Evening star., 1941-03-09

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be available in Istanbul shortly.
Haughton Sanguinetti, former
stamp editor of the Evening Tran
script, has been elected vice presi-
dent of Stoddard Associates, Inc,
public relations, 80 Federal street,
Boston.
National defense savings stamps
are to go on sale at 250,000 post
Offices, banks and department stores
May l.
When the 3-cent Vermont sesqui-
centennial commemorative was re-
leased at Montpelier March 4, 302,-
$40 stamps were sold and 1872, ,423
covers Cancelled. Total cash receipts
have been announced at $9,07950.
Elmer c. Pratt, writing in the
Camden Courier-Post, says: 1T
looks as if a hostile and unsympa-
thetic Congress is going to kill the
Philatelic Agency. The one or two
million dollars that collectors give
each year for bits of paper that cost
Uncle Sam only few cents a thou
sand to print will be overlooked"
There are rumorS to the effect
that Senator James NJ. Mead of New
York is slated to be Postmaster
! General.
Stamps of Albania are said to
have been overprinted by the Greeks
and the Kenmore Kollector wants
to see the postal issues of Italian
Somaliland. Cyrenaica and Eritres
marked British Occupation"
Celebrities portrayed on stamps Of
Canada include Jacques Cartier,
French navigator from st. Malo,
founder of New France; Samuel de
! Champlain. French explorer and
colonizer; the Marquis de Montcalm,
commander of the French forces in
New France, defender Of Quebec,
and Gen. James Wolfe, commander
of the British forces in North Amer
lea. victor of the Heights Of Abra-
ham, who paid with his life for his
triumph.
Eugene Klein, 212 South Thir-
teenth street. Philadelphia. Pa, has
| brought out an attractive illustrated
cover for the auction sale Of the
Henry G. Brock collection of Cuba,
Puerto Principe, 1893 1899, March Is.
Copies will be sent on request.
The Fidelity Stamp Co.. GAS Penn
sylvania avenue NV, announces an
/ auction of foreign and domestic
stamps, to be held at Hotel 2400 Six
| teenth street NV. Thursday eve
ming, March 20. with Morton o.
Cooper in charge Catalogues are
ready for distribution. The number
| of lots listed is 832.
| David Brockton Browne, editor Of
the official journal of the Universal
| Ship Cancellation Society, Box 1875,
Pasadena, Calf, announces the new
names of the American deStroyers
traded to Great Britain as follows:
] U. S. S. Conway, now H. M. S. Lewes;
| Conner, Leeds; Stockton, Ludlow;
Wickes, Montgomery; Philip, Lam
caster; Evans, Mansfield; Sigourney,
Newport; Robinson, Newmarket;
Ringgold, Newmark; Fairfax, Rich
mond; Williams, st. Clair; Triggs,
bennington; Buchanan, Campbell
town; Aaron Ward, Castleton; Hale,
Caldwell; Crowninshield, Chelsea;
Tillman. Wells; ClaXton, Salisbury:
Yarnall, Lincoln; Thatcher, Niagara; !;
Cowell, Brighton; Maddox, George
town; Foote. Roxborough; Kalb,
Hamilton; Mackenzie, Annapolis;
Hopewell. Bath; Thomas, st. AlbanS;
Haraden, Columbia; Abbot. Charles
| town; Doran, ST. Mary'S: Satterlee.
Belmont; Mason, Broadwater; A. P.
UpShur, Clare; Hunt, Broadway; w.
C. Wood, Chesterfield; Branch,
Beverley; Herndon, Churchill; Nc
Cook, st. Croix; McCalla, Stanley;
Rodgers, Sherwood; Bancroft, St.
Francis; Welles, Cameron: Aulick,
Burnham; Lamb, Burwell; McLana-
han. Bedford; Edwards, Buxton;
Shubrick, Ripley; Bailey, Reading;
Swasey, Rockingham; Meade, Ram
say.
France has issued two semi -postals
in aid of prisoners of war-80s plus
fr., dark green, two soldiers look
ing back to their homeland; l fr.
plus 5 fr., brown lake, group of SOL
diers in barbed wire inclosure.
The l fr., red. stamp of France,
showing a portrait of Marshal Pc
tain, is reported to have been sold
during only single week.
Mozambique has a. beautiful
eighth centennial commemorative
1.75E, blue-repreSenting Don Al
fonso Henriques in full war panoply.
The King Haakon portrait stamps
of Norway have been withdrawn. It
is understood that they are being
replaced with new values of the IA
miliar posthorn and heraldic lion
designs.
A patriotic poster label now in
use in South Africa reads: I'VE
realise in Rhodesia the safe arrival
of this letter is due to the British
Navy"
The 10-cent, blue, special delivery
stamp of 1902 shows its creator in
the role of a messenger riding a
bicycle. His name was R. Ostrander
Smith. He was chief designer of
the American Bank Note Co. and
was borrowed" by the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing for several
years at the beginning of the CEN
tury. Other work. for which he