Evening star., 1939-05-28


Washington Philatelic Society,
Norway. His collection, soon to
prizes In other cities.
W; SIR, Grand Duchess Marie Ade-
laide; 1Ofr, Grand Duchess Char
lotte.
Portraits of Puvis de Chavannes
and Claude Bernard, painters;
Claude Debussy, composer. and
Honore de Balzac, novelist, will ap-
pear on a new series of semi-postal
emissions of France.
David D. Caldwell, chairman of
the Postage Stamp Centenary Com
mittee, was the principal speaker
at Wednesday evenings meeting of
the Washington Philatehc Society,
Hotel Carlton. He read paper on
the Penny Black of Great Britain,
tracing its development from the
moment when it was approved by
the government until that of it's
release on May 6, 1840. In illus
tration of his text he displayed Sc
lected pages from his specialized
albums.
Other features of the program
were the presentation of certificates
to prize winners of the Oriole
Philatelic Society Exhibition, Bal
timore, by Morton o. Cooper, and
a brief talk on the new King George
vi coins of Canada by Herman
Bocorselski.
Those attending the meeting in
cluded Dr. Ellis Haworth. Mr.. M. G..
Skinner, Capt. Wilbur R. Van Au-
ken, Joseph A. Herbert, John K.
Hedler, Philip Simms Warren,
Theodore E. Forbes, William A.
Verhas, John R. Ewell, Alexander
Halperson, Alvin r. Meissner, Har-
old A. Kemp, Stanley H. Wright of
Atlanta, Gustave Bernd of Macon,
George T. Tavenner, j. Michael
Brown, Miss Irene M. Pistorio, Mr..
and Mrs. Alden H. Whitney and Mr..
and Mrs. Edward B. Martin.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Washington Philatelic Study
Club. held at the Hotel Washington
on Thursday evening. heard Mrs.
Grace L. MacKnight read paper
on women and Philately," and
James Waldo Fawcett a paper on
THE Early Stamps of France"
Among those present were: DR..
T. S. Palmer, DR.. Louis Caldwell
West, DR.. Emil Ferdinand, John S.
Petrie, Frederick L. Lewton, Miss
Dorothy r. Fisk, Miss Edith Mac
Donald, Mr.. and Mrs. D. Uyeno,
Mr.. Tavenner, Miss Pistorio, Mr..
and Mrs. Martin, Mr.. Caldwell and
Miss Loomis.
DR.. Skinner, as chairman, called
for "a moment of silence" at the
beginning of the meeting "in mem
ory of our countrymen lost of
Portsmouth, N. H., and in sympathy
for their loved ones"
DR.. Ferdinand, referring to an
Press Feature Service
story printed last Sunday, writes:
THE report that the Czech part Of
Czecho-S -Slovakia Bohemia and
Moravia) is using German stamps is
not in accord with the facts ana nv
personal experience. Czechia still
uses her old stamps. Germany has
not taken over the Czech postal
service. Czechia is the protectorate,
while Slovakia maintains her "inde-
pendence' and is regarded officially
as only an economic, political and
military ally of Germany. The
Slovakian postal system is not re-
lated to the German postal system" P"
Deputy Third Assistant Postmas-
ter General Roy M. North and Supt
Robert E. Fellers have returned
from Tulsa, where they attended
the first international convention
of the World Wide Philatelic Asso-
citation. Next year, they say, the
conclave will be held at Detroit.
According to the Ottawa Evening
Citizen, King George vi will carry
home with him an album contain
ing mint copies of about 300 Cana
dian stamps issued since confeder-
alton. The book is the gift of the
Dominion government.
The annual exhibition of the
Washington Federation of Junior
Stamp Collectors will open in the
observation room of Station VOL,
1927 K street NV, today.
Prize winners have been an.
nounced as follows:
Glass A, ages to 13 years: Grour
l, United States and possessions
Leonard KRISTEN, honorable men,
ton. Group 2, Latin American re-
publics-Dorothy Ellis, first; Harry
Ramsey, second. Group 3, European
countries-Dorothy Ellis, first; Fred
Spaulding, second, and Nathan
Rosenthal, third. Group 4. other
countries-No entries received.
Group 5, type and subject material
Ernest Wiley, honorable mention,
Glass B, ages IA to 18 years: Group
Frank Hermann, first; Robert
Hollingshead, second: Albert Valaer.
third. Group 2-Mac H. Sanborn.
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