­can to operate in the United States as a domestic carrier. His feeling that again Pan American will be pioneering, by offering the American public a domestic service which is exclusively long-range, non-stop, with direct and through connections to nearly every part of the world.

Among the honors that have been conferred upon Mr. Trippe are: 1937 —Master of Arts Degree, Yale Uni­versity, in recognition of “your ex­traordinary achievement in admin­istering and organizing a great new force in human life, whereby space is forgotten and the ends of the earth made neighbors.” Belgian. Czechoslovakian, Brazilian. Portu­guese, Chinese, awards; Holland So­ciety gold medal; American Arbitra­tion Society gold medal; Arthur Williams Memorial Medal for pio­neering service ensuring utmost safety in flight; gold medal of Na­tional Institute of Social Sciences; Daniel Guggenheim Medal for de­velopment of oceanic air transport; Robert M. Dollar award for advance­ment of American foreign trade; Montclair Yale Bowl for outstand­ing achievement after graduation from Yale; Miami and Boston Uni­versities—Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees; National Order of the Southern Cross, 1946; Medal of Mer­it, 1946. His most recent honors came with the Order of Christ in Portugal on October 17, and five days later with the award of the Cruzeiro do Sul from the Brazilian government.

While coping successfully with problems of global dimensions Mr. Trippe has found time to deal with Maidstone Club problems as its pres­ident from 1940 to the end of its 1946 season: and to be a good neigh­bor here in East Hampton. This village is very proud of its dis­tinguished resident, and very happy

THE RESTFUL SEASONLate-staying summer residents

•re congratulating themselves, and year-round dwellers in East Hamp­ton are saying with even more truth than usual that October is the best month of the year here. This long stretch of warm, windless days has been a joy to all of us who like to relax a little after the pressure of a summer-resort season. Our friends who have taken motor trips to New England, or upstate, tell us that the autumn foliage in our own country­side compares very well with beauty spots further afield. It seems to that the red leaves on dogwood tr> in our yard and our neighbor's, and on other places along Main Strei particularly at Winthrop Gardiner's —arc especially brilliant. And one i our favorite drives—around tl head of Three Mile Harbor and oi to Emerson Taber's lobster dock- is just too lovely right now. with tl pure red of trailing woodbine, the

trees and bushes, and purple and

day, to a be.: lunch on Sun-e had n isited

•gan; it was so peaceful, no midsummer day could have been pleasanter. Basking in the sun is something you do midsummer with a certain amoi of risk; but Indian summer sun-ba ing has no aftermath of sunburn, it's just relaxing.

Every warm day is pret such days arc numbered, do all the outdoor things now. for soon it will be sit-by-the-flre weath­er, which is pleasant enough too; oi weather for brisk walks to the ocean We aren't quite up to that yet. It'i a blessing we don't have to jump right from one extreme to the i This is the time when Nature and when we rest. Between-se in the country are best of all.

HELPING HANDA Christmas project of

able merit is the one undertaken by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Veter­ans of Foreign Wars here to see thal Christmas packages will provide foi men who might otherwise be for­gotten during the holiday season. It is planned to have a package for each of the men in the closed v of Mason General Hospital.

During the course of the year of the men in our nospitals are membered by enough of us, and this applies particularly to the attention shown ex-service men who tally ill. A few essentials ar ed by the government but during the holiday season it is hoped to supply gift packages of candy, maga­zines, gum and writing paper.

In this issue of The Star further details are given about the collec­tion of gifts for the Christmas pack­ages. Too much consideration cannot be given this appeal for, during the

should be able to provide some comfort for the sick in hospital. These men of our wars are so easily forgotten, that it takes a little prod­ding such as the work done by VFW Ladies' Auxiliary to remind

f some of our obligatior

HALLOWENThere's a spooky feeling in the air,

Know the reason why?Hallowe'en is here again,

The night when witches fly!

On their broomsticks all night long, They will ride about.

Scaring little children,Who dare to venture out!

Tonight's the night when black cats

Making the weirdest noise.And tall white ghosts that moan

Follow girls and boys!

So better get your pumpkins quick. For making funny faces,

And have your sport inside tonight. Instead of going places!

