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NOVEMBER, 1950 Vol. XXll - No. 2

FIRSTFUGHT

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New United States Pioneer Flight Card­To Receive Catalogue Listing

1912 Flight At Hot Springs,

Arkansas Authenticated;

Second Card Discovered

~u1rost students of air mail would 1\1f I say that the history of the

early period had been pretty well cov­ered in the numerous catalogues and the voluminous articles which have been written. It, therefore, comes as a surprise to find that some thirty-eight years after the event itself it is necessary for our catalogues to chronicle a heretofore un­listed United States pioneer flight card!

Some weeks ago Bill Schneider of Rahway, N. J. sent us a view picture card mailed from Hot Springs, Ark., on March 13, 1912. The view section of the card shows a photograph of Aviator Jim­.mie Ward seated in one of the early planes of the period, whereas the reverse of the card, in addition to the regular postal cancellation of Hot Springs, Ark., bears the special cachet illustrated else­where in this article, applied in blue. The card is addressed in pencil to Sarah and Luther Ingram, c/ o Arthur Ingram, Bristol, Conn., and bears the following message:

"Dear Niece & Nephew: I send you a ca.rd by aerial mail. I am out at the meet of the flYing bird-men, seeing them go up in the flying machines. I wish you were here to see these men fly up into the air and sail around. You will see them in Bristol some day.

Your loving Uncle George"

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• As such a card has not been heretofore

chronicled in any catalogue, we immed­iately wrote Harry A. Truby and Erik Hildes-Heim two of the foremost ex­perts on U. S. Pioneer Flight covers to ascertain whether any information was extant regarding a flight from Hot Springs at this time and any postal his­tory in connection therewith.

Mr. Hildes-Heim promptly advised us that he is the possessor of a similar card having had same for a number of years. He states the card was first mentioned in a column conducted by the late H. G. Kingdom, father of George D. Kingdom, Past President of the American Air Mail Society. Mr.· Hildes-Heim further states that such a card was mentioned in an article published by him on December 23, 1939 entitled "Airpost Facts & Fan­cies" which ran in Stamps Magazine. Mr. Hildes-Heim kindly supplies the follow­ing quotation from that article:

"Another distinctive airmail cancel· lation, an~ a new variety of these prewar postmarks, was first reported in Linn's, Jan. 7, 1933. It was from Hot Springs, Ark. When I wrote the local postmaster, he denied such an event. However, I visited the owner of the ca.rd, Laurence J. Reyman, . then Mayor of Chaffee, Mo., and now man-

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Tl-IE AIRPOST J 0· u RNA L OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY

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

NOVEMBER, 1950 - VOL. XXII. NO. 2 - ISSUE NO. 247 25c PER COPY

World Roundup Of Airline Activities

• by ERNEST A. KEHR

K. L. M. Royal Dut.ch Airlines

Special flights were operated in Aug­ust to connect the United States and Eur­opean cities with Leipzig, Germany, for the famous fair . . . Over 5,000 tons of mail and cargo were carried during the first half of 1950 ... Arrangements have been made with EMtern Airlines to link the United States with Havana, Cuba.

American Airlines

Announcement was made that there was no appreciable increase in the amount of mail carried during the first half of 1950, over the same period in 1949.

Mid-Continent Airlines

Air mail tonnage for the first half of 1950 was 1,496 as compared with 1,211 in 1949 . . . September 26 was set as the date for inaugural of Sioux-City-Chicago and Rockford-Milwaukee routes.

Air France

R&.establishment of France-French 'West Indies service was made on July 27 . . . Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin and Nuremberg have been added to the Eur­opean routes . . . Service between Paris and Montreal is due to start October 2.

British Overseas Airways C9rp.

Service .with turboprop planes was in­augurated July 29, between London and Paris ... A non-stop, New York-London service was added to the trans-Atlantic operations on August 2.

United Air Lines

Sprin~field, Mass. was recently added to UAL s regular eastern route service.

American Overseas Airlines

First direct United States-Germany service was inaugurated on September

• 2, linking New York with Dusseldorf and Cologne.

Western Air Lines

A "grass roots" survey revealed that there is a definite need to offer many smaller western cities air service in con­nection with established routes . . . Ap­peals to the C. A. B. for additions will likely be made.

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• ager of a Louisville stamp store, a.nd bought it "as is". The card had been given him by a friend a.nd looked genuine to me. Some time later I was able to go to Hot Springs a.nd called at a local newspaper office where I was allowed to look through the old files with the help of the office boy. It was a dusty job a.nd the desired volume proved to be the provei'bial last one we laid our bands on after an hour's work, but we were then also rewarded with a contemporary report of the airmail fllr;hts."

Due to some oversight, this Pioneer Flight was not listed in Volume I of the

·American Air Mail Cata'logue of the 1947 edition but with the discovery of this ad­ditional card, of course, will be duly listed in a forthcoming supplement to that edition. The cover will likely be listed as # 16-A falling between the Sac­ramento, Calif. flight of Marcil. 2-3 and the Galveston, Texas flight of March 17, 1912. Mr. Hildes-Heim further advises us that there is at least one additional Pioneer cover in his collection which has not been chronicled and we hope to pub­lish an article from him at an early date giving information regarding it._

EDGAR MOHRMANN Hamburg, Germany

the leading postage stamps auctioneer of Germany will be in New York during the months of October and November, 1950 and will visit the following cities:

Philadelphia

Washington

Chicago

Cincinnati Cleveland

Detroit

Philatelists interested in making busness connections with us are urged to inform us of their wishes.

Beautifully illustrated auction-catalogues and the illustrated bulletin, "Atlantic-Post", with thousands of offers are published regtilarly.

Mr. Mohrmann, who is also an expert for the Europen States, the old German States, and German colonies, would be pleased to meet with interested collectors to discuss the advant­age!' of a connection with his firm.

EDGAR MOHRMANN during October and November, 1950 at

The 70 Park Ave. Hotel 70 Park Avenue

New York City, N. Y.

Hamburg 1, Germany Speersort 6

New issues reported this month presage a busy winter for air mail stamp collectors. In fact. there were so many iteins that this column was late in get­ting to the printer. A grand lot of new pictorial "permanent'' series are in pro­cess of issue. The usual lot of commems. is still with us. "But time's a wastin' " -

ARGENTINA

There will soon appear a 20c stamp to recall the 10 years the government has run the airways. .

AUSTRIA

Two values of a new permanent ser­ies have appeared. Released October 17th ~d valid on the 21st these two stamps show birds in flight. The 60g is violet blue and presents two Crows, while the 2S is blue gray and pictures five Laugh-

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M~ ALTON J. BLANK

1089 WINSTON ROAD, SOUTH EUCLID 21,0HIO

ing Gulls. They were designed by Hans Strohofer and engraved by Hubert Woy­ty. Further values, all featuring birds, will apear. We illustrate the two valµes already released.

BOLIVIA October 24th was United Nations

Day. Two airs appeared in La Paz to honor the occasion. A rather novel idea for a ·design was used. A naked globe with latitude and longitude lines indicat­ed thereon surmounted ·by a wreath con­taining the outlines of the continents of the world as in the U. N. symbol. One value is 3.60 Bs. red orange and the oth­er is 4. 70 Bs. chocolate. The stamps are the product of La Papelera S. A of La Paz. There were 500,000 issued.·

The 50c value of the LAB commemo­rative listed last month contains an in­teresting variety. The name of the printer has been omitted from the base of the design on stamps #91, 94-8, in the last ' row. The stamp we' listed under "Revert" last month is not in such a classification but is a commemorative air mail stamp.

CHILE The 50 pesos violet of the international

series appeared without watermark, Oc­. tober 24th. The design shows a plane and

symbolical radio waves.

COLOMBIA Two more values . bearing the large

block "L" have been added to the set noted some months back. They are the 50c red violet fortress design and the 1 peso _ olive and magenta, "Proclamation of lndepe~dence."

CUBA _ 1952 will see four airs issued for the

50th anniversary of the founding of the

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-stamps for mustratlon, courtesy, F. W. KESSLER

e New a~d Recent Airpost Stamp Issues

Republic of Cuba in 1902. It is planned to include a 5c and lOc for domestic service and an Sc and 25c for foreign use.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC We illustrate one value of the recently

released series featuring Hotels of this Island Republic.

ECUADOR A shortage has produced an emergen­

cy issue consisting of a .. 90" o_n the 1.3~ deep blue Riobamba Canal design, Scott s C-144. The stan:ip was issued October 24th. FRENCH MOROCCO

Last montli there was illustrated with­out description. two. semi-postals issued for the Social Work of the Army. The design presents Caracalla's Arch of Triumph. Values are lOf plus lOf black ·and 15f plus 15f green. · GUATEMALA

The Eureka Specialty Printillg Com­pany of Scra,nton, Pa., is responsible for

the four air mails which have just ap­peared. The set is indicative of the Pub­lic Health and Social Assistance in Guatemala. The 5c value is violet and red and pictures a nurse and patient; the 1 Oc brown and green shows an aerial view of the Nursing School; the 50c shows Roosevelt hospital from the air. First day of i~sue was September 9, 1950. The set is reported to exist in miniature sheet form but is reputed to be controll­ed by a syndicate. We illustrate one value.

HAITI More details on the UPU issue. The

overprint is done in red ink on C36, 39, and 41 o( the Capois-la-Mort issue. The . overprint reads: "U.P.U. 1874-1949" and the new value. One value is illus­trated elsewhere.

HUNGARY A nine value air set is rumored to be

in preparation. It will show aviation, in­dustry, transportation, and agriculture.

