Evening star., 1937-01-24
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCErr.

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
Inauguration day confirmed Frank
I'm D. Roosevelt, the Nations mos
widely celebrated stamp collector. ir
the presidency. His second induction
into the highest Office within the gift
Of his countrymen was witnessed by
three philatelic members Of his cab.
inet-Secretary of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes, Secretary Of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, jr., and Post
master General James A. Farley
Other stamp-m minded officials of his
administration are: Karl A. Crowley
solicitor of the Post Office Depart
ment; william L. Slattery. controller
Of the Post Office Department.: Johr
e. Lamiell, director Of the division ol
international postal service; Robert
E. Fellers, superintendent Of the di-
vision Of stamps; Burton G. Cowles
superintendent of the division of dead
letters and dead parcel post; Nelson
B. Vented, superintendent of the
classification division: Harold F. Am
brose, chief of the Post Office Pub
Ncity Bureau; David A. Salmon, chief
OF the division Of communications and
records, Department of State; Gerard
Ten Eyck Beeckman, editorial assis-
tant, Office Of Indian Affairs; Frank
A. Bickert. Home Owners Loan Corp.
David D. Caldwell. Department of JUS
tice, and Harry A. Fox, Treasury De-
partment.
The President. as The Star reported
Thursday, spent the evening Of
Inauguration day working over his
albums. Tired from the exertions Of
morning and afternoon, he had re-
course to his favorite hobby for the
relaxation he needed-and the story
Of his choice went round the world
to advertise philately!
Within perhaps only "a hours the
Post ONCE Department will announce
two stamps for trans-Pacific airmail
use. They are Of the same design as
the 25-cent Clipper ship issue of 1885,
and the values will be: 20-cent, blue,
and 5o-cent, carmine.
It Is understood that the depart
ment has requested the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing to prepare de-
signs for the first of the projected
insular stamps. There will be one
issue for Alaska, one for Hawaii, one
for the Virgin Islands and one for
Puerto Rico. But the denomination
has not yet been decided 1t may be
4 cent or 3 cents. Also, additional
values, to appear toward the end Of
the year, are forecast.
Representative Sol Blooms appeal
for stamps for the Sesquicentennial of
the Constitution probably will result
in the authorization of three COM
memoratives-1 cent, cents and
cents. They should be brought out
during the coming Summer.
Representative White Of Ohio has
introduced a bill calling for stamp
in tribute to the memory of Horace
Mann, educational reformer.
President Roosevelt has been asked
b intervene in behalf of better first
day cancellation service. Thousands
Of covers were ruined by clerks in the
City Post Office and the Benjamin
Franklin Station when the 2-cent
Army and Navy stamps went on sale
Friday, January IS, and Postmaster
Vincent c. Burke. without advance
notice. ordered multiple mailings ma
chine Cancelled. Examples of such
mishandling were sent to the White
House with an appeal for the Presi-
dents interest in the problem.
A checklist of the postage stamps
issued during President Roosevelt's
first term, March 4, 1893. to January
20. 1887. shows the following: Sc,
Newburgh; 1c. Century of Progress;
Sc, Century Of Progress; Sc, N. r. A;
&c, Kosciusko; Soc, Graf Zeppelin;
SO, Byrd; Sc, Maryland; &c, Mothers
day. flat-bed press; &c, Mothers day,
rotary: &c, airmail; Sc, Wisconsin; 1c,
&c, SC, &c. SC, &c, &c, &c. &c and 10c,
National Parks: 16c, steel blue airmail-
special delivery; Sc. Connecticut; Sc,
San Diego; Sc, Boulder Dam; Sc,
Michigan; Csc, trans-Pacific; Sc, Ar
kansas; SC, Rhode Island; &c, electric
eye; Sc, Oregon; Sc, Anthony; Ice,
bicolor airmail-special delivery; 1c,
Army; 1c, Navy; &c, Army, and &c,
Navy. Also souvenir panes-1c, Gen.
t,ry Of Progress; SC, Century Of Prog
ress; SC, Byrd; 1c and SC, National
Parks; and Tipex.
Special reprints Of the Farley gift
sheets. sold at the Philatelic Agency
from March Is to June IS, 1885, were:
Be, Newburgh; SC, Byrd; SC, Mothers
day: SC, Wisconsin; 1sc. steel blue air.
delivery; 10 different de-
Of National Parks and
i've souvenir panes-20 varieties In all.
Counting the unique gummed and
rarities given to friends by
the Postmaster General, the total
of distinctive issues from Mr..
first Inauguration up to the
time Of his second was 106-46 regu-
lar; 20 reprints; 20 gift sheets
gummed; 20 gift sheets ungummed.
One collector Is known to possess
the entire series complete.
When the first United States stamps
were distributed in 1847, shipments
Of both the Scent and the 10-cent
denominations were made to the fol-
lowing cities: Washington, New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore,