Evening star., 1936-12-06

SSueQ JOT the johannesburg IN
I. Star Staff Photo.
Rogers-Wiley Post airmail stamp in
| two colors to raise money for "a
fitting memorial to the comic phi
losopher and the world flyer who died
| in an Alaskan crash in 1885.
DR.. Warren G. Atwood, Fall River,
Mass, has located the original design
of the Scent trans-M Mississippi stamp
of 1898. showing Fremont on the
Rocky Mountains" 1t was found in
the Memoir of the Life and Public
Services of John Charles Fremont"
by John Bigelow, 1856.
A flood of appeals for free mailing
privileges for private organizations
and institutions will pour into Con-
gress shortly
The Roger Williams Rhode Island
commemorative now is available pre-
cancelled for Pawtucket.
Part of the agitation for the So
called neglected" Presidents series
of stamps is reported to be coming
from descendants of the men sched-
uled to be honored. But James Bu-
chanan. who never married, also has
supporters for his presumptive inclu-
sion in the set. The bachelor states
man who vainly tried to prevent the
Civil War still is admired in Penn
sylvania, if not elsewhere.
Rumors-nothing more-say that
the present trans-Pacific Clipper Ship
service will be extended to China next
month. A new stamp, perhaps 90
cent value, is indicated.
r. N. Elliott, acting controller gen.
eral, has ruled that the expense of
first-day sales services cannot be
charged against the 1887 Post Office
Department appropriation for "the
manufacture and distribution of
stamps and stamped paper" The
necessary money, it seems, must be
found elsewhere.
Charges that the Post Office De-
partment is discriminating against
airline operators and reaping large
profit on airmail to the prejudice Of
the aviation industry are to be con-
sidered by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Credit for the Governments change
of policy in the matter of the illustra-
tions law should go to Carter Glass,
jr, and Hugh NJ Southgate, repre-
senting the American Philatelic So
ciety. They conferred with President
Roosevelt and won his consent to lib
eralization. Announcement of the
projected illustrated edition of the
official Description of the United
States Postage Stamps" followed.
Complete notification by Congress is
anticipated in the Spring.
The Four L. Lumber News Of Port
land, Oreg, has broken the prohibi-
tion against the reproduction of stamp
designs by printing pictures of en-
velopes bearing current issues.
The initial printing of the first two
of the Army and Navy series of stamps
will take place at the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing late this week,
with officials of the War, Navy and
Post Office Departments planning to
attend special ceremonies being ar
ranged by Director Alvin w. Hall.
Because of the national character
of the new stamps, the demand for
covers bearing first-day cancellations
probably will exceed any previous
issue. Slated for release here on De-
cember IS, the 1-cent Army and 1-cent
Navy stamps will be placed on sale
generally the following day. Other
values of the set of 10 stamps will be
issued as rapidly as designs can be
prepared.
At the Benjamin Franklin Postal
Station Supt. Herbert e. Reilly has
completed arrangements to relieve the
already overcrowded condition which
prevails on Government pay days by
assigning special detail of clerks to
care for the sale of the new stamps.
Room 1445 in the Thirteenth street
corridor has been designated as the
exclusive place of sale, and special
cancelling machines will be operated
by experts in servicing first-day covers.
Likewise, at the City Post Office
sales of the Army and Navy stamps
will be confined to special windows.
Already between $4,000 and $4,000
covers have been received at the main
office, and as soon as the stamps are
available q staff Of Is clerks will en-
gage in afixing the stamps, prepara-
tory to first-day mailing
The National Museum will be open
tomorrow evening to permit the public
to view the display of stamps ar
ranged by the Collectors Club. The
entrance on Constitution avenue only
will be open.
Kent B. Stiles, q member of the
Washington Philatelic Society, is to
be editor of new philatelic monthly,
the Popular Stamp Review.
Private printers marks are to be
found on the 1886 Christmas Seals. Is
follows: s for Strobridge Lithograph
o.; D for Edwards d Deutsch, = tor
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