Evening star., 1938-05-08
Bv James Waldo Fauvcet

By James Waldo FasUceff,
Plans for the National Armail
Week celebration Of the Washington
Philatelic Society. Hotel Carlton. Six
teenth street, Wednesday evening,
May 18, continue to develop.
Those who have accepted invita-
tions to participate in the program
include Harllee Branch, Second As
sistant Postmaster General Charles
p. Graddick, superintendent of the
Division of Airmail Service, Post
Office Department: Vincent Burke.
city postmaster; James c. Edgerton.
World War and pioneer airmail pilot,
now research officer of the Bureau of
Air Commerce, Department of Com
merce; Roy Knabenshue, veteran di-
rigible flyer, Department Of the In
terror; Carter Glass, jr., president of
the American Philateic Society;
Francis B. Leech, past president Of
the American Airmail Society; Louis
Jay Heath, former president of the
Washington Airmail Society; Joseph
S. Edgerton, aviation editor Of The
Star; DR.. Ellis Haworth, Gerard Ten
Eyck Beeckman, Philip Simms Warren
and Miss Alice B. Cilley.
Among material exhibited will be
domestic and foreign issues, first
flights, Zeppelin rarities, Lindbergh
and Balbo tour souvenirs, autographed
covers. etc.
Members of the Washington Air
mail Society, the Baltimore Philatelic
Society ana other stamp groups have
been especially invited, but the general
public also will be welcome to attend
Readers interested in National Air
mail Week cachets are advised to
consult lists printed in Stamps Maga-
zine for May Z.
Maurice S. Petty, president Of the
Washington Airmail Society, will be
one Of the judges at the annual con-
vention of the American Armail So
ciety, Sumannee Hotel St. Peters,
burg, Fla, May IA to Is.
A feature of the Nations Capita
celebration Of national airmail week
will be the establishment of a tenn
porary flagship postal station at Penn
sylvania avenue and Fourteenth street,
where airpost stamps will be sold and
special markings applied during the
week between May is and 81.
The new Scent bi-color airmail
Issue will be released in Washington
on Sunday next. Among collectors.
1t already is known as the red Bird
stamp because of the scarlet color of
the eagle in the central motif. VIII
liam K. Schrage Is the designer.
Miss Elaine Rawlinson is announced
as the artist responsible for the half
cent Franklin and ~. cent Martha
Washington stamps. but in fact she
merely set the style" for them. John
Essler engraved the portrait of Poor
Richard and L. c. Kaufman that Of
the first First Lady Of the Land. The
lettering in both instances was done
by J. T. Vail
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
employees are working seven days a
week in q panic effort to keep abreast
Of the tide Of stamp production.
Prescott Holden Thorp, former man
aging editor OF Scott's Monthly Jour-
nal, has announced that he will es-
tablish an Independent stamp busi-
ness at Los Angeles.
Albania brought out a series Of
stamps to mark the wedding Of King
zog and Countess Geraldine Apponyi
April ~. The values are: !, 2, 5, 10,
IS. Is, so qind and l franc.
The two Austrian "anschluss"
stamps, issued to commemorate "re-
union" with Germany, differ as fol-
lows: Those printed at Vienna, sheets
OF SO, thick paper, no watermark,
perforation 12.5, formal size 2l.5 by
rs mn., color deep green: those printed
at Berlin, sheets of 100, thin paper,
watermarked swastika, perforation IA,
AVA o4NS Cd ny 30 HILL, COlOl
green.
Australian philatelists have urged
the National Parks series of the
United States as models for q new
scenic series for the commonwealth.
Mrs. Grace L. Mcknight, editor Of
the Bulletin Of the Washington COL
1ectors' Club, writes in the May issue
OF her sparkling monthly paper:
George Washington has turned green,
blue green, yellow green, all colors of
green, trying to look like the former
King OF England >. But who cares?"
The 2-cent John Adams denomina-
ton OF the presidential series is sched-
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