Evening star., 1939-10-01
By D. Fl. Davenport.


8, and at Olympia. Wash, the new
commemorative will be sold for the
first time on November IL.
In order to conform to the varia-
ton in the dates of admission, the
sales of the new stamp at the three
flrst-named places will be restricted
to one day on the respective ami
versary dates. It will then be with
drawn from sale until November 13,
on which date it will be made avail
able at the Philatelic Agency and at
post Offices throughout the county.
Ofncial first-day cancellations will
be identified by special markings in
the cancelling bars. At Bismarck the
postal slogan will be North Dakota
Admitted to Union-November 3,
1889" Similar dies will be furnished
the postmasters at the other three
Offices.
First-day sales of the printing
press commemorative stamp at the
New York post office last Monday
amounted to s30,340.77, representing
1,0l1.359 stamps
Herbert S. Chamberlin of the Di-
vision of Stamps supervised the Serv-
icing of 295,370 first-day covers.
This week has been designated by
Postmaster General James A. Farley
as National Letter. Writing Week,
the motivating purpose of which is
to bring to the attention of every
possible letter writer the fact that
he or she may be behind in their
own correspondence.
Postmasters have been instructed
to exert every effort in an attempt
to stimulate greater use of the
mails during this period. The key
to this years drive is David Manley's
Phantom Letter" which is being
publicized prominently at the As. 1000
post offices throughout the county.
Mr.. and Mrs. William F. Hoppe,
both active members of the Col
1ectors' Club, are moving to Nor
folk, Va, where Mr.. Hoppe will
be associated with the Maritime
Commission.
Many collectors are wondering
Just what effect the war will have
on the plans made to celebrate the
one-hundredth anniversary of the
postage stamp In London, England,
next May
Harry l.. Lindquist, editor of
Stamps magazine. is of the opin-
ion that it will be impossible to hold
the centennial exposition in London.
and suggests fitting observance in
this country.
In an editorial appearing in the
current issue of his weekly, Mr..
Lindquist says: Even if the war
were to end within comparatively
short time. 1t would be very diff
cult to gather up the scattered
threads on short notice and put over
an exhibition of the scope that was
planned.
"As a consequence, if we accept
the premise that London will be un-
able to carry out their plans for a
centenary exhibition. the question
arises as to whether we should not
do something in this country to
carry out the idea.
The centenary is of internation-
al interest and importance to all
stamp collectors, and while Lon
don would have been the logical
place in which to hold such a cele-
bration, there seems no reason why
the entire project should be aban-
doned just because London is unable
to 60 through with it.
I'VE believe that some celebra-
tion of outstanding importance
should be held. possibly in New
York, but, in addition to that. sup
plemented with regional shows and
exhibitions throughout the coun-
try.
James Waldo Fawcett was plan
ming to hold an exhibition in wash
lngton to supplement the one in
England, and no doubt he will con-
tinue his plans and make this ex-
hlbltlon OF even greater Importance
than he had at first planned"
The Civil Aeronautics AUTHORITY
next Wednesday will receive the ap-
plication Of Pan-American Airways
Tor permission to establish trans
Pacific airmail service to New Zea-
land.
Present indications are that serv-
Ice over the new route will not be
inaugurated earlier than November 1.
Covers for dispatch on the first
flight will be accepted by the post
master, San Francisco. until the
day OF the flight. Pan American
Airways will accept covers for dis
patch from the intermediate points
up to the day the date for the first
official flight is set
Alvin c. Hall, director of the Bu-
reau OF Engraving and Printing, and
P. e. Foxworth Of the Federal Bu-
reau OF Identification, will be guest
speakers next Wednesday evening at
banquet to be held in connection
with the annual meeting of the
American Numismatic Society, now
in session at Hotel Pennsylvania,
New York City.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will hold an exhibition of covers
and an auction on Tuesday at 8
pm. in the Thomson School, Twelfth
and L streets NV, to which the
public is invited.
At general assembly Thursday
afternoon, the Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School was presented
with a plaque awarded by the WASH
tngton Philatelc Society to the
stamp club having the best frames
in the exhibition held by the WASH
STAMPS.