Evening star., 1934-11-04

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Star Staff Photo.
"O700" originate at Montreal. The
code numbers for other cities are:
Edmonton, 1850; Calgary, 8160; Lon
don, Ont, 3470; Halifax, N. S., KITS;
Hamilton. Ont. 3l00 Niagara Falls,
Ont, $500; Ottawa. 5000; Quebec,
1050 Regina, 1920; st. Johns. N B.,
X9l0; Toronto, 1880; Windsor, Ont,
1910; Winnipeg, $3.50; Vancouver,
e780; Victoria, 1890. and Peter
borough, Ont. 4035.
When the Graf Zeppelin calls at
Campo Moya, near Buenos Aires, mo
cachet or special stamp will be al
lowed on the correspondence which
the ship will carry from the Ar
gentine to Europe
Winthrop S. Boggs, writing in the
American Philatelist for November,
says: S'Rumania is rapidly becoming
Americanized. In September they
had an Eat More Fruit Week and
issued two attractive stamps to pub
licize the event l shudder to
think of what might happen if Mr..
Farley should go in for this sort Of
thing in big way"
Airpost service has been established
between Europe and Madagascar under
the management of Imperial Airways.
Ye Olde Kings Highway Stamp
Club, Noroton. Conn, is sponsoring a
cachet for the sesquicentennial Of
Right Rev. Samuel Seabury. first
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of the United States.
Red postmarks have been noted
from Amelia and Xerxes, La. purple
cancellations are reported from Grif-
ton, N. c., and Chicago Ridge. Ill, is
said to be using blue ink
Acorn, Tenn, has regular cancel
lation in black with an acorn in red
White Heath, Ill, has a red star in
place of killer bars, and Cracker, KY,
has a bulls-eye black cancellation
with large red fire cracker as a
supplement.
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reported from Granville, Ohio; Hall
fax, Va, and knights Landing, Calf.
The San Diego Union. August IT.
said The swimming mailman of
Vista rancher. returned home yester-
day after 57-day exploration cruise
on the Matson-Lassco liner, City OF
Los Angeles.
Going overheard in a shark ridden
sea in mid-ocean at spot between
Samoa and Fiji, Ramsay once more
enacted the role which has made him
famous, swimming ashore to Niuafou
or Tin Can Island, with 5000 phila-
telists' covers.
"On arrival at San Francisco, Mon
day night. Ramsay told of the recep-
tion given him by natives of the lonely
and unique island
The Pittsburgh Philatelic Society
had an exhibition October u and 28.
R. r. Dickson, president. was in
general charge of arrangements.
The new SCOTS Specialized United
States Catalogue lists postcards, anti
tuberculosis campaign Christmas seals
and other material omitted from the
superseded volume
Wilfred P. Belts, Elsie, Mich, is the
new editor of the Standard AirpoSt
Catalogue.
Add to the list of eminent collec-
tors the name of Rev. Dr. C. Rankin
Barnes, secretary, Department of
Christian Social Service, National
Protestant Episcopal Church.
Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes is to have a special album, en-
tirely devoted to Parks stamps, covers,
clippings, photographs and letters re-
lated thereto. The volume was Or
dered from New York last week, and
a friend will be in charge of the
and mounting of the
material
New Englands only sled-dog postal
service soon will 60 into operation
again at Rangeley, Me. Fred Fowler
will have charge of the route between !
anu 1oIlllCUdSO, Will
liam Myers will manage the route.
between Bemis and Upper Dam.
There will be three trips each week.
The Duke of Kent, soon to marry |
Princess Marina of Greece, is repre- |
sented in the Scent stamp of the |
royal family series of Newfoundland, |
listed as A62. He is the fourth son |
of King George and Queen Mary and
was baptized George Edward Alex |
ander Edmund.
The Victorian Centenary Exhibi-
ton, to be held at Melbourne, Aus
tralia, November to IT, has been
honored by King George, who has
agreed to serve as patron. Dies and |
sketches of the Penny Black" Of
1910 will be shown by the British |
postal authorities, and frames sent by |
the governments Of the United States, |
Austria and Finland also will be dis |
played.
"There seems to be growing de-
mand that indicates a return to fun
in stamp collecting"
Elmer C. Pratt writes in the Courier
Post, Camden, N. j. Those who have
been paying good money for fy-by-
night covers, cachets and the like"
he believes, now are collecting |
stamps once more"
Charles william Gibbs, director
of the Midwest Philatelic Society and
one of the leading collectors of KAN
sas City, Mo-, died September g..
An Atlantic City dealer who ordered