Evening star., 1939-05-14
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phaec World Its Interests and
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
Bv James Waldo F0avceff.

will be available for inspection il
Twelfth street, between PennSyl'
vania and Constitution avenues, thi.
afternoon from l until 6 o'clock
1nducted into service on Tuesday
the vehicle will leave Washington
tomorrow for Baltimore, via Hyatts-
vile and Laurel. 1t is to be in Will
mington, Del, Thursday and Fri
day, Chester, Pa, Saturday anc
Sunday; Philadelphia, Tuesday tc
Friday, May % to May 20; New
York, May 81 to June g.
The Department of Commerce
desires stamp to mark the l50tf
anniversary of the establishment O,
the United States Lighthouse Serv-
ice. 1t is said that the Old Cape
Henry light was the first eStab-
Gshed, and the design of the pro-
posed commemorative might show
Its silhouette against darkenine
sky, the beacon blazing as of old.
Collectors need not be surprised il
commemorative are issued for Mon
tana. North and South Dakota ano
the State of Washington this year
All four were admitted to the Union
In 1889 and are celebrating their 50th
birthday anniversaries.
The new 30-cent trans-A Atlantic air
mail stamp will go on sale in New
York exclusively Tuesday. Manu-
factured in haste, it follows the pat
tern of the Scent airpost issue OF
1884 The color is blue.
Collectors desiring first day covers
delivered by domestic airmail from
New York may send not more than
10 self addressed envelopes to the
postmaster of that city with cash OF
postal money order remittance COW
ering the value of the stamps to be
affixed. "First-Day Covers" must be
stipulated as distinct from First
Flight Covers which may be for
warded to the New York postmaster
for dispatch to the Azores, Lisbon
and Marseilles.
For further details, readers are
requested to consult clerks in local
post offices.
Alonzo Chapel, painter, is one
of the forgotten American artists
who well might merit inclusion in
the heroes of peace" series of
stamps. 1t was his conception of
the first Inauguration of George
Washington that was adapted by
the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing for the seSquicentenary
commemorative. but his name is
not mentioned in the Dictionary of
American Biography or the Amer
icana. Careful search in the
Library of Congress fails to develop
any data concerning his career.
His biographer will be obliged to
dig deep for the materials of a
memoir.
Referring to the forthcoming
baseball stamp, the New York Times
declares: Few believe today that
Abner Doubleday invented base
ball. .'' Nobody can be quite GER
tain Of baseballs origin There is
strong evidence that it sprang from
the English game of FOUNDERS
played by the American colonists.'
At the annual business meeting
of the Washington Philatelic Soci-
ETY.. Hotel Carlton. Wednesday eve
ming, election returns were an
nounced as follows: James Waldo
Fawcett, president; DR.. Ellis Ha-
worth, first vice president; David D.
Caldwell, second vice president;
John K. Hedler, secretary; Philip
Simms Warren, treasurer and
librarian; Ralph E. Smith, sales cir
cult manager; Morton o. Cooper,
auctioneer; Col. Charles S. Hamil-
ton, Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt. Capt
Wilbur R. Van Auken and Mr.
Cooper, members Of the Board of
Governors.
Albert F. Kunze, leader of the
Washington Stamp Club of the Air,
Station VOL, will broadcast his
500th Stamp Romance" program
this evening at 10:15 o'clock. His
subject will be President John
Quincy Adams.
National AeronauticS Magazine
for May contains an illustrated
article on airmail stamps prepared
by Washington newspaperman
Among local collectors quoted are
Harry F. Dunkhorst and William 7.
Robey.
This months meeting of the
Washington Philatelic Study Club
will be held at the Washington Ho-
tel on Thursday evening, May 25.
c. Hercus Just, president of the
Collectors Club of Washington, is
the father of daughter, jeanne,
born May 2.
Roy w. Johns of Chicago has
been invited to exhibit his prize
winning collection of the early
stamps of Norway at a meeting of
the Washington Philatelic Society
in the near future The exact
date has yet to be decided.
Capt. Van Auken soon will publish
book entitled Notes on a Half
Century of United States Naval
Ordnance, 1880 1890" The work
represents the fruits of his re-
searches and experience during
many years of service in home
waters and abroad.
Charles Kohen. proprietor of the
Hobby Shop, has many interests out
side the realm of stamps and coins
Just now he is busy managing the
Cooley mccullough Post, American
Legion. baseball team, which will
play the Potomac Post nine at the