AMONG THE STAMP COLLECTORS News of the Philatelic World, Its Interests and People—Review of the Stamp Press—List of Local Meetings. By James Waldo Fawcett. A series of stamps representing heroic scenes from American history has been proposed to President Roosevelt. The subjects to be con sidered for interpretation in the de signs Include “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” “The Bombardment of Fort McHenry,” “Capture of Cha pultepec,” “The Monitor and the Merrimac,” “High Tide at Gettys burg.” "Rough Riders at San Juan Hill,” "Dewey at Manila Bay,” “Bat tle of Belleau Wood.” “Battle of Chateau Thierry,” “Defense of Wake Island,” "Lt. Kelly Sinks the Ha runa,” “Lt. Bulkelev at Subic Bay” and “Gen. MacArthur at Corregi dor." Collectors approving the plan tr• Invited to communicate with Depu ty Third Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Roy M. North. Treasury Department press re leases dealing with stamp collecting hereafter will be checked by a rep resentative of the philatelic public before being distributed. This con cession has been granted by Charles Schwarz, director of public rela tions, as one result of widespread criticism of the circulation of un proven charges that Axis postal pa per to the value of $20,000,000 was being marketed in the United State*. A scheme for the building of 5,000 public schools is to be financed by the issuance of 2,000.000 postage stamps authorized by the govern ment of the Dominican Republic. Philippine stamps, including even the long-neglected Aguinaldo issues of 1899; are headed skyward in the philatelic market. Officials of the Post Office De partment are reported to look with disfavor upon a proposal for a series of stamps to raise funds “for the building and construction of addi tional defense units for the United States Navy.” It is pointed out that no citizen need wait for the manufacture of a set of semi-postal adhesives in order to contribute to the naval establishment. He can buy Defense bonds or Defense stamps already available. Margaret Kemodle. writing for the Associated Press Feature Serv ice, say?: "One of the three Pacific war fronts, the Malay Peninsula, furnishes good news for collectors by sending two new stamps to this country. “Actually the stamps—from Pe rak and Pahang—are not new in design or value, but they are new In color. They were printed in London and are reported to have reached the colonies Just before the Japanese invasion. "The Perak stamp, bearing a pic ture of the Sultan Iskandar, was green in the old issue and is orange in the 2c Just arrived. The Pahang 8c formerly appeared in gray and now is red with a picture of Sultan Bakar.” Elmer C. Pratt, editor of the News Bulletin of the Association of South Jersey Stamp Clubs, declares: “With all this turmoil, upset condi tion, talk and work, we collectors are just a little better off than many others, for we have our stamps • • * to help us to keep our bal ance. This is just where our stamp clubs, stamp exhibitions and stamp friends fit in and help us to carry the job along with a lighter heart.” War conditions have made it necessary to cancel first-voyage cov ers planned for the new ships of the United States Lines and the American South African Line. Col lectors who had sent money for these souvenir envelopes are re quested to permit it to be turned over to the welfare fund of the Seamen's Church Institute, but those who wish their remittances returned will be accommodated if they will send stamped, self-ad dressed envelopes to the Cover Agency, 25 South street, New York City, not later than February 28. A commemorative has been re quested for the 400th anniversary of the discovery of California. Designs for Free France stamps for St. Pierre and Miquelon have been submitted to Admiral Muselier by H. F. Warner, an English sig naler serving on the submarine Surcouf. Representative Sol Bloom of New York, who sponsored the George Washington bicentenary and Con stitution sesquicentenary stamps of 1932 and 1937, now wants another series of propaganda adhesives. His purpose on the present occasion is to gain publicity for the 450th an niversary of Christopher Columbus’ first voyage to America in 1492. The Stock Exchange Philatelic Society, 11 Wall street. New York City, will sponsor a two-color print ed cachet cover to mark the 150th anniversary of the New York Stock Exchange on May 17. Readers in terested are asked to send names, addresses and 10 cents for each en velope wanted. Profits, if any, will be assigned to the Red Cross. Vance Holden, secretary of the Garfield-Perry Stamp Club of Cleve land, died January 5. He had been a collector of the postal issues of France and of the United States and was widely known for his con structive service to philatelic or ganizations of every useful sort. George W. Linn, editor and pub lisher of Linn's Weekly Stamp News, Columbus, Ohio, remarks that the original V for Victory stamp was the 3c baseball sticker issued by Postmaster General James A. Farley in 1939. Sure enough, there STAMPS AND COINS. 