Evening star., 1940-04-21

noon, G1e OTQeT WAS eXeCuteQ Dy UIe
following Monday morning. Part of
the time afforded necessarily was
spent in research at the Library of
Congress.
War has not interfered with the
production of new stamps in Ger
many. The latest series is intended
to advertise the Leipzig Fair. Values,
colors and subjects are: 3pf, brown,
Hall of the Printing Arts, statue of
Gutenberg, inventor of movable
types; 6pf, green, market place and
rathaus; 12pf, redbrown, fair build
ing; 25pf, air view of grounds.
Switzerland has issued four semi
postals for a national fete. De-
nominations, colors and themes are !:
5 plus Sc, green, red and gray.
Sempach monument; 10 plus SC, yell
low, red and gray, Giornico monu-
ment; 20 plus SC, red and gray,
Calven monument; 80 plus 10c, blue,
red and gray. Les Rangers.
A series of semi-postal stamps has
been released. by Yugoslavia for the
benefit of medical station for post
al-telegraph- telephone system en-
ployes. The list reads: SOD, orange,
arrival of the Croatians; ID, green
King Tomislav; 1.50D, death of Ma
tia Gubec; ID, light cerise, the
brothers Radich; 4D, dark blue, map
Louis P. Lochner, representative
of the Associated Press in Germany
and a nonresident member of the
Washington Philatelic Society
writes from Berlin March 20: Your
letters of early December arrived
only this week. All of us who
are working here feel that we are
on an isolated island"
In appreciation of his services as
leader of the United States Marine
Band for many years, the 5th Bat
talon of the Marine Corps Reserve
will sponsor scarlet and gold cachet
for the 2-cent John Philip Souss
stamp, to be released in Washing
ton Friday, May 3. Collectors should
send orders to 1t. William j
O'Brien, 125 Quincy place NE, with
cents in coin for local delivery
or cents for delivery outside Wash
ington.
The Bureau of Engraving ano
Printing display at the Postage
Stamp Centenary Exhibition, Ma
tional Museum. beginning Thurs
day evening, May 2, will include
dies, transfer rolls, plates, etc., H.
lustrating the processes and in
struments of steel-engraved stamp
production.
New plate numbers are announced
as follows: 22564-22566. l cent, Ste
phen Collins Foster; 22567 -22569, q
cent, John Philip Sousa; 22570-22572
3-cent, Victor Herbert; 22573-22575
scent, Edward A. Mcdowell; 22576-
22578, 1O-cent, Ethelbert Nevin;
22579-22582, Scent, Pony Express;
22583 -22586, Scent, Wyoming.
Also, 22546 and 22547, cent, John
James Audubon; 22558 and 2256O
10-cent, Jane Addams; 22426 ano
22427, 3-cent, Thomas Jefferson, or
dinary postage, electric eye convert
ible.
It is reliably reported that Grover
Cleveland was an active stamp
collector during the eight years of
his residence at 1900 Pennsylvania
avenue, but for reasons of his owr,
he did not desire his interest in
the best of hobbies to be advertised
When readers were advised not
to delay purchase of the earlier
issues of the Heroes of Peace
series, a critic protested that the
warning was based on faulty in
formation, If not actually on intent
to deceive. The truth, however, Is
too plainly evident to suffer con.
tradiction. Supplies of the low
values of the first three groups were
distributed throughout the country
and rapidly exhausted In ordinary
use. Unless new printings are
ordered, these stamps shortly must
be removed from the Philatelie
Agency sales list. The sheer logic
of the matter suggests prompt
rather than tardy action on the part
of intending buyers,
Ernest R. Kehr, stamp editor oi
the New York Herald Tribune, ha.
been appointed director of the In.
ternational Stamp Exhibition at thu
British Pavilion, New York World!
Fair, scheduled to open May IL.
Miss Matte M. Gibson, superin'
tendent of the Children's Hospital
Thirteenth and w streets, NV.
has endorsed the appeal for q STAMP
in homage to nurses for theil
services to humanity. Collectors
interested are reOlleSted to com.