Evening star., 1939-06-11
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phatec World Its Interests and Peope-Review of
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.

IllS fOSl oIIlC6 department. one
single commemorative is to be is
sued. showing a map of the four
commonwealths. November 2 may
be the release date.
Tomorrow at CooperstoWn, N. Y,
the 3-cent baseball centenary stamp
will 60 on sale. The game. of
course, is much more than 100 years
old, but perhaps that does not
matter.
The philatelic exhibition truck
will remain in New York during the
entire month of June.
NeWfoundlands royal visit
stamp. showing portraits of King
George and Queen Elizabeth with
the colony seal. may be purchased
from the Newfoundland Informa-
ton Bureau, 62O Fifth avenue. New
York City, beginning next Satur-
day. The color is blue, the denomi-
nation, cents.
The death Of Francisco Sarabia.
Mexican syer who crashed in the
Potomac Wednesday, unhappilv
Will not terminate the discussion of
the legitimacy of the stamps issued
to finance his trip to the New York
Worlds Fair. 1t has been charged
that they were irregularly produced,
unlawfully distributed and ought
not to be catalogued.
The Canadian Post Office De-
partment has presented to King
George an album containing speci-
men copies of every stamp issued BY
the Dominion government since
confederation.
June IA will be the Goth ami
versary of the first eastward trans
Atlantic flight by Capt. John Al
cock and 1t. Arthur Whitten Brown.
They plloted a Vickers-V -Vimv bonn
Der from st. Johns, Newfoundland
to Ireland, nonstop, in 16 hours
ana IL minutes, carrying covers
which now are highly priced.
france has brought out a 2.25fr,
dark ultramarine, stamp to COM
memorate her participation in the
water festival at Liege in Belgium,
Inc oeslgn shows Marty pumping
plant.
LatVla announces a set of eight
stamps TO mark the 5th anniversary
of Karlls Ulmanis, prime minister
lcto of
from IS to sos.
Rumania is producing two stamps
Tor the New York Worlds Fair,
both showing the Rumanian pavilion
-6-lei, brown violet, and 12-lei
blue.
Stamp collecting boys of the Sill
yer Spring neighborhood have been
invited to participate in COM
munity hobby show to be held at
the local armony, Thursday Friday
and Saturday, June 1924. Capt
Otho Larkin Rogers, philatelic
agent; Albert F. Kunze. leader of
the Washington Stamp Club of the
Air, and James Waldo Fawcett will
judge their exhibits and award
prizes.
The Taft Junior High School
Stamp Club staged its first annual
exhibition Tuesday. Bernard Far
wick received first honors. William
Rowland, second, and Charles Rowe.
third. Others displaying portions
of their collections were: William
Richardson, William Mertz, Henry
Naehle. John Mcclure. Richard
Meadows, Jack Mills, Robert David
son, William Spicer, Sinclair Del
lastatious, yelling Souder, William
Pouliot, Arthur Hibbets, WAYNE Bru-
baker and Arthur Bear. The judges
included Miss Mollie NJ Lewis, pres
ident of the Washington Fedora ton
of Junior Stamp Collectors: Yves.
M. Tryon, secretary of the Wood
ridge Stamp Club, and Laurence w,
Murphy.
Lithuania has released three semi
postals intended to publicize the
third European basket ball cham
pionship meet at Kaunas. May 81
through May 29 The official de-
scription is: Is plus 10 cents choco-
late, player putting ball in basket;
80 plus Is cents. dark green, opposing
players; and 60 plus 40 cents, blue,
ball, basket and flags Of competing
nations.
Postmaster General James A
Farley announced on Wednesday
that the first airmail flight on the
northern, or so-called Great Circle
route, of the transatlantic airmail
system will leave New York on the
morning of Saturday. June "a re-
turning from Southampton, Eng
land, on Wednesday, June %. The
line of the route to be flown" the
official statement said, is New York
to Southampton via Shediac, New
Brunswick: Botwood Newfoundland,
and Foynes, Ireland, and return;
but mails will be received and dis
patched at Moncton. New Bruns-
wick. Canada, instead of Shediac;
BotWood Newfoundland: Dublin,
Ireland. instead of FoyneS, and
London, England, instead of South
ampton. Covers to be dispatched
from Moncton must bear Canadian
postage: from BotWood. NeWfound-
land postage; from Dublin, Irish
postage, and from London. British
postage The total postage required
Is as follows:
From New York to Moncton, 6
cents per ounce: to BotWood, Is
cents per half ounce on articles for
destinations outside Newfoundland
on the first flight. Newfoundland
charging the department cents for
handling transit articles Irregular
postage 10 cents per half ounce,
and to Dublin and London, 30 cents
STAMPS.
Mounted Approvals. L. S. and Foreign,
500 of Catalog on purchases 81 up.
CULLEN'S STAMP AND COIN SHOP.
1919 st. NV. RIM. 2I1. Met. SS1:.
RIFT WHY