The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-04-17
Philatelic NezgS
Special Pfennig Stamps to Be Issued in Danzig- Sold in Blocks Only-Arctic Expedition Ship
 Gets Permission for P. O
By J. F. D

Two special 50 pig. (penny) stamps will be issued in Danzig it was announced during the past week. One will be for ordinary postal use and the other for air mail, They will be sold in blocks of four only, at double face value, during the Postal Exhibition which takes place in Danzig from June 6 to 8. It has also been announced that in Jugoslavia four special stamps will be printed on miniature sheets on the new TO- tary presses. They will be issued on the occasion of the National Philatelic Exhibition at Belgrade.
 The latest Commonwealth" stamps have been on sale since Monday. These stamps are the continuation of teh first Com monwealth" 0verprinted stamps. which have been on. sale since the latter part of December, last year.
 The first group of the Com monwealth" overprinted stamps. out since December, consists of the following denominations: 2-6- 1O-l6 and 30 centavos, and 1-peSO. Whereas, the second group of the same, which will be out on sale on Monday, will consist of the fol- lowing denominations: 4-S-l2-20 and 26 centavos, and 2-4 and g. pesos.
 The second group is divided into two parts, namely the Lower or the CentavO-V Values, and the highcr or the Peso-Values. The Lower or the CentAvo- Values will be sold in sets only at 5 cents per set (Face value in United States currency.
 The Higher or the Peso Values may be obtained singly, as fol- lows:
 The 2-peso stamp .......... SI.0v The 4-pes0 stamp .......... $2.OV The 5-pesO stamp .......... S|.oV
 Permission to establish ships post office and to carry mall OH board the three-maSted schooner "General A. w. Greedy" will be granted the MacGregor Arctic Expedition, which will Gall III June for two years study or meteorological conditions in the polar regions. Clifford J. Mac Gregor, who spent five years III Alaska O.. a similar mission and is now meteorologist of the United States Weather Bureau at Newark Airport, will be commander ana postmaster of the Expedition.
 Postcards with appropriate de- signs will be post-marked on board ship in the harbor of Fort Conger, on Elesnerle Island. be- cause the island is in Canadian territory. Only 800 miles south of the North Pole. this floating post office will be one of the north ernmoSt ever maintained by the United States. The cards will be postmarked on March 27, the an- niversary of the birth of General Greedy, who established Fort Con- ger as a base for his polar expedi- ton in 1881. They will reach the United States about October. 1888.
 The Greedy party was rescued in June, 1884, by Admiral Win- field Scott Schley. For this reason the cards will be franked with the four-cent Navy stamp which car- ries the picture of Admirals Schley, Sampson, and Dewey. The cachet depicts Schley resctiing General Greedy and seven other comrades. while the design on the reverse side comprises map of the polar regions wit hthe route of the MacGregor Arctic Expedition shown in dotted lines, and inserts of the schooner and Commander MacGregor. These cards will be $i.O0 including the stamp. and may be ordered from 0. J. Mac Gregor, Schooner General A. w. Greedy. Port Newark, N. J.
 The date of issue of the five cent Army and Navy stamps has not been decided as yet, accord ing to an announcement made at Pest office headquarters in Wash ingtOn. The design of these stamps Is almost complete and awaits thly the final approval of higher postal officials.
 From Washington also comes the news that the Phllatelic Agency has sufficient quantity of