Evening star., 1940-06-02
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News the Phatec World Its Interests and PeopeReve
The Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waldo Favceff.

Miss Minerva v. Scott has inter-
ested Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
in the campaign for authorization
of the long-awaited postage stamp
centenary commemorative.
The New Castle (Pa.) News OBJ
serves editorially: "One hundred
years ago the first postage stamp,
famous as the Penny Black, was
stuck on a letter and sent on its
way through the British Post Office.
Aside from establishing the
foundation for collecting fad that
has swept the world, not sparing
Presidents and Kings in its prog
ress, the establishment of stamp
postage has been of enormous benefit
to the human race. 1t has played
tremendous part in developing
low-cost communication throughout
the world; spreading intelligence,
carrying messages of veal and woe;
speeding up and improving the
processes of commerce.
whether your chief reaction to
stamps is that you don't particularly
like the taste of them, or you are
one of millions who have decided
taste for them, that's worth think
ing about, 100 years after a little
engraved square with Queen Vic
toria's head on it set forth upon its
mighty work"
Charles A. Kenny, editor of the
National Stamp News, calls atten-
ton to the fact that the Post Office
Department overlooked "a sesqui-
centennial of Importance when 1T
failed to commemorate the ami
versary of the entrance of the
State of Rhode Island into the
Union" May %, 1790.
Newly-elected officers of the War
Cover Club are: Hennen M. San
ford, Cleveland, president; Eugene
Carey. Iron River, Mich, vice presi-
dent; John T. Buckner, Pleasant
Hill, Mo-, secretary-treasurer; Miss
Eva Gray, J. P. Klinger, M. B.
Hunt, Maxwell Halpern, Thomas
Parks and NJ Hertzberg, directors.
The War Cover Philatelist again
has been named official publication
of the society.
Collectors interested in wartime
stamps and markings may obtain
postmark type charts and other
useful information from Deli No.
roma, Moundsville, w. Va.
Finland is bringing out a single
stamp to mark the Booth anniver-
sary of the founding of the Uni
versity of Helsinki.
Stamps Magazine for June l re-
produces photograph of members
of the Gallaudet Stamp Club of
Washington. All of the boys in
cluded in the group are students
at the Columbia Institution for the
Deaf. They are: Gaylord Stiarwalt,
president; Glenn Lee Poole, secre-
tary-treasurer; Henry Krostoski, IL
brarian: Archie Stack, Oliver Kastel,
John Tubergan, Thomas Berg and
Harold Lomonosoff.
George B. Sloane, writing in
Stamps Magazine, says: Roy B.
Grove has shown me a cover mailed
from Washington, D. c., to Brad
dock, Pa, March 10, 1910, hand
stamped Damaged by Fire, Postal
Car Burned The cover is charred
around the edges and water stained,
the stamp missing and gone forever.
Perhaps other readers have acquired
covers from this mail and will be
interested in the story as Mr.. Grove
was able to secure it from official
records. A baggage express car on
the Baltimore e. Ohio Railroad,
operated in the Washington & Chi
cago r. p O., took fire at or near
Hancock, Md, in the early morning
hours of March II. The train was
stopped / mile west of Sir Johns
Run, w. Va, and backed to a coal
tipple, but it was not possible to
maneuver the water spout so as to
reach the fire and the car was de-
stroyed. There were pouches, 40
sacks and 38 outside parcels in the
car, practically all of which were
damaged or entirely lost"
Edmund Gallager, Bernard Far
wick and Marjorie Anderson won
first, second and third prizes, re-
Bpectively, in the spring exhibition
of the Taft Junior High School
Stamp Club last week. Others dis
playing stamps and covers were Ar
thur Bear, yelling Souder, Sinclair
Dellastatious, Billy Mertz, Charles
Kagey, Peter Dounis, Wilfred Pou-
liot, Arthur Hibbets and George
Ashby.
Copies of the Manual of the
Stamps of the Netherlands. Neither
lands Indies, Curacao and Surinam,"
by A. Arthur Schiller and Johannes
de Kruyf, containing 225 pages of
text and 400 illustrations, are be-
ing sold at 81 each for the benefit
Of the Holland Relief Fund. Orders
may be sent to Mr.. de Kruyf, 1874
Haven avenue, New York City.
The Mckinley Stamp Club of Can
ton, Ohio, has appealed to Post
master General Farley to reconsider
his decision against the postage
stamp centenary commemorative.
Yemen has new series of regu-
lar postage stamps, the values in
cluding: 1ab, yellow brown and blue;
1b, green and red; 2b, brown and
violet; 3b, dull violet and blue; 4b,
carmine and olive green; 5b, dark
green and brown; 6b, blue and
orange; lob, orange brown and olive
green; lab, olive green and violet;
18b, emerald green and black; 20b,
yellow green and lake, and 1-imadi,
claret, olive green and red brown.
Philip Wagner, writing IN the
Baltimore Sun for May S, says of
Sir Rowland Hill, sponsor of the
- a.