Evening star., 1935-09-08
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

By JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
President Roosevelts comment on
former President Herbert Hoover's ap-
plication for membership in the Amer
lean Philatelic Society and the Wash
!ngton Philatelic Society was: That
Is f1ne!"
Postmaster General Farley has gone
on record as favoring stamp in
memory of Will Rogers and Wiley
Post. An announcement may be re-
leased at any moment.
A Boulder Dam stamp also is def
nitely forecast.
Other suggestions under considera-
ton are for stamps for the centenary
of Mark Twain and for the bi-centen-
ary of John Adams.
The Overland Stage Coach Club
Walnut, Calf, wants a stage coach
stamp, and the California Postmasters
Association has seconded the motion.
Harry NJ Konwiser, philatelic critic,
believes that the Farley reprints should
be catalogued. The original gift is
sues, also, it seems, should be listed.
They meet all the ordinary require
ments, were sold and postally used
and have at least one very special
claim for recognition.
The original gift stamps, printed
from new plates, unspoiled, show
clear-cut lines. The details of the
reprints, made from plates worn and
marred, are muddy" Differences may
be detected with recourse to glass.
Faxed pre-cancels of the 1-cent
Parks stamp are in circulation. They
are overprinted, Montpelier, VT"
The jubilee stamps of Great Britain
will be demonitized December 81.
A dispatch from London says:
memories of Robert Louis Stevenson
are conjured up by new and pic
tureSque series of stamps bearing for
the first time the official designation
of the New Zealand inundated por-
ton of the group, Western Samoa.
The stamp vignettes are finely en-
graved with local scenes, including a
view of Stevenson's home, Vailima'
Cuba announces a series to COM
hemorate the revolution of 1888. VAL
ues will include 1c, green, Peace and
Labor; &c, carmine, Alma Mater 4c,
magenta, Torch; SC. blue, Independ-
ence; &c, olive, Messenger of Peace;
ioc, orange red, Triumph of the Revo-
luton; SC, airmail, violet, Lightning,
and 10c, airmail, orange, Wandering
Wing.
Poland has a beautiful new issue,
showing the M. S. Pilsudski of the
olish-American Line in the port of
Gdynia The value is Is gr., deep
blue green.
Brazil announces new airnail stamps
Of the values 10000 r., 10000 r. and
$4,000 r. Also. four commemorative
for the Battle of Farawilos. and q
child welfare stamp, 200 r. face.
The 1885 Pro-Juventute stamps Of
Switzerland will portray three girls OF
the cantons of Basle, Lucerne and
Geneva, and-on the 30c value-the
philosopher Stefano Francini.
Portugal and her colonies will have
commemorative to celebrate the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the re-
public.
Italy will bring out a series for the
centenary of the composer, Vincenzo
Bellini. There will be six regular
and three airmail values
Belgium announces stamp to mark
the Inauguration or conservation of
the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, at
tended by the papal nuncio and King
Leopold III.
Ceylon has a new pictorial-30c,
deep green and brown red-showing
a body of water described in label
as Ancient Irrigation Tank"
Another bridge stamp is proclaimed.
1t will be issued by the Mozambique
Co., and will show the new span over
the Zambese River.
Spain will have two stamps-10 and
15c-for an international philatelic
exposition, Madrid, April, 1886.
The Belgian Congo has issued seven
4dISC cIdlilPo w AiaA oAAC
f1ftieth anniversary of the establish
ment of the colony. An identic de-
sign shows portraits of Kings Leo
pold !. Leopold II, Albert I and Leo
pold III. Denominations are: SOC,
blue green; LAST, claret; 1.50f, violet
brown: 2.4of. brown orange; 250f,
light blue; At, violet, and ST, dull brown
all recess printed on buff paper.
Silver Jubilee stamps of the colony
Nauru are regular issues. surcharged
in black, His Majesty's Jubilee. 1910
1885" Values are: lid, red; I'd,
orange; 21ad, slate blue, and 1sh,
brown red.
Yugoslavia will have a memorial
series in tribute to the late King
Alexander. There will be five values
Esp, Tsp, 1.50d, 1.75d and 3.5od, and
the designs will have for their central
motif an equal number Of portraits
Of the sovereign.
According to Richard Tobias, the
following stamps show Indians: l-cent,
Columbian Exposition. 1893, Indian
brave and Indian mother and child;
2-cent, same series. Indian peering
from behind a tree; 10-cent, same
series. group of Indians at the court
OF Queen Isabella. 1-cent, tranS-MlS-