Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-06
News the Phaec World Its Interests and PeopeRevew
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings.
Bv James Waldo Favceff.

program arrangements LOT Jne
fourth American Philatelic Con-
gress, Hotel Bond, Hartford, Conn,
Friday and Saturday, are announced
In final form as follows:
Friday, 9 am, registration; 10
to !, invocation by the Rev. H. K
Robinson, Simsbury, Conn; address
of welcome by Thomas j. Spellacy,
Mayor of Hartford; address by Post
master William J. Rankin; message
from President Franklin D. Roose-
welt; message from Secretary Of
the Interior Harold l.. Ickes; mes
sage from Third Assistant Postmas-
ter General Ramsey S. Black; greet
ings from Fred Melville, London;
Theodore Champion, Paris, and
others; reading of invited papers
and discussion; afternoon, bourse;
evening, auction.
Saturday, $50 am, Philatelic
Writers breakfast, Robert D. Byrnes,
stamp editor, Hartford Courant,
presiding; 10 to l. papers and dis
cussion: afternoon, bourse; 2 pm,
meeting of the Southern New Eng
land Federation of Stamp Clubs;
$50, national broadcast Centative) ::
7, banquet, informal, announcement
Of awards.
Supplementary meetings (time to
be decided, war covers group,
postal markings group.
Authors of papers participating
In the congress symposium are
Carter Glass, jr., president, Ameri-
can Philatelic Society; Harry L..
Lindouist, president, National Fed
Grafton of Stamp Clubs and editor
and publisher of Stamps and Advo-
cations magazines: David D. Cald-
we'll, chairman National Stamp
Conference of 1887; Henry Herbert
Huff, stamp editor, Rockford Star;
Elmer c. Pratt, stamp editor, Cam
den Courier-Post; DR.. Arthur Bevan,
State geologist of Virginia; the Rev.
Everett Stanley Lyon, Thompson,
Conn; Dr. Albert c. Schwarting,
Library of Congress; Prescott Holden
Thorp former editor SCOTS Month
ly Stamp Journal Lewis B. Sebring,
jr.. New York Herald Tribune: C.
Hercus Just. president, Collectors
Club OF Washington; Ralph E.
Smith, regional vice president,
Trans-Mississippi Stamp Club,
Omaha: Dr. John H. Buchness,
Baltimore; Gerard Ten Eyck Beck
man, Department of the Interior,
DR.. Alexander Wetmore, assistant
secretary, Smithsonian Institution;
William Irvine, Sd, winner of the
Junior trophy of the American
Philatelic Society, Darby, Pa; DR..
Lothrop Stoddard. foreign affairs
publicist; Paul Noble Peck, Treas
ury Departments. Frank L. Wilson,
Stamps Magazine. New York; C.
Brinkley Turner Philadelphia: John
w. Longnecker, former president.
Stamp Collectors Club of Hartford:
Philip H. Ward, jr., stamp editor,
st. Nicholas Magazine, Philadel-
phia, Capt. Wilbur R. Van Auken,
U. S. N: Charles A. Perstch, Balti-
more; DR.. Louis c. West, Cleveland;
Harry S. SWensen, Minneapolis:
Theodore j. Gundlach, Buffalo: l..
j. Shaughnessy, Sharon, Pa; Ernest
A. Kehr, former stamp editor, New
York World Telegram; L. B. Catch
ell, editor, c. M. A. section, Ameri-
can Air Mail Catalogue; R. L..
Cullum. secretary, Souvenir Issues
Association: George w. Anglers, sec
rotary, American Air Mail Society,
Springfield, Mass; Philip G.. Straus,
former president, Baltimore Phila-
telic Society; Thomas F. Armstrong.
IT,, Temple University, Philadelphia:
Norman r. Hoover, editor, Official
Precancel Catalogue; Edwin E.
Elkins, president, Balisea, Brooklyn,
N. Y. Herman Herst, jr.; j. Michael
Brown, Harry F. Dunkhorst, T. Rus
sell Hungerford, Albert F. Kunze.
DR.. Ellis Haworth and Mrs. Cathe-
rine l.. Manning.
The writer of the most interest
Ing paper will receive silver plate.
appropriately engaved
Held under the auspices of the
Stamp Collectors Club of Hartford
the management of the congress is
IN the hands OF committee headed
by Henry E. Gerrish.
A total of AZ stamps have been
Issued by foreign governments to
mark the sesquicentennial of the
Constitution of the United States.
Mrs. Grace L. MacKnight, editor
OF the monthly bulletin of the COL
lectors' Club of Washington, brave
ly declares: Its a great world if
you don't weaken. The mails must
60 through and in order to 20
through there must be stamps, even
IS stamps"