Evening star., 1937-03-28

The latest Moscow productions are:
l0k, brown; 20k, blue green, and 40k,
red brown portrait of Pushkin with
symbolic decorations; 50k, blue; 80k,
red, and lR, green, Pushkin monument
with Tyre as background; l0k and 50k
values in special souvenir sheet, brown
brown.
Among the poets most widely cele-
brated works are Boris Godunov" and
"Eugen Onegin." He was sent into
exile for time for writing an "Ode
to Liberty" but his radicalism was
"only skin deep" and it is extremely
unlikely that he would have approved
Of communism.
The Washington Stamp Club Of the
Air has announced its sponsorship Of
an auction of philatelic material to
be held under the direction of John
R. Ewell at the Hotel Carlton, Six
teenth street, Friday evening. April Is.
Catalogues listing 200 lots of for
eign and domestic stamps and covers
may be had by application to Mr..
Ewell, Room 40, Bond Building.
France will bring out stamp in
homage to the memory of Jean Mer-
moz, the famous aviator who disap-
peared while making a South Atlantic
crossing.
Immediately after the release Of the
King George vi stamps of Great
Britain, all remainders showing the
portrait Of former King Edward VIII
will be withdrawn and destroyed.
The Baltimore American, Sunday,
March IA, constructively broke the
regulations against the illustration Of
stamp designs. A trans-Pacific cover
mailed at Guam on October ~. was
reproduced unmutilat3d.
Germany has released three new
air-defense stamps, inscribed "Luft-
schutz!" The design shows soldier
with a spear and shield. Values at
3pf, 6pf and l2pf.
The Franco regime in Spain is
bringing out q series of provisional
airmails for the Canary Islands.
For the International Fair at Buda-
pest, Hungary has produced six large
stamps of conventional modern design
-2f, deep orange; ST. apple green;
l0f, dark green: 2Of, deep rose car
mine; 32f, purple. and 4of, ultrama-
rine.
John G. Furst writes: Il suggest
that stamp collectors stage a sit-down
strike in Jim Farley's Office. A few
fanatics taking possession OF the
Philatelic Agency also might help"
Post Office Department officials con-
tinue to turn thumbs down on the
Indian series, but the final decision
rests with President Roosevelt.
John Drinkwater, British poet and
playwright, equally famous as a
philatelist, died on Thursday, aged 81.
An editorial in tribute to him was
printed in The Star the following day.
Specializing in the stamps and
covers of the Confederate States Of
America. but likewise interested In
the philatelic material OF all other
parts of the world, Mr. Drinkwater
was the winner of the 1881 cup of the
Philatelic Congress of Great Britain.
He contributed occasionally to the
stamp press and consistently lent to
philately the prestige of his celebrated
name.
The Washington Stamp Club of the
Air will meet from Station VOL to-
morrow evening at 8:45. Albert F.
Kunze, leader, will discuss the historic
aspect Of philately.
The Washington Collectors Club,
Branch S, Society of Philatelic Ameri-
cans, will meet at the Thomson
School, Twelfth street. Tuesday eve
ming at 8. Members of the Washing
ton Air Mail Society will be guests Of
honor and speakers. The public Il
invited.
The Washington Philatelic Society
will meet at the Hotel Carlton. Six
teenth street, Wednesday evening at
:. Program arrangements call for an
auction under the direction of M. O.
Cooper. Visitors welcome.
The Washington Federation Of
Junior Stamp Collectors met in the
Warrington Board Of Trade rooms,
Star Building, yesterday afternoon,
and heard Gerard Ten Eyck Beck
man and Robert B. Patton, philatelic
writer, Camden Courier-Post, discuss
policies of collecting.
Phns for the annual exhibition OF
the federation were debated, and it
was announced that details OF ar
rangements for the show will be 70.
ported shortly.
Robert Btlsborough, president. pre-
sided.