Evening star., 1939-05-28
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phatelc World Its Interests and People
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waldo Fawceff.

By James Waldo Fawceff.
Postmaster General James A.
Farley has been asked to authorize
q stamp in tribute to the memory
OF the men lost in the submarine
squalus.
The Post Office Department an
nounced yesterday that "in order to
stimulate interest in the forthcoming
issue of the baseball centennial
stamp, provision is being made, in
this instance, for postmasters to &C
cept single addressed envelopes and
cents in cash from children of
school age. for forwarding to Coop
erstown. N. Y, as flrst-day covers.
After these covers have accumu-
lated, postmasters will forward
them, by official mail, with a post
masters check to cover the total
amount of postage involved, to the
Postmaster, Cooperstown, N. Y,
who will afflx the baseball centen-
nial stamps thereto, for cancellation
with the June IL, 1899, date, repre-
senting the f1rst-day sale of this
special issue, after which the covers
will be dispatched to the addresses
by ordinary mail.
These covers in turn must be
forwarded to the Postmaster at
Cooperstown, N. Y, in time to reach
that Office not later than June 12."
The last of the Army and Navy
stamps disappeared from the sales
list Of the Philateic Agency on May
18. Final distribution figures are
1c Army, los, 1856 $50; 1c Navy, 104,-
773,450; &c Army, 93,84850O; &c
Navy, 92054,55o; Sc Army, S7,74l,-
$50; Sc Navy, 93,291 $50; 4c Army,
35,794,l50; 4c Navy, 34,552,950; Sc
Army, 36,839, ,250; SC Navy, $685.
$50.
Final sales figures for the North
west Territory stamp. released July
Is, 1898, and withdrawn March !,
1899, were 65 ,s39,500
The transatlantic clipper carried
1l2,574 covers to Europe on May 20.
Distribution was reported as fol-
lows: 153 pounds to Horta, ITS
pounds to Lisbon, 1,275 pounds to
Marseilles and between 140 and $50
pounds to Great Britain
First-day sales figures for the new
30-cent airmail stamp, May Is,
were: 1851 copies, $5000l.3 80, with
63,634 f1rst-day markings.
The French government, 1t is un-
derstood, charged. IS, 900 postage for
round-trip covers flown in the
transatlantic clipper. Just what this
will mean to collectors remains to
to be learned.
Service over the northern route
from Europe to America probably
will be inaugurated about July l.
Pan-American Airways is consid-
ering plans for handling round-the-
world covers for the philatelic pub
lie.
Pan American Airways serviced
1889 round-trip covers carried by
the Yankee Clipper to Europe and
back.
The Postmaster General of Great
Britain yesterday announced that
regular airmail service between his
country and the United States will
start on Wednesday. making con-
nection with an American plane at
Marseilles. Rates are 1sh Cd per
half ounce for letters, I'd for post
cards.
A self-service coin letter machine
has been installed at the New York
City Post Office. 1t bears the name
"mailomat" and applies meter
markings to covers deposited in it.
The philatelic exhibition truck
will arrive in New York on Wednes-
day. 1t will be stationed at the
Worlds Fair from June to Is.
The Bureau of Engraving and
Printing has announced that Alvin
r. Meissner is the designer of the
30-cent transatlantic airmail stamp
and that William A. Roach is the
designer of the Scent baseball
stamp, Engravers who worked on
the former are Frederick Pauling.
Charles A. Brooks, James T. Vail
and Edward M. Hall; those who
were assigned to the latter: Mr..
Brooks and Mr.. Vail.
The date of the first flight of the
postal autogyro from Camden to the
roof OF the Philadelphia Post Office
Building has been changed to June
%. Collectors desiring the special
cachet should send stamped and
self-addressed envelopes to the
postmaster at Philadelphia i'm
mediately.
The Association de Filatelistas
Mexicanos has protested in vain
against an irregular airmail stamp
issued by the government of Mex
leo In behalf of the aviator Sarabia.
Not intended for ordinary use, the
sticker was "raffled off" by Post
master General Chavez. The asocia-
clon now appeals to the philatelists
OF the world to prevent catalogue
listing.
Luxembourg announces a series
OF stamps in commemoration of a
century of independence. The values
and subjects are: SOC, portrait of
William I of Holland. 70c William,
II OF Holland: 75c, William III of
Holland; 1fr, Prince Henry, brother
OF William III; 125fr, Grand Duke
Adolf; l.75fr, Grand Duke William
Nv; 3fr, Marie Ann. wife of VILLA m