Evening star., 1943-11-28
Otanps
By James Waldo Fa,Ccen.

The Ninth American Philatelic
Congress. meeting as scheduled Fri
day and yesterday, brought to Wash
ington a greater assembly of distin-
guished collectors and students of
stamps than even its most ardent
sponsors had expected.
1t also was a success from the
start in the sense that it was truly
international in character.
Approximately $50 persons gath
cred at the Pan-American Building,
Seventeenth street and Constitution
avenue NV, for the opening session
Friday afternoon. Speakers were.
Eugene Klein, president of the con-
gress since it was esta blished in 1885,
and DR.. L. S. Rowe, director general
of the union. Papers by Dr. Mario
de Sanctis and F. L. Alexander were
read by Albert F. Kunze and Jere
Hess Barr. respectively. A frame of
mperforate copies of the Pan-Amer-
lean Union jubilee stamp of 1910 was
unveiled by j. C. Benzing and Alvin
r. Meissner of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, while their
colleagues. designers and engravers
working in cooperation with them,
looked on.
The second session was held yes
terday morning and a banquet at
the Statler Hotel last night.
Plans for today call for philatelic
writer's breakfast at the Statler at
IL this morning and the fourth ses-
sion at the Pan-American Union
Building at $3.50 this afternoon.
Among out -of-town visitors regis
tered were: H. r. Harmer, London;
Alfred Lichtenstein, Franklin p.
Bruins, Carl Pelander, Sidney F. Bar
rett, Col. Hans Lagerloef. Kent
Stiles, John N Myer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry L. Lindquist. Mr.. and Mrs.
w. R. Mccoy, New York; Philip H.
Ward. James Starr, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. A. Eager. Philadelphia DR.. Clar-
ence w. Herman, Chicago; L. D.
Shoemaker, Lakewood, Ohio: Adolph
Steeg. Buffalo: Lewis j. Hermann,
Reading, Pa; L. G. Brookman, Min
neapolis; DR.. H. A. Davis. Denver;
Donald L. Lybarger. Cleveland;
John w. Fite. Merchantville, N. j.;
Martin and Earl Applebam, Chel-
tenham, Pa; Judge Harrison Hale
Schaff, Boston: Sterling Dow Port
land, Me-: Sol Glass, Baltimore
Local collectors in attendance in
cluded: Mrs. Catherine L. Man
ming, David D. Caldwell, Philip
Simms Warren. DR.. Lowell Ragatz,
Col. Spencer Cosby. Mrs. Grace Low
ering MacKnight. Dr. Ellis Haworth,
Miss Irene M. Pistorio, William NJ
Stuart and others.
What has been called ''the most
comprehensive exhibition of Latin
American stamps ever assembled
under one roof is being shown in
the Pan American Union Building
today. Treasures from the collec-
tons of Col. Lagerloef, DR.. Herman,
Nicholas Sanabria, Deli Norona and
others are on display. The Bra
lillian bulls-eye issues of 1843 have
been "spotlighted' in a special
court of honor"
Readers interested in Christmas
seals are referred to an editorial
on the subject printed in The Star
for Tuesday, November %.
An index of the first IA volumes
OF the Airpost Journal, 1929-1943,
has been published at Albion, Pa.
The compiler is Richard L. Singley.
H. A. Robinette, 900 F. street NV,
announces an auction of a fine COL
lection of the stamps of the United
States and British colonies. Long
fellow Hotel, Baltimore, Saturday
December 4.
Collectors are warned not to at
tempt to send postage stamps to any
country except Canada without first
obtaining a license from the Office
Of Censorship, Philatelic Control
Unit, 252 Seventh avenue. New York
City The regulation applies'to gifts
as we'll as to commercial transac-
tions.
Stamp prices in the liberated por-
ton of Italy are rocketing skyward.
1t. Col. Charles G.. Brown, writing |
to Stamps magazine, has cautioned
collectors to beware OF |
counterfeits now being sold to un-
wary soldiers at fantastic figures.
The postmaster at Santa Claus,
Ind. already is being showed under
with greeting cards and other mail
for which his Yuletide cancellation
is wanted
1t is reported that every building
In the Friedricnstrasse in Berlin has
been destroyed Losses to stamp
located in the neighborhood must |
have been cataclysmic The effect
upon the philatelc market after the |
war may be imagined.
Harry E. Stine, former assistant to |
Deputy Third Assistant Postmaster
General Roy M. North, has been pro-
noted to superintendent of the
money order division.
Under the terms of the proposed
new tax bill the local regular postage
rate will be increased from to 3
cents and the airmail rate from 6
to 8. New stamps are regarded as
inevitable. The chance to honor the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps ought
to be seized without delay.
The Collectors Club of Washington
will meet at the Thomson School,
Twelfth and l. streets NV, Tues
day evening at 8.
STAMPS AND COINS.
Private collector desires to purchase un-