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THE WILL ROGERS STAMPS OF NICARAGUA recently issued. Set of five airmail stamps showing that great American philosopher and humanitarian who helped the people of that country in time of stress. Complete set, unused, five stamps ...... Nl88 .IO Same set in block of four .•.....••...... •..•. Nl88a .40 All five stamps on an attractive First Day Cover, postmarked and flown on the day of issue ...... 25 ......

THE FAMOUS YELLOW BIRD COVER carried on the first French Trans-Atlantic Flight. Cancelled "Old Orchard, Maine, June 1929", Santander, Spain, June 14th" and "Le Bourget Air Field, Paris, June 16th." Only 263 covers were carried on this flight. Just a very few left in stock. All copies in our possession are autographed by all three pilots aboard the plane-­ Assolant, Lefevre, Lotti ! New 1940 American Airmail Catalogue Value $150.00 Our price while they last 25.00 ......

FAMOU S .GIMBELS STAMP DEPT. 33rd & Broadway New York City Uniied $iaie6 J~ FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC SERVICE • before the inauguration, the post­ Short Notice Marks Release Of New office department made first official Stamp-Flight Date announcement of the date of the Announcement flight by the following release from the Information Service: • • "Acting Postmaster General W. W. ·THE "YANKEE CLIPPER" carry- Howes announced this afternoon that trans-Atlantic Air Mail Service will be ing a load of United States inaugurated tomorrow, May 20, at 12 noon, Air Mail made history on the after­ Eastern Standard Time, when the Pan noon of May 20 when she took off American Airways Yankee Clipper takes from the waters of Manhasset Bay, off from Port Washington, New York, on New York, on the first regularly the first leg of its first official flight to scheduled air mail flight across the Europe. · North Atlantic between this country "Under the schedule announced today by Mr. Howes, the Clipper will arrive at and Europe. The inaugural flight of Horta, Azores, at 7:00 a. m., May 21; the great four-motored, 411h ton fly­ Lisbon, Portugal, 4:00 p. m., May 21; and ing boat of the Pan American Air­ Marseille, France, 2:00 p. m., May 22. ways culminated years of careful "The schedule for the return flight calls planning and experimentation and for the Clipper's leaving Marseille, May gave to the United States supremacy 25, at 7:00 a. m.; Lisbon, May 26, at 8:00 in being the first nation to operate a. m.; Horta, May 26, at 2:00 p. m., with an air service over this important arrival at New York scheduled for May trade route between the New and the 27, at 7:00 a. m." Old World. The inaugural trans-At­ • lantic flight also marked the twelfth Authority Permit Anticipated anniversary Of Colonel Charles· A. Although inauguration of the Lindbergh's epochal pioneer trans-At­ trans-Atlantic route, known as F. A. lantic solo flight of May 20, 1927. M. 18, was directly dependent upon Inaugural Plans Rushed the granting of a route certificate by Although plans for the inaugura­ the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the tion and operation of the North At­ postoffice department undoubtedly lantic air service had been under anticipated favorable action upon consideration for a number of years the request of Pan American Airways and physical equipment was evident­ to fly from this country to France ly in order for some weeks, interna­ and England and return. Hearings by tional complications and postal diffi­ the Authority began April 10 and culties made it necessary to with­ continued for a number of days, hold announcement of the first flight with announcement of the granting to within a very few hours of the of the certificate withheld until a actual sailing time of the clipper very short time before the actual ship. Under date of May 19, the day first flight. The postoffice department, how­ ever, continued to make plans for • the completion of the hundreds of problems in this new international by WALTER J. CONRATH exchange of mail, involving new

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PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS' new Boeing, U. S. A. "Yankee Clipper." This is the 411/2 ton flying boat which _inaugurated the first regular trains­ Atlantic air mail service May 20, 1939. Two sister ships of the same type are in readiness for the service.

rate charges, new stamps, cachets, not definitely known, although the monetary exchange, backstamping, department was able to set the trans­ return of first :flight collectors' cov­ Atlantic rate as indicated by the ers to senders, and numerous other first bulletin concerning the flight. knotty problems directly concerned with the four international postof­ fices touched by the :flight. It is un­ • derstood this division of the depart- - ment was recently transferred from Trans-Atlantic Rate 30c the International Postal Service to Washington, D. C., April 27, 1939- the Division of Air Mail Service, Postmaster General James A. Farley under the capable hands of Charles announced last night that the rate of P. Graddick, Superintendent. postage on the new trans-Atlantic air mail route, soon to be placed in oper­ Postal Details Rushed ation, will be 30 cents per half ounce Time was insufficient to properly to any point in Europe. complete arrangements with the post­ The Civil Aeronautics Authority office department of the foreign na­ has completed hearings on· the appli­ tions and as airways and government officials were most anxious to inaug­ cation for a Certificate of Public Con­ urate the route before June 1, when venience and Necessity, but until a England was expected to put a regu­ decision is rendered by the Authority, lar service into operation, the post­ complete details concerning the date office department was forced to send of the first trans-Atlantic air mail out bulletins for the information of flight a:r;id the route to be flown, will ,.collectors desiring to send covers not be made available. from all points of the new route. For the benefit of stamp collectors As a matter of historical record, the Post Office Department will pre­ and to vividly show the supreme ef­ pare a cachet for use at New York forts the postoffice department made on the first flight and arrangements to properly take care of collectors' are now being made with other coun­ mail on this :flight, we are incorpor­ tries in Europe for the return of cov­ ating the actual dated releases of ers by ordinary mail to this country. the Information Service of the post­ If philatelists do not want to send office department. Less than a ~onth their cov~rs to an address in Europe, before the :flight, the cities to be ·ser­ they may be addressed to the sender's viced and the route to be flown were own address. 4 MAY 1939

