Evening star., 1934-05-06

new series to commemorate the first
anniversary of the Third Republic.
The treasury department of Peru
has received an appeal from the mu-
nicipality of Piura TO authorize set
of stamps in honor of the centenary
of the birth of Admiral Grau. hero
of the Peruvian-Chilean War.
Christmas seals of the National
tuberculosis Association this year
will depict the little red house at
Saranac Lake, N. Y, that has de-
veloped from one-room institution
into a great sanitarium for the care
of persons i'll from the disease.
Proofs of the plates were placed ON
display in New York Thursday.
Wise collectors take note: The King
Albert memorial stamp of Belgium is
about to be withdrawn. 1t will be
replaced with an issue bearing the
portrait of King Leopold, III.
The Associated Press reports: Be
cause Alfred Station, NJ Y, is the only
post Office in the United States having
rural delivery on Sunday, Mother S
day mailings, May l3. will be marked
with special cachet in two colors
showing the picture of a woman en-
circled by the words, Mothers Day.
THE reason for rural mail service
from Alfred Station on Sunday is
that this hamlet and its neighbor.
Alfred, seat of the university of that
name, are people largely by Seventh
Day BaptiStS. All business ceases
from Friday night to Saturday night.
On Saturday there are church Serv-
ices.
collectors have begun to flood the
Alfred Station postmaster, Earl c.
Saunders, with mail to secure his
Mothers day cachet.'
The postmaster general Of Can
ada announces TWO cachets for ini-
tial airmail service between Fort
Chipewyan and Fond du Lac and
return, about June IL Those in
terested may secure detailed informa-
ton from the Post Office Depart
ment, Ottawa.
Current cachetS include: May 10,
18th anniversary of Wyandotte Coun-
ty, Woman'S Chamber of Commerce,
care DR.. w. w. Harrell, 609 Minnesota
avenue, Kansas City, Kans; May l3,
Mothers day. American Cover Club,
care H. c. Donegar, 2l0 Walnut ave-
nue., WanamaSSa Park, N. j., Mother s
day stamp specified: May IA. 340th
anniversary discovery of Jamaica, Roy
Hubbard, 6126 Girard avenue, Phila-
delphia, Pa. unsealed; May Is, 10th
anniversary first regular airmail serv-
ice, H. F. Ruge, l0l Sisson street,
Dunkirk, N Y, unsealed. and May 81,
7th anniversary Lindbergh flight to
Paris Eddie Isenhart, Box SO, Mober-
ly. Mo, unsealed
Use standard 634 envelopes, self
addressed and stamped. Commemora-
tives on wrappers in compliment to
sponsors.
I'm connection with the laying Of
the corner stone of the Richard Wag-
ner Monument at Leipzig, Germany"
says the Philadelphia Record. all
mail sent from the city that day bore
the head of Wagner instead Of the
regular postmark."
writer in Weekly Philatelic Cos
sip says: "A complete collection Of
covers Of every capital city in the
world will be one of the most interest
ing collections you can secure.
Il suggest as a start you secure
covers from the capitals of every State
and possession of the United States
on the date of the anniversary of
their admission to the Union.
ITO secure covers from the foreign
capitals I use postal reply coupons,
which are sold by the post office for
9 cents each, which I incloSe with
my cover and request, or 1 purchase
from dealers stamps needed and affix
them to my cover, being sure that
sufficient postage is applied to insure
the return of the cover. I address
my request. usually. to our Ambassa-
dor or consul in the capital city in
question, with a polite request that
he return my covers ..
you will be surprised at the num-
ber of capitals there really are in
the world"
The first airman ever to be carried
from Australia to New Zealand was
flown by C. T. Ulm. April II. The
distance is 1900 miles, and $4,000 let
ters were transported.
A national philatelic exhibition will
be held in Zurich, Switzerland, Sep
tember 90 to October z, to celebrate
the flftieth anniversary of the organ
ization of the Swiss Philatelic Society.
At the recent Tri-State Stamp As
sociation meeting. Lansing, Mich, rep
reSentatives of the following groups
were present: Ann Arbor Stamp Club
Detroit Airmail Society, Detroit Pnila-
telic Society. Grand Rapids Stamp
Club. I. NJ A. Stamp Club of Flint
| Jackson Stamp Club, Lansing Stamp
Club, Michigan Stamp Club of De-
troit, Muskegon Stamp Club, Pontiac
Stamp Club and Toledo Philatelic So
ciety.
Jacques Kilcher, philatelic editor
Atlantic City Press, won the grand
prize at the recent shore city stamp
show.
The Des Moines Philatelic Society