Evening star., 1939-08-20

virate that brought Czecho- -Slovakia
into being
"A Slovakian astronomer. he be-
came French general in charge OF
Czecho-Slovakian legionnaires fight
ing on the French front. Later, he
went to Russia and Siberia to take
charge of Czech troops fighting in
the East.
The values and colors of the new
stamps are 40h, dark blue; 60h
olive green; TX, brown violet; and
ok, blue gray and brown"
Five stamps in homage to Jose
Trujillo Valdez, father of President
Trujillo, will be issued by the Do
minican Republic. The values will
be: &c, gray; 1c, green; Sc, sepia
7c, blue. and 10c, purple, each with
black border.
Muriel Nissen, writing for the Bell
Syndicate, says: Probably no other
country currently using postage
stamps is as little known to the
philatelist as Yeman. From 1926,
when its first stamps were issued. to
1881 a total output of % adhesives
was released. Now, after an inter-
lude of eight years, new stamp
series is about to appear The set,
consisting of six values, will be the
country's first pictorial sequence and
will be scenic in subject. Yeman is
an independent state in Arabia, un-
der native government since 1918,
following long period of Turkish
rule
1t is not generally known but it
happens to be true that the late
King George V was interested in
philately by his uncle, Prince Alfred,
Duke of Edinburgh The latter, a
son of Queen Victoria and Prince
Albert, was born August 6, 1874;
married Marie Alexandrovna, only
daughter of Alexander II, Emperor
of Russia, January %, 1874; sue
ceeded as Duke of Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha. August %, 1893, and died
July 30, 1900. His stamp collection
was comprehensive and valuable, and
he served for some years as hon.
orary president of the London Phila-
telic Society. He was the father of
Queen Marie of Rumania and the
grandfather of King Carol II, Queen
Elisabeth of Greece and Queen
Marie of Yugoslavia. all of whom
have been stamp enthusiasts at one
time or another.
August Dietz of Richmond, au-
thoritv on the stamps of the Con-
federate States and editor and pub
Usher of philatelic magazines for AZ
years, has announced that his Stamp
and Cover Collectors Review will
cease to appear" with the October
number "Philatelic publishing" he
says. lis losing venture, insofar
as pecuniary profits are concerned
I have been convinced of that fact
for some time. But with philately
as an ingrained hobby and a printery
at my command, it will be readily
understood that I offered little re-
sistance when the temptation came
to put into type the things wanted
to tell-knoWing that others would
not print them for me.
And 1 did have a few things to
tell. There was the story of the
stamps of the Confederacy, and, as
time went on. seemed to see the
need of catalogue of these stamps.
Many years were given to this re-
search and compilation, and my
stamp magazines became the vehicle
in which I finally passed them on
to American philately. With these
aims accomplished, there was little
left, save the fireside chats in which
We have been indulging. Now that
We have come to the end of the
trail and as look back on the long
years with their successes and their
failures, there stands out in bold
relief my life's greatest achieve
ment: the friends I have found
along the way through these pub
lications. They have compensated
fully for all the labor and the loss"
Mrs. William w. Jewett, wife of
the business manager of Mekeel's
Weekly Stamp News, died at her
home in Portland, Me-, July 81, aged