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AIRS OF THE MONTH (Continued from preceding page)

• JUGOSLAVIA

A year ago we mentioned a new ser­ies as being due. Now comes word that various landscapes and tourist attractions will be used as subject matter for the de­signs.

LEBANON The scene on the permanent series il­

lustrated last month is of a plane over the Chateau de Mer. Colors of the val­ues are: !Op brown, 15p green, 20p red, 25p blue, and 50p grey.

MEXICO Two more values carry out the scheme

of things Mexican in · their design. They are the 20c rose showing a Chiapas Mur­al and the 25c red-brown Michoacan masks. This makes six values that have appeared in the new permanent series.

PANAMA The design of the headquarters of the

Fire Department has been issued in a new color. This 50c blue stamp was re­leased October 80 and is the product of the American Banknote Company. It is illustrated elsewhere.

PARAGUAY

Seven values are expected to comprise the set issued for the Columbus Light­house that is being erected in the Domini­can Republic. They will be 20c, 30c, 40c, 50c, lG, 5G, and 10 Guaranties. The Roosevelt set consists of five stamps all in the same design. As illustrated, the stamps show the late president's portrait flanked by the flags of Paraguay and the U. S. encircled by a wreath. The words "In commemoration of the memory of Roosevelt" appear in Spanish under the portrait. The values and colors are: 20c orange, 80c black, 50c magenta, IG green, and 5G blue. All have the natural colors of red and blue in the flags. So far only one error has been reported; that of the missing blue in the flags on the 50c value, The series is the product of the Security Banknote Company of Phila­delphia.

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SPAIN A one peseta stamp is reported to have

been issued October 12 on the occasion of the Sixth Congress of the Postal Un­ion of Americas and Spain. More details next month.

The Postal Centenary set of four im­perforates is appearing in this country. There has been violent criticism of this issue, not only because of the high face valtie but because of the limited quanti­ties issued. The design, which we illus­trate, is so elaborately engraved that the subject, the reproduction of the 1850 Spanish stamp, seems lost in the scroll­work surrounding it.

SYRIA A provisional in the form of an over­

print reading 2.50 piastres has been is­sued. The basic stamp is the lOOp blue green, Scott Cl31. ·

URUGUAY Two airs are promised as part of a

U. P. U. set.

VENEZUELA The full set of the 1950 Census issue

is at hand. Colors are: 5c gray, lOc light green, 15c olive, 25c black, 80c orange, 50c ochre, 60c ultramarine, 90c rose, and I Bolivar purple.

One value, the IOc red brown, of the Miranda series has appeared. This set honors the 200th anniversary of the birth of this hero. The stamp, produced by the American Banknote Company is large in format and shows a reproduc­tion of Tovar's painting "The Signing of the Declaration of Independence July 5, 1811." The 5c, 15c, 30c and lB values are expected to be released shortly.

PLANE STAMPS

One value of the set of three issued by Hungary for the Second National Inventors Exhibition contains a plane, minute enough we'll grant - but there, -in the design. The stamp is the I flor­int blue showing the erection of a pre­fabricated factory with a plane over~ head. It appeared the 7th of October.

The Anti-tuberculosis issue of Spanish Morocco contains a 25c blue and red

NOVEMBER. 1950

stamp which pictures a plane over a san­itarium.

For the International Organization of Civil Aviation Turkey has released three stamps of distinct aeronautical flavor. This meeting was held in Istanbul and the set was issued October 18th. The 20 Kurus blue and green features the bat­like creation of a 16th century inventor, Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, floating down from a tower. A 40 kurus blue and brown shows a bi-plane in flight over the Taurus mountains. The 60 kurus is blue and mauve and shows a modern plane over Istanbul. These stamps are the product of Klishejilik ve Matbaajik A. S. in Istanbul. Quantities are 200,000 of the 20k and 120,000 of the 40k and 60k.

This month's cooperators are: George Blizil, Ludwig Horn, R. ]. Lyon, Juan Lestrel, Alfred Stem, Harry Allen, C. A. Phillips, Harry Frieburg, William Mc­Cloud, Edward Hinske, and Harry Car­ter.

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Dedication Covers .•. By WILLIAM T. WYNN

8544 Cloverlawn. Detroit 4, Mich.

• ((Q unny Rest Lodge Airport was ;:::)}> dedicated Sept. 16; covers were

flown into Palmerton, Pa., for cancella­tion. About 150 covers mailed with a black printed cachet. Fulton County airport is expected to be dedicated some­time after Oct. 15, covers to A.AMS mem­ber H. W. Reese, 542 Park Drive, Atlan­ta 6, Ga. Card notices were sent to all that have cards with your editor for such service on the above event. - Bradford, Pa., held dedication of its airport at the time of first flight Sept. 8, 1948. ~ Gog­ebic County airport was dedicated on July 9; over 1000 covers were mailed with two color printed cachet by local stamp club postmarked at Ironwood, Mich. - The Chamber of Commerce at Valparaiso, Ind. is still holding covers but the proposed dedication will not take place until spring. Buhl, Idaho held dedication · of its municipal airport on Sept. 17; 475 covers were mailed with sticker cachet. - Sanders Airport was dedicated Sept. 24; 300 covers were mailed with magenta map cachet by the Jr. C. of C. from Aberdeen, S. D. Han­ford, Calif. has not yet dedicated its air­port; C. of C. will hold covers. - Mun­icipal airport at Horton, Kans. was ded­icated Oct. 1; 306 covers with C. of C. cachet in magenta were treated. - Sutter County airport was dedicated Oct. 1; a cachet in the form of a peach was appli­ed to 1685 covers. The covers that were expected from nearby towns did not materialize. There was no dedication at Rockford, Ill., . Sept. 29.

1022 W. Ross Street. Lancaster, Pa.

• J ust as we predicted several mon- The Deparbnent provided an official

ths ago, the flights to Dussel- cachet for the flights from New York dorf, Germany were the swan song for and Boston, tpgether with their respec­American Overseas Airlines in so far as tive airfields, to Dusseldorf and Cologne, the collector is concerned, for on Mon- Germany on September 2, 1950. The day, September ;l5th, a check for $17,- cachets to Dusseldorf are quite similar 450,000 was passed by Pan American and depict Elector Johann Wilhelm II World Airways to American Overseas, with changed wording as to dispatch completing the sale which has been point. New York and Airfield and Boston pending for a long time. and Airfield applied the cachets in the

There was no interruption of service following respective colors: red, blue, to the public and the first American green and purple. The cachet to Cologne Overseas Flagship to land as a Pan . ( Koln) pictures three birds in flight with American Clipper was AOA's former siutable wording. In the same sequence flight 161 due into New York at 4:55 A. as before stated, the cachets were applied M. EST from Frankfort and Berlin. The in purple, green, blue and red. The New first AOA Flagship to take off as a Pan York Airfield has also been noted in blue. American Clipper was former AOA flight · The flight termin~ted at the port of 175 leaving Stockholm at 1 P. M. Stock- Dusseldorf which served both points. It holrn time, Tuesday, September 26 for is reliably reported that a dispatch is no New York. longer made to Cologne.

Apparently the first flight from Oslo, Pieces carried from New York and Air-Norway was on September 29, for a field and Boston and Airfield were as cover at hand bears a circular cachet follows: To busseldorf, 1226, 1056, reading, "Pan American World Airways 1019 and 1007. Pieces carried and cach­System of the Flying Clippers - First eted for Cologne in the same order were Flight, Oslo-New York." While this is a 1358, 1094, 1095 and 941. The pilot was desirable souvenir, it is not a first flight William H. Fish and the Co-Pilot John cover eligible for catalogue listing, for as S. Duckworth. we stated before, the Catalogue must A great deal of speculation and con­consider the services via FAM 24 and of fusion surrounded the return flight from AOA completed as of September 25, Dusseldorf-Cologne. Cologne did not 1950, the day the Airline was purchased make a dispatch and Dusseldorf, we learn by Pan American World Airways. Some dispatched only to New York. Even cov­collectors may dispute this decision but ers specifically addressed to England were the Catalogue to list one such cover were carried thru along with those ad­it would 'vind up having to list perhaps dressed to Boston. These covers bear a all the points now listed on F. A. M. 24 box-type cachet applied in red contain­plus no end of other covers missed. We ing the following wording, "FIRST feel this is the best solution to the con- FLIGHT American Overseas Airlines solidation for·no one wants to cover an DUSSELDORF - NEW YORK, Sep­entire route again, merely because the tember 1, 1950." Carrier of record has changed. These covers were dispatched correct-

NOVEMBER, 1950

ly but the flight necessitated a transfer at London and as a result they did not ar­rive in New York until the third (Idle­wild Airport). As this was Sunday and the following day was Labor Day and because the dispatch was not identified as a first flight, the covers did not re­ceive a backstamp. Cologne is no longer shown on schedules for this service.

AU previous schedules, maps and ref­erences which were formerly identified as F. A. M. 24 are now F. A. M. 18, so with the first F. A. M. Supplement which appears in The Airpost Journal, we can close the book on F. A. M .. 24.

The first new service under auspices of Pan American World Airways and via F. A. M. 18 appears to have been out of Philadelphia, Pa., on September 30 to Dusseldorf. Covers addressed to Pan American World Airways at Dusseldorf are postmarked .11:30 A. M. from the Post Office and 12 M. from the Airfield. These covers bear some German mark­ings but are not backstamped. We hope to have further information on them in the immediate future. Also at hand are covers from Boston addressed to Pan American World Airways at Stuttgart, Germany. Said covers are postmarked October 2, 1950 and front dated .October 5, at Stuttgart. Perhaps we can throw some light upon this dispatch at a later date.

The last information we had prior to press time for this issue was to the effect that Rome and Paris inaugurals by P. A. A. were scheduled for October 21 and 26. As these covers are past due, it is ob­vious the flight has again ·been postpon­ed.

