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Airpost Journal

NOVEMBER, 1945

VOL. XVI I, No. 2 TWENTY CENTS

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F. W. KESSLE R 1 500 FIFTH A VENUE NEW YORK. N, Y.

A.A.M.S Greets Foreign Aero-Philatelists

• Urges Mutual Aid and Co-operation

• THE lighting has ended and the people of the world are preparing to resume nor­

mal relations again. At this time the American Air Mail Society, by its officers and members assembled in annual meeting at Newark, N. J., sends its friendly

greeting to aerophilatelists abroad, especially to the aerophilatelic societies in all the brother republics of the Western Hemisphere, in the liberated and neutral countries of Europe, in all parts of the British Empire and in the other United Nations. We hope that they may cooperate in the new post-war aerophilatelic world and we pledge ourselves to do our share full heartedly.

The Society is currently at work on a new edition of the American Air Mail Cata­logue which will have many detailed sections of international importance, such as the Transoceanic Flight Section {Norman Serphos, 1 West 47th Street, New York 19, N. Y., chairman) and the development of the American Foreign Airlines and of the services abroad connected with such lines {Richard L. Singley, Lancaster, Pa., chair­man). There will also be a special section for Early Foreign Pioneer Airmails (Dr. Max Kronstein, 3900 Spuyten Duyvil Parkway, New' York 63, N. Y., chairman.)

Your cooperation in this great effort is solicited. If you have any specific sug­gestions to make, contact the Editor-in-Chief, L. B. Gatchell, 24 Brook Road, Brom:­ville 8, N. Y., or the section chairmen.

The philatelists in this country are also making preparations for an International Philatelic Exhibition to be held in New York probably in 1947. We hope you will cooperate in this effort as well, when the time comes.

Let us weid together the aerophilatelic world by a common effort.

AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY

George D. Kingdom

President

(Philatelic papers, part'lcularly those in foreign countries, are requested to reprint the above announcement.)

T~E AIRPOST JOURNAL OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN A1R MA.IL SOClETY

Entered as second-class matter, February 10, 1932, at the post office at Albion, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published monthl.Y.

NOVEMBER 1945 - VOL. XVII, NO. 2 - ISSUE 187 - 20c PER COPY

24 C. A. B. ASSIGNS FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC AIR ROUTES FOR EARLY OPERATION

With new equipment rapidly being re­leased by the Army the Civil Aeronautics Board has moved swiftly to approve several key foreign and domestic flight routes for early inauguration.

Pan American Airways has been au­thorized to operate between New York and Johannesburg, Union of South Africa with intermediate stops at Lagens, Azores; Dakar, French West Africa; Monrovia, Liberia and Leopoldville, Belgian Congo.

On the domestic operational front Colonial Airlines, Inc., was authorized to extend its present routes by a new ser­vice from Montreal and Ottawa, Canada to Washington, D. C., by Massena, Watertown, Syracuse and Binghamton, N. Y.; Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Read­ing, Pa., and Baltimore, Md. The same company was also authorized to fly a spur from its ·existing route between Montreal and New York, from Burling­ton, Vt. by Massena, N. Y. to Ottawa, Canada, Pennsylvania Central Airlines, Inc. was authorized to add Elmira, Corn­ing and Rochester, N. Y. as stops on its Washington-Buffalo service while Ameri­can Airlines, Inc. was permitted to in­clude Elmira, Corning and Binghamton, N. Y. on its New York-Chicago service. All of these routes and first service in connection therewith are subject to prior approval of the Post Office Department which will make suitable announcement in regard to first flight service.

• Resumption of Limited Air­Mail Service to Philippines

According to a recent announcement of the Post Office Department, air mail service has been resumed to the islands of Leyte, Luzon, Mindoro, and Samar in the Philippines. For the present such service will be limited to articles not exceeding 2 ounces in weight as pro­vided by Postmaster General Order No. 18605 published in the Postal Bulletin of Sept. 4, 1942. Such matters may be registered. The air mail rate of postage from the continental United States to the Philippine Islands is · 50 cents per half ounce.

THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

HAROLD GATTY TO HELP RE-OPEN PACIFIC AIR ROUTES

Harold Catty, whose spectacular round the world flight with Wiley Post in 1931 won him international acclaim, has returned to the Pacific-Alaska Di­vision of Pan American World Airways, L. C. Reynolds, Manager of the Pa­cific-Alaska Division with headquarters in San Francisco, announced today. Cat­ty will assist the Company in putting into operation its proposed world-wide post­war plans providing international air serv­ices at costs within the reach of the average man and woman. These include round-the-world schedule flights which it is expected may be made in about 88 hours, as compared with approximate­ly 208 hours required by Catty and Post on the world record trip fourteen years ago.

For ten years prior to Pearl Harbor, Catty was the Company's special repre­sentative in the South Pacific where he plans to return in a few weeks to study recent developments which have a bear­ing on the resumption of services to New Zealand and Australia, originally

. pioneered by Pan American in 1939, as military conditions permit, Reynolds add­ed. Since the war started Catty has been working closely with the military authorities and has made available to them the valuable information resulting from his practical world wide aviation experiences accumulated over the past 20 years. His work in connection with sea rescues has contributed to the saving of lives of many men forced down during their military operations.

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OUR COVER Two handsome Air Mail Stampe,

just issued by Russia, are shown on our cover this month. The top illus­tration shows a Lakovelev-9 Fighter plane in action while the bottom stamp depicts a Petliakov-8 heavy Bomber. Courtesy F. W. Kessler.

DISCOVER ADDITIONAL "BUFFALO" BALLOON FLIGHT COVER

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0 - gentle reader you are NOT seeing double! We actually ARE illustrat­ing· TWO diHerent and distinct covers bearing copies of the famous Buffalo Balloon Post stamp on this page.

Originally in possession of Doctor Philip G. Cole and now in the collection of Mrs. Louise S. Davis we illustrate at the bottom of this page the origmal cover

~ appearing in the American Air Mail Catalogue and hitherto thought to be the only such item in existence.

At the top we show a photograph of al!. additional Buffalo cover in the pos- . session of Mr. Ross O'Shaughnessy of San Francisco, Calif. As will be seen the newly located cover is in very fine condition. It has the Buffalo vignette at · the right hand comer adjacent to and tied by the regular postage stamps. It bears the same Gallatin, Tenn. postmark as does the original cover.

Who was it who said .. Nothing new under the sun"?

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CROUP PLANNING TO REORGANIZE C.A.M. UNIT

• Committee At Work to Resume Activities Suspended by War

• It is proposed to immediately resume

activities of the CAM Unit of the Ameri­can Airmail Society. This unit, suspend­ed during the war, and devoted exclu­sively to CAM collecting, will again take up its activities in the very near future with three prominent CAM collectors, Bill Hafner, Perham C. Nahl, and Sam­uel S. Goldsticker, Jr., at the helm. If present plans materialize, this Unit will greatly expand its service with many new features added.

In addition to being a "Brotherhood" of CAM collectors, some of the features planned include ( 1 ) A newsy monthly Bulletin; ( 2) Speedy advance notices as to forthcoming first flights-mailed in time to permit members to prepare their own covers for the flights; ( 3) A research bureau to provide statistics and data on flights; ( 4) A Service Plan. providing coverage for those collectors who do not wish to send out their own covers; ( 5) A Washington representative; ( 6) The us­ual Sales and Exchange departments; and many other features. As yet, dues, and other requirements of membership, have not been determined. However, it is requested that all AAMS members who are interested in joining this Unit send their names and addresses to SAMUEL

· S. GOLDSTICKER, JR., 453 MT. PROSPECT A VENUE, NEWARK 4, NEW JERSEY, as soon as possible, in order that the Organization Committee can get some idea as to the number of members interested in this venture. No one will be under obligation to join, by so doing. The main object of this Unit will be to associate all CAM collectors together; and it is believed collectors of CAMs will certainly require the facilities it is proposed to provide.

Send yo~r name and address to Sam Goldsticker (or to Bill Hafner; 252 Lo­cust Ave., Babylon, Long Island, New York; or Pelham C. Nahl, 4004-48th Street, N.W., Washington 16, D. C. at once.

THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

C.B.S.CONDUCTS CAMPAIGN FOB S. F. T, W.

• Five million postage stamps, to be

distributed by ST AMPS FOR THE WOUNDED to thousands of hospitalized servicemen, was the goal set by the Co­lumbia Broadcasting System when it launched a radio campaign at 8:45 a.m., Monday, Sept. 24.

CBS is the latest American industry­firm to cooperate with philately's volun­teer service committee in providing patients in 7 4 army and navy hospitals with the "tools" of a hobby that takes their minds off white ceilings and black futures. The campaign was launched by Margaret Arlen at 8:45 a. m. Monday ( Sept. 24) when she interviewed Ernest A. Kehr, National Chairman of the Stamps for the Wounded Cimmittee, and explained how stamp collecting has al­ready aided 10,000 veterans on the road to mental and physical recovery.

The campaign has continued with ap­peals to individuals and bu5iness firms to contribute all postage stamps they receive on mail. It was carried on var­ious other CBS programs throughout '­country.

• A ROOSEVELT ALBUM

Gimbels Stamp Department is gath­ering material in preparation for a loose­leaf album for the stamps issued by the U.S.A. and other countries for the late President Franklin · Delano Roosevelt This album is being prepared with great care and will feature pictures and stories" about the stamp collecting activities of our late President. If you have any let­ters or information, or if you know any interesting stories with regard to this phase of our great President's life, com­municate with Mr. Jacques Minkus, at Gimbels Stamp Department, New York 1, N. Y.

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NOVE~ER, 1945

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You may be interested to know that the recent write-up or your oocpany in a stamp magazine was the deciding factor in my off er­inc this collectipD tg you for purchase. Your prompt and friendly service certalnly justifles every word or that enthusiastic article.