All' covers intended for dispatch on air mail service across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. it is expected that the first the first flight should be forwarded flight will be flown from New York to to the postmaster at New York, Marseille, France, via Horta, Azores and N. Y., under separate cover with an Lisbon, Portugal and return. accompanying letter specifically re­ For the benefit of stamp ~ollectors de­ questing the postmaster to hold the siring to secure first flight covers to be dispatched from abroad on the first same for the first flight. Failure to westbound flight, the Postmaster General follow these instructions may result made public the following information in covers being dispatched by regular with respect to the· various rates to be charged thereon and the procedure to be mail prior to the first flight as the followed in forwarding such covers. A postmaster has no authority to hold previous announcement of the Postmaster the covers unless instructed to do so General carried the eastbound postage by the sender. rate which is to be 30 cents to any point Inasmuch as the route to be flown in Europe. I In making available this information to and the cities to be served thereon stamp collectors the Postmaster General ! are not available at this time, all pointed out' that the Post Office Depart­ covers sent to the Postmaster at New ment was not assuming any obligation for failure of dispatch or of service on York City pursuant to this prelimin­ the first westbound flight from Europe ary announcement, will be forwarded to this country. to some city in Europe to be desig­ The total postage required for the nated by the Postmaster General. All westbound covers will be as follows: covers must be prepaid with United From Horta: Azores to Lisbon•, Awres States postage. Collectors in Canada to Marseille*, Azores to New York*. From Lisbon: Lisbon to Marseille*, should forward their covers with a Lisbon to Azores•, Lisbon to New York'. money order remittance in sufficient From Marseille: Marseille to Lisbon, amount to cover the cost of United 3.00 francs per 20 grams, Marseille to States postage, and this money order Azores, 6.25 francs per 10 grams, Mar­ seille to New York, 12.25 francs per 10 should be made payable to the Post­ grams. (10 grams is slightly more than master at New York. 1/3 of an ounce.) Collectors who plan to wait until Senders may address their covers to the Civil Aeronautics Authority de­ themselves or other persons in the Unit­ termines that a Certificate of Public ed States or elsewhere. After the flight covers will be delivered to the addresses Convenience and Necessity for this in the ordinary mails from New York. route should be granted, at which Collectors should remember that there time the schedules will be published, is insufficient time to send consignments may prepare covers for such direc­ of covers by steamship to the Azores for the first flight. Consignments of covers tional flights as desired, although the for dispatch eastbound and westbound time element involved creates a def­ from Lisbon may be sent to the Post­ inite risk with respect to the covers master at Lisbon with American Express checks or bank drafts sufficient to cover reaching New York in time for the postage at the rates indicated above and departure of the first flight. payable to the "Receveur Postes Lis­ bonne", and consignments of covers for dispatch westbound from Marseille may • be sent in a similar manner to the Post­ Foreign Rates Undetermined master at Marseille with American Ex­ The complete table of foreign rates press checks or bank drafts sufficient to pay the postage and payable to the "Re­ for the trans-Atlantic air service ceveur Principal Postes Marseille". Each was not made known to the U. S. cover should be plainly marked to in. postoffice department until May 5, dicate the service desired; that is, "Mar­ seille to Lisbon".· "Marseille to Awres", only fifteen days before the actual "Marseille to New York," "Lisbon to flight. Its initial bulletin i:::sued by Marseille," "Lisbon to Azores>" "Lisbon the department on May 5 follows: to New York," "Awres to Lisbon," 111 Azores to Marseille," or "Azores to New York.'' Such consignments should be • mailed as early as practicable but not P. A. A. WILL HANDLE WESTBOUND later than time to connect with the S. S. TRANS-ATLANTIC COVERS Washington leaving New York May 17. Washington, D. C., May 5, 1939-Post­ In view of the difficulties involved in master General J"ames A. Farley an­ handling the covers, Pan American Air­ nounced last night that if and when the ways, Inc., offers to accept consignments Civil Aeronautics Authority acts favor­ of covers, with remittances in money ably upon the application of Pan Ameri­ orders or cash. at its office, 135 East can Airways, Inc., for a Certificate of 42nd Street, New York, New York.' pur­ Convenience and Necessity, to operate an chase and attach the necessary Portu- 5 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL

guese and French stamps, and post the NEW 30c STAMP c~vers at the appropriate foreign office. Washington, D. C., May 6.-Postmaster w1th a charge to cover the handling cost. The total charges for the respective covers General .James A. Farley announced last are-Azores to Lisbon, * cents; Azores to night that he had authorized the issuance Marseille, • cents; Azores to New York, of a special 30-cent air mail postage stamp • cents; Lisbon to Marseille, • cents, Lis­ in connection with the inauguration in bon to Azores, * cents; Lisbon to New the near future of the trans-Atlantic Air York, * cents; Marseille to Lisbon, 23 Mail Service to Europe. cents, Marseille to Azores, 31 cents, Mar­ seille to New York, 47 ·cents. The special air mail stamp will con­ Any such covers should be sent in time form in size and general design with the to reach Pan American Airways, Inc., by current six-cent air mail issue of 1934 May 16. The securing of covers in this except for the denomination designation way is entirely optional with the sender. of 30 cents and the added inscription Assurance has been received that cachets 11 Trans .. Atlantic." will be applied to all covers dispatched Further details as to · color, date and from the Azores, Lisbon and Marseille. As heretofore announced, covers to be place of first-day sale and the method of dispatched from New York should be forwarding first-flight covers will be an­ sent (with stamps attached) to the post­ nounced later by the Post Office Depart­ master at that place. The postage requir­ ment. ed thereon is 30 cents per one-half ounce. *The Portuguese postage rate has not • yet been announced. Released the same day, were the • complete charges for the serv1cmg Portuguese Rates Announced of first flight covers by the Pan Later the same day

nounced as numbers 22,381 and 22,- 382. The design changes noted in the AAMS MEMBERS RECEIVE description were made, together 'COMPLETE BULLETINS ON with the addition of two Atlantic TRANS-ATLANTIC surface craft, steaming on the ocean, AAMS members who take ad­ at the base of the design, inside th.e vantage of the Advance Air Mail border. Bulletin Service received compiete The release announcing the first bulletins on the announcements day sale follows: covering arrangements for the • trans-Atlantic inauguration. With­ FIRST DAY TRANS-ATLANTIC in a period of two weeks five STAMP MAY 16 separate postal card bulletins were Washington, D. C., May IO-Postmaster issued concerning the service. General James A. Farley announced to­ High point of the news releases day that the new 30-cent Trans-Atlantic postage stamp will be placed on sale for was reached May 6, when it was­ the first time at the New York City post necessary to issue three card bul­ office on May 16. 1939, and at other post letins within eight hours. offices throughout the country as soon thereafter as distribution will permit. Through the Bulletin Service The new stamp, which is to conform in members were kept informed of size and general design to the 6-cent air all announcements within a day mail stamp of 1934, except for the change in denomination and the added inscrip­ after their release and were able tion "Trans-Atlantic," will be printed in to properly forward covers in time blue ink. It will be placed on sale at for the flight. Regular self-ad­ the Philatelic Agency of the Post Office Department on May 17, 1939, but the dressed postal cards are used and Agency will not prepare covers for mail­ releases are made by Bulletin Man­ ing on that date. ager Walter J. Conrath, Albion, Stamp collectors desiring first day cov­ ers of the Trans-Atlantic air mail stamp Penn'a. for delivery by domestic air mail from New York, N. Y., may send not more than TEN self-addressed envelopes to the A postoffice release dated May 11 Postmaster, New York, N. Y., with a cash or a postal money order remittance advised that the New York Post­ covering the value of the stamps to be master, upon request, would affix the affixed thereto. The envelopes enclosing new 30 cent air mail stamps to cov­ these covers should be plainly marked: "FIRST DAY COVERS" and must nositive­ ers to be dispatched on the trans­ ly exclude letters that are to be dispatch­ Atlantic flight. ed to Europe by the first Trans-Atlantic flight for which separate instructions are Inaugural Flight Routine being issued in this same release. The Although the inaugural flight of Postmaster at New York will be permitted to accept first day covers for the 30-cent the trans-Atlantic route took place stamp for postmarking with the May 16 the day following its announcement, date that bear on the outside wrapper members of the crew and officials of a postmark .not later than May 16. the airways handled the epochal TRANS-ATLANTIC COVERS event much as a routine operation of As explained in previous Bulletins pre­ the line. There were about 1,000 pared covers for dispatch FROM Mar­ spectators gathered at the Port seilles or Lisbon may be sent to the post­ masters of those cities to leave New York Washington base to witness the not later than May 17. Covers FROM takeoff. Captain Arthur E. LaPorte Horta, Azores cannot be dispatched by was commander of the ship and ordinary means in sufficient time and there were thirteen other members must be handled through Pan American of the crew and three observers of Airways Service. PAA will also handle the company on board. No passen­ covers FROM Marseilles and Lisbon, if gers will be carried on the trans-At­ you wi.sh to avoid bother of securing American Express checks or bank drafts. lantic line until five round trips have See your last Bulletin. Covers must reach been completed. It is understood that PAA's New York office on or before May 16. weekly service will be provided. Eastbound covers (from New York to Mail Load Heavy any European point) must be dispatched Newspaper reports, unconfirmed through the postmaster at New York. Proper caution should be exercised not by the postoffice or airways, indicate to send to the Postmaster at New York, there were approximately 187,000 covers which are intended for dispatch pieces of United States Air Mail between intermediate points. aboard the "Yankee Clipper" upon 7 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

but collectors will bear in mind that "BOAT COVERS" REPORTED the department assumed no respon­ ON TIME FOR sibility for the dispatching of covers WESTBOUND FLIGHT and only suggested the means men­ In a telegram just received from tioned. All covers carried by the Pan Superintendent of Air Mail Chas. American Airways will undoubtedly P. Graddick it is stated that pre­ come through in complete sets, as liminary information from Eu­ there was evidently a great deal of rope indicated covers forwarded elaborate planning in the handling via the S. S. Washington for west­ and servicing of these covers. The ward dispatch from .Marseille and approximate service fee charged by Lisbon reached those cities in the company for taking care of ihe time for connection with the "Yan­ covers was fifteen cents, which kee Clipper." It was impossible to seems to have been a good invest­ confirm these reports until com­ ment on a flight as closely scheduled pletion of the flight, May 27. and fl.own as was the initial trans­ Atlantic.