Service to London and Frankfort by T. W. A. was inaugurated September 30, 1950 from New York and October 5, 1950 from Boston. The only data we have at this time is that from the N. Y. Airfield from which point 372 covers were dis­patched to London and 408 to Frankfort. The flight departed at 3:30 P. M. The pilot was Howard Worth and the co­pilot Edward Reid.

On October 3, 1950, T .. W. A. flight 665 arrived at Idlewild Airport with the first covers from Frankfort and London.

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HONOLULU, HAWAII • An Hawaiian Beach Scene Forms

:the Motif for F. A. M. 30 Cachet

Both dispatches bear postmarks of Oc­to ber 2 and were backstamped at New York on the third. Covers from London bear a mimeographed cachet reading, "T. W. A., Inaugural Flight, London to New York, October 2, 1950 - First Flight Cover. Covers we have seen from Frankfort bear a typed cachet reading, "Ih. 1 TWA Flug: Frankfort-New York 2, Oktober 1950". Dispatches from Lon.;. don, as could be expected, are not back­stamped. However .John J. Smith shows us a cover adressed to London which bears a "Found in G.P.O. without Con­tents" mark and postmark of Oct. 2, 1950. We might add that covers addressed to London or Boston were again flown through and backstamped at New York.

Frankfort and London are unique in that they are the only points which have dispatched by all three U. S. Atlantic Overseas Airlines, A. 0. A., P. A. A. and now T. W. A. Covers we have seen from Boston are postmarked October 5, 1950, 2 P. M. at both the G. P. 0. and Airfield. Those to Frankfort are backstamped Oc­tober 7th. Obviously a number of covers will come to light from time to time on the above mentioned services and we hope to have them cleared up with nec­essary data at the earliest possible mom­ent in order that they may be included with the next new F. A. M. Supplement to appear in The Airpost Journal. Your

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F. A. M. NOTES (Continued from preceding pace)

• co-operation is welcomed in . the event you have any corrections, additions or presently unlisted covers which you feel should be included. PLEASE do not wait until the Supplement is printed and then write that such and such a cover· was left out as so many persons are now doing in regards to the Catalogue. Please bear in mind the fact that no. one gets in on everything and this column is written by an individual collector. In many cases other collectors frequently receive mater­ial which the Editors have not received. Items must be seen by the Editors before they can be listed.

Mr. William J. Carey, General Super­intendent of New York issued a statement relative to the schedules effective at this time. In brief it states that no philatelic treatment has been provided for points that were on F. A. M. 24, etc., but that souvenir covers addressed to countries concerned and received by the G. P. 0. or A. M. F. could be,forwarded by such flights. There is no objection to the dis­patch of such mail by first flights to the point in question. However, covers had to be addressed to the respective counc tries and not to individuals in the U. S. A. Also that no special philatelic dispatch­es could be made and no mail was to be backstamped.

Just how closely this order was ob­served we do not know at this writing. We do know some mail was returned to the senders that was addressed for ulti­mate deli the U. S. A.; especially

for New York, G. P. 0.

The flight from Philadelphia and Air­field to London and Frankfort by T. W. A. was scheduled for November 1, 1950. No philatelic services were provided for dispatches to London, because of the lack of co-operation . on the part of the British postal authorities.

United Airlines inaugurated service from Los Angeles and Airmail Field to

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Honolulu, Hawaii on October 9, 1950. The return flight was made on October 10th. Los Angeles and Airfield dispatches are backstamped the 9th while those from Hawaii are backstamped the 11th at Los Angeles. The official cachet is il­lustrated elsewhere.

Through the courtesy of oux good friend, Mr. A. 0. Willoughby, Assistant General Superintendent Air Mail Ser-

, vice, located at San Francisco, we learn that Los Angeles dispatched 4,982 pieces while the Airfield sent but 2,842 pieces. Honolulu dispatched 20,731 pieces, 6,092 of which were collectors items. The west­bound pilot was Harry Huking and from Honolulu east the pilots were Fred Ang­stadt and Marion Boling.

From time to time I hope to answer some question relative to certain covers which seem to confuse collectors the most. These problems seem to come up now that the catalogue has been releas­ed. First, let me point out that any cov­er from Midway or Wake or any cover TO Midway or Wake cannot be consid­ered as an F. A. M. cover. In most cases these items were posted or cancelled by the Marines or P.A. A. personnel at those points and entered our F. A. M. servic­es at the nearest point of regular postal dispatch. There is no Post Office on either island so an official dispatch is not possible. We have in our own collection any number of covers with Service can­cellations posted all over the Pacific but none qualify as F. A. M.'s until they get into the mails at regular port of call on our F. A. M. system.

Other items of the same nature are covers cancelled at the Marine Office at Port au Prince, Haiti or Managua, Nic­aragua. Long ago it was popular to dis­patch covers from these points. How­ever in all cases the Marines or any oth­er Service mail was sent in a sealed dis­patch to the nearest U. S. point and then worked from there. For this reason most such covers bear the cachets as applied at Miami, etc. They are definitely not Haiti or Nicaragua dispatches. Instead

NOVEMBER, 1950

they are actually Miami dispatches. We would also like to mention the fact

that no 1950 flights are yet catalogued. It is even possible some late 1949 ones are missing. These will be included with the coming supplements as time and space permits. I hope the above answers several questions about which many of our readers inquired.

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• Poste Aerienne Francaise by Henri True of the Academy of Philately, Volume I, North Africa, 4x9 inch­es, paper bound, 140 pages, pro­fusely illustrated. Published by R. Pasquier, 6 Rue des Petits-Hotels, Paris X, France. Price not stated.

We have received this valuable Vol­wne, the first of a series to cover the en­tire field of the airposts of France. The present volwne is divided into three parts and includes detail listings for Al­geria, French Morocco and Tunis. Not only are the principal aeronautical events and flights listed, and in many cases il­lustrated, but the section devoted to each of the aforementioned countries has a complete history of postal aviation of these countries. Many illustrations of cachets and other postal markings make the work invaluable to the user and,. while the text is in French, these gener­ous illustrations make it very easy even for one who does not read French to fol­low the listings. We note in particular a fine discourse on the "R.F." overprints on United States stamps, a subject which has caused considerable controversy and confusion in this country. We also note a complete listing of the aero postal stationery of Morocco and Tunis. The author states that he is unaware of any postal stationery having been issued by Algiers. While the price is not stated, this information can no doubt be had from the publisher. The author, disting­uished member of the American Air Mail Society, has indeed done himself proud with this first Volume of what appears to be a most ambitious undertaking. ·

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Bidders - 28 Bids - 326

PRICES REALIZED 2 - $6.25 46 - $1.60 83 - $1.10 110 - $2.10 5 - 5.00 47 - 1.25 84 - 1.20 111 - 2.35 7 - 3.60 48 - 2.00 86 - 1.25 112 - 3.50 8 - 5.10 51 - 2.75 87 - .75 113 - 4.50 9 - 1.00 52 - 2.15 88 - 1.25 114 - 2.75

11 - 4.00 53 - 2.00 89 - 1.00 115 - 2.00 14 - 5.75 54 - 5.00 90 - 1.10 116 - 3.25 15 - 6.00 55 - 2.25 91 - 1.10 117 - 4.00 16 - 1.85 57 - 1.10 92 - 1.00 118 - 6.75 17 - 12.00 59 - 1.25 93 - 2.25 119 - 2.25 24 - 3.50 60 - 1.00 94 - 1.00 120 - 2.55 25 - 6.00 61 - .75 95 - 1.05 121 - 3.10 27 - 4.00 62 - .75 96 - 1.05 122 - 3.10 28 - 10.15 63 - .60 97 - 1.25 123 - 1.00 30 - 3.00 64 - 1.00 98 - 1.25 124 - .75 32 - 2.00 65 - 1.25 99 - .90 128 - 1.00 34 - 1.25 66 - 1.40 100- .90 135 - 1.10 36 - 1.85 69 - 1.50 101- 1.05 136 - .85 37 - 1.50 70 - 3.05 102- 1.25 137 - 2.05 38 - 2.50 71 - 2.15 104- 1.50 138 - 1.10 40 - 1.25 75 - 1.60 105- 2.50 142 - .50 42 - 2.00 78 - 1.10 106- 8.80 143 - .50 43 - 2.00 79 - 1.10 107- 2.75 14 - 1.65 81 - 1.30 108- 2.50

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Mail Catalogue are now being distribut­ed and turn out to be very handsome productions indeed. The De Luxe edition is bound in two-toned fabrikoid consist­ing of light gray side panels and deep blue backbones stamped and edged in silver. The Sponsors' Edition is bound in deep red genuine Morocco gold stamped and with gilt edges. Each of the two volumes, which comprise the set, have a specially printed insert bearing the name of the recipient and the autographs of the principal editors. These are very handsome library pieces. Several addi­tional sets of each of the special editions ,were prepared and should any member desire to acquire one of these at $25 per set for the De Luxe editions or $100 per set for the Sponsors'. edition they should communicate promptly with Editor Gatchell. By so doing, members will be adding a handsome set to their philatelic libraries and will be substantially assist­ing the Publication Fund.·

" " " In connection with the Publication

Fund, we are glad to report that the do­nation lots, which were sold by F. W. Kessler at the Convention auction, real­ized $385.85. This sum was far in excess of the expectations and was achieved principally through the generosity of the Auctioneer and various members who repeatedly bid in certain lots which were offered several times over. Those who participated in this procedure included Auctioneer Kessler, Louise Davis Hoff­man, Adm. Jesse G. Johnson, Bernard Davis, George J. Gruen, Ellery Denison, and others. As a consequence a group of twelve of the donated lots realized over $100 in themselves. The Publication

Committee is truly grateful to these pub­lic spirited members who took this way to evidence their firm support.

