Evening star., 1946-09-08

the night In each direction at the
request of the mailer will be back
stamped at those offices.
"Cachets will not be provided for
Spokane and Walla Walla, Wash:
Pendleton, Boise, Pocatello and
Idaho Falls. Idaho, as cachets have
been previously furnished for air
mail service at those points. How
ever, souvenir covers received will
be dispatched by the postmasters
at these offices to first flights on this
new route, If practicable
Service at Twin Falls, Idaho,
which is on this new airmail route,
will be inaugurated at later date"
Critics who found fault with de-
tails in the designs Of the new
peacetime series of stamps of Cam
ada have been answered In Parlia-
ment at Ottawa by Postmaster Gen.
eral Ernest Bertrand, who insists
that the compositions are as ac-
curate as the public requires.
The Polonus Philatelic Society of
Chicago has presented to Harry L.
Lindquist, publisher of Stamps Mag
azine, handsomely engrossed "cita-
ton Of recognition" for his "excep.
tional cooperation"
j. Murray Bartels and Percy G.
Doane have been elected to the
Hall OF Fame of the American Phila.
telic Society.
The postal authorities of the
Argentine Republic allegedly are
having the die of their Franklin
D. Roosevelt stamp silver plated for
his widow.
The return of King George II to
the throne of Greece undoubtedly
Will mean new stamps from Athens,
According to c. c. Hart, the "best
buys" among Farley commemora-
tives are Sc small Northwest Ter
ritory, Virginia Dare, Wilmington-
Swedes and Firms, Baseball Gen.
tenary and Panama Canal.
Ebert S. Amsler is editing 4
catalogue of United States State
issued stamps.
A figure of Hermes or Mercury
from the Farnesina murals by
Raphael is to be reproduced on the
annual day Of the postage stamp
issue Of Austria. The denomina-
tion is IL plus 8 gr.
Half a dozen new airmail stamps
are available for Algeria.
Five important Masonic symbols
are included in Great Britain's new
peace stamp, and in this connec-
ton 1t is remembered that King
George vi is past grand master Of
the United Grand Lodge of Eng
land.
The Soviet government of Rus
sia continues to use the name and
fame OF Maxim Gorky for propa-
ganda purposes. In addition to the
stamps already issued in his honor
by the Moscow regime (Scott's 40.
Al and 8S5-8S6, a 30k label bear
ing a portrait Of the author and
the inscription: 'Mankind-That
Sounds Proud" and a 60k of similar
design, but without the inscription,
have appeared.
Philip H. Ward III, captain in the
artillery in Okinawa and later in
Japan, now is . student in the Har-
ward Law School. His father, WE'LL
known Washington Philadelphia
philatelist, does not say anything
about his current interest in stamps,
but it probably is safe to suppose
that he follows the family tradi-
ton.
Multi-colored stamps, like those
produced by the American Bank
Note Co. for the Republic of Pana-
ma, are demanded for the United
States by Victor C. Zimmerman Of
Lakehurst, N. j., but there are prac-
tical difficulties in the way of such
novelties.
The story of the Providence post
masters provisional stamps of 184s
is told at length and with inter-
esting illustrations In the Provi-
dence Sunday Journal for August
18. E. Tudor Gross, veteran phila-
telic writer, is the author of the
article.
Both the Post Once Department
and the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing will have exhibits at the
Centenary International Philatelic
Exhibition, Grand Central Palace,
New York, next May.
The New Mexican admirers Of
Brig. Gen. Stephen w. Kearny want
him to be credited with winning not
New Mexico merely, but the whole
Southwest, including California
without firing q shot; but the New
Mexico centenary stamp is intended
In recognition Of his more definitely
historic achievements.
G. Craig McMullen, 1918 H street
NE, is an applicant for membership
in the 8. p. A.
Mrs. Edward B. Martin, assistant
to the philatelic consultant at the
Library of Congress, returns to her
work in Study Room 201 tomorrow.
meeting of the woodbridge Stamp
Club will be held at the Public
Library. 2206 Rhode Island avenue
NE, tomorrow evening at 9. Off
GERS for the next year are to be
nominated.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will have business meeting at
1912 Ninth street NV. Tuesday
evening at 8.
The Washington Philatelic Socie-
ty announces an auction of stamps
and covers at the Sheraton Hotel,
Fifteenth and L streets NV, We'd
nesday evening at 8.
STAMPS AND COINS.