Evening star., 1940-02-25
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News OF the Phaec World Its Interests PeopeReyiev of
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waldo Fa,vceff.


President Roosevelt has consented
to speak nthe Postage Stamp Gen.
tenary international broadcast pro-
gram, Sunday evening, May 5. II
is expected that King George VI
will respond to his greeting from
London.
The Post Office Department short
" will announce the authorization
OF a special commemorative for the
Tooth anniversary of the first ad-
hesive postal issue-the penny
black of Great Britain. Whether or
not 1t will be a souvenir sheet ap-
parently has not yet been decided
but there Is no indication of any
change of attitude on President
Roosevelt's part toward miniature
sheets.
A poll of the constituent societies
OF the National Federation of Stamp
Clubs shows sentiment opposed to q
stamp for the 150th anniversary of
the establishment of the Coast
Guard.
The st. Joseph Stamp Collectors
Club is reported to have sponsored a
movie record of the first-day sale of
the 10-cent Mark Twain stamp at
Hannibal, Mo.
Canada may bring out Postage
Stamp Centenary commemorative.
The Union Philatelique of Montreal
has petitioned for such stamp to
be issued in connection with its
fourth exhibition during May, in
which Sir Rowland Hill and his la
bors for cheap postage will be hon.
ored.
Edward B. Martin attended the
hrst-day sale of the Scent Walt
Whitman stamp at Camden, N. j.,
while Mrs. Grace L. MacKnight
journeyed to Greenfield, Ind, for
the first-day sale of the 10-cent
james Whitcomb Riley stamp. Thus
Washington was represented at two
distant but very important pre-
mieres.
Stamp collectors and others in
terested in the proposal for stamp
to commemorate the 15Oth ami
-yersary of the act of Congress estab-
fishing the District of Columbia as
the Nations Capital are invited to
address Deputy Third Assistant
Postmaster General Roy M North,
Post Office Department.
Robert D. Byrnes, philatelic edi-
tor of the Hartford Courant, writes
Prospects that the long dormant
air route from San Francisco to
New Zealand, for which collectors
have had covers ready for months,
will be started soon is seen in the
recommendation of examiners of the
Civil Aeronautics Authority that a
certificate be granted The appli-
cation of the Pan-American Air
ways for certificate to operate
the route was made last fall, and
at that time it appeared that oper-
ations might start in October or No
vember, but weeks went by and
there was no action in Washing
ton. Now, however, Examiners
Francis w. Brown and Thomas L.
Wrenn have recommended that the
certificate be issued and reported
that the Honolulu Auckland route
is valuable to the national defense
The air route from San Francisco
to Honolulu is already being flown
as part of the route to Asia, and
the new route to the Antipodes is
the last big route from the United
States which is not already being
flown commercially"
Raymond Read, jr., 3246 Quesada
street NV, has a cover bearing
the Scent Ralph Waldo Emerson
stamp Cancelled at Auburndale, Fla,
on January %.
According to the decision of the
Judges, the winners in the second
annual exhibition of the Woodbridge
Stamp Club are Jean F. Carlton
United States stamps; Edward
Miller, Pan America; James L.
Brewrink, bicentennials, and Ber-
nard Farwick, airmail and Canal
Zone covers. The visiting public
voted for Edward Miller, first; Yves
M. Trycn, ships on stamps, second;
Bernard Farwick, third, and James
l.. Brewrink, fourth.
DR.. Ellis Haworth will entertain
the Washington Philatelic Society
Hotel Mayhower, Wednesday eve
ming, March 6, with an exhibition OF
the stamps of the Island of Cyprus.
Postmaster General James A. Far
ley has announced that the Scent
Pan-American Union jubilee stamp
recently authorized will be placed or
- sale In Washington on Sunday
April IA. A feature of the design
will be portion of the allegorical
painting "Primavera" by the great
Italian painter, Sandro Botticelli, in
which the Three Graces are repre-
sented with clasped hands-a sym.
bolism interpreted to signify in this
instance the friendly relations be-
tween North, South and Centra
America. 1t is expected that the
composition will be work of ex.
Ceiling Ucduly.
The unfriendly attitude of the
postal authorities of the Bahama
Islands has been manifested by &
formal notice to the effect thar
under no circumstances can phila.
telic covers be handled from Nassa,
or from any other point" under theil
jurisdiction. Considering the fac
that American stamp collectors hav,
spent literally millions of dollars fo
British colonial adhesives neve
called upon to perform postal servic,
of any kind, it is remarkable tina
any portion of the empire should b,
10 unaccommodating.
First-day sales of the 10-cen
Mark Twain stamp at Hanniba
February 13 totaled 207,648 stamp
sold and 150,492 covers Cancelled
"markinc the largest firSt-dav sal