While on the subject of publications we would like to mention that the Jack Knight Air Mail Society is pushing plans to produce at an early date the first volume of its ambitious project -an Air Label Catalogue of the World. We understand that text and data for the first section has now been completed and when sufficient funds are forthcoming to insure the success of the project, this first volume will be immediately put to press. As in the case of the American Air Mail Catalogue, such an undertaking must have a certain amount of under­writing and all of those who are interest­ed in supporting it in a tang ble way, either through donations or subscriptions to the finished work, are urged to com­municate promptly with Earl H. Well­man, Brookfield, Illinoi.~, who is the Editor-in-Chief of the Catalogue.

" " " Harry L. Lindquist, President of the

National Federation of Stamp Clubs and Publisher of the popular Stamps Maga­zine, reminds us that during March of next year an International Exhibition will be held in Cairo, Egypt. It is hoped that the important collections of the world, including a number of air mail collec­tions, may be assembled in Cairo at that time. We understand that Mr. Lindquist is the Commissioner for the United States and it is that a go~dly representa­tion of air mail exhibits be sent by mem­bers of the American Air Mail Society. Full details are not yet available but those who might like to participate in this International show are asked to com-

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municate with the Editor who will fur- VOLUME II NOW READY nish full information when available.

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Speaking of shows, an important ex-1'Jbition will be staged right here in the Uni~ed States at the National. Philatelic Museum in Philadelphia, commencing November 18, at which time the first all Liberia exhibition of arts, handicrafts, products and postage stamps will be held under the direction of Franklin R. Bruns, Jr., Philatelic Adviser and Agent of Liberia. For this show a lavishly il­lustrated 160-page book devoted tO Li­beria will be issued, available at $2.00 per copy.

Exhibits have been secured from the Peabody Museum in Cambridge,_ Mass., the Museum of Natural History in New York, the Ladislas Segy Galleries in New Yark, the Firestone Rubber Co., the Far-

, rell Steamship Lines, Liberia Mining Co. and the University Museum. The show will include personally owned art and handicrafts belonging to Bernard DaVis, Director of the Museum, Dr. Price, and Mr. Bruns, and Miss Louise Ricks. Many prominent philatelists will show their collections, · including Col. Hans Lager­loef, Honorary Chairman; Judge Albert Maris, Chairman; Philip H. Ward, Jr.; Mrs. Louise D. Hoffman; Herman Her~, Jr.; Bernard Davis; William Wilson and Franklin R. Bruns, Jr. The Exhibition will continue through January 6, 1951.

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An exhibition of air mails of the world will take place in New York City on December 6 when members of Aero Philatelists, Inc. and the American Air Mail Society will exhibit at the Collectors Club, New York," with Edwin E. Elkins, a member of both organizations, acting as Chairman. The address of the Club is 22 East 35th Street and all local mem­bers are invited.

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The three-day auction of United States postage stamps conducted by H. R.

.Harmer, Inc. of 32 East 57th Street, New York on November 6-7-8 compris­ing the second part · of the William L. Moody III collection again resulted in levels well above both the owner's and auctioneer's .expectations.

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This portion of the collection co~­prised the issues from 1869 to 1933 m­cluding Air Post, Special Delivery, Par­cel Post and ' Officials and against the auctioneer's pre-sale estimate of $66,589 brought $80,063, bringing the grand total for the two portions already sold to $171,394.

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One of the best edited stamp publica­tions we know is the house publication of the Mercury Stamp Company known as "Mercury Stamp Journal". This well printed brochure is issued about four times each year and is edited by the talented Edwin Mueller, one of the principals of the Mercury Stamp Com­pany. In our opinion, Mr. Mueller has perhaps the best grasp of serious phila­tely of those who today aspire to write about it. No doubt, a sample copy can be had from the publishers at 522 5th Avenue, New York 18, N. Y. ·

NOTES BY THE WAY

The many friends of Perham C. Nahl will be sorry to hear that he has been in the hospital for a spell but is now out and again back at work. Perry is one of our really careful students of domestic flight covers and we are all glad to ·see him back in harness again ... We have re­ceived notice from the Aeronautical

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POSTAL STATIONERY NOTES

BY·IAN C.MORGAN 1455 Union Avenue, Montreal 2, P. 0.

• BELGIUM

Sam Hantman advises us that a 7 Fr. air letter sheet is in process for this country.

CANADA

Despite obvious and apparent differ­ences between the new style air letter sheets first circulated from Ottawa and those later put in use at Montreal, we are officially advised by the Canadian Post Office Department that there is but one contractor producing these sheets and as far as is known they are all pro­duced from the same plate. The Post Office Department states that the ap­parent differences may result from ex­pansion of the type faces employed due to unequal impression which is fully pos­sible and inherent in the printing process

· employed. \Ve are endeavoring to con­tact the contractor to secure further and first-hand information in regard to this matter. In the meantime, we should like to· correct the statement made last mon­th that the Montreal type sheet does not have the words ''To Open Cut Here" on the right-hand flap. The specimen which we had in hand at the time of this obser­vation was a· ·used example and it so happened that in sealing the fold came down the precise center of the words in question and in opening the printing was completely destroyed, giving the impress­ion that there had never been any words on the flap.

DENMARK Several months ago we mentioned that

the composite 40 .ore sheet with an im­printed 10 ore stamp added to make the 50 ore rate might also exist on the type

1 sheet as well as the type 2 sheet upon which originally noted. Both Richard L. Singley and Sam Hantman now show us the type 1 sheet which readers will re­call is easiest identified by reference to a small 1 to the left of the triangle found at bottom left of the front of the sheet. Mr. Singley also advises us that a defini­tive 50 ore sheet is in preparation; how­ever, there will be no eo ore sheet as was. erroneousl?' reported to be in prep­aration some time ago.

GREAT BRITAIN

We have previously mentioned that the current type air letter sheet on the blue paper normally bears watermarks containing either the letters "B" or "C" within the watermark and that more re­cently these sheets have been appearing with no watermark at all. Member F. Milliard of Liverpool now advises us that sheets also exist with the standard water­mark consisting of text and castle with no letter below the castle.

HONG KONG

Long rumored to be on order, the Hong Kong air letter sheet has now ap­peared on the new blue paper water­marked "Imperial Air Mail" and castle with letter "B" underneath. This is. the same paper as used for the current Great Britain air letter sheet. The stamp, as usual is printed in dark orange and the inscription at top left is in the narrow setting peculiar to Great Britain and cer­tain .of the Colonies. As heretofore with Hong Kong sheets, the words "Hong Kong" appear in block letters at the top of the sheet between the inscription and the impressed stamp.

NOVEMBER, 1950

INDIA

W. Dennis Way, writing in the Nov­ember 4th issue of Western Stamp Col­lector chronicles a new air letter sheet for this country, released on October 5th. We have not as yet seen this sheet but will report on it just as soon as a speci-

. men has been inspected.

PAKISTAN

A revised version of the 6 anna air let­ter sheet has been received from this country through the courtesy of Richard L. Singley. The overlay is now dark green ori gray, the crescent and stars in the impressed stamp now face to the left and the words "KaracW Airport" have been added over the picture of the building shown thereon. The address lines are now colorless and there are oth­er minor differences in the sheet. Sam Hantman also advises us of this new sheet and states that according to infor-

. mation received by him a 3 anna sheet for inland use and a 12 anna one for use to the United Kingdom are in prepara­tion.

PORTUGAL

Our alert correspondent Sam Hant­man advises us that it is rumored this country will issue two air letter sheets for itself and each of its Colonies in the near future. This information has not been confirmed from other sources.

SOUTHERN RHODESIA

Richard L. Singley was the first to show us the latest emission from this country co~sisting of a 6d air letter sheet similar to the sheet presently listed as No. 3 LS. However, the return address on the back of the sheet reads parallel with the long edge of the form rather than at right angles to it as previously. The new sheet is also on paper water­marked "Kent Vale-B-Parchment" in three lines.

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New C. A. M. Service To Be Inaugurated This Month·

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lrhe Post Office Department an­nounced on October 30 that on

or about November 22, 1950, air mail ser­vice will be inaugurated on route AM-107 between the terminal points, ·st. Louis, Missouri, and East S. Louis, Ill­inois, the intermediate points Cape Gir­ardeau, Missouri, and Cairo, Illinois; be­yond Cairo, Illinois, the intermediate points Paducah, Kentucky, Dyersburg, Tennessee, Jackson, Tennessee, to the terminal point Memphis, Tennessee; and beyond Cairo, Illinois, the intermediate points Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and Jon­esboro, Arkansas, to the terminal point Memphis, Tennessee.

Service at Poplar Bluff, Missouri, will not be inaugurated at this time. Approp­riate announcement will be made when service in inaugurat~d at this point. No philatelic covers should be sent to the postmaster at Poplar Bluff until such time as formal announcement is made of inauguration of service at this point.

Special cachets will be provided for St. Louis, Missouri; Air Mail Field, St. Louis, Missouri, East S. Louis, Illinois, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Cairo, Illin­ois, Paducah, Kentucky, Dyersburg, Tennessee, Jackson, Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, Air Mail Field, Memphis, Tennessee, and Jonesboro, Arkansas; and the usual treatment of philatelic mail will be authorized.

First flight air mail covers sent to the postmasters at the above named offices and to the District Superintendent, Post­al Transportation Service, District 8, St. Louis,. Missouri, for the dispatch from the Air Mail Field, St. Louis, Missouri, and the District Superintendent, Postal Transportation Service, District 3, Mem­phis, Tennessee, for the dispatch from the Air Mail Field, Memphis, Tennessee, must be prepaid at the appropriat"e air

mail postage rate.