Be assured that I shall gladly recommend H. E. Harris & Co. to others who have stamps to sell.

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To replenish our extensive retail stocks we are constantt1 buying - at generous prices - collections and accumulatlon1 ot postage stamps, provl<led they are worth $50 or more •• •• Our tree apprnlsnls, good prices, and prompt pa1mente - with no haggling or delays - have made us Innumerable friends among collectors with stamps to sell. . • . Send for onr tree booklet or valuable Information, .. If 'You Have Stamps to Sell" jlnd read It for your own pro tectlon before disposing of 1our collectlan, ,

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. NEW. ISSUE NOTES . • •

A set of ;even stamps has been issued by Bolivia to mark the twentieth anni­versary of service by Lloyd Aereo Boli­viano and to honor the contributions of this completely nationalized airline, an affiliate of Pan American-Grace Airways, tb Bolivia's transportation progress and the Allied war effort.

L.A.B., as the airline is familiarly known, was founded in 1925, when on the occasion of the centennial of Bolivian independence, the oountry•s "German col­ony presented the government with a German plane. The plane was a gift, but it became an instrument whereby the Germans gained control of Bolivian aviation. Later, as the Nazis prepared for war, pilots of the Reichsmarshal Her­man Goering• s Luftwaffe were sent to South America to gain experience by Hy­ing over the high mountainous terrain, and to acquaint· themselves with territory they dreamed of later controlling.

Recognizing their infiltration motives, the Bolivian government sought the aid of the United States in ousting this Nazi control. In 194,1, L.A.B. was completely nationalized and Pan American-Grace Airways, whose routes already covered all of western Latin America south of the Canal Zone, was called in as technical advisor. Under this arrangement L.A.B. service was brought up to international airlines standards.

The set includes: 20 centavo, purple; 30c, sienna; 50c, green; 90c, violet; 2 boliviano, blue; 3b mauve and 4b olive bistre. The map and air routes in the vignette are printed in blue and orange in all denominations.

. Cl .

By GEORGE D. KINGDOM

• Costa Rica

For the centenary of the San Juan de Dios General Hospital an airmail set of thirteen values will be issued in Decem­ber . . Values will be 5c, IOc, 15c, 25c> 30c, 40c, 50c, 60c, 75c, le, 2c, 3c and 5c. It is reported that only 15,000 sets will be printed.

Ion ian Islands Greek Occupation

Upon evacuation of the islands by the Italians, the posts were taken over by Greek authorities. One air mail value was overprinted in red and black on the 50c brown. · The overprint is "ELLAS-2-x-43" enclosed in a square box. Also~ overprinted in red are the words "!SOLE JONIE."

Greece

Italian occupation of Cefalonia. When the Italians occupied this island, 53 val­ues of postage, air and charity stamps were overprinted. The overprint on all stamps is in pairs in four lines and reads: "IT ALIA-Occupazione Militaire-ltaliana isole-Cafalonia e Itaca". Four airpost values known to be overprinted are Id, 2d, 5d and 7 d ( C22-C25).

Guatemala

A surcharge reading "2l,'2c Feria del Libro 1945" on the Sc air mail ( Scotts Cll3) has been reported by Gimbels Stamp Deparbnent, New York. Only 10,000 copies were issued, during August, for the purpose of taking care of the new reduced air rate of 7lhc. Only 20 copies were sold by the Post Office to each customer.

Salvador

The I Colon Black ( Scotts #582) is reported by Gimbels Stamp Deparbnent as being overprinted "Aereo,. in order t<> make it available for air mail usage.

-Stamps for Illustration, Courtesy F . W. KESSLER

• Recent NeVf Air Flight Issues

<CoA\ol\mo <COVER ~OTES by WILLIAM R. WARE

P. O. Box 595. Malden, Mo. Route AM #53-Extension from Mem­

phis to Detroit-Ou May 20th, this route was extended

from Memphis via Evansville, Indianapo­lis and Toledo to Detroit. The first northc bound flight over this extension was. via Trip #60 from Memphis which fliglit was in charge of Captain J. R. A. Werth with G. H. Horstman also a senior pilot serving as First Officer. Memphis dis­patched to this flight: one pouch of mail weighing two pounds and containing 18 pieces of mail of which 17 were for col­lectors to. Evansville, one pouch weigh-. ing two pounds and containing 44 pieces of mail of which· 41 were for collectors to Indianapolis, one pouch weighing two pounds and containing 20 piec~s of mail of which 19 were for collectors to Toledo. It is not known how many pieces of mail were dispatched to Detroit via the first flight of this service from Memphis but in view of the fact that Detroit is the terminal of this route and since most collectors dispatch or address mail to the terminals of a route it is thought that the mail for Detroit was considerably more than for the intermediate cities on this route. Continuing on to Evansville, this trip picked up three pouches of mail; one each for. Toledo, Indianapolis and Detroit weighing a total of six pounds and containing a total of 118 pieces of maill of which all was supposed to have been collectors mail with the exception of one piece addressed to Toledo. At Indianapolis this trip picked up two pouches of mail weighing seven pounds and containing 207 pieces of mail of which 197 were for collectors. This mail was all postmarked Indianapolis AMF. At Toledo this trip picked up one pouch of mail weighing two pounds for Detroit and containing 80 pieces of ma:il all of which was for collectors. Post­marks on the first flight mail for this trip were as follows: Memphis 5:00 AM, Evansville 9:00 AM, Indianapolis AMF Tour 2 and Toledo 1:00 PM all May 20th.

The first Southbound· hight over this route was via Trip #59 in charge of Captain R. P. Eames with Truman Out-

land as First Officer. This trip carried from Detroit five pouches of mail weigh­ing 15 pounds. Detroit Post Office dis­patched approximately :mo pieces of mail of which 20 were for collectors while Detroit AMF dispatched 290 pieces of mail of which 215 were for collectors. At Toledo this flight picked up three pouches . of mail weighing seven pounds and containing 107 pieces of mail of which 97 were for collectors. At Indian­apolis two pouches of mail weighing eight pounds were picked up containing approximately 297 pieces of mail of which 147 were for collectors bearing the · Indianapolis AMF cancellation. Evansville dispatched to Memphis via this flight one pouch of mail weigh­ing three pounds and containing 90 pieces of mail of which 89 were phila­telic. Postmarks used on the first South­bound mail were as follows: Detroit 6:30 PM, Detroit AMF 9:00 PM, Indianapo­lis AMF-Tour 3 and Evansville 9:00 PM all May 20th.

In connection with the flights from Indianapolis on the first day of this serv­ice, we are informed that a · quantity of covers had been sent to the Indianapolis post office for the first flight of this service. For some reason this mail placed at the Indianapolis city office was sent out to the Air Mail Field and cancelled

. and dispatched from the Field. We can­not account for such handling for had collectors who sent this mail to the city office desired the AMF cancel on this particular mail they would have cer­tainly sent it to the Air Mail Field. Realizing the "error" we are told that the city office later dispatched approxi­mately forty covers to Trip #59 and about the same number to Trip #60 on the first day of this service. Those dis­patched to Trip #59 which was the first Southbound flight bore the city office cancel of from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM while those dispatched to Trip #60, the first Northbound flight were cancelled from 4:00 AM to 9:00 AM. · We have been informed that the employee hand­ling the first flight mail in the Indianap­olis post office is a cover collector him­self which makes the treatment of this mail a considerable puzzle to us.

NOVEMBER. 1945 STATEMENT

Of the ownership, management, etc., of The Airpost Journal, published month­ly at Albion, Penn'a required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912.

Editor-L. B. Gatchell, 24 Brook Road, Bronxville, N. Y.

Business Manager-Grace Conrath, Al-bion, Pa. ·

Owner-The American Air Mail Society, Geo. D. Kingdom, Conneaut, Ohio, pres­ident; Claude W. Degler, 2114 North 49th Street, Milwaukee, Wis., secretary.

Known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders, holding one per cent or more of the total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities -None.

GRACE CONRATH -Business Manager.

Subscribed a.'ld sworn to before me this 21st day of September 1945. (Seal) Lida S. Barns

Notary Public (My commission expires January 27,

1949.)

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Cuban Chapter Honors F. W. Kessler With Dinner on Recent Havana Visit

• Reading Left to Righi Around the Table: Alberto Perez. F. W. Kessler.\ Edelberio de Carrea. President. Rafael Oriol. Dr. Ernesto Bello. Dr. Tomas ·A. Terry. Ing. Ricardo J. Moreyra. Emilio de Soto. Luis Angulo Pintado. Roberto Brach. Alfredo Cano. ·

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A.A.M.S. Chapter News

• by FLORENCE LAMPORT

News of A.A.M.S. Chapters should be sent direct to Miss Lamport a.t 1800

W. Ruscomb Street, Philadelphia 41, Pa.

• The Essex Stamp Club meets in

Newark, N. J., every Monday night at the Essex House. President George D. Kingdom presented the national charter to Secretary William C. Webb for admission as Branch Chapter #25 at the American Air Mail Society's banquet on August 18th at ST AMPEX.

The interest in the air mail hobby was enhanced by the fine display of 180 frames of air mail material in ST AMPEX sponsored by the E s s e x Stamp Club. The fourth Monday of each month will be devoted to air mail exhib­its by this group.

The first fall meeting of the Jack Knight Air Mail Society, Chapter #23, was held on September 21st at the Aus­tin Town Hall in Chicago, Ill. This group sponsors the Major Schroeder Unit at Brookfield, Ill., which will celebrate their third anniversary as a junior group. The junior members will insure tbe fu­ture growth of this club.