her initial regular takeoff for Eu­ Mail Causes Delay . rope. There is every probability these At Horta, Azores, initial stop of figures include covers being carried the "Yankee Clipper" on the east­ by the Pan American Airways for bound first flight, Captain LaPorte servicing at intermediate points and was delayed almost four hours over return via the same ship. It will be the scheduled stopover. The delay recalled that all covers ordered was caused by the inability of the through the airways for dispatch Horta postoffice to stamp some 23,000 from Horta must necessarily have collectors' covers which arrived on been taken to that city by the initial the Clipper from the United States. flight of the Clipper. The same situ­ Cable reports indicate volunteers ation undoubtedly existed in relation were called in to aid in handling the to the covers to be dispatched from mail and Pan American officials had Lisbon, and, possibly also, from to collect additional stamps from sur­ Marseille. rounding islands, as supplies in Hor­ The postoffice department's offi­ ta were completely exhausted. A cial New York cachet consisted of a similar situation occurred at Macau rectangular upright box enclosing a on the initial flight of the trans-Paci­ line drawing of the "Yankee Clipper" fic FAM 14. flying above the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor. The words "Unit­ Clipper Goes to England ed States of America" appear above; "First Flight FAM 18" at the left The Clipper arrived at Marseille, center; and "Trans-Atlantic Air Mail eastern terminal of the present flight, Service" across the base of the de­ the afternoon of May 22, approxi­ sign. mately 45 hours and 33 minutes elapsed time from Port Washington, Covers Dispatched Late N. Y. After discharging a cargo of At this writing it appears certain mail for Continental Europe the ship that collectors who forwarded covers took off the following morning (May via the S S Washington to postmas­ 23) for Southampton, England, which ters at Lisbon and Marseille will be will be the terminal when the regu­ disappointed, at least in their dis­ lar route is extended in the future. patch via the first flight from Lisbon No official U. S. mail was to be car­ to Marseille. It has not yet been ried to England on the present flight. determined if there was sufficient time to make connections from the Returning to France, the "Yankee liner Washington, scheduled to dock Clipper" took off from Marseille on at Plymouth, May 23, for return cov­ the morning of May 25, inaugurating ers from Marseille and Lisbon, to the first westbound trans-Atlantic intermediate points on the west­ flight which arrived at New York bound flight. It is unfortunate if May 27, via Bermuda, an unschedul­ these connections have been missed, ed stop. 8 MAY 1939

Northern Service july 1 will be under the auspices of a Com­ Information available at this writ­ mittee appointed by the Royal Phil­ ing indicates that Pan American Air­ atelic Society of which Sir John Wil­ ways is ready to start the northern son, Bart, Keeper of the King's Stamp service by way of Newfoundland and Collection, is the President and ac­ Ireland to Southampton, England tive head. Many Philatelists in the almost momentarily. The route certi­ United States will recall the untir­ ficate issued to Pan American by the ing activities of Sir John in connec­ Civil Aeronautics Authority permits tion with the TIPEX Exhibition held the contractor to use this route as at New York in 1936. soon as desired, but it is· necessary King George VI has graciously for the postoffice department to ap­ consented to act as Patron of the prove a flight schedule before any Exhibition and it is believed that mail can be transported. Indications many Philatelists from the United are that this route will also be known States will avail themselves of the op­ as FAM 18. Even though this is an portunity to be present upon this entirely different course of flying, it auspicious and historic occasion. The appears necessary to give it the same Postal Administration of Great Bri­ route number for accounting and sta­ tain is cooperating heartily in the tistical purposes. Collectors, how­ plans. The show will be presented ever, will most certainly regard it as in the spacious halls of the new a flight which must be represented Earls Court Building where better in their collections and the postof­ than 186,000 sq. feet of space will be fice department has already indicated made available. that a special cachet will again be "Air Mails" in this Exhibition are provided at New York, N. Y. for cov­ bieng treated in an entirely separate ers dispatched by the first flight of and special section of their own and this northern route. The department the plans for them are being made will furnish the usual notices and by a Committee jointly appointed and states that it will endeavor to give operating under the auspices of the at least three weeks' notice prior Aero-Philatelic Club and the Air Mail to inaugural date. However this Society, both of Great Britain. Ex­ cannot be guaranteed, and, as in the. perience gained at other Internation­ past, operating exigencies may make al Exhibitions has definitely shown it impossible to give this much no­ that it is unsatisfactory and inequit­ tice. All indications point to this able to show and judge these items flight being inaugurated on or before in competition with other branches July 1. Whether or not it will be of Philately. This innovation was possible for the U. S. postoffice de­ discussed better than a year ago partment to make arrangements for with members and officers of the the handling of covers at Newfound­ American Air Mail Society and has land, Ireland, and . in England is their hearty concurrence and en~ highly problematical, and it is sug­ dorsement. The scheme of the com­ gested that collectors, where possible petition is very similar to th\:J-t used make these arrangements through in­ with such success at TIPEX m New dividual sources AT ONCE, in order York. The Committee, quite wisely to avoid possible disappointment. reserves the right to be selective as to the scope of the material present­ AIRPOSTS IN SEPARATE• ed in the frames in order that a pro­ SECTION FOR BRITISH per balance may be kept in regard to STAMP CENTENARY EXHIBIT the showing which should be repre­ Of particular interest to Aero­ sentative of the entire scope of air Philateliists will be the first Edition mail collecting. The detailed classi­ of the prospectus of the Stamp Cen­ fications may be had by requesting tenary Exhibition which will be held a copy of the prospectus which is be­ in London, England, May 6th-11th, ini:( distributed through THE COL­ 1940 to commemorate the lOOth An­ LECTORS CLUB in New York City. niversary of the issuance of the first It is believed that many of the most postage stamp, the penny black of prominent American collections will Great Britain. The full Exhibition find their way to London in 1940. ·

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VJ.M- 4e/t&-Pklaidtc j~-- Tl-l ~ WALT~R BRUGGMANN AWARD • once more the immortality of those simple by PABLO M. ESPERIDION words has found room. That man is now Secretary, Philippine Air Mail Society old. And that old man, is Mr. Walter Bruggmann, Life Honorary President of • the Philippine Air Mail Society (Chapter "Death closes all: but something No. 13 of the American Air Mail Society), ere the end, Honorary Member of several foreign Some work of noble note, philatelic societies, and the managing edi­ may yet be done." tor of The Airmail Digest. Mr. Brugg­ mann, generous as ever as he is in the HESE SIMPLE WORDS of Tennyson dissemination of our hobby, now offers T must have instilled in many a man's heart. And, within the heart of a man, an unusual award on Aerophilately-the who has 'dedicated much of his life in the first of its kind in the history of this interest and promotion of Aerophilately, particular line of our hobby. 10 MAY 1939

Taking the spirit this annual award of­ fers, it will be given to the author of the best article or meritorious work written on Aerophilately during the year. It will start this year. and will be known as the WALTER BRUGGMANN AWARD from time to time. It will be offered through­ out the life of this old man-Mr. Walter Bruggmann. We are only mortals. But, mortals as we are, "some work of noble note, may yet be done."

