Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-10-08
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By James W1ldo F1srcstf.

By James WAldo FasCcsff.
Apparently, there 4 ! chance
perhaps : very good chance that
the long-awaited Red Gross stamp
Will be authorized within the next
few days. The New York Sun, which
often represents of1ctal opinion IN
Iphilatelic matters, said on Friday:
The Post Once Department has
been besiegcd with requests for the
issuance Of such Z stamp and plans
are now being considered
The proposed motion picture In
dustry stamp may show q night
scene In the Pacific battle area with
soldiers and WACS watching the
showing Of comedy Aim on 1 screen
against . background Of palm trees.
Costa Rica has overprinted ere
Imainders" Of four different Victory
stamps with an inscription COM
|memorating the signing OF boun-
dairy pact with Panama.
Cuba probably will bring out q SC
stamp carrying portrait Of Manuel
Marquee Sterling, late Ambassador
to the United States and publisher
of Cuban newspapers.
The Universal Postal Union, with
headquarters In Geneva, received
and distributed to member nations
Lbs different stamps during 1913.
Belgium has brought out a series
of Red Cross stamps honoring the
famous painter Van Dyck.
Bolivia has marked its revolution
of last December by producing two
stamps bearing an inscription mean
ing IAN for the Country" The de-
nominations and colors are: zoe,
orange; 90c. blue.
Covers to be cacheted on Victory
day still are being received by the
stamp editor Of The Star. Readers
interested are asked to leave plenty
OF space on the left side Of their
envelopes for the marking to be
applied.
Albert Charles Kunze, first class
seaman, U. s. N, son Of Albert r.
Kunze, president of the Washington
Philatelic Society and director Of the
philatelic division of the Pan-Amer-
lean Union. is in Sardinia, according
to the latest letters received from
him.
Harry L. Lindquist, editor and
publisher Of Stamps Magazine, New
York, well known in Washington,
will be the guest of honor and prin-
cipal speaker at the annual banquet
of the Chicago Philatelic Society,
Friday evening, October 20.
Former Postmaster General James
A. Farley will be sponsor and Emil
Breuchig chairman Of the Philatelic
Division of the National War Fund
campaign this year. The objective
is $25, 900.
Kent B. Stiles, stamp editor of the
New York Times, has been in WASH
ington recently on business.
1t is reported that Robert c. King,
assistant superintendent of the Divi-
sion Of Stamps since 1925, will retire
at the end of the year. He has been
in the Post Office Department since
1907 and previously was in the
Philippine civil service. A native of
Indiana, he was associated with the
establishment IF the Philatelic
Agency and still continues to be
interested In its operation. He also
is the keeper of the official records
Of all new issues and has many
friends among collectors and phil
atelic writer's.
Letters addressed to the liberated
portions of the Netherlands are re-
turned to writers Endorsed: Service
Suspended"
James B. Hatcher, writing in the
New York Journal American, says:
When the Japs moved into Burma
they evidently seized a quantity of
postal stationery and possibly a
stock of the low values of the 1888
1910 Burma series of stamps. On
the postal stationery, they defaced
the embossed head of King George
VI with heavy X and printed be-
side 1t a crude design in red,
featuring rays which might SYM
bolize the Rising Sun of Nippon and
IA crown above q crossed sword and
lance.
Tho Banzai boys also issued some
crude locally printed adhesives. An
orange item repeats the main fea-
lures Of the envelope stamp, but is
of different value. There are also
lc red and SC blue stamps with q
japanese inscription, using q rough
imitation of the 3a6p rice planting
design"
Americans who care about the
beauty of engraving represented in
United States banknotes and stamps
should know the name of John Will
liam CASTELAR,, one of the most not
ably distinguished engravers Of the
10th century. He was a native Of
New York, born June Is, 1911, and
was apprenticed to Peter Maverick,
an excellent teacher, at Is. Much Of
his youth was spent in poverty, but
that circumstance prompted his
efforts constructively and he grad
ually won high place among the
artists Of his generation working N
the engraving field. For q while he.
held an interest" In the American
Bank Note Co.. and, relinquishins
his share In 1887. acquired "a hand
some competence" thereby. The
latter half Of his career was spent
painting landscapes in Switzerland
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