In "A Contest for Stamp Publications" held by ST AMPS, the second prize was awarded to "The Jack Knight Air Log" which is issued quarterly. This fine pub­lication is edited by Earl Wellman, sec­retary. The issues are well illustrated with the histories of the air lines. Collec­tors interested in air mail labels should write to Earl Wellman, Editor, at Brook~ field, Ill. This group is planning a cat­alogue of air mail labels.

Excellent work is being done by the Chapters for "Stamps for the Wounded" in tbe various sections of the country. In the spring, tbe Essex Stamp Club held a Donation Auction and raised $265 for

THE AIRPOST JOURNAL this worthy cause. The Jack Knight Air Mail Society conducts a stamp club in a Chicago Military Hospital. An active committee of members of the Philadel­phia Air Mail Society works for this pro­gram in the England General Hospital in Atl,mtic City, N. J., and the local nav,,_J. hospitals.

f'he American Air Mail Society has indorsed this program for all Chapters and gave a contribution to tbe cause at their annual meeting in Newark, N. J. Every Chapter should support tbis op­portunity to help the hospitalized service men.

Notes of interest about the society: "Bill" Hafner, former chairman of tbe "C.A.M." has returned to civilian life after several years of active duty with the army. The society welcomes him back to his home in Babylon, L. I. In the August issue Paul Gatty was listed for membership in tbe society. He will be remembered for his round the world flight with Wiley Post. His position witb the Pacific Division of Pan American Airways will be to work on post-war international air service plans.

• "Bridging the Atlantic"

• An Aviation History and Priced Air Mail Catalogue of proposed, attempted and successful Atlantic Flights, 1873-1944.

OVer 350 major events are summarized with exact data, and about 200 illus­trations of Pilots, Aircraft, Cachets, Postmarks and Maps. All pigeon, balloon, airship, catapult, solo, mass ·and other flights are re­corded.

Price $2.15 post free The edition is strictly limited. Order at once from "The Airpost Journal" office, Albion, Pa.

• PUBLISHED BY

FRANCIS J. FIELD Sutton Coldfield England

NOVEMBER, 1945

Earliest Use Dates of Borderless

6c Air Envelopes

---*----As Reported From Various Army APO Offices

By Carl T. Lemponen

Collectors having covers showing earlier usage from any of these offices or from offices not reported are asked to communicate with the compiler at 976 Broad Street, Conneaut. Ohio.

1-0ct. 10-44 8-Aug. 27-44

29-Sept. 9-44 34-0ct. 12-44 45-0ct. 6-44 61-Sept. 16-44 70-Jan. 29-45 85-Sept. 14-44 93-Dec. 3-44

113-0ct. 6-44 128-Aug. 27-44 133-Aug, 4-44 140--July 27-44 148-Nov. 29-44 157-Sept. 25-44 163-Dec. 16-44 178-.July 28-44 204-Aug. 4-44 ~18-0ct. 24-44 244.--Aug. 30-44 254-0ct. 2-44 259-Jan. 9-45 305-Sept. 18-44 316-Nov. 4-44 340-Nov. 11-44 361-Feb. 23-45 419--Dec. 11-44 427-Feb. 7-45

464-Nov. 18-44 499-0ct. 18-44 513-0ct. 23-44 527-Aug. 21-44 545-Nov. 21-44 553-sept. 18-44 560--0ct. _ 1-4 568-Dec 5~44 · 575---Aug. 29-44 587-Sept. 7-44 596-'-Aug. 21-44 629--0ct. 23-44 645-0ct. 9-44 650--Nov. 23-44 710-""Nov. 10-44 729"-Sept. 16-44 772-Nov. 26•44

- 853---J' an. 9-41 872-Sept. 7-44 ' 887-8ept. 17-44

2-Nov. 27-44 23-Nov. 11-44 30--Nov. 12-44 36-Nov. 3-44 Sl-Nov. 6-44 62-Sept. 14-44 78-Mar. 1-45 88-Sept. 13-44 96-Nov. 7-44

l21-8ept. 12-44 129--Sept. 9-44 134-0ct. 4-44 142--0ct. 7-44 149--0ct. 27-44 159--0ct. 2-44 169--Aug. 13-44 179-0ct. 6-44 205-Aug. 21-44 :129--0ct. 22-44 246-Dec. 4-44 255-Sept. 24-44 260--Dec. 13-44 307-Sept. 27-44 317-Jan. 30-45 350---Nov. 8-44 372-Jan. 25-45 420-Jan. 10-45 433---J'an. 6-45

469--Aug. 25-44 500-Jan. 12-45 516-sept. 29-44 . 539--0ct. 19-44 547-Feb. 15-45 554---0ct. 15-44 562-Aug. 19-44 571-Aug. 7-44

- 580--Aug, .17-.44 589-July 30-44 598-.Sept. 8-44 635-July 20-44 646-NOV;. 30-44 667-Jan. 22-45 713-Nov.-•-28-44 758-Feb. 19-45

-783-Jan. 24-45 862-Aug. 1·44 873-0ct. 16-44 920--Feb. 10·45

20th Base Postottice-Oct. 29-44

4-eept. 24-44 27-Feb. 28~4S 32-Sept. 30-44 37-Dec. 14-44 113-Sept. 6·44 83-Aug. 23-44 79--Aug. 7·44 90-July 18-44

104-Sept. 30-44 126-Sept. 12-44 130--Sept. 27-44 135---Sept. 18-44 143-Sept. 23-44 151-Dec. 1-44 161-0ct .. 17-44 175-July 16-44 197-Nov. 4-44 207-Aug, 11-44 230-Sept. 3-44 252-0ct. 30-44 ~56-Dec. 19-44 261-Dec. 13-44 311-Nov. 4-44 322-Nov. 14-44 351-Dec. 6-44 403-Sept. 10-44 i21-0ct. 5-44 442-Dec. 30-44

470--Dec. 26-44 505-0ct. 17-44 519-Sept. 27-44 540--0ct. 24-44 551-0ct. 11-44 556-Sept. 21-44 565---0ct. 12-44 573-sept. 25-44 581-0ct. 31-44 592-Sept. 30-44 627-Nov. 25-44 636-Aug. 16-44 647"-Mar. 10-45 706-0ct. 28-44 716-Nov. 3-44 . 766-Sept. 11-44 825-Dec. 23-44 869--Feb. 20-45 874-July 18-44 968-Sept. 18-44

6-Nov. 5-44 28-Feb. 11-45 33-J'an. 14-45 43-Feb. 6-45 58-.Tuly 27-44 69--Sept. 21-44 80--Dec. 27-44 91-Sept. 21-44 lll-Aug. 11-44 121-0ct. 12-44 131-July 25-44 l36-Aug. 21-44 l45-Aug. 15-44 l53-Aug. 6-44 l62-Sept. 19-44 l76-Sept. 7-44 198-0ct. 10-44 209-0ct. 5-44 235-0ct. 30-44 2,53-Nov. 8-44 li7-0ct. 29-44 !!70--Aug. 30-44 U2-Aug. 25-44 339--Sept. 25-44 157-Sept. 28-44 U3-Aug. 24-44 124-Nov. 25-44 151-Jan. 25-45

490--Nov. 15-44 506-Dec. 4-44 520--Sept. 4-44 543-0ct. 9-44 552-Sept: 13-44 558-Dec. 12-44 567-0ct. 10-44 474-sept. 23-44 586-July 20-44 595-July 24-44 _ 628-N ov. 9-44 631-Sept. 10-44 649-sept. 14-44 709--0ct. 25-44 726-Sept. 25-44 769-Sept. 14-44 832-Jan. 29-45 871-Aug. 8-44 883-0ct. 5-tf

17th Base Post office-Sept. 16-44

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L. B. GATCHELL, Editor 24 Brook Road, Bronxville 8, N. Y.

GRACE CONRATH, Business Manager Albion, Penn·a

ALTON J. BLANK, Assistant Editor (On military leave)

GLEN W. NAVES, Assistant Editor (011 military leave)

ERNEST A. KEHR, Art Editor Richmond Hill, N. Y.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

R. LEE BLACK, Des Moines, Iowa Interrupted FU«ht Cover NeWll

FRANCIS J. FIELD, Sutton Coldfield, England

D. E. HELMUTH, East_ Cleveland, Ohio

F. W. KESSLER, New York, N. Y.

GEORGE D. KINGDOM, Conneaut, 'Jhio

DR. MAX KRONSTEIN, New York Air Malls and the War

FLORENCE LAMPORT Philadelphia, Pa.

A.A.M.S. Chapter News

G. F. LANCASTER, Brooklyn, N. Y. Dedications and Unontclals

RICHARD L. SINGLEY, Lancaster, Pa. F.A.M. Notes

WILLIAM R. WARE, Malden, Mo. Contract Air Mall Route.

THE AIRPOST JOURNAL has been published under the auspices or THK AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY since October, 1931. It has reached Its hlch place or usefulness to the hobby primarily throuch the cenlus, Industry and devotion or the late

WALTER J. CONRATH

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Here and There with the Editor •

DR. MAX .KRONSTEIN calls our atten­tion to an unfortunate error in . the

story about "John Wise tn Contemporary European Literature" which appeared in ~eptemb~r. Due to an error in composi­~10n, w~1ch was completely missea by us· m readmg the proof, it was stated that Heinrich V. Stephan, first Postmaster General of the German Empire, was "one of the first to advocate general use of the telescope. Obviously this last word should have been teleph'one. As is well known it was largely through Stephan's efforts in this connection that most Euro­pean telephone systems are operated by the Post Office rather than privately. We also note that we failed to give credit to Ernest A. Kehr, our Art Editor for the fine informal photo shots of the' Newark meeting which appeared on page 389. And while recording these corrections we should also state that Perham C. Nahl, rather than G. F. Lancaster as printed, was one of the M.A.C.C. speakers at the ST AMPEX banquet.

