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tended for the Post Once Department
ana Will not be available to the public.
Among the books presented To the
White House library by the American
Booksellers Association was The
Stamp Collectors Round Table" by
81 philatelic authors, published by
Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York
City.
Collectors Of Canal Zone stamps are
urged to write to the postmaster at
Balboa Heights for copies of q fasci.
mating booklet describing the perma-
nent, provisional and temporary Is
sues since 1928. There is no charge
for the pamphlet.
James B. Hatcher, stamp feature
editor of the Associated Press. remarks
that during 1887 France and Cuba
joined the list Of fast producers Of
trivial or scarcely necessary commem.
oratives."
Adolphe Menjou, movie star and
stamp collector, has received so many
letters from strangers offering to buy.
sell or exchange philatelic material
that he has been obliged to announce
that he can correspond only with per-
sons he knows or who are recon-
mended by intimate friends.
Philip H. Ward, jr., has appealed to
President Roosevelt for stamp to
commemorate the dedication OF the
Franklin Institute Museum, Phila-
delphia, May 10.
The Washington Airmail Society,
meeting at the Hotel La Fayette. Six
teenth street, Monday evening. heard
an address by Harry Frantz on aero
nautical literature and elected the
following officers for 1888: Maurice
S. Petty, president: Ralph Cole. vice
president; Miss Alice Cilley. secretary.
treasurer and c. H. Vaughan, sales
manager
Charity was the keynote Of the
Christmas program of the Washing
ton Collectors Club. meeting at the
Thomson School. Twelfth street. Tues
day night Nearly 200 cans of food
were collected as tickets of admis-
sion for distribution to the poor, $40
representing the proceeds of an auc-
ton was turned over to the Salvation
Army and S35 derived from sale OF
British Jubilee stamps was given to
fund to buy shoes for needy children.
C.. Hercus Just, president, was chair
man and Ernest A. Grant acted the
role of Santa Claus. Prizes were
awarded for the detection of one
counterfeit in an entire frame Of
genuine stamps exhibited. A supple
mentary feature was display Of DAN
ish Christmas seals. The meeting
room was decorated with Christmas
trees and garlands.
The Washington Philatelic Society
and the washington Federation of
Junior Stamp Collectors held joint
Christmas party at the Hotel Carlton.
Sixteenth street. Wednesday evening,
with Philip Simms Warren exhibiting
and describing his collection of Christ
mas stamps and seals and Albert F.
Kunze telling the story of the Christ
of the Andes on the boundary line
between the Argentine Republic and
Chile. Miss Christine Kelley, child
artist, played compositions by Mem
delssohn and Chopin. Miss Mollie
Lewis conducted a philatelic Prof. Quis
contest and awarded prizes for correct
answers, Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman
staged stamp story competition with
prizes for the most interesting phila-
telic experiences related, there was an
exhibition of Christmas stamps and
philatelic photographs and stamps and
covers were distributed as gifts to all
boys and girls attending
| Mrs. Catherine L. Manning. phila.
| telic curator of the Smithsonian In
| stitution. former vice president Of
! the American Philatelic Society and
now a vice president Of the Washing
ton Philateiic Society, has been named
| to the Committee of Honor for the
International Philatelic Exhibition at
Praha, Czechoslovakia, next summer.
Catalogues for the auction of stamps
and covers sponsored by the Wash
ington Stamp Club of the Air. Hotel
Carlton, Friday evening. January Z,
may be had by application to John
r. Ewell, 4l0 Bond Building.
Otho Larkin Rogers, Philatelic agent
Of the Post Office Department, will be
guest Of honor and principal speaker
at the Washington Philatelic So
ciety, Wednesday evening, January S.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows: Tomorrow evening
at 7:30 from Station VOL, Washing
ton Stamp Club of the Air. Mr..
Kunze will speak on: "The Christmas
Story as Reflected in Stamps
Tomorrow evening at 7:30 Wood
ridge Stamp Club, Public Library, 2206
Rhode Island avenue NE. Christmas
party. Members requested to bring
stamps or covers to be given as
prizes.
Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock,
Capital Precancel Club. room 6, Thom-
son School, Twelfth street. Program,
exhibition and bourse.
Tuesday evening at 8. Collectors
Club of Washington, Thomson School.
Program, exhibition, auction and
bourse.
Wednesday evening at 8, Washing
ton Philatelic Society, Hotel Carlton,
Sixteenth street. Program devoted to
France and colonies. Paper by James
Waldo Fawcett, exhibition of stamps
and covers by Alden H. Whitney and
others.
All meetings are open to the public
and cordial welcome is assured to
visitors.
STAMPS.