The Walter Bruggmann Award will no~ be an exclusive prize for articles or aero­ philatelic works published only in The Airmail Digest. In fairness to all and -with the practical end in view of stimu­ lating the _hobby of Aerophilately, selec­ WALTER tion of the best aerophilatelic work will BRUGGMANN be made from all those published during the year, in all philatelic magazines and periodicals of the world. Accordingly, toba, Canada; Mr. Stephen H. Smith, 14 articles or aerophilatelic works are not Elliot Road, Calcutta, India; Mr. P . Collas, necessarily to appear in The Airmail Di­ 13 Holzer St., Sandringham, S. 8, Victoria, gest. And whether they appear in any Australia; Mr. Rafael Garcia, Obispa No." philatelic publications published in Eng­ 307, Havana, Cuba; Mr. Pablo M. Esperi­ lish Spanish. French, German, etc., etc., dion, P. 0. Box 716, Manila, Philippines, they have all the oppartunity for eli­ but no member of the Jury will be al­ gibility. Thus, this annual aerophilatelic lowed to enter the contest. contest is open to all, regardless of Ian- Competing articles must be sent to Mr. . guage, race or creed. There are no rules Pablo M. Esperidion, editor of The Air­ or regulations to be adhered, so long as mail Digest, P. 0. Box 716, Manila, Philip­ he or she can write. And write something pines, or direct to the member of the for Aerophilately. Jury on A ward where the author lives or resides within the territory of the corres­ Consideration to be taken in the award- . ponding judge. In· other words, if an ing of the prize will b~ based on the fol­ author lives in or near Massachusetts, he lowing merits: (1) Importance of the ar­ or she may simply send copy or copies ticle or work to Aerophilately; (2) The of his or her published articles to Mr. human interest in it; (3) Its relation to George W. Angers, Treasurer of the Aviation; and (4) Its layout. · American Air Mail Society, 293 Bridge Contestants will please observe that Street, Springfield, Massachusetts, U. S. A. copy or copies of their articles must bear Or, if the author resides in a foreign the following: (1) Title; (2) Author's country, say for instance, in England, name or pseudonym; (3) Address of the articles may be sent direct to Brig":ldier­ author; and (4) Date and name of pub­ General R. Ridgway, President of the lication where article or work has aP­ Aero-Philatelic Club of London, 5 Camp­ peared. In the absence of any of th~e den-Hill Square, W. 8, London, England. items, contestants may just slug their And so on. ' . work or articles with same. All entries must be postmarked on or To obtain every possible representation before December 31st of every year. From of the airpost world in the judging of all the entries received, the judges will the best article or aero-philatelic work, select ten eligible. Out of these ten, the twelve international philatelic writers and best article or aerophilatelic work of the editors will compase the Jury on Award. year will be selected, and the author of Members of the Jury on Award to decide which will then be given the WALTER on the winner every year, are the fol­ BRUGGMANN AWARD. lowing gentlemen: A gold medal to the value of fifty dol­ Mr. George w. Angers, 293 Bridge St., lars (U. S.) will consist the award, where Springfield, Mass., U. S. A.; Mr. E:nest A. the name of the winner will be inscribed Kehr, Stony Tepee. Richmond Hill, New and the year of the award is made. As York, U. S. A.; Mr. Al Burns, Holton, a consolation prize for the rest of the eli­ Kansas, U. S. A.; Brigadier-General R. gible articles selected, each author will Ridgway, C. B., 5 . Campden-Hill Square, be given a free subscription for one year W. 8, London, England; Dr. Robert Pagan­ to The Airmail Digest. ini, Zweisimmen, Switzerland; Mr. Th~­ Here's a chance for every collector or dore Champion, 13 Rue Drouot, Paris, dealer who can write. And if other people France; Mr. Hans Ueberall, 26 Reichen­ can do it, why can't you? . .. hainer Strasee, Chemnitz, Germany; Mr. Age does not matter. Let's tell the world w. R. Patton, Box 2384, W~epeg, Mani- • . . you've GOT something THERE I 1.1 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL

West Union P,hoto A letter received from Miss Oma Cor· der, Postmaster at West Union, W. Va., states that the first flight cachet for use at UAM Uover Notes that point was prepared from a Kodak pic­ ture which was taken along Washington Highway and shows a picture of a covered • bridge over one hundred years old as well by CHAS. G. RIESS as Middle Island Creek-the longest stream Information concerning C.A.M's should in the world to be called a creek. Miss be sent direct to the editor of section, Corder is having a number of these pic­ P. O. Box 11, Albany, N. Y. tures printed and will include one in many first flight covers sent to her office which have been left unsealed as long as • the supply of pictures holds out. The first AM-43 To Be Inaugurated flight from West Union via AM-1002 will N THE NEAR FUTURE air mail ser­ be flown on June 25, 1939. Collectors de­ I vice will be established by new AM-43 siring a picture should send a cover for between Wichita, Kansas and Pueblo, the first flight to Miss Corder and should Colo. via Hutchinson and Garden City, make sure to leave the cover unsealed as Kansas as intermediate sto11s. Oft'icial first no pictures may be placed in sealed cov­ flight cachets will be furnished each of ers as it is against Postal Regulations to the points on this route. open same.

Autogyro Route 2001 AM-24 The experimental autogyro air ·mail The suspension of air mail service with service by AM,2001 will be inaugurated the close of business on February 12, 1939 in the near future. This service originally at Augusta, Ga. via AM-24 did not result intended for inauguration about the mid­ in any new directional first flights be­ dle of May has been delayed and collec­ tween Atlanta. Ga. and Columbia, S. C. tors who have not as yet sent in their as all flights between Columbia and At­ covers for the first flights should do so lanta and vice-versa were flown by ·the at once. This service will operate from flying route through Augusta, Ga: Air the roof-top of the Post Office Building mail service was resumed at Augusta, at Philadelphia, Pa., to the Camden, N. J. Ga., via AM-24 on April 15, 1939. Hence, airport and vice-versa. Inasmuch as. the there can be no first flight directional weight of air mail that may be ·trans­ covers ·as no new directional flights were, ported by any one flight via this auto­ flown during the period that air mail gyro service is limited to 150 pounds it service was suspended at Augusta, Ga. is urgently requested that collectors re­ frain from stuffing their covers intended Chicago-N. Y. A. M.-7 for the first flights. Light weight covers Chicago, Ill. dispatched 13 lbs. (400 to without fillers of ariy weight should be 450 pieces) by first flight, trip 28, via used in order that the weight of the mail AM-7 direct Chicago non-stop to New intended for the. first flights shall not ex­ York on April 16, 1939. F. R. Bailey was ceed 150 pounds. In event that the weight pilot · and R. H. Gardner co-pilot. New of the first flight mail exceeds 150 pounds York, N. Y. dispatched 5 lbs. (275 pieces) in which event a second trip will be nece~­ by first flight, trip 27, via AM-7 New York sary it is the intention of the Post Office non-stop to Chicago on April 16, 1939. Dept. to give preference to light-weight First flight pilot was Capt. Dunn. These covers for the actual first flight dispatches figures include air mail field dispatches. for by so doing the greatest number of It will be appreciated if collectors having covers can be flown by the actual first New York covers (not amf) drop a card flights. Let's all co-operate by not stuffing describing postmark, backstamps, etc., on our covers in order that all covers may same to the editor of this column. be carried by the first flights. Forewarned is forearmed so do not complain after · Pick-Up Service AM-1001 the first flights if your stuffed covers Air Mail service was inaugurated on were not flown by the first flights as AM-1001 on May 14, .1939 from the follow­ you will have no reason for such com­ ing points. Official first flight cachets were plaint or redress as ample notice has applied at each point in the color indi­ been given by the Dept. under which cov­ cated after each name. Pittsburgh-ma­ ers will be dispatched by the first flights. genta; Pittsburgh Air Mail Field-no Official first flight cachets will be furnish­ cachet; Grove City-blue; Corry-magenta: ed to both the Philadelphia Post Office Warren-blue; DuBois-magenta; Clearfield­ and the Air Mail Field station at Camden, blue: Gettysburg-black; Coatesville-black; N. J'. Covers for dispatch from the Cam­ Philadelphia-black and Camden Air Mail den Airport should be sent to the, "Clerk Field-no cachet. Camden, N. J. dispatch­ in Charge, Air Mail Field, Camden, N. J." ed covers for the first flight directly to 12 MAY 1939