We are sure' collectors will be grateful for the decision of the Post Office 'De­partment to restore official cachets on future first Hight air mail services. As announced in the October Joumal the first use of official cachets since the war will be at San Bemardino, Calif., on or about November 1. The Department has always been most co-operative in their treatment of collectors hut are often con­fused as to just what is wished, particu­larly when they are bombarded with let­ters from all sides. It should be a func­tion of national philatelic Societies to reflect the views and requirements of collectors in this connection. Most cer­tainly the American Air Mail Society is prepared and equipped to perform such a function insofar as Aero-philately is concemed. If you must write someone about these things, write President George Kingdom of the A.A.M.S., C.AM,, Editor Bill Ware or the Editor of the Journal-­not the Department. The Department is not equipped-nor is it required-to study and .answer the individual desires and ideas of lmndreds of collectors. It has

demonstrated, however, that it will give most sympathetic consideration to a con­sensus and cross section of such wishes wh~n submitted in practical form by your Society. If you want these courtesies °?ntinued-heed carefully these sugges­tions.

A number of A.A.M.S. members have been participants in the fast moving events incident to the Jap surrender. Out­standing, we think, was the part played by our Vice-President Commander Jesse G. Johnson, USN, Skipper of the USS Webster, who flew ,over Wake Island broadcasting special surrender instruc­tions to the beleaguered Jap Garrison on that Island. The next day they capitu­lated. This seems to us like poetic jus­tice. As many members know, Com­mander Johnson, then a young Lieuten­ant, was the first Naval flyer to map and chart Wake by aerial survey for the Navy. We have received a nice cover from Jesse in this connection; also a later one from Tokyo Bay where the Webster is serving as part of the occupational forces. We also have had several letters from Assistant Editor, Yeoman 3/ c Glen W. Naves, en route to the States and from our other Editor, Sergt. Alton J. Blank, also en route home from the Philippines. ·

Notes at random: A card from H. B. Manning, President of our Los Angeles Chapter tells us that the L. A. Cover Ex­change, which is managed by him is now located at ~026 Bagley Ave., Los Ange­les, 34, Calif., and we are in receipt of a nice first day cover from the Clube Filatelico de Brazil hearing the new stamps and appropriate cachet honoring Brazilian forces which served with the U. S. Fifth Army in Italy.

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CHAPTER All.2 MAIL AND TH~ WAl.2

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New York 63, N. Y.

• HUNGARY:

Further north Hungarian territories were reacped by Russian advances from Tran­sylvania and in the region of Szeged (September 30) and of Debrezen (October 20), both former Bulgarian air mail cen­ters. Russian leaflets dropped over Hun­garian troops called (September 30) for their capitulation, since "it was not too late to desert Hitler." . When the Russians neared .the .capital of Budapest, the Hun­garian Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy asked for peace. (October 15). The Nazis took control of Hungary and dropped leaflets denouncing the Hungarian Gov­ernment. As the Russian advance con­tinued a new Hungarian Government was established on December 24, 1944 in the liberated areas and this Government en­tered into an armistice with the Allies on January 21, 1945. It declared war on Germany and relinquished Transylvania to Rumania and returned areas given to Hungary in the Hitler dictated "Vienna Document" to Yugoslavia and Czechoslo­vakia. Hungary's air fleet and air fields were given to the Allies for the duration of the war. Civil administration was re­stored for about 100 kilometers behmd the front lines, but communications to foreign countries remained under Allied control. ITALY:

Between the liberated areas of Italy and U.S.A. additional regular mail services were resumed during the fall of 1944. Italian flyers serving with the Allies be­gan issuance of their own newspaper and published first on August 10, 1944 the "Giornale dell Aviator." In an interesting report to the N. Y. Herald-Tribune (Oc­tober 16) it was revealed that the German and Italian attempts to use the islands of Corsica and Sardinia as air bases had resulted in heavy losses of personnel from malaria Collectors may sometimes have wondered why these islands are hardly mentioned in our catalogues. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC:

The number of trans-Atlantic flights was rec'ently given as follows: From No­vember, 1940, to the end of 1943 a total o:f 10,000; to the middle of May 1944 a total of 15,000; to the middle of AugUst 1944, a total of 20,000 and to early in No~ vember 1944, a total of 25,000 flights.

The 200 millionth V-mail letter from !he Europ\\an theater; of war was a greet­ing from G. I. Joe' to President Roose­velt. It was mailed on January 20 1945 In the Atlantic area post-war ciVillan routes began to shape up, based upon the great experiences of thousands of war time flights P.A.A. and American Air-

lines will not continue contract flight service for the Navy Air Transport Com­mand in 1945, but will continue their com­mercial and A T. C. services. The North Atlantic Division of the u. S. Army Transport Command officially celebrated December 3, 1944, as the formal opening date of the second winter of uninterrupted operations of the Northern A. T. C. route. On this service large C-54, four motored J'lanes fly non-stop from New­foundlan to the British Isles.

Regular air delivery of about 750 pints of blood a day from U. S. A. to the Eu­ropean theater of ·war was reported on December 1. The service began on Aug-ust 21, 1944 ,

The P. A. A. services crossed the At­lantic 305 times in 1944 carrying from New York 1,420,654, lbs of mail and 379,-600 lbs. of express, including matrices for U. S. papers published overseas The Trans-Canada Airlines completed in 1944, 116 trans-Atlantic round trips with 1,029,-153 lbs of mail. In 1943 they, together with the RCAF Transport Command, car­ried by air some 39,000 lbs. of mail mark­ed for surface transportation. The Ameri­can Airlines, from August, 1943, to July 1944, made 2680 flights across the North and South Atlantic. The British BOAC made 1000 North Atlantic flights between September 1941 and September 1944 with 332 tons mail 529 tons freight and 11,378 passengers. There were no fatal accidents. Between May and October 1944 the three Boeing 314a flying boats made 135 trips from Botwood. One of its captains (W. L. Stewart) made his lOOth North Atlantic flight on November 26, 1944.

On July 21, 1944, the BOAC Ship "Ber­wich" made the Foynes (Ireland) Bot­wood flight in 11 hours 33 minutes. In September, 1944, the BOAC included Nas­sau as regular call on the route to Balti­more. The company is making prepara­tions for a South Atlantic Route to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires.

The BOAC landplane base in U. K. was moved in November, 1944, from White­church, Bristol to Hurn Dorset. Since September 11 1944, the British North Atlantic· Air Services carry also light weight civilian air letter sheets from Eng­land to Canada, Newfoundland, the British West Indies and the Falkland Isla'nds.

Swedish dispatches announced that a Swedish air service will soon be inaugu­rated from Sweden to Iceland-Labrador­New York, with Col. Bert Balchen in charge of operations. Also the project of a Scandinavian service to New York has been reported, to be jointly operated by Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

Swe.den (and Denmark) entered bilat­eral agreements With the U. S. A. con­cerning rights for air lines U. s. lines can pick-up and deliver air mail at stock­holm, under this agreement (around Jan­uary 1, 1945). Iceland entered a corres­ponding agreement with the U. S. A. con-

cerning the post war and commercial use

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• The far-flung routes of lhe Pacific wing of lhe Naval Air Transport Service Command. Map released for publication lo The Airposl Journal. prior lo V-J Day. by CINCPAC. through courtesy Comdr. Jesse G. Johnson~ USN.

of Meeks Field near Reykjavik. This was approved by the Iceland Parliament on .January 25. The U. S. services now use the Azores Islands as a South Atlantic base. A big new airport is under con­struction. Negotiations are reported con­cerning reciprocal landing rights between Portugal and Brazil in the Canary Islands. The largest Spanish airport (for land and seaplanes) has been built at Gando, on Gran Canaria. On October 8 P. A. A. resumed a twice-monthly 7,269 mile service, Miami-San Juan-Natal, Mon­rovia-Congo The first flying boat left Monrovia on September 25, for the last leg of the trial flight to Leopoldville. But on January 8, 1945, the China Clipper which operated on this route, crashed at Port of Spain Triiiidad after having flown during the years from 1935 to 1945 the equivalent of 11 trips to . the moon. On October 16 a 120-mile per hour tropi­cal hurricane temporarily interrupted all P.A.A. flights to and from Cuba.

An RAF Liberator on October 27-28 made the 5000 mile flight from Natal, Brazil to Montreal in 26 hours. 52 minutes. An RAF Lancaster in September, 1944, made a 15000 mile non-stop flight from Nassau, Bahamas, to Montreal in five hours, 35 minutes. An RAF round-the-world flight air route was opened on October 15, 1944. The planes cross from England to Mont­real-Washington-San Francisco-Honolu­lu-Canton Island-Fiji or Samoa-Auck­land, N. Z., Sydney, Australia where the first plane arrived on November 4. The return flight is made by way of Ceylon­Karachi-Cairo. Another RAF Liberator I , the "Aries" completed on December 14,

a two-month 42,000 mile round the world flight for the study of navigation.

Independent from this service the Trans Canada Airlines are preparing air service from Canada to New Zealand and Aus­tralia to be operated on a similar basis as the present trans-Atlantic service.

The U. S. trans-Atlantic air mail and passenger airlines received on December 2, 1944, landing rights at Seville and Madrid, Spain and at Villa Cisneros, Span­ish Morocco on route to Marseilles or Paris and to Algiers and points beyond. Spanish air lines received the same right of landing in U.S.A. Neither party will carry any internal air mail between air­ports · of the other country. The first U. S. air service to Spain is expected to be operated by the A.T.C.