—Dorothy R. Ross

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LOOKING THEM OVER"I won't pay $50. a pair for ny­

lons. but they arc going like hotare nothing new in the Orient. The Widdups sailed from New York full

by plane I suppose. We pay 75 cents This was dampened somewhat b>

coffee: $2.50 a pound for butter; and cold spring rain, and it kept on rain-70 cents a pound for fresh tomatoes . . so Mrs. Percy Shelley Widdup were immediately available, but

China, where there never was an O P. A. The new Chinese Minister of

prices were not the major disap­pointment, but the change in Chin­

Economics, Dr. Wang Yun-Wu, de­clared on May 23 that: "The price

ese feeling toward Americans and

a country where the people behaveAssembling that impeccable house­

hold staff was a thing of the past.

has enough power to enforce its ap- alarming, since Mrs. Widdup can

either civil or foreign, has gone or need arises. Her mother gave her a

tions are chaotic beyond belief. She can whip up Chinese chow, or

former Beatrice Coyle of Boston. with equal ease. During the past

an East Hampton resident, leaving many friends here. She lived in

less America, she delighted her friends with Chinese dishes, while

Shanghai for nearly fifteen years, and was repatriated on the Grips- holm late in 1943, after long bitter She is Secretary to the Board, and

camp. She finds housekeeping in China today something totally diff-

ance firm for which her husband is China agent. She also heads an af-

ago. Time was, when Shanghai wives enjoyed an existence unknown

Mrs. Widdup graduated from Bos­ton University in Business Adminis-

Living was incredibly cheap. All tiresome housekeeping details were

demonstrate American calculating machines to England’s "Big Five"

vants. You found a good Number elty in England then. She recallsOne Boy; made sure that the cook, and the children's amah were com- persuading stuffy elderly Britishers

just appeared. Americans paid high wages, by Chinese standards; but at

could use a machine on exchange problems. She was a success. But

that, it's not so long ago when half a dozen servants might add up to around $30. gold, a month. When

she was also young and sensitive. She says: “I nearly burst into tears once in the midst of a bank meeting.

the "squeeze" grew too blatantly ap­parent, you made a fuss, and it sub­sided for a while. Many western

I was demonstrating exchange cal­culation, imagined my hearers were all eyes and ears; when I overheard

wives spent their days at bridge, dancing and house-parties; and if they returned to America, the ad­

two of my most important clients standing behind me, engaged in a heated argument over whether the

justment was difficult. Since Mrs. Widdup went out to China as a

milk or the tea should be poured into a cup first!”

very well when war necessitated a return to the States.

working with the country’s greatest mathematicians. The average house­

It's a lucky thing for her that she has made mathematics her career, otherwise she wouldn’t stand, with

wife would look upon her work as approaching wizardry. She figured weather for the Nautical Almanac

due apologies, a "Chinaman's chance” of conquering the problems

in Greenwich, going to 40 decimal places and five years ahead. At the

general confusion in China today. out gunfire on the calculating mach-

again, while her British husband and business associate has reestab­

physical laboratory at Hampstead she figured such problems as how

lished his Shanghai office. Mr. Wid­dup has made his home in Shanghai

much energy can be lost by sitting in the wrong kind of chair, for in-

a half years in America, the Wid­dups left New York on a little

The Widdups met ir. England in

freighter for Shanghai in January,1929, and the then Miss Coyle, agreed to go to China for the office-

a different city, a different China,appliance firm, never dreaming it would be a lifetime job. She loved

antly left. But it is a differentChina at sight. The Chinese love western gadgets, especially any-

They did not go without warning. "Our Chinese accountant wrote us

aire Shanghai apartment-house own­er sent for her to show him electric

that people were ‘living very hard­ly’ in Shanghai; and a friend who preceded us cabled us to bring all

calculating and bookkeeping mach­ines at his home. His family rode in armored cars only; and one was

possible medicines and tinned foods. So we filled our 1939 Dodge with

sent for her. She says: "I was whiz­zed through the crowded streets

time we paid freight, duty, and left alone after great iheavy gates

us more than the original price; but gan to walk through the grounds,

over since our arrival, for from seven to ten thousand dollars," Mrs.

client kept 35 police dogs, of the best prize-winning strains in the

Widdup wrote soon after their arrival.

world, shut up without exercise in expanding metal cages, like a zoo,

upon a time, two dollars "Mex" were equal to our one) was about 2,000

I was walking. They smelt a for­eigner and thew themselves howl­

to one U. S. dollars, last spring; conditions are worse now.