8Se MAIL ORDER SFECUT SI.86 eat. value of Hawaii—fie (plus Se itawpl. Approvals included. Cheltenham Stamp Co.. Cheltenham. Pa. NATIONAL STAMP MART 1313 r It. N.W. Am til Pist, all? .TAMP^S-^ORAPH. 316 13th It. Sw, °F Dtatrtat 1371 COLUMBIA STAMP SHOP 6466 14th 6* N.W. IwfiTlhlAll toy SatirC* WASHINGTON STAMP CO~ •37 Pwmwaylwawia Aw. M.W. DAILY STAMP AUCTION WEEKS STAMP SHOP 1A16 ■ Bt. N.W, _NA. 8136. ALBUMS Par Cateetora, Staaapa. Seta. Tawa. Da taatora. Rinaea, Stack Backa. cte. Harry B. Mason, 918 F N.W. CULLEN’S “ mldti I This symbolic cover raises the question of what will happen in Germany at th'f end of the Second World War. Franked ivith stamps which at an earlier time would have represented a small fortune, the pictured envelope was mailed as catas trophic inflation swept over the Reich, impoverishing millions of its people. Such, in part, was the price for having failed to win a decisive victory. American economists believi that history may repeat in the defeated countries in the years that lie ahead. —Star Staff Photo. is something in the upper left cor ner of the indicated design resem bling the symbol of eventual tri umph. The new colonial stamps of Prance —three each for 24 different geo graphical designations—are authen tic works of art. Each separte pic ture appears to have been drawn from life. The subjects are officers and men of native regiments en gaged in the work for which they have been enlisted. Sanabria’s “Complete and Una bridged Airport Catalogue for 1942” was published January 17. It in cludes 1,000 pages of text and illus trations, a veritable airmail ency clopedia of obvious valhe to even the casual collector. Louie C. Bean will sponsor a spe cial Crosby photo-embossed cover to be mailed on President Roosevelt’s birthday, January 30, carrying a commemorative stamp canceled on board the presidential yacht Po tomac. The fee, including envelope and postage, as well as service, will be 25 cents, proceeds designated to the Mile o’ Dimes fund. Send names, addresses and remittances to Box 85, Route 5, Anacostia, D. C. A proposal to “penalize” phila telic writers for using pen names has been put forward by a Chicago stamp journalist and is being dis cussed, somewhat acidly, in the periodicals edited by his contempo raries. “Making the punishment fit the crime,” what would he do to the philatelic equivalents of "Junius" “Elia,” “Mark Twain” and “O. Henry”? The Secret Service has been “checking up” on violators of the law forbidding the publication of pictures showing United States cur rency. Collectors and philatelic writers consequently are advised to obey the spirit as well as the letter of regulations relating to stamp illus trations. The existing law is liberal and for that very reason should be observed scrupulously. So-called “war effort” stamps of the Union of South Africa have been overprinted “S. W. A.” for use in South West Africa. The story of Rudolph Thomas, stamp forger, was dramatized on the “Missing Heirs” program Tues day evening. If no other bene ficiaries are discovered, the phila telic public which he victimized might claim the $250,000 he left. Mexico announces six comment - oratives for the fourth centenary of the city of Merida, capital of Yucatan. Denominations Include 2-cent, brown, ancient ruins; 5-cent, orange, stone effigy; 10-cent. purple, coat of arms; 20-cent, blue green, shore fortress and ancient figure; 40-cent, olive, university building; 1-cent, red, plaza, cathedral and convent. Complaints have been made against a practice of clerks in the Philatelic Agency who dissect as many as 8 or 10 sheets at a time— with the result that some speci mens are tom beyond acceptance for philatelic purposes. Separating stamps properly is an art which not everybody understands or appreciates, and on occasion Post Office Department employes, for lack of skilled instruction and careful supervision, are