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HISTORY OF THE

U. S. GOVERNMENT OPERA TED AIR. MAIL SERVICE

1918-1928

by K AR L B. W E BER

CHAPTER ONE (continued>

NEW YORK-BOSTON ROUTE To extend the air mail service and

to further prove the valuable time sav­ing involved in expediting mail by air, A. L. Hortung, who had charge of the operation of the Washington-New York au mail service, stationed at Belmont Park, N. Y., received instructions from Postmaster General Burleson on Satur­day, June 1, to inaugurate a New York­Boston air mail service on Monday, June 3, 1918.

It was also the intention of the Post Office Department to have a through Washington-Boston flight, via New York, starting cin June 1, at Washington and connecting with the first mail plane at the aviation field at Mineola, N. Y., for Boston, Mass.

Accordingly the air mail from Wash­ington, which amounted to 18 pounds, was carried by Lieut. Bousal to Phila- , <ielphia and relayed by Lieut. Kilgore, to New York, who carried 5 sacks of mail matter weighing 34. pounds, in­cluding 16 pounds from Philadelphia. Lieut. Bousal finishel the trip to New York with Lieut. Kilgore as passenger. On the way over Kilgore circled low over the new city-owned pier at Niell Basin, Jamaica Bay, and dropped a let­ter from the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Josephus Daniels, to the Dock Commis­sioner, Murray Hulbert of New York. The mail from Washington was held over Sunday for the inaugural flight to Boston on the next day.

Some of the covers carried on this trip have a cachet consisting of straight roman letters in red ink in one line reading "Aerial Mail-Via New York". The cancellation obliterating the stamp was the same as used for all letters since the second day of the inauguration of

the Washington-New York Air Mail Service, reading around the inside of the circle "Air Mail Service-Wash. N. Y. Phila" and in the center·on three lines •June 1, 1918'.'. Some letters bear a cachet "First Air Mail" in two lines applied in violet, beneath the stamp, which marking was privately applied. 1

As the new extension of the United States air mail route from New York to Boston was well advertised, 7 mail pouches weighing 272 lbs. and contain­ing 4,400 pieces of mail, mostly souvenir letters, were waiting for the inauguration trip.

New York-Boston The plane which was to carry the

fost mail from Metropolitan New York to Boston was scheduled to leave A via· tion Field No. l, at Mineola, L. I., at 6 o'clock on the morning of June 3, 1918. Lieut. Gustave Vanel, a French Army Officer and Flying instructor and his mechanic, W. O'Brien, were given the great honor of flying the inaugura­tion mail on this route.

Various . mishaps prevented Lieut. Y anel from getting a start and it was nearly 3 hours later than the scheduled starting time when the plane finally left the ground. The field was muddy, due to the previous days' rain and just as the machine began the ascent Lieut. Vanel tried a quick tum and in so doing tl1e tip of one of the wings caught in the soft ground and the plane capsized. When Major Thomas Hitchcock, and a fow others who were at. the field to see the take-off, reached the machine, they iound the French Officer and his me­chanic with only a few slight brnises. After ·helping them out of the cockpit, the aviator said that a wire connecting the steering apparatus with the right wing had snapped, causing the airplane to wobble.

Mr. Hortung, after ascertaining the

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damage to the plane and the time. needed to repair it and giving the new air field & thorough inspection, male , arrange­ments following the accident to have the · mail bags transferred to Belmont Park Field, · which was the field used for the New York-Washington air mail route. This was done during the next day. On Thursday, June 6, 1918, the £ame mail was again ready to be carried <;n the first experimental air mail flight t,., Boston, Mass. ·

Lieut. Torrey H. Webb, who had opened the New-York-Philadelphia leg cf the New York-Washington route and had 11 perfect flights to his credit, n~ver having to make a stop enroute and without damaging a plane, was lhosen to inaugurate the New York­Boston air mail service.

Carrying R. Heck, his mechanic, as a passenger and with 7 pouches of air mail stowed away safely in his fuselage, Webb got away from Belmont Park Field at 12:00 noon.

About 2 hours later, as the aviator neared Hatton, Conn., he found that his compass was working badly and descend-· ed on a small field at Shailerville to adjust it. After fixing the compass as well as possible he took off again and followed a course along the tracks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

At 3:31 P. · M. Lieut. Webb circled c:ver Saugu~, Mass., and then gracefully descended on the large estate of God­frey Cabot, part of which had been made into a landing field and named the 1''ranklin Park Aviation Fiell. In landing on the newly made field, which had been made soft by the rains of the last few days,, one of the wheels struck a hole and the machine tipped up, throw­ing out Webb and his mechanic. Luckily r1either sustained injury but the plane \vas severely strained and one propeller blade was broken. · A few minutes after Lieut. Webb left

Belmont Field, Postmaster Murray of Roston, who was among the spectators, sent a telegram to his Assistant Post­master, Mr. Hurley, informing him of the departure of the plane. After re­leiving this message, Hurley immediate­Jv ordered a small mail auto truck and ~ touring car to go to Saugus, ~ass.,

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• Postmaster Patten of New York wishing Lieut. Wells God-speed. ·

to meet the plane. The party arrived in plenty of time to witness the rather unhappy ending of . the inauguration flight of the proposed new air mail route. The trip was made in 3 hours and 22 minutes in a Curtiss Biplane powered by a Liberty motor. ·

It had been the intention of the Air Mail Service Department of the Post Office to have a return flight the next day, but due to the mishap to the ma­chine, the date was postponed until all the necessary repairs had oeen made.

The postal rate on this new air mail route was also 24c. The cancellation consisted of a black impression, similar to the one used on the New York-Wash­ington route. Reading on the inside of the left half of the circle "Air Mail Service and on the bottom "New York" (Wash-N. ' Y.-Phila. being omitted). In the center of the circle appeared in four lines "June-3-1918-First Trip." On the right hand comer on the · outside of the circle were four bars. Some t.overs were backstamped at Boston June f}-6 P.M.-1918.

Boston-New York It seems that "Dame Fortune" never

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approved of the extension of the U. S. Air Mail route from New York to Boston. The air mail for the return trip from Eoston to New York, which consisted of about 64 lbs. was all pouched and cancelled on Sunday June 9, 1918. It was originally intended to make . the re­turn flight the following day using the same plane but as the parts for repairing the machine had not arrived the Hight was postponed until Tuesday, June 11.

The morning of that day was very bad Hying weather but Lieut. Webb decided to make the trip. The two mail bags were in the plane and everything was in readiness. About 10 o'clock in the morning Postmaster Murray of Bos­ton boarded the plane.

The large crowd, which came to wit­ness the departure of the first air mail plane from the Old Saugus Race Track, was very enthusiastic despite the bad weather. At 10:15 Webb and his two passengers, the Boston · Postmaster and Mr. Heck, his mechanic, rose from the ground in the large yellow plane and after attaining a height of about 4,000 feet, the machine was soon lost to sight, flying in a southwesterly direction.

During the trip, Webb had to Hy "blind" or by conipass most of the time as the weather was very foggy and misty. Very bad weather and showers were encountered in the vicinity of Provi­dence, R. I., but the aviator was deter­mined to finish the flight. Nearing New York City, he and his passengers again struck bad weather and Lieut. Webb descended on a small field near the home d Otto H. Kahn at West Hills and got his bearings. After a few minutes he left again and landed at Belmont Park at 1:30 .P. M. '

Upon arriving he was congratulated by the field attendants on his wonderful flight and courage, as this flight was c.onsidered a daring venture under such unfavorable · weather conditions. Post­master William F. Murray was also heartily congratulated on being such a good sailor and although this was his first venture into "Clouclland" he said he enjoyed his experience greatly. .

The Boston post office applied across the face of each stamp a large three line cancellation in black ink, with square full type capital letters reading "Boston-to-

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BOSTON

-To-NE'W W~

• Official Cachet Applied io First Boston-New York Mail.

New York." Besides this, a special mchet in black was authorized by the Post Office Department which had a large, double circle with the inscription of "Boston" on top and "Mass" on the bottom. In the center was an oval which outlined in the same type the three line jnscription "Air Mail-June 9-1918-First Trip."

The project of operating a regular scheduled route from New York to Bos­ton was abandoned after this return Hight, and the Post Office officials con­.::entrated their efforts on the betterment and extension of the New York-Wash­ington air mail route.

New York-Washington 16c Rate

To further encourage the public to use the air mail; and in view of the success obtained in the first few months' operation of the service; and the fact that the capacity of the machine was not being fully utilized, Postmaster General Burleson issued the following order, ef­fective July 15, 1918:

Mail carried by airplane shall be charged with posta:ge at the rate of 16c for the first ounce or fraction therof and 6c for each additional ounce or fraction thereof, of which 10c shall be for special delivery service. Such mail shall consist of matter of the first class, including sealed parcels not exceedinq 30 Inches in length and girth combined. The postage on airplane mail· shall be fully prepaJ,d with special airplane postage stamps or with ordinary postage stamps. When the latter are used the mail should be indorsed 'by airplane',.

For this new rate the Post Office is­imed on July 11, a new United States Air Mail Stamp of the ~6c denomina­tion. The color of the stamp was green, being 7 / 8" x 3 / 4" in size and had an aeroplane as a central feature, practica_lly the same _design as used on the earlier 24c air mail stamps, only printed in but a single color.

NOVEMBER. 1945 .

AIR MAIL INTERRUPTIONS

by R. LEE BLACK

Your editor has been busy for many months revising an old listing and pre­paring new listings for the forthcoming edition of the American Air Mail Cata­logue. As a result, this column has been somewhat neglected although there has been but scant news to report. The new catalogue listings have now been pro­pared and they are in the hands of the committee for consideration. Most of the items listed in the previous Catalogue and in the Supplements have been com­pletely re-written and re-priced. Many new illustrations have been added.

