Evening star., 1939-07-02
Bv James Waldo Fa,vceft.

retired, was elected president of the
Collectors Club of Washington at
meeting held at the Thomson
School. Twelfth street NV, Tues
day evening. Those chosen to serve
with him are E. l.. Browne, vice
president; Mrs. Josephine B. Hoppe,
executive secretary; Edward B. Mar
tin, recording secretary; Charles H,
Vaughan, treasurer; Ralph E.
Smith, Svend Yort and Edward
G. FenWick, trustees.
The Post Office Department prom
ises to release advance data on the
"heroes of peace" series shortly.
Deputy Third Assistant Postmas-
ter General Roy M. North and
Supt. of Stamps Robert E. Fellers
will 60 to the Canal Zone for the
frst-day sale of the Scent Panama
Canal stamp August Is. They will
be preceded by Assistant Supt
Robert C. King and Roy Sheridan,
Mr.. North's secretary, who will be
in charge of preliminary arrange
ments.
AS a courtesy to collectors the
Panama Line, "A State street, New
York City, will furnish a special
cacheted cover for the maiden voy-
age of the S. S. Cristobal. En-
velopes will be franked with pic
torial stamps of Panama and will
carry mailed on board" and Pam
ANA cancellations Send name and
is cents for each specimen desired.
The July issue of National Aero
nautics Magazine will contain a
comprehensive review of the new
American Air Post Catalogue, spon-
sored by the American Air Mail
Society.
Harry L. Lindquist announces the
discontinuance of Avocations Maya
zine. To replace it he will publish
quarterly to be known as the
Stamp Specialist, dealing with spe-
cialized philatelic subjects.
Foreign experts who already have
agreed to serve on the jury for the
Stamp Centenary Exhibition in Lon
don, May, 1910, are Alex. Argy-
ropoulos, Ivan Bally, Andre De
Cock, DR.. Emilio Diena, G. A. Hage-
mann, Alfred Lichtenstein, DR.. Her
bert Munk Abraham Odfjell, Theo-
dore Steinway. Nils Stranded and
the Marquis de Fayolle.
Offices have been opened at Al
Devonshire place, London w. /.
The Rev. Mr.. Everett S. Lyon of
Dallas, Tex, writes: What we de-
sire or should desire is that every
sincere collector receive the maxi
mum pleasure and benefit that can
be derived from the hobby, that we
may all be, in every true sense of
the word, philatelists.'
Theodore Steinway has compiled a
new list of stamps relating to music,
published in Stamps Magazine for
July l.
A dispatch from Hollywood denies
that Charley Mccarthy is stamp
collector. The reason surely is OBJ
yiouS enough not to need comment.
Copies of the Pan-American Bull
letln for June, containing Miss
Beatrice Newhall's article on IN
dians Depicted on Stamps" may
be had at the Pan-American Union
Building, Seventeenth street NV.
at Is cents each, approximate cost
of printing.
Among famous persons represent
ed in the designs of foreign stamps
the following have visited Wash
ington: Pope Plus XII, King George
VI and Queen Elizabeth, King Ed
ward VII, King Edward VIII. King
Albert and Queen Elizabeth of the
Belgians, Queen Marie of Rumania,
Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain,
DR., Thomas G. Masaryk and DR..
Eduard Benes. presidents of Czecho-
Slovakia, Ignace PadereWski, presi-
dent of Poland; Dr. Domingo Sar-
miento president of the Argentine
Republic; Georges Clemenceau.
premier, and Aristide BRAND. for
eign minister. France, and Count
Ferdinand Won Zeppelin, dirigible
inventor, Germany.
According to the American Com
merclal Attache at Shanghai,
stamps are being used in lieu of
copper coins in China.
Muriel NiSsen, writing for the Bell
Syndicate, says: "A series of seven
stamps has been issued by the Ar
gentine Republic to commemorate
the 1lth congress of the Universal
Postal Union, held in Buenos Aires.
The set is a very attractive one,
consisting of scenic designs as well
as compositions symbolic of the
commemorated event.
The emblem of the u. P. Ia
position horn surrounding a globe
appears on the 5-centavo. BLUSH
red stamp, the 15c, indigo, pic
lures the General Palace of Posts
at Buenos Aires; on the zoe, BLUSH
green, is a sealing-wa impression
of Argentinas coat of arms against
the national flag A view of Iguazu
Falls appears on the Csc, green, and
the soc, claret, presents another
scene-that of Bonete Hill in Manuel
Huapi National Park. An allegorical
presentation of the U. P. U. is fea-
tured on the 1-peso value, printed
in reddish maroon. 1t pictures a
female figure holding letter on
terrestrial globe. Above is a plane
and below steamship. A reproduce
ton OF the painting, Argentina,
Land of Promise is given on the
Up, purple, stamp, and the 5p. vio-
let. pictures Lake Frias, also in Ma
huel Huapi Park.
The Universal Postal Union is
philately's League of Nations 1t
decides all matters of international
postage, and to it's efforts we owe
the uniform systems that make