among the worst offenders against the golden rule of perfection. A meeting of the directors of the Hobby Association will be held at the Brook Tea House, Silver Spring, tomorrow evening at 6 o’clock. A special cachet for President Roosevelt's diamond jubilee birth day and the March o’ Dimes cam paign will be sponsored by the Fleetwood Cover Service, Mount Vernon, N. Y. The design, a com position by L. W. Staehle. is to be printed In three colors, and each envelope will be franked with a 4>/2C coil stamp showing the White House. Place and date of mailing, Washington, January 30. Inclusive charge of 20c for each cover wanted. Eugene Klein, 212 South Thir teenth street, Philadelphia, has pub lished an illustrated catalogue for the second part of the foreign stamp collection of William F. Leupold, Grenada to Zululand, scheduled for sale at auction February 14. Harry L. Lindquist, writing In Stamps Magazine, observes: “Some people may think that we should win the present war before we be gin to plan for our future after the war, but such people are short sighted, as was demonstrated by World War I. If during that war we had given more thought to a Just peace the second war would never have occurred, and our most farsighted statesmen and econo mists today are giving as much thought to the period after the war as they are to the successful prosecu tion of it. • • • A hobby will be a necessity in this coming period, and all of us who collect stamps have a flying start on the rest of the world." C. Warner Bates, 180 Homestead avenue, Albany, N. Y., will send a copy of the Bctutlfte Philatelist to j any reader who forwards postage with request. According to Der Sammlerfreund, Queen Victoria, up to 1930, had ap peared on 2,882 different postage stamps. Her grandson, King George V, in the same year was credited with 2,254 similar representations. Stamp meetings for the week are listed as follows: Tomorrow evening at 8—Wood ridge Stamp Club, stamposium, res idence of Mr. and Mrs. Wes. M. T^ron, 2802 Twentieth street NJE. Tuesday evening at 8—Collectors’ Club oT Washington, Thomson School, Twelfth and L streets N.W. Program and bourse, exhibition by Emil Zimmerman. Wednesday evening at 8—Wash ington Philatelic Society, Lee Sher aton Hotel, Fifteenth and L streets N.W. Harry A. Fox will exhibit and discuss a specialized collection of modem covers. Auction. All week—La tin-American exhibi tion of stamps and covers, Pan American Union Building, Seven teenth street. j _ Hobbies and Hobbyists News of Activities Here and Nearby By Edmond Htnderer. A new hobby society has Just been organized in Washington. The Mlneralogical Society of the District of Columbia has been formed and has elected the follow ing officers: president, C. H. Robin son: vice president, Dr. Ernest E. Fairbanks: secretary-treasurer, Miss Mary R. Schultz, and assistant secretary-treasurer, Walter Slavin. The first Tuesday in each month has been designated for the meet ings, with 8 p.m. as the time. Meet ings will be held at various schools and notice will appear in this col umn on preceding Sundays, or in formation may be obtained from the secretary, Miss Schultz, Lin coln 4637. Much interest was shown at this first meeting, and many people more or less connected with the subject professionally have indicated that it is their hobby as well by Join ing this society. For example, the vice president, Dr. Fairbanks, and Frederick W. Horton and Albert J. Kauffman, two of the members, are all connected with the Bureau of Mines. A few other names among the charter members may indicate the range of interest. There are W. T. Baxter, a teacher and author on the subject: Martin Greenwood, a Jeweler; Richard W. Lemke, a student at Georgetown University; Karl J. Albrecht, patent office; Charles J. Williamson, War Depart ment: Capt. I. Livingston, U. S. A.; Dr. J. Russell Berbricke, Jr., and so on. Interest in mineralogy is keen, and there is every indication that it will be an extremely active and interesting group. No previous knowledge of the subject is required for membership. If you would like to know more about it, Just go to the next meeting. The Dollogy Club o£ Washington elected officers at its January meet ing. The following will serve for the coming year: President, Mrs. Victor J. O’Kelliher; vice president, Mrs. J. H. Dellinger; corresponding secretary, Miss Mona Hill; record ing secretary, Mrs. Martin Elen baum; treasurer, Mrs. William Gar rison. ’Hie