As to late interruptions we report the following: ·

July 13. Columbia, S. C. Eastern Afr­lines plane, piloted by Capt. G. D. Da­vis· of Miami and co-pilot, N. L. Martin­dale. The pilot brought the plane to an emergency landing in a corn field near Columbia after it had collided in midair with an army plane. The collision tore off the motors and part of one wing. The only death to crew and occupants in the airliner was a two-year-old boy. Several passengers were somewhat in­jured. Newsmen at scene of accident said the army plane exploded two miles from point of collision. A relief plane carried the uninjured passengers to Mi­ami. Amount of mail aboard the air­liner has not as yet been reported to us.

• REMEMBER THE

A.AMS VICTORY AUCTION

The Washington-Philadelphia air mail on July 15, the day that the new rate went into effect, weighed 109 lbs., and the Philadelphia-New York mail, 111 lbs.

The New York-Philadelphia air mail, t•n the same date, amounted to 139 lbs., 2Ild the Philadelphia-Washington mail, 34 lbs.

(To be continued>'

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.a.''''''''''''''''''''''' .. Presiclent' s Message

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1'o the Members of the American Air Mail Society:

I am sure Contract Air Mail Cover Collectors greeted with pleasure and ap­preciation the. news from the Post Office Department that cachets would be re­stored and that ample notice would be given for .the dispatching of covers. The officers of your Society have been in con­stant touch with Post Office Department officials for several months, attempting to bring about this announcement.' We will continue our active contact with the De­partment ·in the interest of collectors, as occasion may require.

At the time of writing this message, the September issue has been in the mails but a few days, but early responses indicate that many of our members are greeting with enthusiasm· the plan which I announced to liquidate our remaining deficit. Several collectors have actually submitted aero-philatelic material for the proposed donation Auction and many more have indicated their intention of so doing .. I believe that this Victory-Dona­tion Auction will accomplish the goal of your officers. In order that we may stage this auction as soon as possible, I am going to request that those who intend. to contribute material to same, send it to me on or before Dece~ber l, 1945, so that the sale may be conducted as soon thereafter as it can be written up and printed. Let's all of us get behind this movement, and when the sale has beeri completed and we have raised enough money to wipe out the deficit, this Vic­tory will have a signillcant and heart warming meaning to our members and our Society. If you intend to contribute some aero-philatelic material for this sale, please get it together and send it to me, NOW.

Respectfully submitted,

George D. Kingdom, President.

AIRPORT DEDICATION COVERS •

by G. F. Lancaster News of future and past events under this section should be sent direct to Mr. Lancaster, 194 Essex St., Brook­lyn 8, N. Y.

• Pas:t Even:ts

On Sept. 3rd, 1945, Piqua, Ohio, dedi­cated its airport. There were 800 airmail envelopes mailed and 4000 non airmail all with a special printed cachet. Covers were handled by the Piqua, Ohio, Phila­telic Society.

Also on Sept. 3rd, ,Wagner, South Da­kota, dedicated its airport. Covers re­ceived bear a nice printed cachet which was, I believe, furnished by the Cham­ber of Commerce. Report on number of covers mailed is not yet available. Coming Even:ts

Bill Wynn, 8544 Cloverlawn, Detroit 4, Mich., is holding covers for a dedica­tion in the vicinity of Detroit that was orginally scheduled to take place around Labor Day. However, this has been postponed, and may not take place until further notice.

Miscellaneous !:terns

Another Tri-City Airport is under way at Woodstock, Ill. The airport is lo­cated between the cities of Woodstock, Harvard and Marengo, but at the mo­ment is only in the formative state. Dedi­cation may not take place for quite some time, so do not mail covers there yet. '

The American Aviation Magazine for September mentions the fact that work has been speeded up on Moisant Airport in New Orleans, La., with the possibility it may be ready for the airlines in late September or early October.

Also mentioned in the same issue is the fact that Wisconsin plans to build 78 airports and 14 seaplane bases. From the many reports being received it would seem that the plan for developing many new and existing airports is slowly taking form, and it will not be long before quite a few dedications occur. It would be wise now to prepare a supply of self­addressed airmail envelopes so that when

these dedications do take place you will not be caught napping.

In order to aid as much as possible, I will be glad to hold a supply of your addressed postal cards in my files, and when I secure information on coming events, I will be glad to mail you the information. Mr. Petty rendered this service in the past, and I will be only too glad to continue this information service in the future· for those who are interested. In return, will you cooperate with me by sending me all the informa­tion you secure on any airport news so that all collectors will benefit from it. Thanks.

Cooperators this month are Piqua Philatelic Society, Wagner, S. D., C. of C., Bill Wynn, Claude Nickels, and American Aviation Magazine.

• GORDON HARMER HELPS PRICE 1945 SCOTT CATALOGUE

The title page of the 102nd edition of Scott's Standard Postage Stamp Cata­logue, Volume I of which was recently re­leased carries for the first time the name of Gordon R. Harmer as assistant editor. This important addition to the Cata­logue' s editorial staff has just been an­nounced by Editors Hugh M. Clark and Theresa M. Clark.

Mr. Harmer, who is head of Harmer, Rooke & Co., the prominent New York auction firm, has helped chiefly in the pricing, and to some extent in revising listings. Most of his work QIJ. the 1946 Catalogue has been in the 19th Century Issues, and while he has paid particular attention to British Colonies, he has not neglected other fields. Wartime printing limitations curtailed his revision of list­ings somewhat this year, but he plans to go further with this task in subse­quent editions.

Mr. Harmer has just finished his 22nd year of professional philately. Before coming to New York a few years ago, he was joint managing director of Harmer, Rooke & Co., Ltd., the London auction­eers.

NOVEMBER~ 1945

MORE VARIETIES OF AIR LETTER SHEETS RECORDED

• Through the courtesy of Gearhart

Frantz of Drexel Hill, Pa., we are able to illustrate the new style Air Letter · Sheet as used by the Union of South Af­rica but overprinted for use in Bechuana­land. It will be noted that the miniature . stamp at top right is overprinted in Eng­lish while its counterpart immediately

. below is inscribed and overprinted in Afrikaans. This sheet also eXists over­printed for use in Basutoland and Swazi­land. .From the same source we have received samples of the old style South African letter sheet of ~e second type inscribed "Air Mail Letter Card" over­printed SWAZILAND, BECHUANA­LAND and BASUTOLAND. The first two are on forms bearing impressed stamps with labels printed in English while the last named is on a form bear­ing the label in Afrikaans, viz "SUID­AFRIKA." Although it is not known for certain it is assumed that all of these ex­ist in both types. Mr. Frantz also shows us a' copy of the form for Southern Rhodesia as illustrated on the front cover of our February, 1945 issue but on a creamy white paper of much better tex­tuie and appreciably thinner. There are also changes in the text.

Lt. Gordon H. C. Hanner has kindly sent us specimens of the airgraph, air letter and POW forms used in New­foundland. None of these bear impress­ed stamps. The former is filed without folding and obviously must be sent by

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Antonio Jose de Sucre

AP20

Unwmkd. PerJ.12

Issued March 3, 1945 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Antonio Jose de Sucre, G!BD.d Marshal of Ayacucho.

Engraved. Printed by the ·American Bank Note Co.

C.206-AP20 5c orange (100,000) s

C207- " lOc Violet (100,000) 6

C208- .. 20c greenish blaci (100,000) 12

C209- " 30c bright green (100,000) 18

C210- .. 40c olive bistre (50,000) 24

C211- " 45c black brown (50,000) 27

C212- .. 90c reddish brown (50,000) 54

C218- " lb deep red lilac (50,000) 60

C214- .. 1.20b black (15,000) 72

C.215-:- " 2byellow (15,000) 1.20

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PAA WARTIME JOB With the easing of security

restrictions and passenger prior­ities for Clipper passage, Pan American World Airways is now able to reveal the war­time job done by its Atlantic Division. ·

The departure of the Dixie Clipper for Europe May 15 was the first publicly announced de­parture since Pearl Harbor, and initiated northern route flights to Foynes, Eire, for the fourth successive summer since Pearl Harbor. This over-night route to Europe has been flown throughout the war -b ut with vital war passengers rather than the growing number of busi­ness men now flying to resume business operations on the Con­tinent. Symbolically, the Dixie has resumed its peacetime sil­ver, the first of the fleet to have the camouflage removed.

With the publication of Clip­per arrival and . departure times and the extension of priority passage to certain businesstnen, Pan, American's Atlantic · Div­ision also is able to reveal the war job it has done since Dec. 7~ 1941, when "Plan A" went

. into operation as a prearranged coded message was flashed to all Clippers within hall an hour of word of the attack on Pearl Harbor. This does not include similar activities by PAA's other divisions.

. This war job to date has in­cluded the following:

I. Clipper transportation for approximately 61,000 vital war passengers in flights . of more than 7,400,00 miles. In addi-

. tion, the Clippers carried 7 ,-000,000 pounds of mail-much of it V-mail, and nearly 2,000,-000 pounds of high-pnority cargo to Europe and Africa.

2. Flying converted Consol­idated Coronado .patrol bomb-

NOVEMBER, 1945

ers for the Naval Air Transport Service, the transatlantic divis­ion carried 4,000,000 pounds of Navy and · Army materiel, much of it necessary to the European invasion, bringing

· back wounded servicemen on return trips. ( Since the first of this year, a similar transport service for the Army's Air Transport Command has re­placed the NATS service, with . a fleet of Douglas Skymasters

· ( C-54s) being operated on the Casablanca run. Figures on this .operation are restricted. )

3. Provided the core of the Navy's Flight Engineer train­ing program with a P AA-oper-ated school at LaGuardia Field which when it closed its doors this . August will have trained 1,400 flight. mechanics for duty on the. Navy's Hying boats, in­cluding ~e giant 70-ton Mars.

