Evening star., 1938-12-18
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News the Phaec World Its Interests and PeopeRevew
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings.
By James Waldo Fazvceff.


at Toxic reports that the Japanese
government has established the So
called Japan Postage Stamp Society
Foundation" in an effort "to in
crease the government income by
selling japanese postal paper abroad.
Baron Koyo Mitsui will be chair
man, and Nobukatsu Nagaoka, chief
of the Post Office Bureau, managing
director. The institution" it is
explained, will undertake the fol-
lowing work: Propaganda abroad,
communication with various bodies
concerned abroad. publication of
magazines regarding postage stamps,
exchange of newly issued stamps,
introduction of new issues and the
like"
All of which, to say the least, is
a very frank expression of the latest
racket to be inflicted upon the inter-
national philatelic public. 1t is a
great pity that the plan was not
announced before the recent conven-
tions of the Society of Philatelic
Americans and the American Phil
atelic Society, both of which un-
fortunately declined to indorse the
boycott of speculative issues pro-
posed by the Swedish Philatelic
Society and approved by the Royal
Philatelic Society of London.
Ecuador Is reported to have issued
hve regular postage and five airmail
stamps in homage to athletes who
won distinction in the recent Bo-
livian Olympic games.
Three special stamps for the
Polish post office in Danzig have
been printed.
DR.. Clarence w. Hennen of Chi
cago, former president of the Ameri-
can Philatelic Society, won the. gold
medal at the international stamp
exhibition at Rio de Janeiro. Brazil,
Other American collectors captured
a total of SO awards.
Harry Axelson has been elected
president of the Stamp Collectors
Club of Hartford, Conn. He took
an active part in the Fourth Amer
lean Philatelic Congress in Novem-
Der and will enter upon his new
duties Immediately after the first of
the year.
The Post Office Department has
advertised for bids for auto-gyro
postal service between Camden,
N. j., and Philadelphia.
From Manila comes word that
the &c, &c. &c, 10c, 12c, 16c, 26c
and 30c Philippine Commonwealth
stamps have been overprinted 20. B."
for official business.
1rak announces new 1-fil violet
stamp showing a portrait of King
Ghazi.
New York stamp dealers have de-
cided not to undertake a boycott
of the stamps of Germany. Perhaps
their experience in the years be-
tween 1914 and 1919 guided them in
their refusal to match intolerance
with intolerance.
Alden, Trinidad and Tobago and
the Gilbert and Elnce Islands, all
British colonies, are to have new
stamps with pictorial designs.
Ralph e. Carpenter, member of
the Washington Philatelic Society,
has returned to the Capital after
another tour of duty at sea in ships
operating between New York and
Hamburg.
Seventy-two nations now belong
to the Universal Postal Union.
The Argentine Republic soon will
begin to produce stamps by photo
gravure processes.
Belgium announces four stamps
to publicize the new Albert Canal,
connecting Liege with Antwerp.
The proposed design for the stamp
to be issued in honor of King
George vi and Queen Elizabeth on
the occasion of their visit to the
United States shows the Union Jack
and the Stars and Stripes with SYM
bolic figures of Brittania and Co.
1umbia.
Collectors desiring copies of the
leaflet on postal history recently
Issued by the Post Office Depart
ment are invited to address Harold
r. Ambrose, chief of the Informa-
tion Bureau of the Department,
Pennsylvania avenue and Twelfth
street NV.
The first-day sales figures for the
new Theodore Roosevelt and William
Howard Taft stamps, issued Deem
bear g, have been made public as
follows: SOC, Roosevelt, 67,067
stamps, $20,12010; covers Cancelled,
43,528, of which 4,812 carried blocks
of four; SOC, Taft, 62,576 stamps,
$31,288; covers Cancelled, 41,984, of
which 1904 were franked with
blocks.
The Dominican Republic calls at
tention to the fourth centenary
of the University of Santo Domingo
in a series of four stamps repro
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