Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-09
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCErr.

BY JAMES WALDO FAWCElI.
The Post Office Department off,
cial list Of United States stamps, fully
illustrated, may be published within
the next fortnight. 1t was learned
yesterday that five revisions of proof
have been made and that actual print
ing is scheduled to begin Immediately
after final check-up. There will be
l19 pages Of text and 483 cuts. Con-
trary to expectation. it is indicated
that privately manufactured issues
from 1847 to 1893 are included Reve-
nue. productions also will be described
and reproduced. The price of the
booklet probably will approximate so
cents. Copies will be available at the
Office Of the superintendent of docu-
ments, Government Printing Office.
Postmaster General James A. Farley
soon will announce three stamps Of
a character as yet unreported.' One
Is rumored to be intended to adver-
tise professional nurses organizations;
another may be Boy Scout publicity
label.
New stamps for trans Atlantic air
mail also are being discussed.
The disaster to the Zeppelin Hind
enburg at Lakehurst Thursday eve
ming created furry Of speculation in
covers carried by the ship on her 10
crossings OF the Atlantic last year.
Demand was general, supplies scant
and prices, consequently, rose Friday
and yesterday beyond all reasonable
expectation.
Meanwhile, covers carried by Clip
per plane to Macau and Hongkong
April 81 to % reached their respective
destinations safely; and covers brought
back to the United States from the
same points were delivered to ad-
dresses Floyd Walleker, Washington
collector. is one of very few persons
who arranged for round-trip mark
ings. He has two covers with United
States stamps Cancelled at San Fran
cisco. Hongkong stamps Cancelled at
that terminus and return Endorsement
at San Francisco May 4. Each en-
velope bears two cachets, westward
and eastward bound.
Howard S. Olmstead, IT., of Alex
andria, specializing in airmail covers.
mas arranged round-the- world
ASans9e system of his own. His en-
velopes were flown across the Pacific.
now are In en- route to Paris and will
be forwarded from that city to Wash
1ngton by the first trans Atlantic
carrier to make the trip under the
contract shortly to be awarded by the
Post Office Department.
Recent developments suggest rapidly
growing interest in the projected con-
ference between Government officials
and representative philatelists. Dis
cussing the plan, Elmer C. Pratt,
stamp editor Of the Camden Courier
Post, writes: collectors must bear in
mind that the Post Office Department
Is now producing stamps for the pur-
pose OF ranking mail How long
these stamps will last, how they are
perforated, so long as they are sep
arateo from their fellows and how
beautiful they are, in reality are
secondary considerations.
However these collectors do spend
about sl0,000,OOO year, for which
they demand no mail service and thus
do enter the picture and become the
Governments best customer, as the
sales to them show almost 100 per
cent profit. That's worth going after
in any business.
1T Is quite possible that the con-
ference, If the problems are ap-
preached in an open and frank man
ner by both sides, may give us not
only stamps that will frank mail, but
also stamps well conferred, well
printed-and printed on lasting paper
that can be collected and preserved