Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-23
stamps
By James Waldo Faucet.

bitrarily introduced into the sky
over Paris where they never OPP
Grated, the responsibility will be
that of the Commander in Chief.
The whole problem of the errone-
Gus design was referred to President
Truman in a telegram sent to the
White House on Wednesday. ap-
pealing to him to request the Post
ONCE Department to correct the
composition in harmony with his
toric truth.
Meanwhile, the official War De-
partment point of view was expressed
in a letter signed by Col. Luther
L. Hill, Air Corps, deputy director,
Bureau of Public Relations, read
ing: After considering number
of proposed designs that would be
symbolic of Army accomplishments
as whole, the design created by
combining two photographs in their
present form was selected by the
Chief of Staff"
Neither Col. Hill nor any other
officer, however, denied that history
was violated when picture of
planes never flown in Europe was
merged" with bona fide picture
of infantry troops marching down
the Champs Elysees in Paris on
August 20, 1914. Every man in that
parade knows from his own obser-
walton that no aircraft of any kind
few over their lines, B-29s least of
all. 1t became a matter of record
on Friday that the troops photo
graphed were members of the 18th
Division, commonly called the Key
stone Division, commanded by Maj.
Gen. Norman Daniel Gotta. They
were not merely making a spectacle
in celebration of the liberation of
France. Rather they were on their
way to the fighting front north
east of Paris. Some of them never
returned
The color of the new stamp is an
olive green variety Of khaki.
If etiquette is followed, the first
sheet will be presented to Gen.
Omar Bradley. now administrator
of veterans affairs. He reviewed
the parade the Army stamp pur-
ports to represent.
George w, Linn editor and publish
er of Linn's Weekly Stamp News
refers to the Army commemorative
as mass murder on postage
stamp"
The Post Office Department on
, Thursday announced that a Scent
stamp will be issued in homage to
the memory of former Gov. Alfred
E. Smith, Democratic nominee for
the presidency in 1928, later stern
critic of the New Deal. Requested
/ by Archbishop Spellman in aid of a
campaign to raise funds for a To-
story addition to st. Vincent's Hos
pital to be built as a monument
to Mr.. Smith, the Brown Derby
issue, as it already is being called,
will go on sale on November 26. The
political significance of the stamp
allegedly will be that it may help
to heal the existing branch between
the conservative wing and the
Roosevelt wing of the Democratic
party.
| When Post Office Department Of
ficers were asked if consideration
mad been given to stamp in mem
ory of Wendell Willkie, Republican
presidential candidate in 194e,. they
answered: NO" "--.
A proposal for stamp in tribute
to the celebrated Negro scientist. DR..
George Washington Carver, has
been rejected. Other requests re-
fused were for issues in homage to
John Jay and Thomas Paine and a
commemorative for the Tooth an
nlversary of the founding of the
United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis.
Collectors are warned that the 81
cent Two lima flag-raising Marine
Corps stamp may be removed from
the Philatelic Agency sales list
without notice at any moment. An
other issue soon apt to disappear is
the Scent Telegraph Centenary.
The supplies of the Motion Picture
Industry adhesive likewise are
| limited
| V-mall Is being discontinued. It's
sponsors insist that it was a great
success, but the philatelic public
dlSagrees with them. The time
gained in transmission was lost in
processing Furthermore, the photo
graphic process almost invariably
depersonalized the communication,
One young woman summed I'D a
common feeling when she said:
"A V-mail letter seems like only a
ghost of my boy friend
The Philippine Congress has
/ passed a resolution favoring the
production of a stamp or series of
stamps in tribute to Gen. Douglas
Macarthur. But the general him.
self may put stop to the enter
prise.
A well-known ornithologist who
died recently left an interesting
collection of United States stamps
and covers.
/ Mrs. Edward B. Martin, assistant
to the philatelic consultant at the
Library of Congress, is continuing
her work on the national census of
stamp collectors. Those who have
not yet responded to the invitation
to- send names, addresses, photo
graphs and statements of special
ties are requested to communicate
with her at Study Room 20l, Library
OF Congress Annex, Washington,
D. C.
The Capital Precancel Club will
meet at Apartment 1913, 1923 Con-
necticut avenue NV, tomorrow
evening at 8. Visitors welcome.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV. Tuesday evening at 8.
Norman D. Slater will discuss
Mounting and Arrangement of
Stamps on Album Pages" before a
meeting of the Washington Phila-
telic Society at the Sheraton Hotel.