Evening star., 1935-06-23
BY oh DAVENPORT.

The postmaster general Of Canada
has authorized an experimental air
mail service between Sydney and Hall
fax, Nova Scotia, during the celebra-
ton Of the 150th anniversary OF the
founding of Sydney.
Mail planes will fly once daily in
each direction from July 20 to Au-
gust 3, and different cacfet will be
applied to covers carried on each
flight, making II cachetS in all.
Covers also will bear the date stamp
of the receiving Office at the end of
the flights.
Self-addressed covers should be
forwarded, prepaid, to the postmasters
at the two terminal points and should
bear an indication thereon as follows:
"Via Special Airmail Flight, Sydney
Halifax" or Via Special Airmail
Fight, Halifax-Sydney," whichever is
desired and marked as to the day they
are to be dispatched.
The new Canadian airmail stamp
issued June l will be used upon re-
quest. Remit cents for each cover
and make postal money order payable
to the receiver general of Canada. The
local post Office should be consulted as
to exchange rates.
Last day counter sales of the "Far-
ley issue" exceeded $4,000 and over
5000 mail orders were received in the
Philatelic Agency, June IS.
Collectors now may purchase the
migratory-bird hunting stamp in un-
limited quantities and unafixed to
hunting licenses or Federal certificates.
The new law making this effective was
approved by President Roosevelt June
IS. These stamps are available at
post offices at 81 each, either singly,
in block, or in full sheets of % sub
jects. As previously announced, the
current issue will be withdrawn from
sale at the close of business next Sat
urday and on July l the 1886 edi-
ton will be released.
The special 5O-cent Graf Zeppelin"
air mail stamp, issued October 2, 1888,
was removed from the Philatelic
Agency sales list June Is. Originally
listed as commemorative, an order
later was issued classifying it as an
airmail stamp. Because OF its high
value and limited use cancelled copies
are scarce ard command sale price
of AS cents.
The total printing order was for g.
100000 copies.
Victor S. McCloSkey, designer Of
most of the recent United States
stamps, is engaged in drawing the
design for the American Philatehc
Society convention poster label.
No further issues of commemora-
tive stamps are contemplated for this
wear; however, it is expected that a
neW-value airmail stamp will be pro-
duced in connection with the opening
of airmail service between the United
States and Hawaii.
Second Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Harllee Branch, in charge of air.
mail, stated this last week that there
is no doubt in my mind that trans
Pacific service is at hand and think
it will be only short time before aiS-
lines will circle the world"
An initial rate of 81 for the Hawaii
service is proposed by Mr.. Branch.
Costa Rica has issued new stamp
commemorating the 50th anniversary
of the inception of the Red Cross. The
stamp is an upright pictorial, 10-cent
carmine rose, and was released In san
Jose on May 80.
There will be no vacation from
stamps if other Summer resorts follow
the plan of a popular New Jersey col
ony. The ocean City News Bureau
has issued a statement that the larger
hotels and realtors are financing "The
Associated Philatelists of Ocean City"
having as it's objects the prosecution
of philatelic research; the accumu-
lation and dissemination of philatelic
information, and the assistance OF
others engaged in a like work.
The Rip Van Wrinkle Stamp Club
will sponsor cachet in connection with
the opening of the Rip Van Winkle
Bridge across the Hudson River at
Catskill, N. Y, July 2. Standard size
covers, unsealed and unstufted, SELF
addressed and stamped may be sent
to William F. Miller, secretary, 413
Main street, Catskill, N. Y. Inclose
S cents per cover for forwarding.
In a letter recently received from
James Waldo Fawcett, he tells the
following interesting story Of the ex-
perience of an American collector IN
search of a stamp shop in Amster-
dam:
"An American collector, accom-
panied by an Australian friend,
recently visiting Amsterdam, inquired
of a police officer for direction to a
stamp shop they had seen from
tram car in which they were riding.
But the officer was one of the few
members of the city guard who knows
no English, and he therefore politely
escorted the strangers to the station
house where an inspector listened at
tentively to a second recital of their
problem.
"The American described the build
ing as he had glimpsed its facade in
passing, and the inspector wrinkled
his brow In an effort to identify it.
Two plain clothes detectives then
were called into consultation, and
they IN turn were followed by 10 or
q dozen other stalwarts of the force
until the room was literally filled
with a good-natured throng of men,
one of whom produced a vast detail
map of the city in an endeavor to
help.
Constant repetition Of the word
stamps brought out an accumula-
ton which one of the officers had
gathered-the owner wished to show
that he had some from America"
The June issue of Railroad Stories
records the information that more
than 40 countries have at one time
or another shown pictures Of their