Evening star., 1948-11-07
Stamp News
BY jones Waldo Faweett

aldo Foweett
to publicize the national parks have
been under discussion. A stamp
to help the campaign against cancer
has been requested of President Tru-
man by Eric Johnston. Three stamps
for the sesquicentennial of the Dis
trict Of Columbia as the seat of the
Federal Government are In process
of development. A stamp to drama
tize the drive to halt forest fires
which annually devastate thousands
of acres of timber likewise has been
suggested and may be granted.
None of the new adhesives men
toned would be unpopular; all of
them would be well received by
collectors.
As forecast by The Star several
times, the scent New York Bor-
oughs air-mail stamp had q short
life in the Philatelic Agency. 1t
was removed from sale in less than
three months after issue. Specu-
lators already are running up" its
price on the market. Meanwhile,
practically all of the other labels de-
manded by the Eightieth Congress
are in short supply. The number of
them manufactured was compare
lively small. Many-the Gold Star
Mothers stamp, the Palomar Noun
tain Observatory stamp and the
Rough Riders stamp especially-are
being used in quantities on ordinary
mail. This indicates that they soon
will cease to be available at post
offices. Collectors who have not
obtained supplies should act with
out further delay.
G. E. MARCEL, Cooke Sanatorium,
Trois Rivieres, Quebec, Can a d a,
would appreciate any duplicates that
Washington stamp collectors would
care to send him. He is q tubercu-
losis patient who says he studies
stamps Ito keep (his) spirits high"
The American Philatelic Congress
will be in session at the Abraham
Lincoln Hotel, Reading, Pa, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. Program
arrangements include the reading of
technical papers, a dinner and q
philatelic writer's breakfast.
Gerard Ten Eyck Beeckman OBJ
jects to the word accumulation"
as applied to the collection of former
Secretary of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes. He says there are "only'
4,432 different lots and that Mr..
Ickes was not an accumulation but
truly q philatelic scholar who
worked over his stamps with care
and skill.
The autograph collection of the
late B. w. Kumler will be sold at
auction at Weeks Stamp Shop, 1929
New York avenue NV, Friday eve
ming, November 10. Among the ma
terial to be dispersed are letters
and manuscripts by Presidents John
Quincy Adams. Jackson, Van Buren,,
William Henry Harrison, Tyler,
Polk, Fillmore, Lincoln, Grant,
Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland,
Benjamin Harrison, Mckinley,
Theodore Roosevelt. Taft, Wilson,
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Franklin
D. Roosevelt and Truman; also by
Charles Darwin, william Cullen
Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Long
fellow, Horace Greeley. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, Rudyard Kipling
Nathaniel Hawthorne, II. G. Wells,
Charles Dickens, John Greenleaf
Whittier and many other famous
persons.
Australia will bring out on No.
ember is very attractive 2hd
:armine brown stamp for the Pan
Pacific Scout Jamboree to be held
at Yarra 'Brae Wonga Park, Vic
toria, December 20 to January 8.
The design shows a waist length
portrait. Of q typical Scout with a
group Of eucalyptus trees in the
background. 1t is understood that
the stamp will be available only two
months.
Stamp collectors are invited TO
attend a meeting of the Columbia
Historical Society at the Mayflower
Hotel Tuesday evening at 8. Mrs.
Robert Low Bacon will discuss ''His-
tory Within the Walls OF 1901 F
Street." and Delos H. Smith "Tus-
culum: A Forgotten Mansion" and
Richard Langhorn Riedel will show
colored movies of Washington and
Its People" Visitors should intro
duce themselves to F. Regis Noel,
president.
A meeting Of the Capital Precancel
Club will be held at the home of
]. H. Weimer, $3.50 Sixteenth street
NV, tomorrow evening at 8.
The Precancel Roundup is to be
staged at the Dodge Hotel, 40 Z
street NV. next Sunday. Collectors
are advised to bring plenty of mate
rial for exchange. The affair will
continue from 10 am. to 10 pm.
An auction of foreign and domes-
tic stamps and covers will be held at
the Cosmos Club, H street and Mad
ison place NV, Wednesday eve
ming at 8.
The Collectors Club Of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV. Tuesday evening at 8. Capt
William G. Shaw III, president OF
the Pentagon Philatelic Society, /.
to be guest of honor and speaker.
STAMPS AND COINS.
COIN BOARDS, special, 15c each. WASH.
NV.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Geld sna silver Ds1sht and Ssid.