Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-07-09

pictures the Mission Dolores in San
Francisco. The airmail set shows
the Golden Gate Bridge with a
capped mountain in the back
ground.
Values included in the postage set
are: &c, green; SC, carmine; 10c,
light blue; SOC. yellow brown; is,
gray black, and rs, deep violet;
while the airmails consist of: &c,
grayblack; SC, carmine; 1Oc, slate;
soc. red-purple: is. deep brown; IS,
yellow-bro and SIS, blue-green.
Fred j. Melville, international
dean of philatelic writer's" is i'll in
London hospital Members of the
Washington Philatelic Society have
sent him their best wishes for
prompt and complete recovery.
Miss Irene M. Pistorio has ap-
piled for membership in the Sou
venir Issues Association.
The philatelic exhibition truck is
on tour in New England.
A. w. Bloss, stamp editor of the
Los Angeles Times, reports that the
late DR.. E. c. Bull of Pasadena was
an optician and specialized in stamps
portraying men and women wearing
spectacles.
DELI Norona, postal historian, was
guest of honor and principal speaker
at a meeting of the Washington
Philatelic Society, Hotel Mayflower,
Wednesday evening His theme was:
Cover Collecting" and he illustrat-
ed his talk with selected pages from
his albums of postmark rarities,
including: the earliest American
postmark known, cover addressed
to George Washington in care of
Benjamin Franklin, New York to
Philadelphia, September 2, 1856; the
smallest and the largest postmarks
known as having been used in the
United States; weather postmarks,
experimentally tried out at Racine,
Wise; a cover Cancelled at Savan-
nah after Georgia had seeded from
the Union, but before the establish
ment of the Confederacy; a first-day
Confederate States cover, June l,
1861, Samples; a cover franked
with both Confederate and United
States stamps; Confederate railroad
and steamship postmarks; town
postmarks of Alsace-Lorraine; the
earliest known A. E. F. cover, May
Is, 1917; British army postmarks,
France and the Dardanelles; a cover
| to deceased soldier-"died of
wounds postmarked at II am,
November II, 1918; patriotic covers
Of various types; covers marked
/ Train Ran Over Pouch" Flood
! Damaged" and Stolen by Robbers;
covers franked with United States
stamps and postmarked in China;
a first-day Mulready envelope, May
6, 1910; Spanish American War COW
ers showing changes in government,
and 1.-The largest postcard" ever &C
cepted by the United States Post
Office Department.
Those attending the meeting were !:
| LII Ut. GlllS 11dWUl I'll, LII :. T CllOOll ID do-
ford, DR.. NJ. G. Skinner, Mrs. Cath
crime L. Manning, Mrs. Grace l..
MacKnight, Mrs. Ethyl Thompson,
Miss Irene M. Pistorio, Miss Doro-
thy Fish, Alvin r. Meissner, Her.
man Bocorselski, William A. Verhas,
Theodore E. Forbes, Phillip Simms
Warren, J. Michael Brown, Joseph
A. Herbert, Ralph E. Smith and
others.
Daniel G. Roper, Minister to Can
ada, has expressed approval of a
proposal that Canada and the
United States issue stamps to COM
memorate 125 years of peace be-
tween the two countries.
Norway announces three stamps
Is, 20 and 30-ore-for the Polar Ex-
position to be held at Bergen next
year.
The United States may bring out
a commemorative for Sir Rowland
Hill and the centenary of the ad-
hesive postage stamp on or about
May 6, 1910. Postmaster General