Evening star., 1944-05-28
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By James Waldo F0spceff.

By James Waldo F0.vceff.
Joachim c. Benzing, superintend.
ent of the Division Of Engraving ir
the Bureau of Engraving and Print.
ing, retired yesterday after nearly
50 years of service.
About 400 of his fellow worker.
expressed their good wishes In 9
testimonial bearing their signatures
Mr.. Benzing, responding to ths
presentation, called for continued
maintenance Of the highest stand.
ards in the artistic production ol
stamps and currency.
Collectors interested in his career
are referred to an editorial tribute
to Mr.. Benzing, printed in The Stal
for May AZ.
The Scent Telegraph Centennial
stamp, released j Washington and
Baltimore on Wednesday, brought
out many attractive first-day COW
ers, including one issued by the
Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad stress
ing the partnership" between the
telegraph and railroad industries.
Among those attending the Tele-
graph banquet at the Statler We'd
nesday evening were Deputy Third
Assistant Postmaster General Roy
M. North and Supt. of Division OF
Stamps Robert E. Fellers.
The need for new presses or, per-
haps better, the need for dry process
printing Of stamps in the Bureau
lof Engraving and Printing Is DEM
onstrated In a dramatic manner BY
comparison between the Scent Sa-
lvannah stamp as 1t appears In cir
culation and the final proofs made
from the original die. Much Of the
beautiful detail of the composition
lis lost in the haze" which results
from dampening and smearing i'm
lplicit in rotary transportation
methods.
The United States very nearly hao
stamp in homage to Samuel F. B
Morse in 1918. His portait was the
central motif of design prepared
by the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing at a time when legislation
was expected to place the telegraph
facilities Of the Nation in the juris-
diction of the Post Office Depart
ment. When the proposed absorp-
ton did not take place, the die en-
graved for making the plates was
filed" and doubtless still exists az
relic Of an idea abandoned.
Stamp collectors are invited to at
tend a Memorial Day program ar
ranged by the District of Columbia
Lincoln Group at the Lincoln
Museum Ford Theater), Sill Tenth
street NV, Tuesday evening at 8
Representative George A. Dondere
of Michigan will speak on 1.-THE
Battle Hymn for Today" The
chairman will be Representative
Chauncey w. Reed of Illinois.
The Chevy Chase Philatelic So.
ciety, a newly organized group o1
pupils Of the Chevy Chase Element.
larry School, staged an attractive ex-
hibition OF stamps and covers, mapl
and other novelties last week. Mem
bers participating were: Donald
Kurth, president; Dick Shepherd
vice president; Galen Kaufman
secretary; Clayton Rose, treasurer
Gary Edgar, Maitland Flood, Nor
man Frederiksen, Thomas Kilbey
Anna McAllister, Raymond Olson
Gary Pendleton, Allan Peyser, Jack
Rae. Jim Rae, Richard Hayward
Walter Shift, Margaret Stevenson
Bill Towne, Mackey Titus, Dick New
kirk, Glemmet Maitland, Stanley
Mills, Mary Fisher. James Metcalf
Julie Williams and Barbara Lowe
The sponsor Of the club is Miss Weta
Piercey. fifth-grade teacher.
Mrs. Eugene Klein will carry or
the stamp business of her late fus.
band, at 212 Thirteenth street, Phil
adelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard A. Lane Of
1912 Sixth street S.W. and James
Best, art printer. $50 Maine avenue
S.W., sponsored an interesting first
day cover inscribed, Linking the
Ages and Spaces" with accommoda-
tions for the 3-cent railroad, steam
ship and telegraph stamps.
The Resident Commissioner OF
the Philippines has announced that
the reprints of Philippine stamps
manufactured for sale to collectors
after the fall of Bataan and Corregi-
dor have been withdrawn from the
Philippine Philatenc Agency list
Such action was forecast several
weeks ago and constitutes complete
vindication Of the expose in The
Star last January.
Zdzislaw Dworkowski of Detroit,
who died April 10 at the age of II,
Is described by Donald r. Heath in
Stamps Magazine as follows: while
never man with means to satisfy
his collecting desires he managed to
accumulate a remarkable collection
of stamps, postal stationery, phil
atelic labels and coins, but
above all, host of friends"
Wartime slogan postal meter
markings are reported as follows
Fight Waste So Our Fightins
Forces Will Have More" Help U,
Keep Prices Down." Food Fight.
for Freedom: Share-Play Square, >
Don't Discuss Troop Movements
Ship Sailings, War Equipment, ,
Lets All Back the Attack: BUY
More War Bonds"
There will be no meeting of the
Collectors Club of Washington thi.
week.
STAMPS AND COINS.
UNITED STATES goth CENTURY Pric
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