Evening star., 1943-04-04

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DR.. F. A. Keller OF Falls City,
Nebr., a practicing philatelist from
boyhood onward, died March 3 at
the age of g..
Chile has a new zoe olive green
airmail stamp, type AP Is.
Collectors again are cautioned
against sending orders for stamps
to the postal authorities of the
Union of South Africa at Capetown.
The officials referred to have made
it clear that they do not wish to
accommodate philatelists.
Elmer c. Pratt, writing in the
Camden Courier-Post, says: "The
United States carried free mail last
year in volume sufficient to fill
100 trains of go cars EACH" the
capacity OF car being 10000
pounds.
Changes of far-reaching signif-
canoe soon will occur in the stamp
trade.
A Washington stamp enthusiast
last week purchased no less than
tour collections relinquished by men
going into military service. He will
mold the albums until six months
after the end of the war so that,
their former owners may retrieve
them if they wish.
The three servicemen shown m
the Australian I'd stamp of 1910
nave been reported killed Their
names were: Gavan Reilly. soldier.
who fell near Buna. Papua, last De-
cember; Charles Henry Bruce. gun
layer, transport Ceramic sunk with
all hands in the Atlantic, and Ar
thur Norman Hick, air force SQUAD
ron leader, died of injuries in Eng
land,
Eugene Klein, 2l2 South Thir.
teenth street, Philadelphia. has
brought out an illustrated cata-
logue for the auction sale of United
| States stamps and covers from the
collections of DR.. Henry E. Radasch
and Donald Anthony, April II.
Rumors to the effect that airpost
service within the boundaries of the
United States may be suspended
| are denied in the very highest
! circles.
II the Government of the United
States had had the Imagination of
certain supposedly backward" ad-
ministrations, it would have issued
stamp in homage to Nine. Chang
Kal-shek, "the first lady of the
world today"
A recent find of 10th century
United States stamps included full
sheets of the Columbian issues of
1893 up to the l0-cent denonina-
ton, part sheets of the other values.
Boys Town Times for March 2s
contains an attractive picture of
Norman Lockwood and his stamp
album.
r. B. Yardley. past president of
the Royal Philatelic Society of
London, died January 25, aged "a.
Applicants for membership in the
Society OF Phllatelic Americans in
clude a contractor, an architect, a
lawyer, telephone company super
VISOR, an accountant, pharmacist,
a welder, model builder, a farmer,
a claim agent, an advertising writer,
fur cutter. a heating engineer,
sales manager, an interior decorator
chemist and a TINT manufacturer,
A new president of the Confed-
crate Stamp Alliance, succeeding
the late DR.. Don Preston Peters,
must be elected.
| Slogan cancellations reading
Give, Red Cross War Fund" are
available on both International and
| Universal achines beginning
March l, 1943.
| Althea Harvey writes on stamps
showing bridges in the Journal of
the Society of Philatelic Americans
for April
Once again the question of whether
or not national philatelic organlza-
tlonS should attempt to hold con-
Ventlons IN wartime is being dis
} cuSSed, Some members who for
merly were accustomed to travelling
| by automobile to such meetings now
CnntanH
cause OF gasoline rationing: others
report that they are 'just too busy"
winning the imperative victory over
| the Axis.
News about stamps issued by the
AXIS countries is subject to rigid
censorship, but collectors are en-
titled to know that new issues are
appearing in Germany. Italy and
Japan very much as they did before
the beginning Of the war.
The Belgian Congo has two new
hlgh-value stamps manufactured
| by WaterloW e. Sons of London
5Of, blue and black, profile portrait
OF native woman; 100f, carmine. red
and black, native soldier on sentry
duty.
Stamp meetings for the week are
| listed as follows:
Tomorrow evening at S-Wood-
ridge Stamp Club, Public Library.
| 22O6 Rhode Island avenue NE,
Business session.
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors'
Club of Washington, Thomson
School. Twelfth street NV. Pro-
| gram and bourse.
| Tuesday evening at 8-East WASH
lngton Stamp Club, Eastern High
School, East Capitol street. Pro.
| gram.
STAMPS AND COINS,
COINS, American and foreign; gold. silver.
anLlaues' cameras; highest prices paid.
Hepner. 402 18th st. NV DI. 266S
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