A. A. M. S. Chapter News •

FLORENCE LAMPORT KLEINERT News of A. A. M. S. Chapters should be

sent direct to Mrs. Kleinert at 213 Virginia Avenue, Fullerton, Pa.

• ~u1reetings, dinners and special '1 ''" J stamp shows constituted the

Chapter activities this month. New officers for the Cleveland Air

Mail Society, Chapter No. 3, were elect­ed at the September 19th meeting. The 1950-51 officers are as follows: Otto Novak, President; Gerhard Hansen, Vice President; Mrs. G. ·H. Hansen, Secretary and Clarence E. Carlson, Treasurer.

Alton J. Blank, Assistant Editor of The Airpost Journal, 1089 Winston Road, South Euclid 21, Ohio, sends news of this Chapter's October 17th meeting. The members enjoyed a. real old fashioned Swap-Fest.

Irving D. Wolf, Acting Sectretary, sends information about the activities of the Philadelphia Air Mail Society, Chap­ter No. 6. William Rees exhibited U. P. U. Stamps at the October 11th meeting, held at the home of Robert L. Jones, 702 W. Venango Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

A buffet dinner was held at the home of M. 0. Warns, Past President of the American Air Mail Society, on the ocas­sion of the meeting of Milwaukee Air Mail Society, Chapter No. 17, on Octo­ber 4th. C. W. Degler, Secretary, gave a resume of the 1950 American Philatelic Society Convention held in Washington in September. The important events of the 1950 American Air Mail Society Con­vention were discussed by Herbert Eg­gert.

Captain Charles J. Wood, President of the Dayton-Wright Air Mail Society, Chapter No. 18, reports on this group's October meeting.

A special speaker, Lewis Eugene Thompson, Artist and Historian, showed his oil portraits of "First in Aviation." He is a member of The Historical Associat­es of the Institute of Aeronautical Scien­ces. This meeting was held in conjunc­tion with the United Hobby Clubs of Dayton, in order that the public might

hear this excellent speaker - a fine idea to publicize the air mail hobby.

The 1950 "Stampex", sponsored by the Essex Stamp Club, Chapter No. 25, was held at the Military Park Hotel, Newark, N. J., from October 27th to· 29th.

There were 300 frames of 20th Cent­ury material. Colonel Hans Lagerloef donated the Grand A ward. Other troph­ies were given by John A. Fox, Stephen G. Rich. Ignatz Reiner, Jack Pomerantz, Halsey Stamp Exchange, Donald E. Gill­more arid Mortimer Neinken.

The Essex Stamp Cfob is an honorary member of the Association of Essex. Philatelic Societies of Great Britain. Six­teen display sheets of British postal is­sues and thirty-two sheets of Georgian and Edwardian issues were sent from Great Britain as a tribute to the Britiish Association's late President, J. B. Sey­mour, F. R. P. S. of London

Notes of interest: Florence Palma, American Air Mail Society member No. 3424, 420 W. 12lst Street, New York 27, N. Y., is Secretary of the Maximum Card Society of America. Members interested in maximum cards are invited to join this new society.

· Please continue to send your Chapter News.

• KING LITERATURE SALE

POSTPONED TO DECEMBER 12-13

• Sylvester Colby, Inc., 505 Fifth Ave-nue, New York 17, announces that due to the tremendous task of transporting over 200 cases of books and periodicals forming the W. R. King Library, there has been an unavoidable delay in cata­loging and preparing the material for Public Auction. Mr. Colby announces that the dates of this Auction are now fxed for December 12, 13, 1950. These dates have been selected to insure the proper distribution of the catalog in the row unusually slow mails. If you have rot requested a copy of the catalog, do so at once, since we understand the sup­ply of catalogs will be limited.

PIONEER NO. 2

Cal Rodgers and the

Vin Fiz Flyer •

THE GREAT HEARST TROPHY RACE

• by THOMAS J. O'SULLIVAN

- FINAL INSTALLMENT -

• Rodgers did not win the Hearst prize

of $50,000, but he did not lose money on the trip. He had gotten Armour and Co. interested in advertising, by his trip, a soft drink they manufactured. This was a grape concoction called, euphoniously enough, Vin Fiz. His plane was called the Vin Fiz Flyer and the name was prominently painted on the underneath side of the lower wing in large letters. Before he started from Sheepshead Bay, Miss Amelia Swift of Memphis, Tenn., had christened the plane by breaking a bottle of Vin Fiz on the front stabilizer. (Fowler had his plane christened ·with a bottle of water dipped from the Pacific but evidently the magic did not work for him. ) His hangar car also carried the Vin Fiz name prominently. He was paid by Armour and Co. all expenses for the trip except repairs to the plane plus $5 a mile for the trip from New York to

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· Fort Worth and $4 a mile from Fort Worth to Pasadena. Then his financial managers saw to it that every effort was made to collect some kind of money at each stop. For instance, his take off at Sheepshead Bay was made from in­side the enclosure of the race track. Ad­missions were charged .to see his start. Two thousand people paid to get in and hampered his start for an hour or so by blocking the field. This admission fee was also used en route. Then there were purses to be picked up on the way. At Middletown the businessmen had offered Ward $200 to make a stop there on his trip and presumably Rodgers had an

equal attraction there and at other places. Before October 10, 1911 and after their start each competitor had filed a long description of each day's flight or their plans for the next day's flight with The New York American and there is not much doubt they were paid for their immortal literary work or that of their ghost writers. After October 10, 1911, these personal stories were not printed by Hearst, but as Rodgers got close to Pasadena, The New York Times began to realize the historical importance of tl1e flight, even if a competitor had in­stigated it, and published his stories as Hearst formerly had done. The story of his trip into Pasadena on November 5, 1911 is printed in full, as recounted in the Times in the York article. Fin­ally Rodgers inaugurated his Aerial Post and began carrying mail towards the end of his trip.

Both Fowler and Ward carried letters, apparently out of the mail, on their trips. Fowler had a letter from Brigadier General Daniel D. Brush, Commanding· the Department of California to Major General Frederick D. Grant, command­ing the Department of the East. Ward likewise carried a letter for the reverse direction. He had one from Major Gen­eral Grant for the commander of the military post at Los Angeles. Ovington, of course, was the First Aeroplane Mail Carrier of the United States, having ac­quired the title at the Garden City air meet where he was sworn in as such by W. W. Dickson, Post Offic Inspector in Charge, on September 23, 1911, and

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CAL RODGERS -(Continued from preceding page)

• where he carried tlje mail each day it was flown at the meet. He had so im­pressed Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock by his work at this meet that, before the conclusion of the meet, on Saturday, September 30, 1911, Hitch-. cock issued an order, establishing a trans­continental mail route, ntimbered 607,-001, authorizing the Postmaster at New York to dispatch mails by way of Chic­ago, Illinois, to Los · A.ngeles, by aero­plane service, to be carried by Ovington as special messenger. This was the first numbered pioneer route. It was also the longest pioneer route ever laid out. Ov­ington's plane was to carry the sign "U. S. Mail." Apparently Hitchcock had every expectation that Ovington would complete the trip. As described above, Ovington never took off on that trip and in fact never even reached his starting point. It would be expected therefore that no mail was carried by him. How­ever in a letter to The Airpost Journal in December, 1929, Ovington said:

"Yes, I was going on the transcon­tinental flight. The Queen Airplane Company of New York, made two cop­ies of my French Bleriot monoplane, and the Hendee Mfg. Co., of Spring­field, the motorcycle manufacturers, made two copies of my Gnome rotary motor of fifty horse-power.

But knowing nothing about airplane design, the Queen engineers 'imp:fflv­~d' the Bleriot by adding weight and throwing it out of balance, until the ships hardly got off the ground.

I even had a special train, with steam up, at Grand Central station, waiting until I started for Los Angeles from my hangar at Garden City (Nas­sau Boulevard), Long Island.

I got up, to be sure, but the engine got hotter and hotter until I made a forced landing in a cow pasture and ended the attempt.

I don't know what happened to the airmail I carried, or started to carry, on this flight. Was so disgusted l did­n't care then!'

No traces of the mail he mentions have ever been noted.

Rodgers carried mail west out of New York. An article in the New York Times on October 9, 1911 described his arrival in Chicago. It went on to say:

"Aside from his flight in the contest Rodgers is demonstrating the possibil­ity of carrying mail by aeroplane. As

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a proof he delivere-d lett.ers to ·E. B. Merritt from J. Ogden Armour, and also letters to his brother Lieut. .Jobn R. Rodgers, u. s. N. and Frank M.. Whitey of Neenah, Wis., at present in Chicago. In his mail bag, Rodgers has letters from Major General Frederick Dent Grant to the Commander of the Department of the Pacific, from the Commanding Officer of the Atlantic fleet to Rear Admiral Thomas of the Pacific squadron, and from Postmj\_ster General Hiachcock for the Chiilalfl) Postmaster. He was intrusted by sev­eral Chicagoans with postcards and letters addressed to Fort Worth, Hous­ton, Dallas, and El Paso, Texas.''

He also carried a letter from Mayor Gaynor of New York for the Mayor of Los Angeles.

