Evening star., 1942-05-31
AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS
News Phaec World Its Interests and Peope-Revew
the Stamp Press-List of Local Meetings.
By lanes Waldo Fatccen.

By James Waldo Fawcen. =
The 3-eent Kentucky sesqui-cen-
tennial commemorative scheduled to
20 on first-day sale at Frankfort to-
morrow was designed by William A.
Roach. Engravers were: Charles A.
Brooks, vignette; Axel Christensen,
lettering. etc. The plate numbers
are: 22925 and 22926.
It is announced that the anony-
NOUS donor who established the
Michael l.. Eidsness, jr.., memorial
silver plates in 1887 will continue to
sponsor the annual award through
the Washington Philatelic Society.
However, in order that the trophy
may have truly national character,
it has been decided that nomina-
tions for it shall be invited through
five other stamp collectors organiza-
tions in different parts Of the coun-
try. Further details concerning the
new arrangement will be disclosed
shortly.
Collectors have heard with some
thing akin to dismay reports author
lied at the White House anticipat-
ing the discontinuance Of airmail
for the duration" President Roose-
welt himself has let it be known that
he does not feel that airpost facili-
ties constitute vital necessity" to
@x.t h
was aware that suspension would
cause hardship" for any consider
able number of citizens he did not
say. The earliest protests thus far
appear to be coming from the fam
lilies of soldiers and sailors who have
been making consistent use of air
mail ever since December and
who have found in it a service which
they esteem and value highly.
What effect discontinuing plane
transportation of letters would have
upon the airpost branch OF philately
is a matter which may not be i'm
portant to any other group of citi-
zens, but it is certain to create con-
Germ among collectors who, from
the start, have been generous pa
irons of airmail.
The woodbridge Stamp Club an
nounces meetings at the homes
of members as follows: June 8, Mrs.
Henrietta Hickerson, 3102 Twenty
fourth street NE: June Is, Mrs.
Frances Bonar, 3114 Sixteenth street
NE: and June %, Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis G. Nix, 1926 Randolph street
NE.
Afghanistan is reported to have
In preparation a national defense
series of stamps.
The 1912 convention of several
national organizations OF stamp
collectors may be Cancelled because
of transportation difficulties. Ex-
ecutive officers of the American
Philatelic Society and the Society
of Philatelic Americans are studying
conditions of travel and soon may
announce their decisions.
Collectors interested in philatellc
literature are requested to communi-
cate with Daniel w. Vooys, organ
izer of the Philatelic Library
Association, 65 North Willard street,
Burlington, VT.
Hugh c. Barr. SO Park Row, New
York. has issued catalogue for
the sale OF mint United States
collection.
Willard Otis Wylie. editor emeri-
tus of Mekeel's Weekly Stamp News,
Portland, Me. has been elected
president of society known as
"Fossils of Amateur Journalism
Chile will have five stamps to
mark the centenary OF Santiago
University. Denominations, it was
reported, will be: soc, 40c, soc, lip
and 1.S0p,
Honduras is bringing out series
Of stamps in homage to Gen. Fran
cisco Moranzan, first president, who
died a century ago.
Walter J. Rozmin, in the first
Issue of the Newspaper Stamp Col
umn Review, features an apprecla-
ton Of Elmer C. Pratt, stamp editor
Of the Camden Courier Post, well
known in Washington.
Mrs. Alys Mckay Bryant pioneer
aviatrix, speaking before the Col
lectors' Club of Washington Tues
day evening, advocated the destruc-
ton of everything of japanese orr
gin now in American hands, stamps
of Japan included.
Norman Wicks. Tucson, Ariz., will
sponsor a patriotic cachet for In
dependence Day, July 4. Mailing,
it Is explained, will be from "a town
appropriate to the occasion" Send
stamped self-addressed standard
size envelope. unsealed, with l-cent
forwarding fee, not later than
June "a.
NEW SldIllpS lloiii iNC" NSoAo'N
show color differences and changes
in perforation which already have
resulted in recent printings being
called war varieties"
The Treasury DEPARTMENTS story
about Axis exploration of American
stamp collectors has as many lives
as an alley cat. Golfers Weekly
picks it up and adds to it details
which will deceive no experienced
philatelist.
But the Old Sleuth, a contributor
to Stamps Magazine, answers:
Stamp collectors have pretty good
line on the sources of their stamps
and 1t would be very difficult to
carry on activities of this kind with
out it being quickly exposed'-not
by the Treasury Press Bureau but
by the philatelic writers of the
country who know their business at
least as we'll as mere bystanders who
cannot tell q stamp from a hole in