Evening star., 1939-03-26
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News the Phatec World Its Interests and PeopeRevew the
Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings.
By James Waldo Favceff.

OS0AAAP
By James Waldo Fawceff.
The campaign against speculative
stamps, issued to exploit the phila-
telic public has been stimulated by
the announcement in Paris that two
unnecessary commemorative" will
be released for each of the "a French
colonies in connection with the New
York Worlds Fair.
A single design will be used for
the 48 unwanted labels. The face
value has been estimated at $40 for
the series. If evidence were needed
to prove that the stamps are COM
mercial in character, the fact that
they are to be sold at the French
pavilion on the fair grounds would
supply it.
A competition Is announced by
the postal authorities of Norway for
designs for a series of three stamps
to be issued for the International
Polar Exposition which will be held
at Bergen next year. Sketches are
required to represent Norwegian
participation in the exploration of
the Arctic. Denominations will be
IS, 20 and 80 ore.
Part of President Roosevelt S
stamp collection will be exhibited
at the International Philatelic Ex-
hibition at Tulsa in May.
Collectors desiring copies of Miss
Beatrice NeWhall's interesting mon
ograph on agriculture in Stamps
of the Pan-American Republics
may send Is cents in wrapped coin
to the Pan-American Union, Seven
teenth street and Constitution ave-
nue. NV.
From Wilmington comes report
to the effect that "a series of Sc
special airmail cachets, the most
elaborate ever authorized by the
Post Office Department, will be used
to mark the inaugural flights over
the two routes of the new automatic
pickup and delivery system of ALL
American Aviation, Inc, which in
May will begin direct daily air.
mail service to SIS cities and towns in
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio
and Delaware.
"The Post Office Department has
designed special cachet for each
OF the pickup stations on the new
service for use on philateic and
regular airmail flown on first flights
over the two routes. Pittsburgh, be-
ing terminus of both lines, will
have two special cachets, making
56 in all
Further details will be announced
shortly.
Egypt is building nine new war
ships. and there is reason to believe
that they will be depicted on a series
OF stamps to be issued in 1910 or
1941.
Pope Plus XII was friendly to
philately, which he described as "a
very sensible hobby
Muriel Nissen, writing for the
Bell Syndicate, reports: Serving
the dual purpose of semi-postal
Item and a commemorative set, a
five value issue was released a few
weeks ago by Hungary. The set
commentaries the restoration to
Hungary of territory ceded to
Czecho-Slovakia under the treaty of
Trianon in 1920. The designs of
the stamps illustrate episodes in
Magyar history, both past and pres
ent. A so per cent surtax has been
added to the face value of each
stamp, proceeds of which will pro-
vide fund to aid the people in the
recently liberated territory.
"The 6 plus 3f, grayish green, pic
lures a monument erected in Buda-
pest after the Trianon treaty to
symbolic the territory lost to the
Czechs. Castle Munkacs, a historic
landmark in the transferred land
appears on the 10 plus ST, brown
green value. On the 20 plus 10f
red, we see Regent Horthy astride
a white horse as he crossed the
Danube River last November to
take possession of the city of Ko-
marom.
'The beautiful Cathedral of Kassa
Is pictured on the 80 plus 15f, green
ish-blue, adhesive, while the 40 plus
20f, blue, presents theme familiar
to followers of postal art-a soldier
receiving a floral tribute from a
pretty maid.
Each stamp bears the inscrip-
ton, Magyar Magyarert,' meaning
'Hungarians aid Hungarians'
1t is understood that the Post
Office Departments philatelic exhi.
bition truck will start its travels
as soon as the Senate and House
Conference Committee has approved
the necessary expenditure.
France has promised a specia
series of stamps for the Interna-
tional Eucharist Congress to be helc
at Nice next year.
The baseball stamp which Post
master General James A. Farley
personally authorized has been de.
signed by artists in the Bureau o1
Printing and Engraving. Whether
or not it will show a portrait o1
Gen. Abner Doubleday, as requested
remains to be seen.
Mexico, it is reported by the Blu.
reau of Foreign and Domestic Com.
merce, will bring out a specia
stamp for the international exhibi.
ton at Tulsa.
When new Cayman Island stamp!
are printed, only part of the edi'
ton is sent to the colony. The res
are distributed through brokers ii
London. Collectors, buying thu
stamps, balance the colonia