Evening star., 1942-09-13
Among the Stamp Collectors
Necs Of the Phafelc WorId Its Interests and PEOPLE
By James Waldo Fayceff.

Postmaster General Frank C
Walker announces: THE existing
military demands upon air trans
portation facilities for strategic car
go and for personnel essential to the
war effort have made necessary the
immediate establishment of the fol-
lowing order of preference in the
loading of mail on aircraft destined
Tor restricted areas: First, official air
mail; second, "V" mail; third, to the
extent space Is available, other letter
mail weighing not in excess of two
ounces per letter"
The 2-cent John Adams coil stamp
now is available from Van Nuys,
Calf. Other new pre-cancels in
clude-1 y cent, Long Island City.
N. Y: 9-cent Minneapolis; 30-cent,
Kansas City. Mo ;50-cent, st. Paul
all presidentials. Also 1-cent De-
fense issues from Elmhurst, Ill;
Wilkes-Barre, Pa; Nashville, Tenn,
and Amarillo, Tex.
II stamp is authorized for Col
umbus Day, October IL, don't be
surprised. Such an issue is forecast
in Post Office Department circles
but, as usual, will be denied by out
siders more royal than the King"
Plate numbers used in the manu-
facture of Scent Win the War"
stamps include 22957 to 22960,
22967 to 2297o.
Philatelic Agency sales for August
reached S43,807 86.
TIE 10-cent Frederic Remington
stamp was removed from the
PhIatehc Agency sales list at the
close OF business Monday last.
Sterling S. Taylor, se12 Fremont
avenue, Seattle, is distributing
copies OF the National Cachet
Directors Councils Register of
United States Ships and Post
marks" edited by D. C. BARLEY, IS
cents a copy plus postage.
A Nationwide appeal to stamp
collectors for the donation of stamps,
albums, catalogues and philatenc
accessories is being made by the
United Service Organizations, Inc,
through Stamps for Servicemen"
campaign. Contributions should be
sent to the USO Philatelic Division,
Empire State Building, New York
City.
Cov2o tao,,fif,.1
of 1893 in blocks of four from the
estate OF the late Col E. H. r. Green
will be sold at auction by Daniel
F. Kelleher, Water street, Boston,
Mass, October II. Catalogues are
ready for responsible applicants.
These gracious lines came from
the well-remembered pen of E. v.
Lucas, Englishman of letters, trav-
eler and philosopher:
"A stamps a tiny, flmsy thing,
No thicker than a beetles wing,
And yet twill roam the world for
you,
Exactly where you tell 1t to.
The very moment that I write
And every moment, day and night,
A sturdy stamp battalion scours
The earth in search of friends Of
ours.
It's hard to think how people used
To live ere stamps were introduced"
Elsa Lohmann is the author of
thoughtful and helpful article on
Study of Postage Stamps by
First Grade Children" published in
Stamps Magazine for September H.
Current issues of Antigua from u
penny to shillings 6 pence are
available on hard white paper with
slight engraving changes.
The postal authorities of Argen-
tina have been asked to issue one
or more stamps to mark the CEN
tenary Of the birth of Jose C. Paz,
founder Of La Prensa, Buenos Aires.
New issues of Iran omit English
inscriptions.
Richard Mop. Cabeen, philatelic
editor of the Chicago Tribune, writes:
STAMP collecting is a flexible insti-
tuition and will continue even
II the use of adhesive stamps is
entirely abolished"
Stamp collecting, it is indicated,
will furnish the background for the
Mr.. District Attorney program on
Station WRC Wednesday evening
at $50.
Incredible as it may seem, it now
has become known that stamps sent
TO the Queens Hospital in London
actually are sold to an American
dealer-A. E. Pade of Denver. This
means that precious space in ships
moving between the East ports of the
United States and England is being
wasted carrying accumulations of
ordinary current American stamps
to Britain and then ridiculously
carrying them back again.
Cuban stamps bisected allegedly
are being counterfeited on cover.
Liberia is bringing out another
geological series. One of the designs
will show the famous Diana monkey,
considered by some writer's "the
most beautiful of all mammals"
A popular song of the moment
bears the title Just Letter From
Home"-another ballad of the postal
service.
The S. P. A. journal for Septem-
Der contains a reproduction of The
stars portrait of j. Edward Vining
of st, Louis, president declared re-
elected at the recent convention in
Detroit.
Walt Zubay, BIT Thirty sixth
street, Long Island City, N. Y, will
sponsor cachet to be applied to
Pulaski Day covers mailed from Is
different towns of that name Octo-
Der Is. Send stamped, self addressed