Evening star., 1942-05-24
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News Phate World Its Interests and Peope-Review
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings.
By James Waldo Fawceh.

Taking advantage of q world
wide demand for new stamps, the
government of Canada has an
nounced a series of II regular post
age issues and three airmails to go
on sale July /.
AS officially described in press
release from Ottawa, the denomina-
tions, colors and subjects will be:
1c, green, King George VI; &c,
brown. same: Sc, red, same; 4c,
gray. grain elevators, SC. blue, King
George VI; &c, sepia, farm scene;
lOc, brown, Parliament buildings;
13c, dark green, rain" tank; zoe,
brown, corvette; SOC, violet, munl-
tions factory; 81, blue, destroyer;
SC. airpost, blue. air. training plan;
loe. special delivery, green, coat-of-
arms and flags; and 16c, airmail-
special delivery, violet tblue. trans
Canada plane.
The face value of the entire set
OF IA specimens will be $2.48. II
collectors in the United States order
$4,000 copies of each denomination,
$125,0 will cross the border.
Dealers alone are expected to invest
approximately 5000 in the new
series.
Collectors VIII desire to purchase
direct are referred - the Financial
Branch, Postage Stn.Np Division,
Post Office Department, Ottawa,
Canada.
Arrangements for first-day covers,
1t is suggested, should be made
through service agents or local post
masters in the Dominion.
The Government of the United
States. according to a London dis
patch to the New York Herald Trib-
une, will recognize the stamps OF
Free France
Thomas Gilbert White. who paint
ed the Daniel Boone mural to be
reproduced in the &c Kentucky SeS-
uuicentenary stamp, is brother OF
Stewart Edward White, novelist, and
Roderick White, violiniSt.
Golfers Weekly remarks: Ma
poleon (the Greatl is one OF the
outstanding figures in world history
whose portrait never has appeared
on any postage stamp.
Walter Conrath of Albion, Pa,
publisher of the Airport journal,
fatally injured in traffic accident
near Conneaut, Ohio, May 6, at
tended Georgetown University In
his youth.
The collection of the late Col. E.
H. R. Green, it is reported in New
York, shortly is to come on the mar
ket. Percy Doane and Walter Scott
are acting as counSelors to the at
torneys for the estate, and they are
understood to have recommended
gradual piecemeal sale until the
whole vast accumulation has been
distributed.
Its an i'll wind" etc. The short
age of gasoline and tires will inter
fere with recreational motoring. and
collectors who might be tempted to
neglect their stamps in pleasant
weather will have recourse to them
with renewed enthusiasm in the
circumstances.
The Capitol Stamp Co, 638 Forty
first street, Des Moines, Iowa, has
brought out a series of eight pa
triotic covers. Seven OF them are
eminently satisfactory. The odd
number" of the set perpetuateS the
tedious banality of Remember
Pearl Harbor" as if anybody could
forget it!
Collectors interested in the l0-cent
Ethelbert Nevin stamp of 1910 are
referred to an editorial, The Saga
of a Song" printed in The Star on
Thursday last.
Mai. William P. Clarke of Will
Transport. Pa, soldier, historian,
numisnatist and philatelist, died
May II, following an illness Of sew
eral months.
H A. Robinette 900 F street NV,
announces that he will sell at auc-
ton at the Collectors Club, New
York. June 12-15. the first part of
the stamp collection of the late H.
M. Southgate, founder and president
of the Bureau Issues Association.
Catalogue free on request.
Collectors of stamps relating to
Abraham Lincoln are invited to
send their names to 1t. Bert Shell
don, secretary, the Lincoln Group
of the District of Columbia, 1927
Forty-third pace NV.
The Society of Philatelic Ameri-
cans has issued series of five
poster labels in as many different
colors to publicize plans for the 1912
convention at Detroit. Copies may
be had on application to Stephen
G.. Rich, Verona, N. j. Enclose
self addressed stamped envelope for
reply.
New military posts and stations
are announced, as follows: Army
Air Corps Technical Training Com
mand. Southern Pines, N. c.; DeS
Moines Ordnance Plant, Des
Noines, Iowa. Fort Greeley, Seattle,
wash; Camp Hood, Killeen, Tex;
Jay Hawk Ordnance Works, Baxter
Springs, Kans.: Kirkland Field, Al
buquerque, N. Mex; Missouri 1nsti-
tute of Aeronautics, Sikeston, Mo:
Camp Rucker, Ozark, Ala; Camp