Evening star., 1948-09-05

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lectors in the United States have
indicated that they will take q
chance" with the postmaster at
Ottawa. sending him self-addressed
envelopes with American scent
pieces and polite requests for his
accommodation inclosed.
Officials of the Department OF
Agriculture, the Post Office Depart
ment. the State Foresters' Associa-
ton and other organizations inter-
ested in conservation will join In q
special ceremony marking the first
use of the new slogan cancellatio
dies in connection with the 194S
Nationwide cooperative forest fire
prevention campaign scheduled to
take place at the City Post Office,
Wednesday, September Is, at 10 m.
The slogan on the new dies reads:
"Remember-Only You Can Prevent
Forest Fires" 1t is intended to help
to dramatize the appeal being made
to all visitors and users of forests to
aid in saving the Nations timber
wealth from forest fires which last
year burned over 23,000,000 acres
and did damage to timber. young
trees and improvements amounting
to- more than $55 200 900. Ninety per
cent Of last years reported $4,000
fires were man-caused
Cancellation dies identical with
those to be used here are also be-
ing put into use in the post Offices
of 81 other cities throughout the
country. These cities are: New York,
Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles,
Detroit, st. Louis, Pittsburgh, Bal
timore, Portland, Me-; Portland.
Greg. Atlanta, San Francisco.
Memphis. Boise, Idaho; Missoula,
Mont; Birmingham, Ala; Jackson
vile, New Orleans, Indianapolis,
Minneapolis. Denver, Milwaukee.
Cincinnati, Buffalo. Cleveland. Dali
las, Albuquerque, N. Mex; Houston,
Seattle, Salt Lake City. Boston,
Omaha, Reno. Phoenix, Oklahoma
City and Brooklyn. N Y.
Philatelists are invited to attend
the ceremony in the City Post Once
on September 15 Collectors and
their friends who wish to obtain
covers showing the first day can
cellations may send self-addressed
envelopes of standard size t6x34) to
the Forest Service, room 1924, South
Agricultural Building. Washington,
D. C. Those who wish covers from
cities other than Washington should
send envelopes direct to local post
masters where the new dies are to
be used. ~
A stamp in homage to Chief JUS
tice Charles Evans Hughes almost
certainly will be issued. Mean
while the commemorative for Gen.
Pershing is being delayed by the far
less worthy pressure group" stamps
authorized and directed" by Con-
gress.
Mrs. Walter H. Boyd, national
president of the American Gold Star
Mothers, Inc, writes from her home
at Long Beach, Calf, that she re-
grets that the Scent Gold Star
Mothers stamp is not to be Gold
Star Parents stamp. "It is very
evident" she says, that the fa-
theirs need fellowship as do the
mothers to gain the courage = = to
carry on. 1t is very difficult. know.
We lost our only children, two sons;
l1Iic
time as have had, but together we
have been able to not only give
each other strength, but to give
courage to others"
Collectors who wish association
covers for the Scent Clara Barton
stamp, available Wednesday, may
send self addressed envelopes bear
ing the new issue to the Postmaster
at Glen Echo. Md, for cancellation.
Miss Barton's home was in Glen
Echo.
Gerard Beeckman is on vacation
at Keene, N. H., but he has taken
with him the text of the catalogue
of the stamp collection of former
Secretary of the Interior Harold l..
Ickes upon which he still is working.
The sale of Mr.. Ickes' material-49
volumes of twill start November
IS and run through November %.
There will be 10 sessions, all under
the direction of Edison Fifield, presi-
dent of the American Stamp Dealers
Association; but the place has not
yet been announced.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton H. Cullen,
returning from New York, will be at
their stamp store, 405 Tenth street.
NV, daily as usual beginning
Tuesday.
The women's rights organizations
apparently have not yet discovered
that the Scent poultry industry
stamp shows an egg and rooster
but no hen.
Franklin r. Bruins, stamp editor
of the New York Sun, will be a
guest speaker at the Chicago Phila-
telic Society banquet, October %.
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV. TUESDAY, evening at &.