Evening star., 1933-05-07
BY JAMES WALDO FAwCETT.

Joseph &. OMah0ney Will Oe present
in Chicago on the day the stamps are
first placed on sale as the personal
representative of Postmaster General
Farley
"The Post Office Department has
ordered 200 OO0, 600 each Of the / and
3 cent stamps, and they are now being
turned otlt at the Bureau Of Engraving
and Printing
In the event that reduction in
the rate on local letters from to 2
cents Is made there will not be
2-cent special stamp authorized by the
department.
IF the special stamp is desired on
letters mailed in Chicago intended for
local delivery they will have to nave
the 3-cent stamp attached"
The Associated Press on Friday an
nounced: THE Post Office Department
has been asked by Senator Keyes Of
New Hampshire to issue special stamp
next year in connection with the cele-
bration to be held at Wolfeboro, N. H.,
in commemoration of the Battle Of Que
bee. The request for special stamp
issue was made to Senator Keyes by
William s. Furst, Philadelphia attor-
ney, who maintains Summer home at
Wolfeboro. Ftrst for several years has
been developing miniature Westmin-
ster Abbey, a French Pantheon and a
shrine of American patriots in Wolf
boro, which was named after Gen.
Wolfe, who died at the Battle OF Quebec
in 1859. He has more than 400 his
torical pictures on display in the Libby
Museum at Wolfeboro Furst told Sena-
year it Is planned to plant commemo-
ratjve trees to be brought from the
homes of Gen. Wolfe in England and
Gen. Montcalm in France"
Wallace r. Deuel., in a radio dispatch
from Rome to the Chicago Daily News.
reports: Gen. Italo Balbo, Italian air
minister, himself has designed a special
series Of stamps, which will be used for
the mail to be carried to America in
the transatlantic flight, which he will
lead to Chicago.
The stamps will consist of three sec
tions separated only by perforations.
which will combine all three indications
required by mail-by airmail mark.
regular stamp. and a pencil mark for
this special flight.
The stamps are in four colors-red.
green. white and blue The left-hand
section shows the Italian tricolor the
center section contains portrait of the
King, and the right-hand section has
part CT the globe with the coliseum on
cne side and the skyline of New York
on the other. The cost to mail letter
will be so lire, which amounts to $3.50"
A portion of the philatelic press is
agitating for new series Of regular
postage stamps for ordinary use The
new deal" Of the policy of the ad-
s-4r
they say, should include postal issues
to call attention to the scenic wonders,
the great cities and the leading indus
tries of the country
President Roosevelt has little time for
his stamp collection these days. but he
continues to be as deeply interested in
matters philatelic as ever. A flood of
gifts of stamps and covers has poured
into his Office since March 4, and event.
ually all will be properly entered in the
new looSe-leaf albums which he adopted
just before the opening of the 1892
campaign.
The postmaster general of Canada
has been petitioned to authorize a spe-
bition and Conference in Regina this
year.
Argentina has the standard SOC,
claret, with overprinted initials, m. j.
L." for the ministry Of Justice and in
struction.
From Australia comes information to
the effect that official stamps, sur
charged or perforated 20. s." are to be
discontinued.
In connection with the International
Philatelic Exhibition at Vienna the gov
ernment of Austria will issue a special
stamp. There will be 40, 900 on ordinary
paper; 10000 on granite paper and TO-
600 blocks of four on granite paper In
special sheets. The date of distribution
will be June "a.
The 2l2c, green of Curaco has been
locally surcharged "l12."
The stamps of the 1881 series. Of
Yugoslavia, engraved by Balhep, now
are appearing without his name.
Kenya Colony has q new / shilling
postage due stamp.
The airmail stamps to be issued May
81 by Newfoundland will consist of the
following values and designs: SC, 'Au-
tumn brown. airplane disturbing flock
of partridges; 10c light orange, trout
hshing scene with two men in canoe
and camp in background; SOC, blue
sealing scene in icefleldS; 60c, sea green,
fishing scene off Banks; and 75c, old
gold, alluvial gold mining scene First
day covers may be obtained by sending
international money order for face value
of stamps to Department of Posts and
Telegraphs, st. Johns, Newfoundland,
with self-addressed envelopes.
Trinidad and Tobago may have an
airmail series soon.
The 1Oc, lake, of the Cuauhtemoc type
stamp Of Mexico has appeared. with
the surcharge, "Servicio Ofiicial," in two
lines at the base 4..-
Current airmail stamps of San. Ma
rino will be surcnarged Zeppelin 1888,
with new value, for the coming flights
Of the Graf Zeppelin to South America
via Rome. There will be 10000 of each
value, as follows: 81 on soc, 81 on 80c,
10L on IL, 12L on IL, ISL on 2.60L, and
20L on 81.
A series Of stamps in homage to
Richard Wagner, composer of the Wag-
| merriam operas, will be brought out by
| Germany in october.
| Iceland has a new Ia, yellow green,
value In the re-engraved type series Of
1920.
Reunion, French colony, is to have q
new series of % values, showing three
| designs-the Cascade and the Leon
SUMMER COTTAGES.