Apparently after the Hearst air derby ended on October 10, 1911, Rodgers de­cided to carry mail the rest of the way on his trip. 'There is no definite proof when he decided to do this but the back page of a pamphlet issued by him at the time reads:

RODGERS' AERIAL POST

By c. P. Rodgers, Postmistress Postcards delivered to me at the

special train will be carried l>Y my husband's airplane to his next stopping place for 2S cents. There they will be stamped by me "Carried by Rodgers' Airplane 'Vin Fiz' from ......... . ........ to .... . . ......... . on October , 1911 and delivered to the local postmaster. who will send them to the person address­ed. A card. addressed and stamped sent to me care of the Plaza Hotel, Chica!l'o, with 25 cents will be forwarded to '!let given a ride In the airplane and post­ed as described. In this way it will be possible for anyone to send a postcard to himself or his friend part of its route at least in an airplane.''

It may be noted that this pamphlet gives an October 1911 date. This was when Rodgers was near or past Chicago. Also the pamphlet says the mail would be forwarded from Chicago. Hence it is believed that after Rodgers gave up hope of winning the Hearst prize, he decided to carry mail to augment his incom_e. However there is no mention of this fea­ture of his flight in the contemporary newspaper accounts. Nor do the cards seen which apparently were carried by Rodgers have the legend on them which the pamphlet said they would carry.

This idea might have been picked up after the Garden City Meet where 43,247 pieces of mail were carried and showed that the public was really interested in this mail service. Whenever Rodgers, or

Interesting Cover Shows War Front Lack Of Stamps

•

• Cover Mailed by then Comdr. Jesse G. Johnson, USN. from U.S. Navy Vessel Whose Stock of Postage Stamps had been Exhausted; Postage Due

Was Collected on Arrival.

his managers, decided to carry mail, a stamp was printed and used for this air mail. It is an extreme rarity. It is a rec­tangular stamp, grey in color, with the legend "25 CENTS 25" at the top and bottom and the words "RODGERS AERIAL POST" and "VIN FIZ FL YER" inclosing a picture of his plane in an oval in the middle of the stamp. Mail carried by Rodgers is known posbnarked at Dallas, October 19, Imperial Junction, November 4, and Pasa~ena, November 8. · This mail is very rare. An extremely interesting description of the · finding in an ash barrel of one of the cards carried ~ by Rodgers is contained in the March 1930 issue of the Air Mail CollectOT. Rodgers could not have carried many of these letters, regardless of whether he lashed a sack on the wing beside him or carried ~ few in his vest pocket. They are deservedly rare to commemorate a decidedly unique flight in the history 'of Pioneers.

-THE END -

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Many Innovations In New Scott 1951 Catalogue

• "B mong the reviSions which the col­l"\.\. lector will find in Scott's newly

· published 1951 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue, Volume I, are 352 number changes, 3 deletions and a reduction of 12 major· numbers to minors. Also, he will find thousands of price changes, which are especially numerous in sec­tions like the airmails of Salvador, Uru­guay and Venezuela, report the publish­ers, Scott Publications, Inc.

This is the 107th edition of the Cata­logue which began in 1867 as a one­page pricelist for John Walter Sco:1=· For generations it has been the essential handbook for all serious American col­lectors, and for many abroad.

The minor numbers for imperforate "varieties" of Cuba Nos. 324-331, 344-345, Cl8-C21, CEl and ES have been deleted and "Imperf." ·has been added over these issues beside the perforation. This treatment is being used by the cata­logue editors in cases where the price of the imperforate stamps is the same as that of the perforate dones.

The Uruguay albatross airmail set of 1928 has jumped from $40.45 to $65.75. The Pegasus series of 1929-43 (Nos. C27-C60A) has been raised from $156.90 mint to $172.45, and from . $140.95 used to $178.80.

The 1918 airmails show no price changes. Two prices have been lowered in the Graf Zeppelin issue: the 65c used; from $18 to $17.50, and the $2.60 mint from $65 to $62.50.

Two provisional stamped airmail en­velopes of 1946 show remarkable jumps. No. UClO (Die Bl of the "Revalued 5c") has gone from 15 cents mint and 10 cents used to 60 cents each way. And No. UCll (Die B2) has leaped from the same prices to $1 each way.

With a strenuous effort to save space, the catalogue publishers have doubled up illustrations, two to the column wid-

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th, and have combined date, perforation and watermark in a single line. The re­sult is that in spite of the addition of hundreds of new listings, the new 1951 Volume I Catalogue has only 870 pages. The 1950 Volume I had 878 pages.

• BLUM COLLECTION RICH IN ZEPPELIN SHEETS

• A collection of 19th and 20th century

U. S., all in complete sheets, will make up the December 5th sale at the Harmer, Rooke auction gallery, 560 Fifth Avenue, New York 19, N. Y. This collection was formed by the late Ralph H. Blum of Beverly Hills, Calif.

A set of sheets of the three 1930 Zep­pelin stamps, cataloguing $6,675, will form one lot in the Blum sale. Other sheets in this collection include three of the 50c Zeppelin, the Louisiana Purchase issue, Panama-Pacific lOc in both colors, and a great many others. A Catalogue can be had by addressing the above Auc­tioneers.

• RELEASE TOTALS FOR Be ENVELOPE FIRST DAY SALE

• At the first day sale of the new 6c air

mail envelope held at Philadelphia, .Pa., in conjunction \v:ith the Convention of _ the American Air' Mail Society, on Sep­tember 22, 1950, there were 7 4,006 cov­ers cancelled and 134,417 envelopes sold.

POSTMAN'S KNOCK The world's largest dealer with the

. world's largest stock of air mail stationery.

Correspondence invited - Want Lists solicited <we must buy too - so

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Supplements '!o The American Air Mail Catalogue 1947-.1950 Edition

• Supplements to this Catalogue will appear regularly in THE AIRPOST JOURNAL. Users possessing additional information for listings or correc­tions are asked to communicate with the appropriate Section Chairman. A list of such Chairmen will be found at page 600 of Volume One and at page 624 of Volume Two.

The Catalogue is aavilable from most Philatelic dealers or from THE AMERICAN AIR MAIL CATALOGUE, Albion, Penn'a at $4 per volume, plus 27 c postage East of Chicago, 38c West of Chicago, 50c foreign for each volume.

- Twenty-Eighth Supplement •

UNITED STATES CONTRACT AIR MAIL ROUJES

• Al R MAIL RO.UTE NO. 74

• DENVER - SALT LAKE CITY

May 10. 1947

Carrier: Challenger Airlines Company

• DENVER-SALT LAKE CITY

IV-U

This route was inagurated in an easterly direction on May 10, 1947. Although uniavorable weather delayed the western flight for three days, some westbound covers received May 10 markings. Official cachets were authorized at all points. An unofficial cachet was applied to many coven: at Kemmerer, instead of the official one.

Type 74 (Continued on next page)

64 THE AIRPOST J'OURNAL

AMERICAN AIR MAIL CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENTS-Cont.

74Nl

74S2

74W2

74E3 74W3 74E4 74W4 74E5 74W5 74E6 74W6 74E7

Cachet-Type 74

Pilot-Albert R. Hall, Jr.

Denver-(black)-Hall ( 1504 pieces) f. Airfield-( blue) ( 731 pieces)

Cheyenne-(magenta)-'-Hall ( 975 pieces) f. Airfield-( green) ( 735 pieces)

Cheyenne-(magenta)-Hall ( 277 pieces) f. Airfield-( green) ( 680 pieces)

Laramie-(black)-Hall ( 832 pieces) Laramie-(blaek)-Hall ( 346 pieces) Rawlins--(black)-Hall ( 621 pieces) Rawlins-(black)-Hall ( 462 pieces) Rock Springs--(green)-Hall (1242 pieces) Rock Springs-(green)-Hall ( 348 pieces) Kemmerer--(blue)-Hall ( 925 pieces) Kemmerer-(blue )-Hall ( 371 pieces) Salt Lake City-(green)-Hall ( 1324 pieces)

f. Airfield-(blue)-Hall ( 1388 pieces)

BILLINGS TO SALT LAKE CITY LEG INAUGURATED

June 10, 1947

.25

.25

.25

.25

.50

.65

.25 .45 .25 .30 .25 .45 .25 .45 .25 .25

One month after its inauguration, A. "M. 74 was extended to give service from Billings, Mont., thrQugh Rock gprings, Wyo. to Salt Lake City, Utah. As the original plans called for the first flight on June 5, the Powell post office cancelled half its cov­ers prematurely; the rest were postmarked June 10. Due to poor conditions at the Wor­land airfield, first service took place on June 16, 1947. In addition, Lander changed post­mark times midway through the cancelling process. Although first flights previously had taken place between Salt Lake City and Rock Spirngs on the A. M. 74 inauguration, official cachets were provided at all points.

Cachet-Type 74

Pilot-Albert R. Hall, ;Jr., Floyd H. Ririe, Joseph A. Swan.

7488 Billings-( purple )-Hall ( 2000 pieces) .25 f. Airfield-( magenta 1 (1787 pieces) .25

74N9 J,ovell-(purple)-Hall ( 810 pieces) .25 7489 Lovell-(purple)-Hall ( 771 pieces) .25 74Nl0 Powell-(blue )-Hall (1944 pieces) .25

74810 Powell-(blue)-Hall ( 500 pieces) .25 a. (purple) 1.00

74N11 Cody-(black)-Hall (1378 pieces) .25 74811 Cody-(black)-Hall ( 512 pieces) .35 74N12 Greybull-(black)-Hall (1700 pieces) .25 74812 Greybull-(black)-Hall ( 400 pieces) .40 74Nl3 Worland-(red)-Hall ( 1259 pieces) .25 74813 Worland-(red)-Hall ( 517 pieces) .30 74N14 Riverton-(purple)-Hall ( 1807 pieces) .25 748W14 Rlverton-(purple)-Hall ( 518 pieces) .35 74N15 Lander-(red)-Hall ( 822 pieces) .25 74SW15 Lander-(red)-Hall ( 905 pieces) .25 74NE16 Rock Springs--(magenta)-Hall (1496 pieces) .25 74Wl6 Rock Springs-(magenta)-Hall ( 391 pieees) .90 74E17 Kemmerer-(black)-Ririe ( 798 pieces) .25 74W17 Kemmerer-(black)-Swan ( 296 pieces) .50 74E18 Salt Lake City-(black)-Hall (1770 pieces) .25

f. Airfield-( magenta) ~2061 pieces) .25

NOVEMBER. 1950 65

AMERICAN AIR MAIL CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENTS-Cont. INAUGURATION OF SEGMENT BETWEEN RAWLINS AND

RIVERTON-LANDER, WYOMING

July 10, 1947

In order to complete scheduled service from Billings, Mont. to Denver, Colo.

the segment between Rawlins and Riverton-Lander was first flown on July 10, 1947. No

official cachet was supplied for these flights.

