Evening star., 1934-04-29

| ScllI MlSSOuIl 1cTIlIOIy III Tile NOI1.
gress, taking his seat November 16,
1914. Including Mr.. Easton, you have
had 80 postmasters."
| Summing up, Mr.. Farley declared:
"The policy of this administration Is
to give a better postal service at
less cost. We have taken stock, have
put the house in order, and every
effort will be made to continue to i'm
prove and increase the postal facilities
commensurate with public needs"
The division Of stamps will be the
first integral section of the Post Office
| Department to move into the new
building at Pennsylvania avenue and
| Twelfth street. May Is Is the date
set for the transfer. The philatelic
agency will have quarters on the sixth
floor.
Writing in Stamps Magazine for
April %, Mr.. Eidsness says: II under
stand that the telegraph companies
are prospering as result Of the can
collation. Of the airmail contracts.
People who ordinarily would use the
c. A. M. routes now send night letters
by wire"
He also says: 1.-THE leading stamp
collector in the family Of Secretary
Of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau,
jr., hear, is Henry, Sd, q pupil at
q school at Deerfeld, Mass. One OF
his sources is the laundry bundles Of
his classmates-he pre-emts all the
stamps they receive in that manner"
The Philippine trade commission
er, Barr Building. writes that a fur
ther stock of the recent Olympic
Games stamps is expected about the
third week in May"
Meanwhile, many other desirable
issues are available at the commits
sion offices.
Mayo Dudley, chairman, American
Philatelic Society Committee on Stamp
Illustrations, has announced that the
bill now pending in Congress for the
liberalization of the existing law will
not be pressed this session. Next
Autumn, however. the subject will be
revived.
The first consignment Of the Byrd
covers Is expected back from Little
America about May 20. Distribution
should be complete by June !.
Current cachets include: May 9,
seventy-flfth anniversary Of the exc
cution of John Brown, Harpers Ferry
martyr, Steel City Cachet Club, Home
stead, Pa, unsealed; May 9, COM
| memoration of Bryd's flight over the
North Pole, cachet director, West End
| Stamp Club, Lancaster, Pa; May II.
eighth annual West Coast relays,
Junior Stamp Club, care Chamber OF
Commerce, Fresno, Calf, unsealed;
May 18, anniversary Of death OF Pere
Marquette, j. F. Buck, Ludington,
Mich, unsealed; May 20, centenary of
the death of Lafayette, Steel City
Cachet Club, Homestead, Pa, un-
sealed; and May 80, tribute to Army
flyers killed in airmail, Stewart Wal
colt Post No. 10, American Legion,
care George Collier, 901 Twenty-sec-
ond street northwest, washington.
Standard 634 envelopes, self-ad-
dressed and stamped, are specifled.
Use commemorative on wrappers.
The Wisconsin Association Of Phila-
telic Societies, in annual convention at
Oshkosh. April and 8, voted to anil
+ late with the National Federation OF
Stamp Clubs.
| Autographed Lindbergh covers were
a feature of the display at a recent
| Joint meeting Of the Chicago Philatellc
Society and the Chicago Airmail So
ciety.
The Philatelic Society Of Plainfield,
N. j., will have dinner May IA and
Charles ]. Phillips Is scheduled to
speak.
Areo stamps and covers will be on
display at the Y. M. H. A. Building,
Newark, N. j., May to IL, under
the auspices Of the Areo Philatelic
Society Of that city.
The Enid, Okla, Stamp Club ex-
| hibited interesting specimens OF from
tier covers at its recent show.
The q. S. S. Constitution COld
IronsidesD, says Harold P. Faust,
Greensboro, N. c. will not visit Wash
ington on her way home" to Boston
Navy Yard.
The Sunday Star Magazine today
contains an interesting article by
James Montegnes on Flying the
Farthest North Airmail."
Edgar Mohrmann, German philat-
elist, is in the United States on a
purchasing tour. His objective is the
acquisition of desirable specimens OF
early German states issues.
The remainder Of the Arthur Hind
collection will be sold at auction In
London, beginning tomorrow and con-
| tinuing at intervals through July 2.
H. K. Large, postmaster. Atlanta,
Ga, during the administrations Of
Presidents Harding, Coolidge and
Hoover, retired April %. He has,
as souvenirs of his term Of service,
collection Of all the United States
stamps issued during that time.
The 1884 edition Of Boyd's direc-
tory OF the District Of Columbia, IS
sued Wednesday, lists six individuals
by the name Of Stamp and an equal
number Of Stamps.
The Associated Press reports:
Frederick Smetana, famed Bohemian
| operate composer, who wrote The
Bartered Bride is being honored in
special stamp by Czechoslovakia. He
was born ITO
years ago and
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K5iNl1HuEfdM died in 1884.
n "The st a m p
HN - follows the gen.
ID SS7 8 eral design of the
Ik recent issues Of
"A Czec hoslovakia,
but has the por-
S1IE6S03JES1x trait of Smetana
IIAAj as the principal
motif. The dec
orative border running down either
side contains the familiar laurel leaves
together with musical symbols. The
value is SO haleru, and the color Is
! green.
"Smetana spent q large part Of his
life in the musical center Of Prague,