Evening star., 1944-10-01

tnenClc Work OF art Is lOSC, 10 Int
unconcealed regret OF all Americans
who cherish high ideals Of beauty ir
relation to their Government.
Plate numbers for the SC Cor.
regidor stamp, placed on sale last
Wednesday, are: 23l62, 23l63 ano
23l64.
Russia, even in tie midst of war
finds ways and means to pay homage
to a great composer-Rimsky-
Korsakoff, best known in America
foi his THE Song of India" Foul
stamps showing his portrait have
been issued, as follows: 30k, gray
brown; COX. slate green; lr, green
and 3r, purple.
Uruguay has produced a Sc STAMP
to mark the centennial of the
YMCA.
Readers who wish to write te
friends in France are privileged tc
take chance" in addressing them
Write on the lower left side of the
cover: Please forward when ares
is liberated" Eleven department.
already are clear of German troops
Rear Admiral Charles Henry
Tilghman Lowndes, rs, U. S. N, re.
tired, died at the Naval Hospital
Bethesda, Md, Monday. Born ir
Baltimore in 1866, he was educated
at Johns Hopkins and the University
Of Maryland, Joined the Navy Med
ical Corps in 1889, continued on duty
until 1929, then was medical direc-
tor of Georgetown University Hos.
pital from 1880 to 1888. His interest
in stamps dated from his boyhooc
and he developed a magnificent col.
lection of the Chinese Treaty Ports
issues while serving in the Orient
Joining the Washington Philatelit
Society in 1926, he was vice presi-
dent in 1880. A son. Charles Lucier
Baker Lowndes. a teacher at Duke
OlAEci oily, survives.
Brig. Gen. Charles E. Hurdis, $3.50
Wilson boulevard, Arlington, Va, Is
collector of stamps and covers ir
peacetime If not during periods OF
war.
Add to the list of soldier philate.
lists the names OF 1t. Col. Byron
Bird. Corps of Engineers; Mai
Henry C. Eichhorn, A. G. D.; Sergt
Edward H. Boldroske, Pvt. John M
Mills, jr., and Pvt. Robert A. Bixler
jr.
r. E. Celander, p. R. 3, Rockford
ILL.,. is "shut-in' philatelist who
would be glad to correspond with
collectors interested to write to him
Shot in the spine, he probably never
will be able to walk again or even tc
sit up normally. Readers who have
duplicate stamps 10 spare might wish
to help him to fill his album. II so
their gifts will be appreciated.
Clergymen who collect stamps In.
clude: Rev. Paul z. Allen, Westfield
Mass, and Rev. James Valiant, st
James Church, Indianhead, Md.
Walter c. Brink, Genesee Depot
Wis, forwards to Linn's Week.,
Stamp News, Sidney, Ohio. the fol
lowing excerpt from the Milwaukee
Sentinel: Why should post Office
cancellation stamps be all the sam,
in form? Why couldn't each cit,
have distinctive cancellation
stamp? For example, New York
stamp would include a picture O.
Father Knickerbocker, the Empire
State Building or a sketch of Man.
hattan's skyline. Philadelphia
stamp would have a picture of tn,
Liberty Bell; Brooklyn's stamp, /,
sketch of the Brooklyn Bridge" etc
OF course, the author of the quote,
suggestion means "canceling die
when he says cancellation stamp
and the idea was tried out in Europ
as much as 80 years ago. Never
theless, with these corrections o
amendments, the proposal is a goo,
one. Washington's die, it woul
seem, should show the dome of tn
Capitol on one extreme and tn
Washington Monument on the Other
An appropriate inscription would be
Permanent residents of the Distric
of Columbia cannot vote"
Any one knowing the present bust
ness address of NJ. Estelle Kirschne
will confer favor by communication
it to the stamp editor of The Star.
Robert D. Byrnes, stamp edito
of the Hartford CoIrant, will be il
Washington this week and has con
sented to address the Collector
Club at the Thomson School, Twelfth
and l. streets NV, Tuesday evenin
at 8 o'clock. Also taking part in tn
program will be A. G Galloway, VIII
will exhibit a motion picture en-
titled "The Story Of the Rose" TIL
public Is invited to attend.
The Woodbridge Stamp Club vii
meet at the home of Chester +
Bletch, 1000 Nineteenth place NE
tomorrow evening. New officers ar
to be chosen, and full attendanc
is desired.
STAMPS AND COINS.