Evening star., 1950-10-22
Stamp News
By james Waldo Fowcett

lido Fowcett
and inimical to the best
interests of the United States"
Issues of countries which can
reasonably be suspected of Offer
ing material aid, assistance or
comfort to the government Of
North Korea" likewise were stig-
matiZed.
The annual banquet of the
Pentagon Philatelic Society will be
held Thursday evening, Decem-
Der 7.
The latest propaganda stamps
of Russia show drawings of the
fourth line of the Metro" or sub
way system of Moscow; but no.
body this side of the Iron Curtain
can tell whether "the fourth line"
or any other part of the long
projected underground railway
actually has been built.
Many displays of stamps and re-
lated material will be exhibited at
the Annual Hobby Show of the
Unitarian Laymen's League at
Pierce Hall, Fifteenth and Har-
ward streets NV, Thursday and
Friday evenings. 6 to II o'clock.
Philatelists participating are:
Mrs. Rose Berman, Tom Mullen-
berg, Truman Abee, Marvin L.
Eisenberg and Henry Stabler.
Coins will be exhibited by Henry
A. Rothwell and Col. J. Gay
Seabourne.
The Washington telephone d.
rectory gives the address of the
Fidelity Stamp Co. as ITO Four
teenth street NV, when in fact
it should be 805 G street NV.
The West German postal au-
thorities have installed letter
boxes in the principal stations Of
Frankfurt and other cities labeled
For Mail with Collectors Stamps
Only" Special handling is &C,
corded all covers deposited.
David D. Caldwell, chairman Of
the Postage Stamp Centennial
Committee in 1910, has been
named member of the Honorary
Committee for the 10th American
Philatelic Congress, to be held at
the National Philatelic Museum,
Philadelphia, Friday, Saturday
and Sunday.
An auction of 1912 lots Of
United States and foreign stamps
will be staged by the Zenith
Stamp Co., 95 Nassau street, New
York. November 18. Catalog
ready shortly.
George B. Sloane, in Stamps
Magazine for September %, thanks
Connie Mack and his GAS" and
IDi Maggie and the Yankees for
their kindness to children attend
ing the stamp conventions at the
Shoreham. He says they were
gracious targets for autographs"
and signed. signed, signed"
Iceland is bringing out two
stamps in memory of Jon Arason,
poet and religious leader, last Ro-
man Catholic bishop of the island.
The denominations will be 1.80 and
$50 kronur.
The modernistic dove designed
by Pablo Picasso has turned Up on
propaganda stamps of Communist
China and Poland.
Delays in the transmission of
airmail and ordinary (surface)
mail between the United States
zone in Germany and the United
States are being investigated as
the result of complaints originating
on both sides of the Atlantic.
To mark the centennial of the
death of Gen. Jose De San
Martin Q778-1850), South Ameri-
can soldier and statesman, the Re-
public of Argentina has produced
seven new stamps illustrating his
career. One of the designs shows
him standing on windswept
height above the sea, lonely as the
proverbial eagle but undisturbed
of spirit in his isolation.
New members of the Pentagon
'Ph1latelic Society include: Odessia
A. Grove, Col. George o. Hanford,
Mrs. Helen Abigale Hill, Capt.
Engelbert j. Berger, Comdr. Erik
A. johnson. 1st 1t. Leonard ].
Mills, Ella N. Smith, Comdr. N. z.
Blaisdell, 1st 1t. Carl E. Ellis, Col,
Oliver B. Brown, M/Sergt. Everett
l.. Branson, Ralph S. Waterstraat.
Agnes M. Smith, Howard v. Baute.
lst 1t. James E. Convey. jr.. and
LIT. Comdr. Charles Swanberg.
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