4. Provided training courses in a hitherto secret weapon in the "War of the Atlantic,,-identification of Nazi subma-rines, ships and planes. This Recognition School trained pil­ots of unarmed commercial ships to detect, report and thus destroy the enemy. Details of the usefulness of the training and number of enemy ships or planes sent to. their doom have not been revealed.

5. Probably of most direct importance to the war were the 99 Special Missions which the Clippers conducted far from their accustomed routes for the armed services. In two years the Clippers flew 2,200,00 miles on such missions. The Dixie itseH carried out one of the most important missions by Hy­ing President Roosevelt to and from the historic Casablanca Conference in January, 1943.

Another epic was the' 36,700-mile, round-the-world Hight of

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Dr. L. Zamenhof

AP18

1945 Wmk.268 Perf.11

Lithographed.

Issued to commemorate the Esperanto Congress held in Rio de Janeiro, April 14-.22, 1945.

C61-AP18 . l.20cr dull brown 15

1945

-Wmk.268

Lithographed.

Baron of Rio Branco

AP20

Perf. ll

Issued Apn1 · 20, 1945 to commemorate tho centenary of the birth of Jose Maria da Silva Paranbos, Baron of Rio Branco.

C6.2-AP19 l.20cr gray brown 15

C63-AP20 5cr rose lilac 60

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ECUADOR

Symbol of the Red Cross AP29 .

Unwmkd. Per/. JZ Engraved. Printed by the American Banlt Note

Co.

Issued April 25, 1945 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the Intemational Red Cross.

C106-AP29 2s deep blue &:

Cl01-

Cl08-

Cl09-

1945

rose (15,000) 32 .. . 3s green &: rose (15,000) 48 .. 5s dark violet &: rose (15,000) ~

" 10s carmine rose &: rose (15,000) 1.60

CHILE

FOR DOMESTIC POSTAGE

Type of ~942-43

Unwmkd. Lithographed.

C7.2-AP15 20c copper brown 3

1945

COSTA RICA Type of 1943 ·

Unwmkd.

Per/.14

Per/.12. Engraved. Printed by the American Banlc Note

Co.

C8.2A-AP19 40~ carmine rose c2oe,ooe) 15

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the Anzac Clipper which car­ried it across the Indian Ocean on a still-secret mission. Num­berous times the Clippers car­ried war cargo to the Allies in the nick of time .. For instance, during the North African cam­paign in 1942 a ·rush shipment of ammunition was carried to Gener a 1 Montgomery's 8th Anny just before the battle of El Alamein, which marked the first major defeat of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Earlier, only days after Pearl Harbor, spare airplane parts and tracer ammunition were flown direct to India for trans­shipment on P AA's subsidiary China National Aviation Corp. to the American Volunteer Group, the "Fighting Tigers". As a result, 40 grounded P-40s were able to get into the air and in an action near Rangoon on Christmas Day surprised the J aps_, downing 26 planes .

• 17 DAILY CROSSINGS REPORTED BY PAN AMERICAN

The flight crews of Pan American World Airways cross­ed the oceans on a~ average of 17 times daily, flying 791,339,-000 passenger miles during 1944, the international airline's annual report to the stockhold­ers, just released, discloses.

In transporting a record vol­wne of men and materials to the various theatres of war, the Clippers flew the equivalent of 3,000 times around the world. More than 750,000 passengers­an increase of 20 per cent over the previous year-were carried by the flying Clippers during 1944.

In crossing the oceans 6,240 times in the year 1944, the Clippers flew · a total of 79,-

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818,502 plane miles, the annual report revealed. ·

The aggregate volume of air cargo handled by Pan American reached unprecedented propor­tions, the annual report disclos­ed. A total of 128,793,000 pounds were carried during the year. This included vital sup­plies carried over the jagged Himalayas, from India to be­sieged China, by the transports of the China ·National Aviation Corporation in which Pan Amer­ican is a partner with the Chi­nese government. CNAC trans­ports flew more than 10,000,000 miles under contract to the U. S. Anny in the India-Burma theater.

In all theaters of war, the Pan American flight crews fly­ing under contract to the armed services rounded out 86 million plane miles up· to January, 1945, the annual report revealed. They totaled 31,628,000 miles for the NavalAir Transport Service, 30,-183,000 for the Air · Transport Command, 18,151,000 for the Anny in the India-Burma thea­ter and over six million for oth­er government services. Pan American's Africa-Orient Di­vision, flying under contract to the Army, mainrn•~~ more than 1,600 flights monthly.

Commercial servb to 48 countries over the face of the globe was maintained, in addi­tion to war contract work, and at the end of 1944, over 80,500 of Pan-American's pre-war 98,-582 miles of routes were still in operation.

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HONDURAS

· C0rreo.~~ Stamps of 1937-39 surcharged in red

or green

J HABILITADO Acd. N2 798-1945

L 0 .01 1945 Unwmkd. Per/. 11, 12~ C144-AP15 le on 50c dark

brown (400,000) r: ~5-AP12 2c on 2c copper

red (300,000) ,

Cl46-AP14 Sc on 15c slate black (300,000)

C147-AP16 lOc on lOc orange ~rown (G} (50,000)

C148-API1 15c on 15c greenish blue (G} (100,000)

C149-API8 30c on 2lc gray (G} (10,000)

C150-AP20 40c on 40c dull violet (G} (100,000)

C151-AP21 11 on 46c dark gray brown (G} (20,000)

Cl52-AP23 21 on 66c black (G} (10,000)

PARAGUAY lliustrations of Cl44 and Cl46 in May Chronicle.

Ruins of Humaiti Church APSO

Marshal Francisco Lopez AP52

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Letters to the Editor

• August 13, 1945

Mr. L.B. Gatchell, 24 Brook Road, Bronxville 8, N. Y.

Dear Sir:

Looking through the. Sanabria Cata­logue there is something that has puzzled me for some time. It is the cataloguing of the 1938 issue of Venezuela. I sup­pose you know the as well as I do, but for your convenience they are given herewith:

San. # No. Issued 1945 1940 Price Price

107 15,000 $2.00' $ .25 108 30,000 2.00 1.50 109 10,000 1.00 .60 llO 10,000 1.00 .75 111 25,000 .35 .75 112 10,000 3.25 1.50 113 10,000 .20 1.75 114 8,000 3.00 2.00

Don't you think there is need for some correction in the new Airmail Cat­alogue?

Yours very truly,

Wm. von Tongeln

(Editor;s Note:-We confess our un­familiarity with this subject. No doubt there is a valid reason to support the present pricing and the changes made since 1940. We will be glad to print same for the benefit of all concerned jf someone will advise us of it.­LBG).

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services rendered by the Pan American Union continues to demonstrate a grow­ing interest in Latin America. After flve years of activity, the monthly volume of orders exceeds the total volume of the first two years.

During the course of the past several years the stocks of a number of issues have · been exhausted and others are rapidly dwindling. In 1940 fourteen Member Governments of the Pan Ameri­can Union issued stamps to commemorate the .50th year of its founding. Of this series, the stamps of but five countries are now available. The attractive five value air mail set of the Columbus Memorial series of the Dominicau Re­public will soon be withdrawn from sale.

Giving continued prominence to the splendid new National Palace, completed late in 1943, Guatemala has released a new 5 centavo red air mail stamp, now available at face through the Union's Philatelic Section. The stamps were re­leased in sheets of 30 subjects without plate numbers or marginal inscriptions.

Sr. Manuel E. Nanita, the Director

General de Communicaciones of the Dominican Republic designed the new emblem adopted by his Department which is featured on a series of regular issue stamps for ordinary, air mail and special delivery use. Eight new stamps have just been released; three for ordin­ary mail having a total face value of 73c, and four for air mail having a total face value of 57c and also a lOc Special De-

.· livery. It is understood that, as required,

. additional denominations will be added.

A substantial allotment of the new issues of the Dominican Republic were

· received at the Philatelic Section in Washington immediately on their release, where they are available at face, along

"with more than 200 other Latin Ameri­can stamps and a number of philatelic booklets. A full list will be transmitted on request accompanied with return post­age, to Philatelic Section, Washington, 6, D. C., Pan American "Onion.

NOVEMBER, 1945

KEHR REVEALS OUTSTANDING WORK OF STAMPS FOR WOUNDED COMMITTEE I

• More than 10,000 servicemen in 71

Anny and Navy hospitals throughout the United States now are collecting post­age stamps as a recreational therapy project under the auspices of the Amer­ican Red Cross, according to Ernest A. Kehr, national chairman of ST AMPS FOR THE WOUNDED, who addressed dele­gates and members of the five Ameri­can philatelic societies at the Essex House, Newark, N. J., on the first an· niversary of the founding of this volun• teer stamps collectors' service commit• tee.

"When our committee was formed at ow Milwaukee convention last year, only three hospitals were using stamp collecting as a small part of their re­habilitation programs. Within twelve months the benefits of · this hobby had been so well demonstrated that we have been invited to introduce it to six dozen hospitals so far," Kehr stated.

Postage stamps are solicited from col­lectors, dealers and business firms. These are made into packets, and with albums, catalogs and other accessories, are dis­tributed to bed-ridden patients to either renew a boyhood hobby or to introduce them to it. Medical officers of the Ann­ed Forces have reported that this avoca­tion is so absorbing that it has succeeded where many other forms of recreational therapy failed in taldng the minds of hospitalized servicemen from white ceil­ings and black futures.

