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the ordinary issues of the Dominion
and either red or blue in color. It
will show a symbolic figure OF Fame,
placing laurel wreath on the efhgy
of Bell. First-day sales will be ar
ranged at Ottawa and at Brantford,
Ontario, but first-day covers will be
handled only at the latter city. The
date of release will be March 3. Col
lectors desiring first-day cancella-
tions may send covers to the post
master at Brantford with remit
tances payable to the Receiver
General of Canada. Mint copies OF
the Bell stamp are to be available at
the Philatelic Division, Financial
Branch, Post Office Department,
Ottawa.
An official Post Office Department
publicity release, dated Wednesday,
says: "Philatelic service will be pro-
vided for covers carried by the first
airmail flight from New York,
N. Y, to Ankara, Turkey, on FAM
Route 10, to be flown by Pan Ameri-
can Always, Inc, on or about
February l. The airmail rate to
Turkey is Is cents a half ounce.
A special cachet will be applied to
all covers sent to the postmaster at
New York /, N. Y, bearing the re-
quired postage and accompanied
by a request that they be sent by
first flight to Ankara. Covers may
be addressed for delivery in the
United States or in Turkey. The
Turkish postal authorities have
given assurance that the covers will
receive a special marking on receipt
at Ankara, and that those addressed
to the United States will be returned
to the addresses. Covers for the
first flight must reach the post
Office of New York by January 80.
Covers mailed in Turkey for the
return flight to New York will be
backstamped on arrival, but no
provision is made for round-trip
covers"
The Post Office Department has
announced that airmail service will
be inaugurated on or about Febru-
ary is at Midland-O Odessa, Tex,
as an intermediate point on route
AMI; and on new extensions OF
route AM-64 between Houston and
Dallas via Bryan, Temple and
Waco, Tex, and between Dallas
and Midland-O Odessa via Fort
Worth, Mineral Wells, Ranger
Eastland- Cisco, Abilene, Sweetwater
and Big Spring, Tex. Service
also will be inaugMated at Plain
view, Tex, as an intermediate
point on the original route AM-64,
and at Lamesa, Tex, as an inter-
mediate point on an alternate rout-
ing of original route AM-64.
A special cachet will be provided
at all Offices named with the ex-
ception of Ranger-Eastland- Cisco,
where service will be inaugurated
at future date. Collectors sending
covers to Midland Odessa should
specify over which route they desire
covers to be dispatched, as the same
cachet will be used for both routes.
Cachet service will also be pro-
vided at the Airmail Fields at
Dallas and Fort Worth. Covers for
these two points should be sent to
the Regional Superintendent, Air
Postal Transport, Fort Worth l.,
Tex, specifying from which AMF
the covers are to be dispatched.
AS a result of the postponement
of the first ship-to-shore helicopter
mail test occasioned by bad weather
on the North Atlantic, f1rst-flight
covers which were received by the
Regional superintendent, Air Postal
Transport, at New York, will be held
until the first flight does take place
some time in the next few weeks.
Meanwhile, collectors desirous OF
obtaining flrst-fight covers Of this
helicopter enterprise should forward
their covers to the superintendent
headquarters indicated, where they
will be held pending the inaugural
fight as previously announced. Ow-
ing to the limited cargo space of the
helicopter, first-flight covers will
be limited to one per collector.
j. Maynard Kaplan, writing in
Philately, st. Louis, says: INC
postage-due stamps ever were issued
by the imperial japanese govern
ment. One would be led to believe
-" that the problem of insufficient
postage never arose in japanese
postal annals. Such is not the case
Ever since the first issue the Japa-
nese made provisions for such event
The original method of indicating
postage dues still obtains in Japan
Mail with insufficient postage is
passed through to it's destination at
which point postal authorities affix
sufficient stamps to overcome the
deficit plus an additional like
amount as penalty. Cost of these
later affixed stamps is paid by the
addressee. Thus, if the postage
lacked 3 sen, the addressee would
pay 6 sen, 3 for the deficit and 3
for the penalty. To differentiate
such stamps applied at the destina-
ton, they are overprinted or marked
in one of three ways: (a) A red or
black X is applied to the face of
the stamp with brush; (b) the
stamp is overprinted with rectan-
gular box containing characters
\ STAMPS AND COINS.