Evening star., 1940-05-05
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News the Phatec World Its Interests and PeopRevew Of
The Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
Bv James Waldo Faucet.

The Postage Stamp Centenary
Celebration program for today is as
follows:
10 am. to o pm, Philatelic Fair.
Centennial Bourse. Hotel Maydower,
Connecticut avenue and De Sales
street NV. Exhibition Of scientific
,.philately, by Y. Souren Of New York:
display Of Wharton Sinkler collec-
ton of early United States covers.
by Eugene Klein Of Philadelphia;
mail-o-mat machine with centenary
slogan cancellation for unstamped
letters and cards In operation;
branch postal station with Philatelic
Agency stocks Of all recent stamps.
10 am, Philatelic Writer'S break
fast, Mayflower Hotel, Franklin r.
Bruins, jr., stamp editor Of the New
York Sun, presiding; Mauritz Hall
gren, author of "All About Stamps" :"
and Frederick Bowes, jr., Pitney-
Bowes Postage Meter Co.. speakers;
Charles A. Kenny, editor and pub
Usher, National Stamp News, leader
Of discussion.
1:30 to 4:30 pm, Centenary Ex-
hibition. National Museum, Consti-
tuition avenue and Tenth street
NV; stamps and covers valued at
more than 81 ,000, 900 on display, in
cluding collections of Philip H
Ward, jr.. director; Alfred J. Lich-
tenstein. James Starr, Theodore
Steinway, Mrs. Hugh M. Clark, Will
helm F. Knauer, DR.. Clarence w
Herman, Edwin A. Fleischer, E. Tu-
dor Gross, ]. B. Kremer, William
West, DR.. Robert F.. Chambers
James T. Dye, Senator James NJ
Mead of New York, Postmaster
General James A. Farley, Esmond
Bradley Martin. Alastair Bradley
Martin, Harry L. Lindquist. Den
wood N. Kelly, jr.; G. H. Vaughan,
Morton Dean Joyce, Laurence B.
Mason. Capt. Wilbur R. Van Auken
Mrs. Ethel B. Stewart, Mrs. Henry
Diamant, Mrs. Eugene Klein, F. W.
Pickard, B. Jean Raleigh. Stephen
G. Rich, A. E. Geldhof, Jere Hess
Barr and Mrs. Louise S. Davis.
2 to 10 pm, Centenary Exhibition
of Philatelic Literature. Stamps.
Essays, Proofs, Maps and Charts,
ETC., arranged by William c. Bond
and DR.. Emil F. Ferdinand, Library
OF Congress, First and East Capitol
streets Sc.
2 pm, War Cover Club meeting,
program arranged by Deli Norona OF
Moundsville, w. Va; Joseph F. Cart
land, assistant chief postal inspec-
tor, speaker; exhibition OF stamps
and covers rejecting the history OF
five great conflicts, Mayflower Hotel.
$50 pm, Centenary Broadcast OF
the Smithsonian Institution, "The
World Is Yours" postal and phila-
telic history dramatized; script by
Irve Tunick, prepared with assist
ance of Mrs. Catherine l.. Man
ming, philatelic curator; program to
be carried by Red Network stations
of the National Broadcasting Co.,
WRC and affiiates. coast-to-coast.
6p.m., Showing of Bell Telephone
System sound film, "A Continent Is
Bridged," descriptive of the develop
ment of transcontinental telephone
service, Edwin c. Hill narrator,
Mayflower Hotel. .
8 pm, Inaugural meeting, Cover
Collectors of America, Washington
Division; Technical Sergt. G. W.
1nglee, stamp editor of the Leather
neck, official United States Marine
Corps magazine, chairman; David
D. Caldwell, A. E. Geldhof, Deli
Norona and other speakers, May
flower Hotel.
The public is invited to attend
any or all meetings as well as the
Philatelic Fair.
out-of-town collectors attending
the postage stamp centenary cele-
bration and registered at head
quarters at the Hotel Mayflower in
clude: Mrs. John F. Risley, Paris,
Ontario, Canada; Thomas D. Perry,
Moorestown, N. j.; Mr.. and Mrs.
c. A. Paige, Grand Rapids, Mich;
Henry Silling, jr., Ocean City, N.
j.; Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Atkinson,
Clarksburg, w. Va: Alexandria E.
Ginsberg, New York; Keith Mise
gades, Chicago; Robert F. Brinton,
West Chester, Pa; Mrs. Ethel B
Stewart, New York; Mrs. Henry A.
Diament, St. Louis; Mr.. and Mrs
Fred E. Farnham, Detroit; William
r. Mcleod, Cleveland; Ben L. Nor
ris, Bellaire, Ohio; John M. Beavers,
Charlestown, Md; Wilbur c. Place,
Caledonia, N. Y; Jack Kane, Ro-
chester; Louis E. Phipps, Engle-
wood, N. j.: Miss Mary B. Brady;
Bronxville, N. Y; Mr.. and Mrs. E,
N. Ashman, Chicago; Mrs. H. F.
Culbough, Pottsville. Pa; Col. and
Mrs. John A. Hooper, Los Angeles;
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Brisley,
Detroit; Mrs. c. c. Kissel, New York;
Philip G. Strauss, Baltimore; Fred
8. Bowes, jr., Stamford, Conn.,; H
r. Miller, Providence, r. L.; H. B
johnson and j. S. Bosher, Rich
mond. Va; DR.. j. r. Woods, jr.
Greenfield, Md; Mrs. Louise s
Davis, New York; Marcus w. White
Springfield, Mass; John M. Beavers
Charlestown. Md; F. L. Ellis, New
York; Charles Putt, Topeka, Kans.;
DR.. H. N. Spade, Coatesville, Pa;
Arthur E. Owen, Abingdon, Pa; c
p. Unglaub, jr., Baltimore, anc
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