Evening star., 1933-02-26
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

DI JAMES NALDO fAWCEII.
The junior philatelic exhibition con-
test sponsored by the Boy Scout Stamp
Club and the stamp department Of The
Star closed last night. Specimens en-
tered will be considered by the judges.
and the winners will be announced as
promptly as possible. The stamps
considered worthy of certificates OF
merit will be on display at the central
branch of the Public Library. w. 1r-
wing Glover, Second Assistant Postinas-
ter General; Mrs. Catherine L. Nan
ming, philatelic curator, Smithsonian
Institution, and DR.. George F. Bower
man, librarian, Washington Public LII
brary, are members Of the jury OF
awards.
The Washington Stamp Club of the
kir announces a special cachet for
Inauguration day. Collectors should
send 10 cents for each ordinary cover
desired, Is cents for each airmail cover
and 20 cents for each cover with block
for four stamps. The club will fur
nish envelopes, inserts, cachets, stamps
and addressing and mailing service.
Over Station VOL at lis o'clock
this afternoon, Albert F. Kunze, leader,
will discuss the arrival of Christopher
Columbus in the New World and his
return to Spain, telling the story rep
resented on three of the stamps Of
the Columbian series of 1893.
On Monday evening last Mr.. Kunze
addressed a meeting of teachers and
playground directors in the Commis-
sioners conference room of the District
Building. outlining ways and means for
the guidance of children interested in
philately. Miss Sybil Baker, director
of Fairgrounds, presided. Among those
present were Maj. E. Landreth, Charles
C. Guilford, Franklin Carr, S. K. Hand,
Henry M. Folmer, Mrs Mildred c.
Benneat, Mrs Leota Green, Mrs. Alb
bic Flynn. Mrs. Florence Matthews,
Mrs Bruce r. Kessler, Mrs. Viola Nc
Kinney. Sadie L. Lewis, Olive B. Rose,
Mary ]. Dickerson. Gladys Mayo, Lola
lie Brant, Grace E. Church, Emma J.
Woodruff Goldie Robinson, Marie Nc
Auhffe, Helen T. Capers and Olivia G.
Arth.
The winners of the Christopher Co
lumbus contest, sponsored by the club,
are Jan Rus, with a list of 1853 stamps,
and Donald S. Kimball, with a list
of 351.
The postal address of the club, for
cachets and for other mail is: Care
Station VOL, Annapolis Hotel, Wash
ington.
Francis B. Leech. vice president of
the American Airmail Society, and
Maurice Petty, director, are organ
izing a Washington chapter of the ma
tional organization. The first meeting
will be held at room 1035, National
Press Building, at o'clock tomorrow
evening. A cordial invitation to at
tend is extended to all local collectors
interested in either airmail stamps or
airmail covers.
The Washington Branch of the So
ciety of Philatelic Americans will meet
at ll03 Vermont avenue, Tuesday eve
ming at o'clock. Approximately 100
lots of stamps will be sold at auction.
The public is invited to attend.
The Washington Philatelic Society
will meet at the Carlton Hotel Wednes-
day evening at o'clock. Philip S.
Warren, a specialist on the stamps Of
Austria, will speak.
The winners in the contest in which
the children of the Paul Junior High
School and the Takoma Park Play
ground have been participating Will be
announced on Friday. At the last
meeting of the Paul School Club Ray
mond Taylor, a Washington collector,
spoke.
Miss Lai Yue WI, daughter Of DR..
c. c. WI, lately minister OF China to
the United States, is a regular corre-
spondent of the children Of the John
Quincy Adams School Stamp Club.
home across the Pacific she writes to
the boys and girls whose playmate she
was before her fathers resignation.
The Boston Cachet-C Cover Commit
tee, 9 Park street, Boston, Mass, an
nounceS that a few poStmarked covers
are available, at 10 cents each, for the
following occasions: January II. Frank
Inns birthday; February II, Lncoln's
birthday; February Is. Puritan snip
Lyon, arrival at Nantasl-ot, and Febru-
ary %, Washington's birthday. These
are attractive numbers in the 1888
series.
The next Boston cachet will be that
of March S, commemorating the Bos-
ton Massacre. Another will be avail
able on March II, Evacuation day.
Like all others in the series, these will
be 10 cents EACH the committee fur
nishing envelopes, inserts, stamps, ad-
dressing and mailing service.
Coleman Blum, cachet director Cover
Service, Arundel Hotel, Baltimore, is
sponsor for a special cachet in honor
of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Signer
of the Declaration of independence, to
be issued March 25. Stamped and
self-adoresSed envelopes should be
sent; impressions are gratis Mr.. Blum
asks that commemorative stamps be
used on packages. These he distributes
to children and Shut-inS.
r. H. Sowell, 1922 Eleventh street
northwest, is responsible for a cachet
in tribute to Col. Charles A. Lndbergh,
to be issued May 20. Airmail covers
of the regular post office variety are
specified, and will be furnished, ad-
dressed and mailed for IL cents each,
two for % cents.
Additional new cachets are: March
5, fifth anniversary, International
Drawing Exchange, sponsored by Wal
ter G. Hjerstedt, Roosevelt Senior High
School. Chicago, Ill; April 10, ami
versary of the Battle of Lexington,
sponsored by c. Robert Brown, 4
Thompson street Morristown, N. j.,
each cover cents. coins only; and
May 80 tribute to Calvin Coolidge,
sponsored by Henry T Stackpole, Box
765, Northampton, Mass, one cover
free.
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