Pilots-Sam Grande, Myron W. Reynolds

74NW19 Rawlins-(no cachet)-Reynolds

74SE20 Riverton-(no cachet)-Grande

74SE21 Lander-(no cachet)-Grande

ADDITION OF GREELEY, COLORADO August 1, 1947

170 pieces)

( 360 pieces).

( 281 pieces)

1.50

.45

1.00

Greeley, Colo. was added to Route 74 between Denver, Colo., and Cheyenne, Wyo., on August 1, 1948. Covers for the Billings leg were postmarked 7:30 AM. Those routed for Salt Lake City and Rock Springs were carried on a later flight and received

a 3 P. M. cancellation. Southbound covers all received an 11 A. M. postmark. An offiical

green cachet was used, supplemented in some cases by an unofficial cachet.

74N22

74S22

Cachet-Type 74

Pilots-G. S. Keller, W. A. McCrystal, Myron W. Reynolds

Greeley-(green)-Keller, Reynolds

Greeley-(green)-McCrystal

ADDITION OF VERNAL, UTAH

July 1, 1949

(3863 pieces)

( 921 pieces)

.25

.25

Effective the above date, Vernal, Utah was made a stop on AM-74 between Rock

Springs and Salt Lake City. A revised version of the official map type cachet was ap­

plied in green. Northbound covers received a 7 :OO A. M. cancellation and westbound covers were cancelled either 11:00 A. M. or 12 Noon.

Cachet-Type 74

Pilots-Harry Mitchell, Nicholson

74N23 Vernal-(green)-Nicholson 74W23 Vernal-(green)-Mitchell

• Al R MAIL ROUTE NO. 82

• LUFKIN, TEXAS ADDED

August 1, 1948

(2102 pieces) .25 ( 713 pieces) .25

Effective the above date, Lufkin, Texas was made a. stop on this route between Palestine and Beaumont. An official cachet, showing a map of Texas and the AM-82 routing, similar to those used on previous inaugurals, was used ..

8l!N31 82S31

Cachet-Type 82 Pilots-William G. Moore, Dick N. Richards

Lufkin-(magenta)-Richards Lufkin-( magenta)-Moore

(Continued on next page)

( 847 pieces) (1330 pieces)

.25

.25

66 THE AIRPOST .JOURNAL

AMERICAN AIR MAIL CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENTS-Cont.

ADDITION OF UVALDE, TEXAS

November 10, 1948

Uvalde, Texas, receiving service for the first time, was added to AM-82 between Eagle Pass and San Antonio, Texas. The Post Office applied the standard map type cachet in green.

82E32 82W32

Cachet-Type 82 Pilots-M. L. Jensen, T. K. Lee

Uvalde-(green)-Lee Uvalde-( green)--.T ensen

BEEVILLE, TEXAS ADDED

July 23, 1949

( 703 pieces) (4233 pieces)

.25

.25

On July 23rd Beeville was made a stop on the San Antonio-Houston segment of AM-82. An official map type cachet, revised to show the addition of Beeville, was pro­vided.

82W33 82E33

Cachet-Type 82

Pilot-L. B. Simmons

Beeville-(black)-Simmons Beeville-(black)-Simmons

ADDITION OF COLEMAN, TEXAS

August 16, 1949

( 1391 pieces) ( 399 pieces)

.25

.40

Effective the above date, Coleman was added between San Angelo and 'Brown­wood. One pouch of first flight covers, due for dispatch on the westbound flight to San Angelo, was inadvertently left off the plane by airline personnel, and was re-labeled to Ft. Worth and dispatched on the eastbound flight departing 21 minutes later, therefore, accounting for the relatively small number of westbound covers. An official map type cachet was applied. ,

82W34

82E34

Cachet-Type 82

Piolts-Earl B. Archer, A. J. High

Coleman-(blue)-Archer

Coleman-(blue)-High

( 289 pieces)

(1792 pieces)

ADDITION OF CRYSTAL CITY (CARRiiZO SPRINGS)

November 1, 1949

.50

.25

Crystal City and Carrizo Springs, Texas (both served through the Dimmitt County Airport) were added between Eagle Pass and Laredo on November 1, 1949. Car­rizo Springs was bracketed with Crystal City on very short notice and no official cachet was provided. An official map type cachet was provided for Crystal City with an insert showing "Popeye" and spinach. I~ is reported that more spinach is shipped from this area than from any other its size in the World.

E2N35 82835 82N36 82836

Cachet-Type 82

Pilots-S. G. Sims, Andy Williamson

Crystal City-(green)-Williamson Crystal City-(green)-Sims Carrizo Springs-(no cachet)-vVilliamson Carrizo Springs-(no cachet)-Sims

(3288 pieces) ( 391 pieces) ( 607 pieces) ( 316 pieces)

.25 .40 .25 .50

NOVEMBER, 1950 67

AMERICAN AIR MAIL CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENT-Cont.

u. S. FOREIGN AIR MAIL

CONTRACT ROUTES

• XII-A

FOREIGN AIR MAIL ROUTE NO. 34

• EXTENStON TO ASUNCION, PARAGUAY

March 6, 1950

On the above date Braniff International Airways extended its service :from La Paz, Bolivia to Aauncion, Paraguay. The type F34a cachet was again brought into use but with the wording and the line of flight depicted on the map appropriately changed to conform with the new services. The inaugural flight plane ran into bad weather and had to land at Pisco, the alternate air­nort for Lim:i, Peru. Because of this delay, the plane missed connections at Lima and the flight to Asuncion departed before the Houston mail arrived. As a result, CQVers from La Paz or Lima are backstamped March 8, while those from Houston and Balboa are backstamped March 15. Company prepared envelopes exist for all points and in many cases are not cacheted but do bear appropriate postal markings.

l-'fdMER VUELO DIRECTO

PAR/\GUAY --· U. S. A. ASUNCION - LA PA-2 - LIMA

GUAYhQUIL - Pt~NAMA HAVANA ·HOUSTON

VIA BRANIFF

Type 34d

Cachets-Houston and Airfield, Type F34a; inscribed as to destination and containing the national flag of Paraguay; Asuncion, Type F34d.

Pilots-Houston-Balboa: N. W. Sell.mayer; Balboa-Pisco, C. D. Wallrath;

Lima-Asuncion, Paul R. Morton; Asuncion-Lima, Paul R. Morton; Lima-Bal­boa, W. A. Stephens; Balboa-Houston, Don L. Hurst. F34-15 Houston-Asuncion, Mar. 6-15, (magenta) (3500 picees) .50 .F34-15F Houston Airfield-Asuncion, Mar. 6-15, (blue) (2031 pieces) .50 F34-16 Balboa-Asuncion, Mar. 6-15, (black) (*) 1.50 F34-17 Lima-Asuncion, Mar. 6-8, (no cachet) 2.00 F34-18 La Paz-Asuncion, Mar. 6-8, (no cachet) 2.50

(*) Some covers were postmarked from Balboa Airfield. (**) A total of 1083 pieces were received at Houston by the first Northbound flight.

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The Advance Bulletin is sent reg­ularly by the manager only to those members who are in good standing and provide a supply of self-addressed regulation Government Postal Cards.

Each member .is entitled to two 25-word Exchange Notices per year in the Official Publication, without charge. Address direct to the publication office at Albion, Penn'a.

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SECRETARY'S REPORT •

NEW MEMBERS 3661 Zimmerman, Ben, 615 Darien-Way, San Francisco 27, Calif. 3662 Schaal, Carl G., P. 0. Box 391, De Leon Springs, Fla. 3663 Harris, William F., 951 Englewood Road, Cleveland 21, Ohio. 3664 Tuteur, John, 2950 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland 6, Ohio. 3665 Hoffrrmn, M. Charles, 115 Central Park West, New York 23, N. Y.

NOVEMBER. 1950 69

NEW MEMBERS-(cont.) 3666 Domanski, Jr., Vincent, 4545 N. Carlisle St., Philadelphia 40. Pa. 3667 Buten, Harry M., 246 N. Bowman Ave., Merion, Penna.

NEW APPLICATIONS Lendzioszek, Edward L., 12 Hampton Terrace, Easthampton, Mass. Age 29. Textile

Fin. By Wm. T. Wynn, Jr. Bla.gbro, Walter J., 309 East High St., Bound Brook, N. J. Age 41. Sup't. AM U20

UC HC DC ID Seals of the World (T. B., etc.) By J. J. Smith. De Long, Arden B., 607 So. 5th St., Columbus 6, Ohio. Age 53. Janitor. AM AU AS

SC U20 UC HC PB EL FF CAM FAM RP CC OF DC Z CF lD EX By J. J. Smith.

