Evening star., 1943-05-16
Among the Stamp Collectors
Neus Of the Philateic World Its Interests and PeotLe

'ests and People
tions In Poland is now under sus.
pension.
collectors desiring first-day cam
cellations Of the Poland stamp may
send not more than 10 self-ad-
dressed envelopes to the postmaster
at Washington, with cash or postal
money-order remittance for tho
amount of stamps to be affixed"
No news concerning postal and
phllatelc changes in North Africa
as yet has been received, but it is
probable that the post Offices OF the
whole series of Italian colonies south
of the Mediterranean have been
taken over'' by representatives of
the British imperial postal system,
The colorful Italian colonial postal
issues for Ethiopia, Cyrenaica, Libya.
Tripolitania, Oltre Giuba, Italian
East Africa and italian Somaliland
now by the fortunes of war are
phllatelic waste paper"-well worth
having.
Hamilton A. Hooper, philatelio
editor OF the Baltimore Sun, writes:
The centenary of the founding Of
the summer capital of Dom Pedro II,
at Petropolis, has been commence
rated by a 40-centavos stamp. violet
IN color. 1t has a large vertical
tormat. The design is a reproduce
ton of the 200-reis stamp bearing 4
profile of Dom Pedro II, early En-
peror OF Brazil. 1t bears at the top
the inscription, 'Centenario de Pc
tropols, 16 de Marco, 1843-1943'
and at the bottom the unit of value
and Brasil Correis.'"
The war stamps of Canada ara
being studied by Post Office De-
partment officers in relation to a
proposal to issue a series of postal
labels showing what the American
people are doing to win two wars at
one time.
turkey has a new regular postage
series OF stamps adorned with a por-
trait of President Inonu.
| Capt. Charles A. Kenny, former
editor and publisher of the National
Stamp News, now stationed in New
Mexico, was in Washington on fur
Tough last week.
The Association for Stamp Exhibi.
tons, Inc. has started work on plans
Tor fourth international stamp ex-
| hlbltlon, to be held in New York in
1947, in the interest of the restora-
ton of good will after the war"
| Sol Glass of Baltimore has been
appointed chairman of the Exhibi-
tlon Committee for the ninth Amer
lean Philatelic Congress, pan-Amer-
lean stamp centenary celebration, to
be held at the American Union
Building next November.
The Amateur Athletic Union gold
medal for "outstanding service in
behalf OF amateur athletics has
been awarded to Col. Hans Lager
loef, sponsor of the R. A. Barry sill
yer cup award for excellence in
phllatellc Journalism.
Albert F. Kunze returned to the
presidency Of the Washington
Philatelic Society, Lee Sheraton
Hotel, Wednesday evening, succeed
ing Morton O. Cooper. He let it be
known that it will be his policy to
develop the organization as an in
tegral part of the war effort of the
Capital of the Nation.
The Dominion government has
! published an official handbook Of
present conditions and recent prog
ress in Canada. Stamp collectors
will be interested particularly in
pages 1913 and 129 concerning the
postal service from 1867 to date.
According to the New York Times,
the Japanese controlled puppet
| government of Manchukuo has
brought out two stamps to mark the
first anniversary of the sneak raid
on Pearl Harbor. The inscription
reads: "Asiatic prosperity begins to-
day
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt attended the
inaugural ceremony of the WASH
ington-P n-Philadelphia- New York air.
mail service 25 years ago yesterday.
Carl E. Pelander, sos Fifth ave-
nue., New York City, has published
an attractive catalogue for an auc-
ton of stamps of Finland, May 81
and %.
Prof. Ralph A. Van Wye OF the
University of Cincinnati has a COL
lection of $4,000 postmarks.
V-mail in Canada is known as
"airgraph."
1t has been announced that the
Philatelic Agency has removed from
its sales list the following stamps
1c Irving, lc Audubon, &c Long, &c
Sousa. Csc special handling, nc to
SOC presidentials, not electric eye,
and 10c special delivery, not electric
eye.
| 4IiC
for May contains an illustrated
feature article on the philateuc
hobby of Carl E. johnson, a collec-.
tor, who has photographed every
post office in the State of Rhode
Island.
Stamp meetings for the week are
listed as follows:
Today at l pm.-Celebration of
the silver jubilee of airmail service
in the United States, National Air
port. Exhibition and program.
Today at 1:30 p.m.-Twenty-f fifth
anniversary of the American airpost
system. Station WMAL.
Tomorrow evening at 8-Wood-
ridge Stamp Club, home of Mrs.
Henrietta Hickerson. 3102 Twenty
fourth street NE Stamposium
Tuesday evening at 8-Collectors'
Club of Washington, Thomson