Many American wives of Far East­

ing madly against the yielding bars until I was sure the bars would break and I would be eaten up. . .

ern business men have let their men go back without them, preferring to wait until conditions are more set­

The Chinese magnate took his own exercise by proxy only. He kept a private football team on the grounds.

tled. This may be the wiser course, especially where there are children;

He had a swimming pool, which he never entered. His small private

Widdup. Cholera, typhus and such due course, filled with the newest

Halloween |

and most expensive American off­ice appliances; one little calculator he bought just for a toy, because was cute. . . But the calculating machines didn't keep him from go­ing broke. Before we left Shanghai he had lost every sou, gambling; and his lovely house had been turned into a nightclub."

Before the war, Mrs. Widdup bred Cairns. The Japanese are particu­larly fond of these little dogs; but when she went into concentration camp Mrs. Widdup put her i pets to sleep, rather than let them fall into enemy hands. So oi the first presents Mr. Widdup made his wife when they were safely back in America was "Kiltie", a brisk, lovable tiny pepper-and-salt Cairn. The Widdups went to Sea Island, Georgia, to recuperate after landing in New York on the exchange ship. In April, 1944, they came to Hampton, for some early golf, and liked it so well that they stayed for nearly two years. During the difficult months of readjustment Shanghai. Mrs. Widdup has often looked back longingly upon East Hampton's cool, elm-shaded Main Street with its 300-year-old saltbc houses so firmly rooted behind the rose-twined picket fences; upon i clean sparkling surf, ahd its peace

safety. But by June, the Wid-; had f i litt

the suburbs—out near the Hunjai Golf Course, and have now into livable condition. Thei garden with a tall bamboo fence; here "Kiltie" has life catching frogs and chasing baby pheasants and barking at every strange noise beyond the compound. In pre-war Shanghai, where servant had his own particular pid­gin and liked to be under the leni­ent eye of a foreign "Missy", there would have been a dog-cooli take "Kiltie" for walks outside. But today a dog-coolie $75. gold a month, the Widdups write, “so 'Kiltie' has us both pletely under his paw."

"My living room has pale green walls,” Mrs. Widdup summer; "the furniture is white, upholstered in a rough hand-wovi material I have rose-colored drap­eries and Chinese rugs; some good blackwood tables, teapoys and opium stools for coffee and cigai

My greatest lack is a refrig­erator. a 'must' in the humid

here. Secondhand from the U. S. can be found

from $550. to $850. (U. S. money) w ones are promised for October U. S. $400.; but what to do ur

then? Another worry is whether >ut in an oil heater or not, with :oal at U. S. $250. a ton, and not tc much of it Your strikes and troubh

have slowed up business and supplies out here terribly."

“Garbage hasn't been collected for four weeks. There are huge piles

the streets, and in the 18- floor Grosvenor House, the smell goes right up to the top of the building. A heat wave, and we are

for all kind sof epidemics. Choi- a started in May, and that’s early r it. . . I feel quite sure we made good decision to take the house.

At least we have clean air, clean walls .and some kind of heat. Will let you know when things settle down. Cheerio!”

Things did not settle down, how- ■ver; and China, according to letters mailed there in late September, :cording to everything we reac tr papers here at home, has grown icreasingly difficult for the foreign-

It is generally considered that the "Red" influence has worked up Chinese labor to such a pitch; but whatever the cause, Chinese work-

such as cotton mill worker tailors, etc. are demanding and get- ing higher wages thannd more skilled worker _____...

thf United States. Mrs. Widdup “ • that she is having one

made for the winter, and only the price is U. S. $300. "It would y us to take a trip to England

every three years and have perhaps ' while we are there,'

Mr. Widdup says. The labor ques tion will just put foreign tailors and others out of business in Shanghai, for people just will not pay theprice

Mrs. Widdup sent a quantity of tides for our L.V.I.S. Fair this

summer; some things arrived, but she fears that aprons, tea cloths, un-

have been stolen from the Post Office out there, as

■y could be resold, and many peo­ple have had such experiences.