Hernon, William S., 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y. By Bernard Davis. Casey, L. A., Rice Hotel, Houston, Texas. Age 64. Realtor By C. W. Degler Jarnick, Jerry C., Almond, Wis. Age 17. Student. U20 PC CAM FAM Z ID

HPO Covers EX By Grace Conrath Brenner, Herman M., 153 Keap St., Brooklyn 11, N. Y. Age 49. Salesman. AM UC

FF CAM FAM OF DC ID EX By Grace Conrath Masters, Robert C., 1509 Oakland Ave., Falls Church, Va. Age 42. Bank Supervision.

By C. W. Degler Hastings, Dr. Eva R., 1015 Equitable Bldg., Des Moines 9, Iowa. Age 50. Dentist.

lD By J. J. Smith Meyer, Dr. K. F., U. of C. Medical Centre, San Francisco 22, Calif. Age 66: Director

Research. By Grace Conrath Pistiner, Irving, 27 Chatfield St., Springdale, Conn. Age 22. Printer. PC HC FF

GF CAM FAM RP OF DC Z ID EX Bv Grace Conrath Scheninger, Lorne A., 57-10 84th St., Elmhurst, N. Y. Age 45. Speclal Agent. AM

AU UC FF CAM FAM DC ID HPO 1st trip covers EX By Wm. T. Wynn, Jr. Carroll, John A., 8 West 105th St., New York 25, N. Y. Age 48. P. 0. Clerk. AM AU

U20 UC HC FF GF CAM FAM OF DC CF lD By J. R. Paisley Shelor, Eugene L., P. 0. Box 181, Collinsville, Va. Age 32. Plumber. UC FF

CAM FAM CF lD EX By J. J. Smith Barbiera, Hugo S., 1812 Bay Ridge Parkway, Brooklyn 4, N. Y. Age 28. Insurance.

AM AC U20 UC ID By C. W. Degler

DEATHS REPORTED 2512 Brossman, Herman, 1555 Odell St., New York City.

CHANGES IN ADDRESS Ainsworth, Lawrence, 1088 Pershing Ave., San Antonio 9, Texas. Avvampato, Charles J., P. 0. Box 442, Dayton, Ohio.

Ellis, Lt. Carl E., 508th Sog. Sv. Co. ( Opn) A. P. 0. 503, c/ o Posbnast~r, San Fran-cisco, Calif.

Gordon, John S, 318 Highland Road, Ithaca, N. Y.

Holbrook, Robert R., 1205 Spruce Ave., Wannamassa, N. J. Kaufmann, Gnhardt, 223 New Jersey Ave., Bergenfield, N. J.

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CHANGES IN ADDRESS-(cont.) Kornfeind, Sgt. John F., Hdqs. 437th M&S Group-437th Troop Carrier Wing (M)

Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter, SO. Car. \fanson, R. E., P. 0. Box 668, Springfield, Ore. Molnar, Charies J., 1246 Summit Drive, Cleveland 24, Ohio. Murch, USN, Lt. Comdr. R. W., 1307 Poplar St., Annapolis, Md. Rose, George C., 606 So. West St., Anaheim, Calif. Rowe, Basil L., 550 Geary St., San Francisco, Calif. Sparks, Bloyce F., 11817 So. Harding, Blue Island, Ill. Vicker, William, 215 No. Long Ave., Chicago 44, Ill. Waite, Stanley H., 224 Beech St., Holyoke, Mass.

RANDOM NOTES -(Continued from page 53)

• Library Service of 117 W. 48th. Street, New York 19, N. Y. that on Thursday, December 14, at the Swann Auction Galleries, 146 E. 56th Street, New York, they will conduct the first auction .of aeronautical books ever to be held in the United States. Numerous rare, scarce, and unique editions, many of them of interest to students of aeronautics, will be offered at that time. Two handsome catalogues are being produced and will be sent to any American Air Mail Society member upon receipt of $1.00 which will be credited against any purchase which may be made at the auction.

And, so to bed .

• COMPLETE SHEETS OF AIR

MAIL ST AMPS TO BE SOLD

• A set of complete sheets of 100 of

the three 1918 U. S. airmail stamps, which have a face value of $46, were sold to three bidders for a total of $940 at the auction of the third portion of the Oscar A. Schenck collection, held by Hanner, Rooke & Co., 560 Fifth Avenue, New York, on Oct. 17-20.

The 6c orange sheet brought $160; the 16c green sheet, $480, and the 24c bicolor, $300.

AIRMAIL SERVICE TO

KOREA IS RESUMED

• The Post Office Department announc­

ed on November 6 that effective im­mediately air. mail service, limited to or­dinary unregistered letters, post cards, and air letter sheets, will be resumed to the Republic of Korea.

The Department further said air par­cel post services and all service by sur­face means remain suspended pending availablity of shipping facilities for the movement of such mail.

All mail service to Korea was suspend­ed at the outbreak of the present hostili­ties.

STATEMENT

Of the ownership, management, etc., of the Airpost Journal, published month­ly at Albion, Penn'a, re ired by the Act of Congress of A 1912.

Editor-L. B. chell, 6 The Fairway, Upper Montclair, N. J.

Business Manager - Grace Conrath, Albion, Pa.

owner-The American Air Mail Socie­ty, Grace Conrat,h Albion, Pa., president; Claude W. Degler, 2114 North 49th Street, Milwaukee, Wisc., secretary; John J. Smith, Ferndale and Emerson Streets, Philadelphia, Pa., treasurer.

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

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Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of October, 1950.

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(My commission expires January 27, 1953.)

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OFFER $200.00 VALUE, GOOD AIR.POST Covers. Who will exchange precision camera? Want Kine Exacta, or similar value. Describe fully. A. M. Hard, Box 548, R. 3, Escondido, Calif. Ex247-2t

FOUR THOUSAND FIRST FLIGHT COV­ERS to swap for my wants or plate num­bers or Buroprints. George Chapman, 883 Euclid Ave., El Centro, Calif. Ex247-lt

AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS AIRMEN TO exchange. Need souvenir-historical air covers, governmentals, autographs, etc. Let's trade exchange lists. Glenn Kerfoot, Otisville, N. Y. Ex-lt

HA VE USED AIRS TO SW AP FOR OTH­ER used airs. Samuel Stein, 105 Cortelyou Rd., Brooklyn 18, N. Y. Ex-lt

EXCHANGE PLATE BLOCKS FOR Foreign First Flight and First Day covers. Send list first. Robert Corby, Box 83 Dover, N. J. Ex-lt

FFC, AIRPORT DEDICATIONS; EX-CHANGE 75c catalog your want list for 12c Face Commemorative or Airmail Plate Blocks; Dollar catalog my choice G. Austed, 220 Orizaba, San Francisco. ·

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AAMS EXCHANGE DEPARTMERT B'O'Y - SELL - WA.HT LISTS

TRANS-OCEAN AIRPLANE MAIL FROM flo~, attempted or intended flights. Bill KrinsN ky, 250 E. 96th Street,_ Brooklyn 12,

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PROVINCIAL AND LOCAL ISSUES OF qermany 1945-46, for your mint or used airmails. Wm. K. Simon, 101 Midland Ave., Fair Lawn, N. J". Ex:-lt

MINT AIR LETTER SHEETS IN EX­CHANGE for used airmails. Please write. Sam S. Beck, 3300 Horton, Ferndale 20, Mich. Ex-lt

KOREA C2 - FIRST DAY COVER. GEN­UINE. I service them at Seoul. Will ex­change for 110 Raleigh coupons. Lt. T. F. Kent, QMTTS, Fort Lee, Va. Ex·lt

CANADIAN FIRST FLIGHT COVERS wanted. wm buy or excha"nge. Have sev­eral hundred different. Gordon Waldie 1 Cluny Avenue, Toronto, Canada. EX-lt

HA VE AIR MAil.. STAMPS, COVERS, Rooseveltiana, Foreign First Days, etc. What do you have to offer in exchange? Herman Kleinert, 213 Virginia, Fullerton, Pa. Ex-1

BEAUTIFUL FIRST DAY COVERS -Have a chance to add some fine items to your collection. Contact Paul Kalnozols Box 1541, San Diego 12, Calif. Ex247-at

TRANSATL; ZEPPELIN - HELICOPTER - PIONEERS - Please send want list or request for offers. L. Lemense, Water­hoenlaan 9, Antwerp, Belgiwn. Ex247·2t

KOREA C2 - ON FLOWN COVER. GEN­UINE. I sent them from SeouL Will ex­change for 99 Raleigh coupons. Lt. T. F. Kent, QMTTS, Fort Lee, Virginia. Ex-lt

WANTED - NEAT CLEAN CAM COV­ERS #84-1 to· 84-42, iriclusive. Buy or ex­change. ChaS. G. Riess, P. O. Box 11, Al­bany 1, N. Y. Ex-lt

EAGERLY WANTED EXCHANGE OF lST and _special flights of all the world; also special postmarks of exhibitions, congress­es, etc. R. Tocila, Linnaeuskade 57, hs, Amsterdam-0., Holland. Ex-lt

ADVANCED COLLECTOR OF AIRS OF Italy, Italian Colonies and San Marino, ex­change basis Sanabria. Registered mail. Sebastiao Amaral, Caixa Postal 367 Belo Horizonte, Brazil. EX244-4t

TRACTS DROPPED BY PLANE BY Allies and Germans 1914-18 and 1939-45. Naval. covers and last war P. o. W. covers. Different overprint R. F. on U. S. s~p on <;overs, employed by Navy in Africa. Accident covers. Red -Cross cards and. air mail labels of ep.tire . world. Dnutry Kandaourow, .27 Rue' des :Martyrs Paris 9 eme, France. · Ex245-at

CRASH COVER #29.13 POSTMARKED and cacheted at St. Thomas to trade for $2.50 plate numbers or n George Chap­man, 883 Euclid Ave., El .Centro, Calif.

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