Evening star., 1934-05-06
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
It seems assured that the National
Parks series of stamps will be issued
No responsible officer of the Post Of
flee Department has been willing to
authorize a statement, but it is gen.
orally believed that the plan has
presidential approval.
Indications are that there will be
10 stamps. running through the de-
nominations l cent to 10 cents and
printed in the standard colors.
The designs, it is believed, will show
representative scenes in the following
parks: Yosemite, Grand Canyon,
Mount Rainier, Mesa Verde, Yellow
stone, Acadia, Great Smoky Noun
tains, Sequoia, Glacier and Zion.
Date of issue should be about
July 3.
Photographs of scenes likely to be
used in the National Parks series are
reproduced in The Star rotogravure
section today.
The first-day sale of the Mothers
day stamp. Wednesday, brought out
large crowd, as had been anticipated.
The city Post Office. Massachusetts,
avenue and North Capitol street, was
thronged from early morning until
late in the night, and branch stations
did a good business throughout the
day.
Robert E. Fellers, superintendent,
division of stamps, announced that
183,258 covers went through the
canceling machines, and Postmaster
William M. Mooney estimated sales
at more than $4,000.
Albert F. Kunze, director of covers,
reported that the official American
War Mothers envelope went to about
$4,000 patrons, and many dealers
mailed thousands of commercial covers
of which no exact count was kept. D..
The purchaser of the first sheet sold
was Robert w. Weaver, Tech High
School student, who had been waiting
since 1l:45 Tuesday night He was
the initial applicant at the main sales
window, and was served by Harry E.
Williams. The time was exactly
7:31 am.
Other early comers were: Gordon L..
Warnken, Baltimore; James A. Roy,
Washington; E. T. Bolton, Oceanside,
N. Y; Harry Katz, Baltimore; David
H. Davenport, Washington Stamp Club
of the Air; Miss Edith Summerson.
Miss Clara Greacen, Chester L. bank
ford, president, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stamp Club. Douglas. Ga; w. T. Raley
and Clyde v. De Binder, Washington
Philatelic Society.
Later arrivals included: William
Shrader and John Morgan, Chevy
Chase Stamp Club; Philip S. Warren.
Washington Philatelic Society; Mrs.
Catherine L. Manning, philatellc
curator, Smithsonian Institution; Al
den H Whitney, Collectors Club; Ger
ard Ten Eyck Beeckman and Miss
Isabelle Story. National Parks Service;
Victor S. McCloskey. jr., designer OF
the Mothers day stamp; Alvin w.
Hall, director. Bureau of Engraving
and Printing; Mrs. Louise Shawen, d.
vision of stamps; Billy Miller, page IN
the House of Representatives.; Mrs.
Madeline Nickles, and many other
well-known figures in the local stamp
world.
A formal ceremony was staged at
Q o'clock, when Postmaster General
James A. Farley made the hrst OIL
cial' sale. Mrs. Franklin D. Roose-
welt had been expected to be the nrst
customer, but in her absence MISS
Mary S. Howes, daughter of First
Assistant Postmaster General William
w. Howes, was drafted. A battery OF
cameras recorded the incident.
Later another ceremony took place
on the steps of the Post ONCE Build
ing when Mr.. Farley, at the sugges-
ton of Michael L. Eidsness, Jr, asso-
ciate editor, Stamps Magazine, pre-
sented a sheet of the new commemo-
ratiye stamps to Mrs. Annie Clifford
Eopolucci, mother of two District men
KILLED in the World Wharf.-The one
having been the first member OF the
armed forces of the United States to
give his life for his country in that
struggle: the other member OF the
312th Machine Gun Battalion, fatally
wounded in the Battle of the Argonne.
Representing the American War
Mothers. original sponsors OF the
stamp, Mrs. w. E. Ochiltree, presi-
dent: Mrs. H. H. McCluer, past presi-
dent: Mrs. H. C. Boone, vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Florence Latham, corre-
spending secretary, and Mrs. E. c.
Wagner, custodian of records, at
tended.
The American Legion sent an Off
cial delegation. including Capt. c. B.
Buck, James Pistorio, John l.. Meade,
Rome L. Knapp, Louis J. Willette and
Curtis Wilton, the last five named be-
ing from the Vincent Costello Post.
Ralph Grimme was present for the
Disabled Veterans and received a
specially prepared cover from Mrs.
Ochiltree as souvenir of the occa-
sion.
In Mr. Farley's party were Third
Assistant Postmaster General Clinton
B. Eilenberger, Deputy First Assist
ant Postmaster General Vincent
Burke, Deputy Second Assistant Post
master General Jesse Donaldson,
Deputy Third Assistant Postmaster
General Roy North, Chief of Infor-
nation Service Harold F. Ambrose
and others.
Associated with Mr.. Mooney as host
to the crowd was Assistant Postmas-
ter w. Hunter Haycock. Clarence
Schooley, superintendent of mails,
was in charge in the mailing room.
In the philatelic agency upstairs
Herbert Chamberlain directed opera
tions, assisted by James Bell, Miss
Pearl Bond and Miss M. Shaner.
First-day covers went to President
Roosevelt, former President Hoover,
King George, the Prince of Wales,
Nile .Tadweoa PilSlldski daughter of