the Camden Air Mail Field. Such covers ANNOUNCE PLANS FOR are properly cancelled and bear no cach­ CINCINNATI CONVENTION et. First flight covers dispatched in both directions from all points except Pitts­ The General Convention Chairman, Ed­ burgh, Pittsburgh A. M. F., Philadelphia, ward S. Horwitz, anounces the following Camden and Camden A. M. F. from which committee ch airman appointments: terminal points dispatches were made in Bourse: B. H. Terry, 803 Vine St., Exhi­ one direction only. bition: Jos. B. Shirley, c/o Proctor and Gamble Co. Publicity and Program: Ed A M-1002 Horwitz, Box &25. Men's Entertainment: Air mail service was inaugtirated on Wm. R. Geis, Chairman, 1548 Jonathan AM-1002 on May 12, 1939 at the points as Ave., J. J. Bruestle, Vice-Chairman, 2414 listed below with the official cachets ap­ Central Parkway. Women's Entertainment: plied in the colors as indicated. Dispatch­ Mrs. Robert M. Flinn, 4224 Montgomery es from the following points in one direc­ Road, Norwood, Ohio. Reception: Robert tion only: Pittsburgh-purple; Pittsburgh M. Flinn, Chairman, as above. Chauncey Air Mail Field-no cachet; Marietta-pur­ Piche! and Dr. J. A. Stuntebeck, Vice­ ple; Huntington-green; Charleston-purple; Chairmen. Credentials and Registration: Niitro-bla.ck; Dunbar-purple; Spencer­ Harrison .Dunseth, 4039 Lansdowne, Deer green and Weston-black. Dispatches from Park, Ohio. Convention Labels: J. B. the following points in two directions: Shirley, c/o Proctor & Gamble. Cachet: Latrobe-green; Morgantown-purple and E. T. Warneford, 256 Twain Ave. Badges: Clarksburg-black. Clifford Sh;;ifer, c/o Arcade Gift Shop.

Schedule Changes The Netherland Plaza Hotel has been Postal Bulletin notice of April 19, 1939 designated, as the Official Hotel. Other states tha.t effective immediately Spring­ hotels are: Hotel Gibson, Metropole Ho­ field, Ill. is suspended as a stop on AM-8 tel, Paiace Hotel, Kemper Lane ·Hotel, pending airport improvements. Fountain Square Hotel, Alms Hotel, Sin­ ton Hotel, and Parkview Hotel. All mem­ Postal Bulletin notice of April 21, 1939 bers will be furnished with full informa­ states that service at St .. Joseph, Mo. via tion regarding hotel accommodations AM-26 is suspended until further notice and prices. account of construction work on airport. Postal Bulletin notices of April ·19-20, All those interested in showing parts 1939 state that service via AM-27 is dis­ of their collection at the Convention Ex­ continued until further notice on account hibition, are urged to contact Mr. Shirley. of condition of airports at Millinocket, He also has charge of the convention Me. and at Houlton and Waterville, Me. labels. a magnificent piece of engraving respectively. and three color printing, They come in Effective on the dates shown air mail sheets of eight, with center-lines and ar­ service resumed via AM-27 at: Water­ rows, both perforated and imperforate, ville, Me., April 24, 1939; Millinocket, Me., and are priced at 25c for the pair. We are April 29, 1939 and Houlton, Me., May 10, planning about forty tables for the 1939. Bourse. Half of them have already been spoken for, and dealers and collectors de­ siring to participate in this feature are. urged to contact Mr. Terry at once. • Dealers wishing to advertise in the con­ vention program should contact Mr. Hor­ DONATION AUCTION FEATURES witz. Preparations are going forward GOTHAM'S APRIL 21ST MEETING smoothly and speedily towards making this event such an interesting and suc­ l A very successful Donation Auction was cessful one that it will stand out vividly held at the April 21st meeting of the in the mind of every person who attends Gotham Stamp & Cover Club, Chapter the Convention for years to come. Every 8, A. A. M. S. Good prices were realized member of the committee is bending ev­ I on the 91 lots entered in the auction. ery effort towards this end. All persons Before the auction began, our Vice­ interested in learning more about this af­ • President, Mrs. Ethel B. Stewart, present­ fair are urged to communicate promptly ed the club with a beautiful ebony and either with the proper committee head, ivory gavel set. or with the general chairman. Suggestions All A. A. M. S. members living in the likewise will be welcomed by the latter, metropolitan area are urged to come along any lines that would help to put down and look us over; plenty of activ­ the affair over in a big way . ity all the time. Meetings are held the 1st and 3rd Fri­ days at the Hotel Times Square, 43rd St., lr'ATRONIZE AIRPOST JOURNAL and 8th Ave., New York City. ADVERTISERS 13 AIRS OF THE MONTH • LIECHTENSTEIN • Pardons for a • slight mishaps in translating German in by ALTON j. BLANK the description of last month's issue. In· All data on New Issues of Air Mail stead of "aerial views" of the land the Stamps shoul•d be sent direct to Editor correct description is "native birds of the Alton J. Blank, 1850 Burnett Avenue, land." The denominations, colors and East Cleveland, Ohio. birds are: lOrp. red violet Swallows; 15rp. deep orange Mews; 20rp. brown red Mews; 30rp. blue Eagle pursuing Pigeon; • 50rp. green Hawk; 1 F. deep carmine Commemoratives comprise most of the Soaring Buzzard; and 2 F. dark violet total of new issue news this month. Bearded Vulture. Europe, Central and South America as well as from the land down under have interesting items to chronicle. There are also several additions to the regular is­ • MEXICO • The New York's Worlds ·sues. Fair is honored with a set of three stamps. They are 20c. green, 40c. cerise, • AUSTRALIA • To frank a limited mail and one Peso brown and red all showing to be carried on a sµrvey :flight across the modernistic statue of Jose Maria More· the Indian Ocean a 5 shilling stamp may los at Janitzio, Michiocan. There were be issued. The flight will start at Sidney issued 100,000 of the first value and 50,000 and proceed to Onslow (Western Aus­ each of the other two. The stamps are tralia) and thence across the open water inscribed "Feria Universsal de Nueva to Mombasa in Africa. Quite a jump. York." Many thanks to Victor M. Suarez for a first day cover dated May 2, 1939· as • BOLIVIA • No one has answered last well as a mint set. month's query yet but comes this addi­ On May 15 there was to appear a set tional news. In honor of the Eucharistic of three values the same denominations . Congress, soon to be held, a ten value set as the New York set and same quantity will be released. Denominations are to be: printing honoring the Tulsa Stamp Ex­ 5c., 30c., 45c., 60c., 75c., 90c., 2B, 4B., 5B., position. The design will show a Colorado and 10 Bolivianos. Indian Worshipping the Sun. Colors not -F. W. Kessler known at the present writing. • GREECE • P. J. Drossos kindly sends (See article elswhere about the "Sara­ figures on the destruction of the remaind­ bia" stamp.) ers of the 1933 airmail issue. No. issued Scott's # No. destroyed 50 L. 1,400,000 765 116,515 • SPAIN • This columnist has been 1 D. 700,000 766 55 shown the missing three values of the 2 D. 400,000 767 36 Cierva autogiro set noted in last month's 5 D. 300,000 768 5 column. The colors are: 20c. orange, 2 P 2 green, and 4 P. deep blue. At the base of ig ~: l~:g: ~~~ 8,131 all seven values are the words "Correo 50 D. 35,000 771 4,026 Aero" which definitely places the issue in the airmail class and not commemora­ • GUATEMALA • It is reported that the tive postage as some have contended. miniature sheet showing the various -F. W. Kessler flags of the Central American countries will also be surcharged with the word "Oficial", in addition to the set mentioned • TOGO • This French colony will re­ last month. There will be 50,000 of each ceive a five value air set along with the series. other 7 mentioned some time ago. As for -F. W. Kessler the rest the denominations will be: 1.90, 2.90, 4.50, 4.90, and 6.90 francs. • LIBIA • The 13th Industrial Fair's year­ -Pierre Bailly ly issue is here. The 25c. green and the IL violet both show a camel, and a man with a plane in flight in the distance. The • u. S. S. R. • Colors of the set chron­ 50c. olive shows the main entrance to the icled last month are: 15k. green, 30k. vio­ Fair with a plane overhead. All are in· let brown, and 60k. orange, This is for scribed "XIll Fiera Campionaria Tripoli." the Moscow-Far East flight set. -F. W. Kessler -Mejdounarodnaia. Kniga., F. W. Kessler 14 MAY 1939

