Evening star., 1946-09-01
World Of Stamps
BY james Waldo Fowcett

Isaac Gregg, director of the In
formation Division of the Post Of
fice Department, retired yesterday
He had been preparing official news
releases. answering questions on
every phase of postal service, ad-
vising philatelic writer's and an army
Of unspecialized correspondents. con-
tributing to the durable annals OF
the age since 1924. Before that date
he represented the New York World
the New York Evening Mail ano
other out-of-town papers. Still
young at 10, he now proposes tc
turn out reference copy" for the
Encyclopaedia Britannica. His
friends in the stamp-collectine
hobby may reach him at 400 Com
monwealth avenue, Alexandria, Va
Neat and clean machine cancel
lations are obtainable at the post
ofnces at Falls Church, Va; Har-
risonburg, Va; Christiansburg, Va;
Bainbridge, Md, and Rock Hall, Md.
Also at Greenville, Ala; Glen
dale, Calf; Hermosa Beach, Calf. !;
Mill Valley, Calf; San Rafael,
Calf: Oakville, Conn; Kimberly
Idaho; Brookfield, ILL.,; Danville,
Ind; Camp Polk, La; Rockport,
Mass; Haverhill, Mass: Newton
vile, Mass: Hanson, Mass; Cape
May Court House, N. j.; Egg Harbor
City, N. j.; Rockville Centre, N. Y;
Worthington, Ohio, and Midland,
Pa.
Hand-cancellations, carefully ap-
piled, likewise may be had at:
Francestown, N. H., and Zamora,
N. Mex. ..,
Collectors desiring these markings
should send self-addressed standard
size 6s4 envelopes stuffed with thin
cardboard or folded paper. Address
postmaster in each instance and
inclose wrapped coins to pay post
age on covers.
Gael Sullivan, Second Assistant
Postmaster General, is interested in
bicolored stamps and recently has
been in conference with Alvin w.
Hall, director of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, on the SUBJ
ject.
The Seamen's Church Institute
will sponsor commemorative cover
for the maiden luxury voyage of the
giant Cunard White Star liner
Queen Elizabeth, Southampton to
New York, starting on October g.
Orders at SOC each may be sent to
First Day Cover Agents, 25 South
street, New York 4, N. Y, for de-
livery not later than September 3.
A cachet for the resumption Of
service at Chemung County Airport
Elmira, N. Y, is being sponsored by
American Airlines, September s.
Send covers Immediately to Post
master John O'Connell, ready to 60
stamped and sealed.
George A. Scott, writing for the
Associated Press, lists the following
governments" for the peace and
victory stamps of the British En-
pire, announced several weeks ago:
Alden, Antigua, Ascension Islands
Barbsd dos Bermuda. British Guiana
British Honduras, British Solomon
Islands, Cayman Islands, Ceylon
Cyprus, Dominica, Falkland Is
lands Dependencies. Fiji, Gibraltar
Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Cole
Coast. Granada, Jamaica, Kenya
Uganda and Tanganyika: Leewarc
Islands, Malayan Union, Malta
Mauritius. Montserrat. Nigeria
Northern Rhodesia. Nyasaland, Pit.
cairn Islands, st. Helena, st. Kits
st. Lucia, ST.. Vincent, Seychelles
Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland
Turks and Caicos Islands, Trinidad
and Tobago; British Virgin Islands
To celebrate the beginning of Brit.
ish retirement from "the land of the
Nile" four stamps have been re.
leased by the government Of Egypt