Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-15
Among the Stamp Collectors
Ne'cs of the Philaelic Word Its Interests and PEOPLE
By James Waldo Fawceff.


and in the upper right corner the in
scription: Free - Prisoner of Wa
Mail"
II the Philatelic Agency is closed
the implicit contract between tn
Post Office Department and tn
stamp collectors of the world, il
effect since 1922, will be broken
The effect of such an abrogatiol
could not be other than injurious
to philately, If only for the harm
which inevitably would be done t,
the credit and reputation of tn,
hobby.
F. L. Ellis, writing for the STAMP
Review for November. discusses thu
history of the scent blue Free China
commemorative but does not revea
the origin of the issue. Unofficia
reports suggest that it was ar.
ranged" by a press agent for Chi.
nese relief organization in New York
Post ONCE Department executives
allegedly were consulted only after
the label had been promised by the
White House.
President Roosevelt has in his
cover collection a number of enve-
lopes Of historic and philatelic sig
niflcance presented to him by a fell
low stamp enthusiast who is uncom-
promisingly hostile to the political
philosophy of the New Deal.
Postal service on the aircraft car.
her U. S. S. Wasp began on April
IS, 1910, and ended September Is
1912.
The postmaster at San Francisco
has announced that it no longer is
permissible to inclose newspaper
clippings or other printed matter
In letters addressed to persons
abroad.
Elmer C. Pratt, stamp editor of
the Camden Courier Post, says: I'VE
now have direct mail and passenger
air service from Fort Worth and
Dallas, Tex, to Monterrey and Mexico
City"
According to the National Fedora
ton OF Stamp Clubs, American COL
lectors are opposed. two to one, to
the issuance of semipostal stamps.
One-cent National Defense stamps
have been precanceled for: Little
Rock, Ark; Chico, Calf; Bridge
port, Conn; Kansas City, Kans.
Ashland, Ky; Lynn. Mass; Salem,
Mass; jackson, Mich; Mount
Clemens, Mich; Concord. N. H;
Montclair, N. j.; Rockville Center,
N. Y; Cleveland. Ohio; Troy, Ohio;
Meadville, Pa: Reading. Pa; Scran-
ton, Pa, and Wichita Falls, Tex.
Squirrel, Idaho, has cachet show
Ing a squirrel sitting up with an
acorn in his paws. Send stamped,
self-addressed envelopes with re-
quests to postmaster.
John Coulthard reports that the
Navy Department is using hand
stamp cancellation" on official mail.
The phrase Dept. Per. 30 appears
on the killer.
The St Johns, Newfoundland
Evening Telegram, reports that LAS
bags of mail were lost In the S. S.
Caribou, sunk by enemy action in
the North Atlantic October IA.
L. P. Miller is editor of the 1943
First Day Cover Catalogue issued
last week by the Cover Exchange,
Box 1888, Scranton, Pa. The booklet
lists all issues of the past 20 years
and sells at cost of manufacture
35c a copy plus postage.
The office of the Third Assistant
Postmaster General says: THE VOL
ume of air mail is constantly in
creasing, while at the same time
facilities for transporting it have
been curtailed in order to move
essential war material and personnel.
Therefore. in order that space avail
able for air mail be utilized for the
fullest advantage of the greatest
number of persons, it is necessary
that all cooperate by reducing the
weight Of air mail letters and pack
ages as much as possible. BY using
lightweight envelopes and station
cry (procurable generally through
Dealers, approximately twice the
number Of letters to the pound can
be sent as when ordinary stationery
is used. The limited space available
for air mail in planes will thus be
conserved for maximum use"
James c. Heartwell, BAL Carroll
Park West, Long Beach, Calf. an
nounces that his booklet Air Stamp
Records" will be published De-
cember Is at SOC a copy.
The London Economist has
printed another story from Lisbon
to the effect that the Axis govern
ments are flooding the market with
new stamp issues intended to be
sold In America All that is wrong
with the tale is that American COL
lectors are not sufficiently gullible
to buy such junk.
There are tricks in every trade,
and the stamp business once was nc
exception to that rule. A Washing
tonian now passed middle life recalls
how as boy visiting the World
Fair at st. Louis in 1904 he saw
there philatelic exhibition which
led him to write to an advertiser in
a household magazine a few months
later. The copy" to which he re-
sponded offered certain specimens
gratis to applicants for approval
sheets. Mere amateur that he was
STAMPS AND COINS.
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