e UNITED STATES e Pending appear­ ance and subject to revision we list the new 30c. Transatlantic stamp. Look for details about the flight, ports of call, etc. elsewhere in this issue. Sales and Service • VENEZUELA • The 5c. deep green in the first design of a plane over a map of Venezuela printed on white paper by the English company of Waterlow and Sons is by CHARLES P. PORTER at hand. This makes the third value to AAMS Sales Dept. Mgr. appear. Others are the 15c. blue and the 143 Beechmont Drive 25c. sepia noted last December. New Rochelle, New York No sooner had the April issue of this magazine appeared than came a note that the U. S. Constitution stamp would not be • issued. Perhaps when this appears in print FLASH ! ! ! ! The China Clipper brings will come a note rescinding the order ! me news that the Sales Department will soon have a selection of Philippine Air­ ! • mail stamps and covers that will equal or i AERONAUTICAL ADDENDA better any selection that you could find e ARGENTINE REPUBLIC e Mekeel's in the U. S. A. anywhere. It will have the Weekly Stamp News ran a cut some time Philippine Airmail stamps mint, used, and ago of a stamp from this land and part on cover, together with special flights. of the design consisted of a . plane in The three books in question are priced flight over a globe. I have mislaid this at an extremely reasonable figure. As the clipping. Can anyone tell me the date of majority of the items are rare and ex­ this item so that I can look it up in the ceptional these books will not be includ­ Library and complete my notes ? ed in regular circuits but will be sent e JUGOSLAVIA e The 4d. plus 4d. grey on special requests only. If you want to shows a plane being loaded with mail see them-write the Sales Manager. taken from a delivery truck at an air­ port. Only the forepart of the plane is COVERS. You all have your new cata­ shown but sufficient is there to qualify it logue in hand now and already we have for our collection of airplanes on stamps. considerable C. A. M.'s that have come in It is part of the Progress of Transporta­ under the new listing. Prices have had tion· set bearing a surtax for the benefit such a wide variance that we are retiring of the Post Office Employee's Club. some of the older cover packets as they slowly come in off circuits so that the • owners can re-list them with catalogue AIRPOSTS WILL BE INCLUDED IN numbers and sequences. This will make 1940 MEXICAN EXHIBITION it easier for all concerned. Mexico will hold its first International The list of members on cover circuits Philatelic Exhibition next year in Feb­ is also undergoing revision and we would ruary, and plans are being rushed to appreciate your writing this Department make it an outstanding world-wide event. if you have not received circuits as you It is being sponsored by the Asociacion think you should have. Tb.e clerical de­ de Filatelistas Mexicanos, (Association of tail in handling the circuits is pretty Mexican Philatelists) with the coopera­ heavy and we apologize to any member tion of other organizations in the coun­ who has been omitted. Please write in try. The Mexican Government has al­ again. ready offered its approval and coopera­ tion, and has ordered the Philatelic NEW MEMBERS. We are always. pleas­ Agency to keep in touch with the A. F. M. ed to welcome each month's list of new to work together for the organization of members. The Sales Department should the show. be the first place you look to build up A special section for air mail stamps your airmail collection, no matter what and covers is to be included, and this it .consists of. If you want more details means an extraordinary opportunity for write the Department. American collectors to exhibit their col­ lections in a foreign exhibition that has THOSE DUPLICATES. We are always all the earmarks of a big success and on the hunt for new material and ask where .many world famous collections are that you fill those booklets and enter to be shown. them. We have now a growing list of Those desiring further information may steady month to month buyers but we al­ write the Asociacion de Filatelistas Mexi­ ways welcome more. . canos, P. 0. Box 250, Puebla, Pue, Mexi­ co. AND KEEP THOSE CIRCUITS MOV­ Victor M. Suarez, Merida. ING ! ! ! THANK YOU. 1.5 Washington Air Mail Society Celebrates Sixth Anniversary

CHARLES P. GRADDICK, Superintendent of Air Mail Service, postoffice department, Washington; was the guest of honor and speaker at the recent sixth anniversary celebration of the Washing­ ton Air Mail Society, Chapter No. 7 of the American Air Mail Society. Mr. Graddick, who is an active AAMS member and close cooperator with the collector, spoke on the trans-Atlantic, the new pick-up routes, and the autogyro service. Shown celebrating the birthday of the Washington Society above are C. H. Vaughn, sales manager, WAMS; Chas. P. Graddick, standing; Miss Alice B. Cilley, secretary, and Maurice S. Petty, president of the WAMS, seated. -Photo courtesy the Washington Post 16 MAY 1939

