Evening star., 1936-12-06
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
The eyes of American stamp col
lectors this week end are turned
toward Ohio. At Akron yesterday and
today the seventeenth annual open
house meetings of the Rubber City
Stamp Club are being held, and al
Cleveland tomorrow and Tuesday the
second American Philatelic Congress
will be in session. Some of the most
widely celebrated of living students of
stamps are planning to attend both
affairs.
The Akron gathering program in
cludes: Saturday, registration, opening
of stamp exhibition at the Hotel
Mayfower. stamp bourse. ladies' en-
entertainment; Sunday, philatelic
breakfast, bourse and exhibition. D
Blake Battles, president of the club, is
In charge of arrangements.
The Cleveland assembly will be
called to order at the Hotel Statler
Monday morning. Eugene Klein, preSi-
dent of the American Philatelic So
ciety, will preside The list of papers
TO be read is as follows: Revenue
Stamped Documents of the Civil War
Period" by j. L. Bopeley; "Philatelic
wishful Thinking" Don E. Dickson;
"Side Lights on Airmail History"
Herbert H. Griffin, former president
Of the American Airmail Society;
"Recent Narrow-Gauge Railway Post
Ofices," Robert w. Richardson; THE
United States Issues of 1918-20-An
Explanation of the Offset Printing
Process" Michael F. Lybarger; POST
age Stamps Of the Leeward Islands, >
Michael J. Lloyd; George V Silver
jubilee Issues of the British Empire" ]"
George F. Manning: "Reconditioning
Old Covers" Perry M. Hobbs; Men,
Women and Children Whose Portraits
Have Appeared on the Postage Stamps
of the World" Milton r. Miller:
''Notes on United States No. 80 and
No. A Stamps" Leo Shaughnessy;
"Philatelic Literature" Ralph A. KIM
BILE, editor of the American Philatelist;
"Those Straight Edges You Discard"
Donald w. Martin; "Chicago-The
Stamps and Mail Service of the Pri-
vate Posts" DR.. Clarence w. Herman,
and Ethics of Philately," James,
Waldo Fawcett.
All sessions of the congress are open
TO the public, except the banquet to-
morrow evening and the philatelic
writer's breakfast Tuesday morning,
for which tickets are available at the
place of meeting.
To the author of the most interest
ing paper read, the Congress silver
plate, suitably inscribed, will be
awarded. A jury will make the selec-
tion after the material submitted has
been discussed in open forum"
The Congress bourse will be in full
swing both tomorrow and Tuesday all
day with Vance Holden of the Gar
field Perry Stamp Club in charge.
Mr.. Klein has explained the pur-
pose of the congress as being that of
bringing together representative
stamp students and amateur and pro-
the cultural aspect" of "the worlds
favorlte hobby"
c. Robert Kay, stamp editor Of the
Associated Press, reports from New
York: Speculation in postage stamps
succumbs to the inevitable with the
opening of philatelic exchange which
its sponsors say is modelled after the
New York Stock Exchange.
"A quotation board and conference
tables have been installed in a suite
of Offices at 119 Nassau street. Trad
ing will be confined to United States
stamps and the British Jubilee issues.
Nominal initiation fees and monthly
dues will be charged members of the
exchange for the privilege of buying
and selling at charge of l per cent
commission. Non-members will be
charged per cent on their transac-
tions."
Garner Curran suggests q Will