Evening star., 1938-05-15
BvJameS Waldo FaWCeff.

The philatelic aspect Of National
Airmail Week in the Nations Capital
will be, centered in a meeting of the
Washington Philatelic Society at the
Hotel Carlton, Sixteenth street, We'd
nesoay evening.
Speakers who have accepted in
vitations to address the gathering
include: Harllee Branch. Second
Assistant Postmaster General; Charles
p. Graddick, superintendent of the
Division of Airmail Service, Post Office
Department; Vincent Burke, city post
master; James c. Edgerton, World
War and pioneer airmail pilot. now
research officer of the Bureau of Air
Commerce, Department of Commerce;
Roy Knabenshue, veteran dirigible
pilot, Department of the Interior;
Paul H. CARRIER. Smithsonian In
stitution; Nils H. Randers-Pehrson,
Library of Congress; Carter Glass, jr.,
president of the American Philatelic
Society; Francis B. Leech, former
president of the American Airmail
Society; Louis Jay Heath, past presi-
dent of the Washington Airmail So
ciety; Joseph S. Edgerton, aviation
editor of The Star; Gerard Ten Eyck
Beeckman and Albert F. Kunze.
Miss Alice B. Cilley, secretary and
treasurer of the Washington Airmail
Society; Miss Elsie Louise Holtgreve,
treasurer of the Washington Fedora
ton of Junior Stamp Collectors; Alden
H. Whitney, regional vice president of
the Society of Philatelic Americans;
DR.. Ellis Haworth, Philip Simms War
ren and David H. Davenport will be
among the exhibitors. They will show
foreign and domestic airpost stamps
and covers of historic significance.
The members of the Washington
Airmail Society and the Baltimore
Philatelic Society have been especially
invited to attend and the general pub
lie also is assured of cordial welcome
The new 6-cent "red bird" airmail
stamp went on sale at Dayton. Ohlo'
and st. Petersburg, Fla, yesterday
and will be available in Washington
today. Collectors may apply at the
CITY Post Office, the Benjamin Frank
lin Station or the temporary Flag Ship
Station at Pennsylvania avenue and
Fourteenth street.
Official confirmation of June n as
the date and Wilmington, Del, the
place for first-day sale of the Swedish
Finnish tercentenary commemorative
has been received. The stamp, as
already announced, will be 3-cent
value, square in formal, and will show
a reproduction of Stanley Arthurs'
painting, Landing of the Swedes and
the Firms"
The 3-cent Thomas Jefferson stamp
of the new regular series will be re-
leased in Washington exclusively on
Thursday, June l6.
A representative group OF American
musicians has appealed to Postmaster
General James A. Farley to author
lie a stamp in tribute to Francis Scott
Kew, author of The Star Spangled
Banner" Their petition bears the
signatures of Walter Damrosch, Ferde
Grope, Horace Heidi, Kay Kyser, Ben
Bernie and Abe Lyman.
Stamps and covers to the number OF
119 lots will be sold at the annual
auction of the Division Of Dead Letters
and Dead Parcel Post room 3O63,
City Post Office Building, North Cap
ital and G streets, Thursday evening
at 8 o'clock.
James Waldo Fawcett was reelected
president of the Washington Philatelic
Society at the annual meeting held at
the Hotel Carlton Wednesday evening.
Serving with him will be: John r.
Ewell, first vice president; David D.
Caldwell, second vice president; j.
Michael Brown, secretary; Philip
Simms Warren. treasurer; Miss Irene
M. Pistorio, librarian; Gerard Ten
Eyck Beeckman, auctioneer; Edward
B. Martin, sales circuit manager; DR..
Ellis Haworth, William c. Bond, H. M.
Southgate and Morton o. Cooper,
members of the board of governors.
A feature of the meeting was the
presentation of an engraved table
mirror to Mrs. Catherine L. Manning,
retiring second vice president.
Twenty years ago today the famous
24-cent airmail invert appeared. 1t
was a sensation then and is still, per-
haps always will be. The current
market value of a single specimen is
approximately $4,000.
The National Airmail Week exhibi-
ton of the Smithsonian Institution
opened yesterday in the Aircraft Build
ing, Independence avenue and Tenth
street. Among material on display are
many frames of airpost pictures,
stamps and covers.
Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman will be
guest of honor and principal speaker
at meeting of the Wilmington, Del.
Y. M. c. A. Stamp Club tomorrow
evening.
The postmaster at Arlington, Va,
announces a special cachet for Ma
tional Airmail Week. 1t shows the en-
trance to the national cemetery and
bears appropriate inscriptions.
A 15-page compilation illustrating
the many price changes in the Old
Type Bureau Print Precancels occurring
IN the 20 different editions of the
Mitchell-Hoover catalogue has ,been
prepared by the Precancel Clearing
House, 1913 Market street, Newark,
N. j., and copies are available to COL
lectors at cost-10 cents in stamps or
coin.
STAMPS.