woman flier; the other a newspaper dis- .. patch. The stamp's inscription states that Paulina Ossipienko, is one of three woman fliers honored for establishing a record in a Moscow-Far East flight. The clipping bears a Moscow, May 11, 1939 date line and is only two sentenceil long. I quote: "Capt. Paulina Ossipienko, famed Soviet woman flyer, and Brigade Commander Anatoli Serov, were killed today in an aviation accident. Both have been named heroes of the Soviet Union for flying ex­ ploits." I shall mount them side by side in my airpost album. • • Lundy Island has issued a 'hd. RED by ALTON J. BLANK plane over island type recently. In addi­ tion on April 25, 1939 there was released • a new design in ld. denomination. Fur­ I ther details would be appreciated. HERE'S A LOT SCURRYING T around the old boxes these • days since the new A. A. M. S. catalogue Is there any rhyme or reason for the appeared. Seeing what is and what overprinting of the Guatemalan miniature is lacking is creating of smiles and sheet with the word "Oficial"? Or did no few headaches. not the sheets sell so well and this is a good way to get rid of remainders? If certain European·• conditions continue There can be some reason for so treating as they have in the past there will be a the regular sets of six but not the sheet. lot less airmail countries to watch for new issues. To date Austria, Saar, • Czechoslovakia, and Albania, to mention a That Australian survey flight across the few, are no longer· on the active new issue Indian Ocean is some long hop. It's easy list. Of course collectors still have to try to say but take a good look at the map to obtain the emmissions that appeared at the enourmous expanse of water be­ until the government was liquidated. tween the two points. • Trans-Atlantic service in this year of If the rest of the •designs of the Canal 1939 will undoubtedly produce a few Zone set are in keeping with the one new air stamps. And perhaps a new coun­ shown of the 15 cents-Oh Boy ! ! ! try or two to add to the list. Azores has yet to issue an airstamp. Ireland too may • well come across with an aerial adhesive. There is a report out that New Guinea The United States has already declared and Papua are to merge as one Territory herself. France and Newfoundland will for administrative purposes. If that hap­ probably issue special commemoratives. Portugal is yet to be heard from. And it pens it means no New Guinea. is too much to expect or hope that Great Britain will break down and release any­ thing like an airmail. • EARHART Togo, Mauritania. Ivory Coast, Niger Syracuse Dedication Cachet, 3 colors, Territory, Senegal, Dahomey, French Sou­ autographed by Amelia M. Earhart. dan and French Guinea, areas that com­ Fine Scarce item, only 2 left, each $5.00 prise the French West Africa group,­ Byrd over North Pole, autographed $25 long names familiar to collectors of Other covers from my collection on French colonial issues-will soon be in approval. the ken of the aerophilatelists. New air A. ATLAS LEVE Syracuse, N. Y. sets will be of five values, a face of Francs 21.10, making a grand total of Francs 168.80. Thus we will have 40 stamps FIRST FLIGHT COVERS to add at a cost of $5.50 and up dependent MAY LIST NOW READY upon where you buy your money. including Addition of Togo has delayed the ap­ GRAF ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS, ETC. pearance of the sets. until the end of May or first w.;eks in June. JOHN EDGAR 5 LLOYD ROAD. HOVE Before me lie two• items. One a green SUSSEX. ENGLAND hued stamp from the Soviet showing a l7 The largest and most important air mail col­ lection ever assembled .. Dr. Philip G. Cole Collection

1\\ \\\\\ DR COLE'S collection is unquesti?n· WILL BE OFFERED FOR SALE AT \\\\\ ably the largest and most outstandn~g PUBLIC AUCTIONS DURING THE \!ii\ 'l s and covers ln i\i\\ llection of air ma1 stamp 111" co COMING FALL SEASON hi\\ the world. . i:l1\ . ery airmail stamp, \\\\1 Its 85 volumes contain ev . d and fea· :iil': ff' . l and unofficial, ever issue ' . \\\\\ o icia 'thout exception, every great air I\\\\ ture, w1 Among the great rarities in this collec· S1111 1 't known \\\\\ mai rar1 y . D Cole only collect· tion are: 11i\I A flown covers r. . \\\ii mong l h' t rical significance United States-The unique set of three Zeppe­ m\\ ed those of rea hlS lod' all the rare lin stamps, 1312-14 in imperforate condition, \\\\\ d has among his o mgs . each one printed on a separate sheet. i\ii\ an . fli hts, Trans-Atlantics, \iii\ foreign pioneer g_ Tete-beche pair, mint, of the rare Buffalo Balloon Issue of 1877. Catalogued $2,000. etc. ' I 1 . . was . awarded the i\\\ ~l ~ion The unique flown coviP'fll!fed ·with a copy i\\i\ The Co e c6 ec h APEX London, in of the BUFFALO BALLOON STAMP. The \\\\\ Gold Medal a~ t ;IPEX New York, in earliest air mail cover and stamp in history. \i\\\ 1934, and, at t e . . 'h d honor of The only one known. ii\\\ 1936 had the distmgu1s e S . l \\\\\ h 'ng been awarded the pec1a Among the rare Newfoundlands is the MAR~ u111 av1 TINSYDE issue with manuscript overprint, \\\\\ Grand Gold Plaque. h used on cover. Catalogued $5,000. m11 . ost collector, who as \\\\\ Every airp h . · his collection The unique set of the MARTINSYDE stamps 1 .. 11 • • f en anc1ng in mint condition with machine overprint. 1, mn v1s1ons 0 ·n the 2, 3, and Sc. \iii\ 'th some of the true gems I f 1:\11 w1 're a ew iii\\ fi ld-the desire to acqu1 . De Pinedo and Hawker mint and used; used \\\\\ e ique :items-is urged to par· on cover and used off cover. U\\\ ~n. . the sale of this mag· \\\\\ t1c1pate m . Honduras-Std. Cat. #5, (Scott 402d) mint. \\\\\ nificent collecuon. . Catalogued $10,000. \i\\i b t'ful catalog, illustratmg :hi: A eau I .. Philippine Madrid-Manila Flight Issue, 2c to f the important rant1es, mil::::\ many o R lOp in singles and mint blocks of four. \\\\\ . no"' in preparation. eserve i\\li 18 .. And many other rare and unique items. hi\\ your copy today. ~~~\\\~.f@'\\'&%'\\\\\\fii\\i§\'2~.\ifu'\\~W§\l\-;;§'§<\'E.'-§'\\\fi~¥.~L.¥