Kehr reported that his committee had collected and distributed without charge to the men over 40,000,000 domestic and foreign stamps through regional com­mittees of Stamps for the W oonded in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Den­ver, San Francisco, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Miami, Sarasota, Atlanta, St. Louis, Bos­ton, Hartford, Buffalo, Trenton, Spring­field, Minneapolis, El Paso, Honolulu, and Portland. Mr. Kehr concludes:

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"Our initial year's efforts have· proved that stamp collectors can and will con­tribute worthwhile assistance to the men who have given so much towards our victory. \Ve now are prepared to con­tinue as a permanent organization as long as individuals and firms who have material will contribute it to our regional committees. or our national headquarters at 230 W. 41 St., New York 18, N. Y."

• Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue Supplement Will List Axis Issues

The wartime stamp issues of the Axis and Axis-Occupied Countries will be Jisted, without prices, in a booklet of perhaps 200 pages, which Scott Publi­cations, Inc., plans to publish as a supple­ment to the Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue.

The firm hopes to release this booklet in January, according to Hugh M. Clark, the Catalogue editor. It may be later, but it cannot be sooner, because there is not yet enough type, labor and paper available.

The booklet. will be put out as near cost as possible.

No "enemy issues" were listed in the 1946 Catalogue, as some collectors ex­pected, because when it went to the printer dealing in these stamps was still illegal.

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Killinger, E. W., 3 N. Hanover St., Carlisle, Pa. Ehrenhaft, Bruno B., 61 Broadway, R. 2110, New York 6, N. Y. Ebrecht, George M. C., 3104 Jennings St., Sioux City 18, Iowa. Hendrickson, Alfred A., 110 E. 22nd St., Erie, Pa. Breithaupt, A. W., 1210 Jackson St., Denver 6, Colo. Miller, Ben, 256-01 4lst Drive, Little Neck, L. I. N. Y. Cress, Ward E.,, 1209 Blaine Ave., Janesville, Wis. Maldaner, Henry, 826 Washington St., Evanston, Ill. Chapman, Robert L., 312-3rd St., N. W., Canton 2, Ohio. Owen, Paul K., 24 Commerce St., Newark 2, N. J.

NOVEMBER, 1945 sa NEW APPLICATIONS

Smith, Evans K., 45 East Banks, Chicago, Ill. Age 41. Editor. AM U20 UC PA EL CAM FAM lD By E. H. Wellman

Reichenthal, H .. , P. 0. Box 5173, Cleveland l, Ohio. Age 39 .. Dealer,

Scott, Miriam, 220 Radcliffe St., Bristol, Pa. Age 38. AM UC Hayes, William J., 3045 Huntington Ave., Omaha 11, Nebr.

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By R. L. Singley Adinolfi, Anthony De Majo, 26 Bvd. Fouad bt, Port Said, Egypt. Age 23. Philatelist.

AM AU EL PIX Airmail Literature Ex By C. W. Degler De Ganck, Jean, Bd de Smet de Naeyer, 39 Jette, (Bruxelles) Belgium. Age 50.

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NEW LIFE MEMBER 55-2819 Oscar Weinreb, P. 0. Box "B 182" Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, W. Indies.

RESIGNATIONS 2248 Orban, George V., 1961 6lst St., Brooklyn 4, N. Y. 2521 Lovejoy, H. Bill., 1912 Bolsover, Houston 5, Texas. 2699 Ray, LE., 8217 Euclid Ave., Cleveland 3, Ohio.

DEATHS REPORTED 990 Petty, Maurice S., 507 Quackenbos St. N. W., Washington 11, D. C.

2839 Morris, Ben L., Box 179, Bellaire, Ohio. 1715 Thias, Fred D. W., Barron, Wis.

CHANGES IN ADDRESS Brus, M.Mlc William J., Box 37, P. 0. N.A,S., Jacksonville, Fla. Creighton, Charles N., 1020 3rd St., Hermosa Beach, Calif. Powell, Lt. L. Dean, 10 E. 21st St., Baltimore 18, Md. Eissen, Alfred, 1409 Great Plain Ave., Needham 92, Mass. Hafner, William, 252 Locust Ave., Babylon, L. I., N. Y. Houser, S/Sgt. Roy F., 214 Bowe St., Tamaqua, Pa. Kessler, Don R., 823 Girod, New Orleans, La. Manning, H.B., 3026 Bagley Ave., Los Angeles 34, Calif.

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"Your Airlines" is a collection of 'Air­line Profiles' which ran in the Brooklyn Eagle over a period of four months. , They were written by Daniel Lionel, Brooklyn Eagle Air Transportation Di­rector and there is an· introduction by John F. Budd, Publisher of Air Transpor­tation Magazine and Chairman of the Aviation Section of the New York Board of Trade.

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ATTRACTIVE BICOLOR AIRMAIL EN· velopes, Strathmore rag bond, suitable for any air event. 100 for $1.00. Get a supply a ow and be prepared. P ioneer, Bolton Landing, N . Y. 184-5t•

ADVANCED COLLECT~R EXCHANGES or buys m int and used airmails, also cov­er s. Wants beside U. S., Europe and Colo­n ies, mint p referred. Fred S teinhardt, 521 Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Cal. 183-4t•

COVER OPP ORTUNITIES - Reasonable U .S.A ., Canada, P. I., "First Days" ; First F lights; 1925 to date; Additional Phila­telic Features; Clippers; Zeppelin's; Gli­ders; Rockets ; Wily Post Stratosphere; Little America ; " Auto-Gyro;" Pick-up; & . Highway P . 0 . Services; Maiden Voy­ages; Censored; Submarine, North Pole; with Special Frankings; Autographs. WANT LISTS solicited. Lists FREE. Horn, 32 Sterl.lnc Place, Brooklyn, N . Y.

185-8t

AIR MAIL FIELDS. 31 DIFFERENT AMF postmarks on air mail covers from 31 cities. '5.00. Page with illustrations and classification of cancellation types in­cluded. Perha m C. Nahl, 4004H "8th St., NW, Washington 16, D. C. 185-4t•

ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS - WILL ACCEPT best offer for any one or all of following covers : 1925 New York-Bermuda; 1925 New York-Porto Rico; 1928 Germany to U. S .; U. S . to Germany; 1929 Round-World Flight; 1931 Germany-Brazil-U.S.; 1931 Brazil to Germany. Also 1931 First Flight Newfoundland-Nova Scotia by Gypsy Moth Plane. Frank Walend, 236 Cambridge ct., Elyria , Ohio. 185-lt•

HA VE EARLY CAMs TO EXCHANGE for US covers 1847-1890. Henry Lacks, 1081 Midland, St. Louis, Mo. 187-5t•

A CHOICE ITEM FOR AUTOGRAPH COL­iector-To the Highest Bidder-Airmail cover and letter postmarked Los Angeles California January 12, 1929 from U. S. Army Air Service Refuelling Mission (cover not carried on flight ) Letter from CTlfW of QUESTION MARK expressing th :j.nks for interest in flight and SIGNED BY-Carl Spatz- then Major of U .S.A.A.C.

12 SPECIAL EVENTS COVERS ONLY $1.00-all prior to 1932-including Bremen Ship to Shore First Flight cataloging at $2.00 alone. 1933 BALBOA ITALIAN AIR CRUISE covers-Make me an offer for ALL or IN­DIVIDUALLY-First come first served. Two-New York-Rome Catalogue at $15.00 each; One-New York.Shoal Harbor (only 99 exist ) Catalogue at $15.00; One-­New York-Shediac (only 44 exist) Cata­logue at $25.00. William 0 . Garden, 323 Pearl St., Lancaster, Pa.

AAMS EXCHANGE ADS

NEED-FAM-22-3A AND 7. ALSO CRASH­es and Trans-Oceanic. Have F AMs, goV't. flights and foreign pioneer for exchange, G . " Bill" Kaufman, 1093 Gerard Ave., Bronx 52, N . Y. Ex-1M-2t

WOULD LIKE 'TO PURCHASE COM­plete airmail cover collection or any por­tion thereof. Want CAM, FAM, Trans­oceanic, Etc. H . M. Johnson, Box 747, Ardmore, Okla. Ex-185-lt

ALBANIA CI-7 USED, COSTA RICA C94-101 on cover and others to exchange for used airmails. G . H . Corbet, 6211 N . Tal­man Ave ., Chicago 45, Ill. Ex-185-lt

WANT FRANCE-C3-4 MINT OR USED Mexico C60-61 mint. Have Germany C42 on covers. Others. Rubin, 6509 Delmar Blvd., University City 5, Mo. Ex-185- lt

CUBA SCARCE ROCKET COVER IN EX­change for mint single set of Famous Americans and Card for F lages mint set. Rafael R . Garcia , Apartado 1291 Habana Cuba. Ex-185-lt

IT ALY AND ITALIAN COLONIES NEW and used air singles and sets exchanged for other airs. L t. T . F. Kent, 446 Cherokee Ave., Atlanta, Ga. Ex-185·lt

SWAP EARLY U .S. ON COVER AND h igh cat Br. Cal. for used airs. Elkin M . Adelson, 4349 Sheridan Ave., Miami Beach 40. ex 187-lt

COLLECTOR WANTS IN VERY FINE 0 . G . Airmails. Switzerland C27-34, Swed_ en C4, Senegal Cl7-25, Portugal C4, CB, ClO, Memel Cl8, Madasgar C22, C26, C27, Cameron Bl0-15. Max Shrage, 300 Central Park W ., N . Y. ex 187-lt

WILL EXCHANGE NEW ISSUE AIR­m ails for used airs. Also new issue ser­vice. Geo M. Hartmann, 845 Hueston St., Eliz. 3, N . J . ex 187_2t

URUGUAY C 9 ON COVER COSTA RICA COl-12-used and other used airs to ex­change for used airmails. G . H. Corbet, 5211 N. Talman Ave., Cicago 45, Ill.

ex 186-lt

Am LETTER FORMS AND OTHER AIR >tationery wanted Offer same and Trans­oceanic and other Fams. Richard Parke, North Conway, N . H . ex 118-lt

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