following board mem bers were elected: Mrs. Virginia Woodin, Mrs. William P. Meggers and Mrs. Mildred Nott. The club has been quite active lately and has been entertained at the homes of two of the members, where doll collections were on dis play. Mrs. William R. Knobloch showed her daughter's collection to the club on January 10, and on the 14th Mrs. Gerard Lee exhibited dolls collected by her father, Dr. W. J. G. Thomas, during extensive travels, and now possessed by his granddaughter. At the request of the Army the Federal Communications Commis sion has just banned all "hams” (amateur radio operators) com pletely from the air. Previously the headquarters station of the Radio Relay League was allowed to broadcast in order to keep its members advised as to developments in the emergency network, and in dividual members of the network could test broadcast. It was found that all this carried too far to sea, and had to be stopped. , In order to keep their hands in it looks as though the hams will have to start building receiving sets. Previously most all of them built their own sending equipment, but bought commercial receivers. If they can obtain parts they may have a try at developing new and better receivers. There was an Interesting visitor at the last meeting of the Metro politan Society of Model Engineers in the person of Robert Melra, from Rio de Janerio, a civil engineer. He is here to study American railroads and railing methods. Mr. Meira has been here about one year and is connected with the Brazilian equivalent of our Inter state Commerce Commission. His organization differs from ours in that the Brazilian government owns certain railroads which are operated by Mr. Melra'8 unit, which also exercises control over the others. He is building models of our rail road equipment to take back to Brazil as part of his findings on the subject and we suspect that he has a fondness for the models for their own sake. He has been a model builder in the past, having once built gas model planes. The Capitol Model Aeroneers’ new officers are: President, William Pen noyer; vice president, Samuel Wal lace; secretary-treasurer, Charles Weiss. Several of the members are building tether model planes and we hope shortly to be able to tell you when and where these latest type models may be seen in flight. NO MEETINGS THIS WEEK, but the Metropolitan Society of Model Engineers will be working in the clubroom. 356 Union Station, on Monday and Friday as usual. Workers are welcome. Today’s Workout for the Puzzle Fans HORIZONTAL. VERTICAL. 1. Former Rumanian monarch. 6. Male Ringing voice. 10. Insect’! feeler. 14. Claw. 19. Link between North and South America. 20. Dash. 21. Mixture. 22. Writ of execution for debt. 24. Preposition. 25. To strike. 26. Son of Jacob. 27. Girl. 28. Equality. 29. Behold! 30. Seeing organ. 32. System of philosophi cal religion. 35. Chinese money (var.). 37. Former Turkish officer. 38. To buy tScot.h 40. Sea eagle. 41. To rule. 43. Before. 44. Cry of sorrow. 45. To penetrate. 47. To grow old. 49. To set free. 51/To charge. 52. By way of. 54. Pouch. 56. Glides. 57. Owns. 58. Previously. 62. Greek letter. 64. To attempt. 65. Eyeglass. 69. Couple. 70. What? 72. Archaic: old times. 74. Identical. 76. Reimbursed. 77. Insect. 78. Symbol for tantalum. 80. To declare. 83. Pertaining to birth. 86. Brazilian coin. 87. Close-fitting Jacket. 89. Child. 90. Vast age. 92. Remorseful. 94. Quantity of paper. 96. Plant organ. 99. Roster. 100. South American republic. 104. Wastecloth. 105. To drink. 107. To mock. 111. Hummingbird. 112. Thick, viscid liquid. 114. Spanish game. 116. Teutonic deity. 117. Gypsy. 118. To apportion. 120. Obtains with difficulty. 122. To pose. 123. Artificial language. 125. Hindu princess. 126. To make believe. 129. Dialectic: one. 131. Swine. 133. Weapon for the end of a rifle. 136. Artificial language. 187. Goddess of peace. 139. Young bear. 141. Babylonian deity. 142. To chasten. 145. Agreement between nations. 147. Hard-shelled fruit. 149. Weblike. 153. Thin piece of clay. 154. Dry. 155. Disembodied spirits. 157. Rodent. 159. Hindu woman's garment. 160. Entirely. 161. House plant. 163. Using two languages. 166. To immerse. 167. European fish. 168. Slang: crony. 169. Russian mountain system. 171. Image. 172. Tennis stroke. 174. Compass point. 175. To abandon. 177. Valley. 178. Hint. 179. Lazy lounger. 181. Tempestuous. 182. Goddess of discord. 183. Poetic: evenings. 184. City in Belgium.