Evening star., 1941-09-07

vile, author, international dean OF
philatelic writer's; Charles Lathrop
Pack, collector; Charles James Phil
lips, dealer, author; Edward S.
Knapp, author; Beverly S. King,
author; H. M. Southgate, authority |
on United States stamps after 1894;
Ralph A. Barry, late stamp editor,
New York Herald Tribune, dean of
American philatelic writers"
Popular interest in foreign |
stamps has increased tremendously"
according to Don F. Nichols, writing
in Weekly Philatelic Gossip.
Margarita, a new construction |
! town, has been accorded postal !
facilities. the 22d post Office to be
/ placed in commission in the Canal
Zone.
Postal officials of the Wallis and
Fortuna Islands deny that their
colony has Joined the de Gaulle
movement and insist that the Free
France" overprints designated for
their territory are counterfeits.
The Philippine Commonwealth
may issue a commemorative for the
sixth anniversary of the establish
ment Of the present government,
November Is.
Postal meter slogans recently
noted are: Happy DAYS in Fiji.
Paradise of the Pacific" Suva; Buy
Trinidad Sugar" Port of Spain;
Trade Follows the Phone" Ceylon;
Eat More Newfoundland Fish, st.
Johns; pedestrians, Don's Jay
Walk New Zealand.
E. Guy Jewell of Damascus, Md,
won the grand award at the recent
National Stamp Exhibition, spon-
sored by the Precancel Stamp
Society of America, Los Angeles.
| Three new values of the Sun Vat
Sen series of China are reported
&c. red violet; loc, green; l6c, dull
olive.
Deli Norona, Moundsville, w Va,
announces the publication Of the
second volume of his "Cyclopedia Of
United States Postmarks and Postal
History"
Fifteen different nations respond
ed to an invitation sent broadcast
by Representative Sol Bloom of New
York suggesting the issuance Of
stamps commemorating the sesqui-
centenary of the Constitution OF
the United States. Brazil, China,
Dominican Republic, Ecudador,
France, Guatemala. Haiti. Hondu-
ras. Ireland (Erie). Nicaragua,
Panama, Poland, Salvador, Spain
and Turkey are included in the list.
Ernest A. Kehr, writing in the
New York Herald Tribune, says:
The entire series of AZ stamps
issued by Marienwerder in 1920 was
printed in Milan because the presi-
dent of the Plebiscite Commission,
under whose authority they were
prepared, was an Italian who had
friends who were printers in that
city"
Ralph Bernays of Pasadena, re-
gional director of. the American
Philatelic Society. is camping at
Klamath, Calf He has his fam
lily, including Janet, with him in
the woods.
Stephen G. Rich is the author of
an Informative article on the early
stamps of Czarist-not Bolshevik-
Russia printed in Mekeels Weekly
Stamp News for July IA.
Haughton Sanguinetti, former
stamp editor of the Boston Evening
Transcript, is the author of an
article on the Falkland Islands in
the Kenmore Kollector for August.
Mark H. Fall. stamp collecting
editor of the Albion (Mich) Re-
corder since 1923, died suddenly Of
a heart attack July "a.
That lovely lady on the 1886 COM
memoratives of Australia is Am
phitrite, the wife of Poseidon. Res
cued from the obscurity of Olympus,
she was chosen to symbolic the
linking of Tasmania to the main
land by telephone. Thus modern
science serves to revive the ancient
deities of classic Greece.
Stamp meetings for the week are
| listed as follows:
This evening at 7:15-"Voice of,
Philately" program, Station WINK;
C. w. Inglee, master of ceremonies;
Alden H. Whitney, guest speaker.
Tomorrow evening at 8-Capital
Precancel Club. home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Anthony Suess. 1903 Forty-first
place, Hyattsville, Md. Program ar
ranged by George w. Hawse.
Tomorrow evening at 8-Wood.
ridge Stamp Club, 22oe Rhode u.
land avenue NE. Program, Whats