Evening star., 1942-05-17

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Monday. 1t ShoWS Daniel Boor
panions as pictured By Gilbert
capitol at Frankfort, ,ohere tn
Monday, June 1. -
country that the collection of JAP
| anese, German and Italian postage
stamps now on view ct the Depart
ment's philatelic exhibition room
should be withdrawn for the dura-
ton"
1t would be interesting to see
! just three or four of the alleged
suggestions. The average stamp
collector is too intelligent to be
guilty of such a childish gesture.
If only that the public may have an
opportunity to study Axis stamps
and to know them for what they
are, it is we'll to have them dis
played under official auspices
A spokesman for the Post Office
Department yesterday declared:
I'VE have not had even single pro-
test"
Norway is reported to have issued
TX, dark green, stamp to commem-
crate the centenary of Oslo Univer-
| Sity.
On May Is, 1895, mail carrier
service was established between the
Potomac and Philadelphia. The
! i,,1z s. ,rl, %ri.
year.
Howard R. Billson, 1910 Mintwood
place NV, is specializing in covers
showing Washington postmarks
from the foundation of the city
| to date.
Duties related to the prosecution
of the war have not prevented Sec
retary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes from continuing the develop
ment of his general collection. The
leisure he can spare for philatelic
recreation is brief and infrequent,
| but he does not contemplate COM
plete abandonment of his favorite
hobby.
! Margaret Kernodle, writing for
/ Wide World Features, says: THE
Canadian post office department ex-
poets to be able to provide flrst-day
| cover service for its new issue of
war stamps and indicates that de-
tails of the new issue will be avail
able soon. The first-day cover
service may have to be confined to
Ottawa because of shortage of staff
and general difficulties of carrying
on the work at other city post Offices
under war conditions"
Postmaster General Frank C..
| Walker has been asked to authorize
/ a stamp in tribute to Thomas Paine
Q737-1809), deist-patriot author of
Common Sense" THE Rights of
Man" and The Age of Reason"
A new 20-kronor stamp has been
produced by Sweden primarily for
transatlantic air mail use. 1t is
blue in color and shows wild geese
in flight. The design is the work
of Laila Prytz-Wik, wife of postal
official. First-day covers to the
number of 5000 were passed through
the mail on May 4. The face value
of the stamp in American money is
$5-highest denomination ever is
sued by the Swedish government.
The American Flying Services
Foundation, Inc, so East Forty
second street, New York, has re-
leased five poster stamps in cam
paign against sabotage.
H. L. Mencken, in his New
Dictionary of Quotations" cites F..
w. Nietzsche to the effect that: "A
letter is an unannounced visit, and
the postman is thus the agent of
impolite surprises" Perhaps how
ever, worse nuisance would be that
of a condition of life in which Moth
ing unexpected, nothing not tedi-
ously anticipated, ever happened.
A monograph on New Zealand
pictorial stamps, 1935-1940. by w. r.
Hoffman,, has been published by
the International Stamp Club, 81
Hanson place, Brooklyn, N. Y. and
will be sent to collectors on request.
Send name, address and 3 cents
postage.
Kent B. Stiles, philatelic editor of
the New York Times. reminds COL
lectorS of the fact that the first
airpost stamp was issued a quarter
century ago this month. 1t was an
Italian productions specially over
printed Csc, rose red, special de-
livery inscribed 'Experimento Posta
Aerea Maggie 1917 Torino-R Roma
Roma a-Torino." The occasion was
fight between Rome and Turin,
May %.
The worlds first airmail service
Washington, Philadelphia and New
York-was inaugurated "a years ago
Friday.
Ernest A Kehr, philatelic editor
of the New York Herald Tribune,
writes: "Oficials in the Post ONCE
Department have noted how
Adolf Hitler used stamps effectively
in propaganda campaigns which
preceded his European conquests
and how Australia, South Africa
and several other countries employ
stamps to publicize the United
Nations efforts"