On September 27, Mr. and Mrs. Widdup gave a cocktail party for 85 at their new home in Shanghai; with

Consul Generals for the United States, England, and Canada among

guests. "Small chow," she wrote, "I shall have made at a cat­erer’s; but for a change I am hav­ing a canned ham carried all teh way from East Hampton, and some 'hot dogs'—I hope the British like hem; the Americans will, I know."

The shipping strike is causing the Widdups great anxiety, along with

difficulties out. The n of e

ritorial privileges makes a great dif­ference in life for British and Amer-

ins in China. In the midst of our st-war upheaval it may do us good look across the Pacific at China;

misery loves company—and China is infinitely worse off than the U. S.

"One of Ours”

C t j u r c f ) ^ o t e S

ST. LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHThe Rev. Samuel Davis. RectorSunday:8:00 a. m. Holy Communion.9:30 a. m. Church School, Junior,

Intermediate and Senior Depts.10:45 a. m. Holy Communion and

Sermon.10:45 a. m. Church School, Begin­

ners and Primary Depts.7:00 p. m. Young People's Fellow­

ship—leader, Ruth Dendato.Tuesday:4:00 p. m. Choir Rehearsal.Wednesday:2:00 p. m. Meeting of the Woman’s

Auxiliary in the Rectory.Thursday:3:30 p.

School.7:15 p. n Friday: 11:00 a. l

Education.

Peter’s Chapel

Choir Rehearsal.

l. Release Time Religious

MONTAUK COMMUNITY CHURCH Rev. Wendell G. Wollam. PastorSunday, Nov. 3:10:00 a. m. Sunday School. Mrs.

Henry Tilden. Supt.11:00 a. m. Morning Worship. Mr.

Wollam will preach.7:30 p. m. Westminster Fellowship

at the Manse.Wednesday, Nov. 6:2:00 p. m. Women’s Guild.8:00 p. m. Mid-week Prayer Fel­

lowship.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Re*. Francis Kinsler. Pastor

Sunday:9:45 a. m., Adult Bible Class. Sen­

ior, Intermediate, Junior Depart­ments of the Sunday School.

":00 a. m., Primary and Begin- i' Departments of the Sunday

School11:00 a. m., Morning Worship.4:00 p. m.. Junior Christian En­

deavor.5:00 p. m., Intermediate Christian

Endeavor.0 p. m„ Senior Christian En-

8:00 p. in., Springs Chapel Wor­ship.

Wednesday:7:30 p. m., Congregational Fellow-

Thursday:7:30 p. m.. Choir Practice.Friday;11:00 a. m., School Time Religious

Education Classes.8:00 p. m., Springs Christian En-

deavor (every other week).

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Amagaruelt. L. L

Rev. Joseph T. Sefcik. Minister

Thursday:7:30 p. m. Choir Rehearsal. Sunday:10:00 a. m. Church School.11:00 a. m. Morning Worship.6:30 p. m. Junior Westminster

Fellowship.7:30 p. m. Senior Westminster

Fellowship.

ST. PHILOMENA S CHURCH Rev. Raymond A. Clark

Sunday Masses, 8 and 10 a. m.Weekday Mass at 7:30 a. m.First Friday Mass, 7 and 8 a, m.Confessions Saturdays and Thurs­

days before First Friday from 4 to 6 p. m.. 7:30 to 9:00 p. m.

Monday. 7:30 p. m.. Miraculous Medal Novena and Benediction.

Religious instruction, Sunday, 11 a. m„ Thursday, 4 p. m.

Little Flowi Chur

FIRST METHODIST CHURCH Rev. Nat R. Griswold. Pastor

Thursday:7:30 p. m. Hallowe'en Party, Meth­

odist Youth Fellowship at the par­sonage.

Friday:11:00 a. m. Class for religious in­ruction at the parsonage.

9:45 a. m. Sunday School.11:00 a. m. Morning Worship. Ser-on: "Religious Persons Are Diff-

7:30 p. m. Methodist Youth Fellow­ship, Church Hall.

