Evening star., 1941-06-29
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News of the Phaec World Its Peop-Revew
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings
By James Waido Farcceff.

By James Waido Farpcef.
Postage stamps to publicize na-
tional defense progress are indi-
Gated. The three values now avail
able soon may be retired to make
room for a series showing some of
the achievements thus far accom-
plished. President Roosevelt, as
usual, will judge proposed designs.
The fourth of the Philatelic PAM
phlets sponsored by the Pan-Amer-
lean Union has appeared. 1t bears
the title, Who's Who on the POST
age Stamps of Chile" and is COM
psnion publication for similar
booklets dealing with the portrait
adhesives of Argentina, Bolivia and
Brazil, Rogelio E. Alfaro is the
author, and Rodolfo Michels, Chilean
Ambassador to the United States,
provides a scholarly foreward. Four
teen pages of text are devoted to
biographical data on Diego de AL
magro, Jose Manuel de Balmaceda,
Encalada, Manuel Bulnes, Jose
Miguel Carrera, Thomas Cochrane.
Christopher Columbus, Mariana
Egana. Federico Errazuriz Echaur-
ren, Federico Errazuriz Zanartu,
Eugenio Eyraud, Ramon Freire,
Camilo Henriquez. Juan Jose La
torre, Manuel Montt, Bernardo
nrIiooinc loco Ioan,,ir Dara1 Ami
bal Pinto, Francisco Antonio Pinto,
joaquin Prieto, Manuel Rengifo,
Jose de San Martin, Domingo Santa
Maria, Joaquin Tocornal, Policarpo
Toro, Mateo de Toro Zambrans,
Pedro de Valdiria Benjamin Vicuna
Mackenna and Jose Ignacio Zenteno.
Copies of the four pamphlets may
be had at 10 cents each from the
Stamp Division, Pan American
Union.
Collectors of the postal cards of
The Netherlands East Indies should
see an article on the subject by
C. w. Baker, published in Stamps
Magazine for June 81.
Hungary has marked the re
turn" of a portion of Yugoslavia by
overprinting two stamps of current
Vintage-10 f. bistre brown; 20 f. |
rose red-with an appropriate
slogan.
Otis T. Wingo, jr,, sent first
flight covers from the Washington |
National Airport to friends. June l6. |
The National Federation of !
Stamp Clubs has Endorsed a pro-
posal for commemorative for the !
400th anniversary of the discovery |
of California by Juan Rodriguez
Cabrillo next year.
Prof. Lowell Ragaty, writing in |
Stamps Magazine, New York, says: |
''Walter Huff, 209 South Washing |
ton avenue, Pulaski, Va, collects |
philateLc freaks-errors, bisects. !
prepared. but not issued items, etc. |
and has a most fascinating collec- |
ton crowding three looseleaf al /,
buns. Such a collection always at
tracts a lot of attention and is |
lots of fun from every point of view. |
George Richardson, box 1l6, Glenn |
Dale, Nd, is holding covers for the
third highway post Office route, San
Francisco to Pacific Grove, Calf,
August A. Collectors may send
stamped and addressed envelopes, as
follows: Two for terminals only; %
for one "trip coverage: a for full COW
erage. All covers should be marked
for identification except terminals,
which require no markings. Fee for
forwarding, l cent per cover, Dead
line, July 20.
The new United States Lines
freighter American Leader. sched-
uled to sail from San Francisco
June 16. has been delayed. Ca
chefs rfor the sister ships Ameri-
can Builder. American Packer and
American Press have been ar
ranged by the Seamen'S Church
Institute, 25 South street, New York
City, at Is cents each, profits for
the benefit of torpedoed and ship |
wrecked crews of merchant vessels. |
Copies of the new airport !
stamps of Switzerland have been |
received. The design includes an !
airplane flying over a lake against
a background of mountains. Value:
! fr.; color. blue-green.
Charles H. Vaughan, well-known
dealer, former secretary of the
Washington Philatelic, has been
elected president of the Collectors
Club of Washington.
One hundred and twenty-rhree /
stamps collectors. including AZ from .
Washington, attended the picnic |
of the Associated Stamp Clubs of |
the Chesapeake Area near Frederick,
Md, last Sunday.
EStonia, Latvia, Lithuania and |
the Ukraine soon may have their |
own stamps again. The alternative |
Is the complete domination of all |
Europe not by Adolf Hitler so much |
rs by Joseph Stain.
The philatelic periodical shop of |
p U. Vallancey was destroyed in |
recent German raid on London.
Germany has brought out half
dozen charity stamps for the en-
ployes of the Reich postal system. |
The values are: plus pfg, green,
fag-raising ceremony at camp in !
Zeesen; plus II pig, carmine, color
guard of Achievement Division: II |
STAMPS AND COINS.
sTAMPS-COINS-AUT
Bought and Sold
HOBBY SHOP
TIC 11th st. NV. District 1879 /
Fine selection of used stamps. old and new. |
Beautiful new issues mint Of every country. |
SWARTZ' STAMP SHOP
9e6 Mass. Ave. NV. Room $40.