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Corner Cameron and Pine StreetsFirst Church of Christ. Scientist,

Southampton, N. Y., is a branch of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Bos­ton, Mass.

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What’s New in New YorkBy DOROTHY QUICK

Not long ago I received a letter from Jonathan Stagge thanking me

ly review of "Death’s Old Sweet Song” which I had liked so very

i. "I can’t tell you," he said, grateful we are for your in­

terest in our work and how much ]

Perhaps the best test of any book is its ability to stand up under re­peated readings. When a book con do that, whether it’s a novel or a mystery, it deserves to be "classed as a serious piece of business." I

the Stagge books do as wellas these others I'm

Actually the harvest crop of mys- ries and Who-Dun-Its to make the

distinction, has been a bumper one, top names in the field con- some of their very best

output. I've already mentioned Rufus iguing “Museum Piece

e appreciate your most intelligent' as these others I'm going to talk comments on it. ’ •

'I only wish tl took the trouble to read the books they review the way you do, : that mystery writing might really v i classed eventually as a serious t iece of business."I have quoted the above for two j King’s

reasons. The first—well, I wouldn't No. 13" which I enjoyed stuman if I didn't enjoy a pat on and repeat it now, for no list of the back literally speaking, and the upper detective story writers would

second—because I do so agree with be complete without Mr. King’s what the pair of writers who make name upon it. In fact, all these writ- iup the composite Jonathan Stagge iers I am mentioning deserve consid- said about classifying "mystery writ- eration as author's rather than to

is a serious piece of business." be typed. Agatha Christie also has There are so many people today ’3 book out for autumn, “The Hol- turning out escapism literature for low" from Dodd Mead & Co. in ie Who-Dun-It fans that really fine. which the engaging Hercule Poirot 'riting is apt to be tossed into the employs his grey cells to their best

pool without the credit it so truly I advantage in as exciting a puzzle deserves. as this past mistress of the art of

Now there are mysteries and mys- writin8 them has turned out. Ditto ;ries. One the sincerely written.: for M‘6non G- Eberhart. another •ell studied mystery with fine writ-jlady who always provides thrills ii

ing which is really a particularly, good novel with a psychopathic lc '

best style for her n ers. "The White Dress” is one of best efforts with murder and

mystery which means it's one not to be missed. Mrs. Eberhart's great

r for description, atmosphere ;uspense has never been better

employed. Her publishers are Ran­dom House and they’ve done an ex­

job with jacket and binding picture of their author that

does her justice. Mrs. Eberhart is as attractive as her heroines. Tense,

And she certainly

icludes crime and the others are detective stories wr

i and produced for excitement a: ills. The first are worthy to stand jj

with the classics of the past—with Wilke Collins, Edgar Allen Poe Conan Doyle classics, to men­

tion only a few. The others belong to the ephemeral class of fly-by-nights ®

be picked up, enjoyed and dis­carded. There is a vast difference between the two types of books, and

;y should be recognized. For the iter who has put something real As though these weren’t enough. J deep into his work shouldn’t be H- c ■ Bailey has produced a Reggie the same level as the one who is Fortune novel for a Crime Club se-

tublic’s taste for lection that is equal to his uttermost achievements. Anyone I

patter )ut a fast as e theirpossible. These books

>se—it's a good one and I am ast one to carp for I enjoy but I, at least, do realize that is a vast difference. Patricia

worth, for instance, is a fine r and no matter what field she n her books would be literary

achievements. Not long ago I had a from her-in which she express- ore cogently than I can the

distinction I have beerf trying to make plain. Speaking of thriller writing she says—

'I don't read the police court crossword puzzle type myself. They

to' me to bear the same rela- to literary art as photograph

bears td painting."

Reggie and the author of his being can be sure that means “The Life Sentence" is something for the list—and this book, like all his others can be read many times with rewarding interest. I have all the books about Reggie and I re-read them often so I know what I'm talk­ing about. This is the story of Rosaline, shadowed by the past in a dangerous emotional state as well as actual physical danger, how Reg­gie rescues her from peril and rights an ancient wrong is good reading and the book contains much of the philosophy that ha# made Mr. Bailey one of the foremost authors in this particular line.

Two other Crime Club books that

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