F. W. KESSLER 551 5th Ave. A New York City 3Kc CZECHOSLOVAKIAN VARIETY those of a pale violet color. You will im­ • mediately find that the shapes or rather by ALTON J. BLANK sizes are different. The deep violet stamp East Cleveland, Ohio is. of a different size and obviously from a different plate . • There you have three stamps in place of one! L IKE TO look for varieties? Here's something to do in your spare What's to do about it? moments. Dig 'out your current copies of Czecho­ Why not solve the problem this way? slovakia, Scott number 516, Sanabria Call your NO hill type stamp number 16 number 16, the three koronas red violet or 516 dependent upon whether you use showing a biplane in flight over mountain Sanabria's or Scott's listing. Take your and river scenery. pale violet stamp WITH the hill and call it 16a or 516a. Then place the deep vio­ Did you know there are three distinct let stamp--the one that is obvious!y from types to be found? a new plate at the end of the .set of eight European collectprs. have l:Jeen conver­ as number 21 or 521. Here are the reasons sant with this fact for some time but ex­ for the suggestion. cept for isolated groups the average American collector is ignorant of the dif­ Stamp number 516 or 16 .was issued ferences in this beautifully designed along with the other seven stamps in the stamp. series in 1930. The "a" variety came out What to look for? That's easy. Close!y some time later-just when has not yet examine the lower left hand corner just been determined. The new number "21" above the tablet of value. You ·will notice was issued in 1933 from newly engraved that the distant hills, trees and river all plates. Is it not reasonable to assume that 'terminate at the frame line. Notice the this stamp should possess a definite cata­ :small hill at the extreme edge of the logue number? For precedent look up the Tange of hills. What NO hill. That's it! Greek set of four values issued in 1937 Some of the stamps have the hill and Sanabrias #s 31-34. They are the same <>thers do not. as #s 22-25 (Scott 772-775) but reprinted Now supposing you separate the NO from new plates slightly larger than the hills from those WITH hills and what do 1935 or original issue. you find? Yes, I thought so. There are two And after you have your three stamps distinct shades to the stamps with hills. nice!y mounted on your album pages sit The NO hill pile is reddish violet. The back and smile--because you never can HTI..L shades are pale violet and deep tell what will turn up in the 1940 cata• violet-right? logue. And while your friends are search­ Now separate these last two into sep­ ing, in 1940 and 1941, you will continue arate groups. Take a deep violet stamp smiling-because you already have found and place its topmost edges even with the stamps in 1939! 20 LINCOLN BEACHEY, • deserved the title so vapidly bestowed by by D. E. HELMUTH early writers-Birdman. Cleveland, Ohio Recounting the feats Beachey perform-. • ed it is hard not to forget that the jobs IFTY thousand visitors to the San he flew were not sleek stream-lined F Francisco Expo of 1915 were there planes but clumsy "flying machines." lhat day in March; were horrified to see In those days there were two schools the wings flutter from a "flying ma­ of thought in regard to learning to fly. chine" in the middle of a dive; to see The Wrights taught their man by a sys­ birdman Lincoln Beachey. tied in his tem of cloud slicing. The pupil went up seat, hurtle into the Bay off the Presidio. in a two-seated plane with a teacher Beachey washed out the way they all and took over the controls. did-Hugh Robinson, Charles Hamilton, Beachey learned under the Curtiss Eugene Ely, Bud Mars, C. C. Witmer. · grass cutting system. The neophyte took Beachey really lived when he was in the pilot's seat. The plane was run along the air with his planes. the ground, motor throttled down, un­ ••• able to take off. Engine speed was grad­ Some of the choicest items of my ually increased. The student took longer collection exist only in great purple and longer jumps. stories great fliers have created. For Linc Both methods were effective in pro­ Beachey there are no special stamps, no ducing great fliers. autographed covers, no crash covers. But Glenn Curtiss formed the Curtiss Ex­ Linc Beachey is a big pylon in the his­ hibition Company in 1910. Curtiss train­ toryr-- of -aviation. He is one man who ed a group of professional fliers. Jerome f . ~

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• LINCOLN BEACHEY flying his "rubber cow" · at a Florida air show, before taking to the air with wings. . -Photo Courtesy H. H. Griffin 21 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL

Fanciulli was general manager. Jarid. Wright turned to Knabenshue. He Linc Beachey's interest in flight dates said: further back than that. In 1905 he took "He is the most wonderful flier I ever up balloon flying, barnstorming the coun­ saw. The greatest aviator of all!" try for five years with his rubber cow­ tentatively identified from several photo­ The Birdman knew very little of aero­ graphs as one of Capt. Baldwin's Mickle­ dynamics. Glenn Curtiss feared that the berries. Beachey saw that the plane was planes Beachy flew could not stand up seizing interest from the balloon. under the demands made on them by a flier who flew by instinct, almost, now With Beachey on his barn-storming that he had his fundamentals. Curtiss tours went Roy Knabenshue who became warned Beachey that there were limits manager of the Wright Exhibition Com­ to the stunting that could be attempted. pany. Knabenshue tried to sell Beachey to Wright; Wilbur Wright and Linc Typically, Beachey continued to fly as Beachey could not come to terms. he pleased. He loved to fly. He W'1S in­ Beachey W'1nted more money than Wil­ different to applause and praise. He was bur Wright felt justified in paying. difficult to get along with. He was grouchy, moody, stubborn, quarrelsome. Beachey decided to take the bull by On land. the horns. He built himself a plane. In those days it was not so difficult a mat­ In the air he was a true birdinan. ter, given canvas. wood, vvire and a In 1911 he set up an altitude record. motor. The plane belied its name. It was His technique was direct, splendid, typi­ only " grasshopper. cal. Knabenshue still believed in Linc Fuel tanks were filled to the top. Beachey. He could not sell him to Wright. Beachey announced his intentions: to fly He talked to Curtiss and Fanciulli. Glenn up and up and up until the gas tank was Curtiss agreed to take Beachey as a empty, until there was no more power in pupil. the motor to whirl the prop. fu ~ full ~ mo B~~ey futt ~ He did. wings sprout. His beginning was under He went up 11,600 feet. He was ov'O!r an adverse star. He crashed a plane. two miles high. His tank was empty. Curtiss began to believe Knabenshue's His motor was dead. He swooped down­ enthusiasm had r"n away with him ward to earth agairi, perhaps regretfully. Fanciulli arranged for Beachey to have He stunted as he came down. He made another chance. So Linc Be'1chey flew a beautiful landing. He had made a very ag'ain and crashed again. difficult feat seem simple. There are men Curt~ss agam thr':!atened to dismiis,s like that. Beachey. Flying the way he did,. Birdman Before 1911 was very old Curtiss saw Beachey had his narrow escapes. One day Beachey earning big money for the Cur­ it was raining. The air was bumpy. Not tiss Exhibition Company. many pilots would have taken one of Linc Be3chey first flew in exhibition those early planes out. Beachey went up in Cuba. He was a sensation. Here was at the Falls, flew in the spray of Nia­ the perfect round peg in the perfect gara Falls and under the old bridge that round hole! spanned the gorge. Beachey set the pace for his team He flew a plane through the Machin­ mates, and for all fliers. He did things ery Hall at the San Francisco Exposition. with a plane that no one else d'1red He raced Barney Oldfield, king of race think up ... skimmed along the ground, car drivers. Beachey flew so close to clearing trees, telegraph poles and the ground a fraction of an inch was houses by very scant margins ... soar­ the margin between life at the controls ing into the air steeply as a hissing and death in a smash of wreckage. rocket bound moon-ward . .. . dropping Crowds thrilled to see Beachey land on earthward apparently doomed to crash roofs of office buildings . . skim along and straightening out yards above the rows of hangers, stick a wing through ground. each door ... Knabenshue was proved right. Once Orville Wright watched Beachey fly. He Many of the fliers who tried to out­ was spell bound. He saw the birdman Beachey Linc crashed. At one time he 22 MAY 1939

announced that he intended to ,stop fly­ ing. As easy for him to stop breathing.

Word reached him in 1913 that French birdman Adolph Pegoud had looped the loop. Beachey was shocked. He raged. He was furious. How dare anyone do what Beachey had not done!

To show Pegoud (and the world at iarge) how really to loop the loop Beachey had a new plane built. His cur­ rent plane qidn't have control enough for looping. In the design safety was thrown out for speed.

On Thanksgiving Day he made his first loop. Within a year he had looped more than one thousand times.

The Beachey technique was to loop at 800 feet. This was dangerously close to the hard earth. If he felt more reckless than usual Beachey made his loops at about 300 feet ..

Prime attraction at the San Francisco · Exposition was Linc Beachey and his stunting. He flew twice a day. He was paid about $1,500 a flight. Fifty thousand visitors were there that day in March. Saw wings flutter from the plane. Saw the fuselage, Linc Beach­ LrrTLE ALICE ' MASCUNA, grand­ ey tied to his seat, dive into the waters daughter of Walter Bruggmann, Manila, of San Francisco· Bay. exhibiting the award certificate received Home (said the poet) is the hunter, at the first Philippine Air Mail Exhibi­ home from the hills, the sailor home from the sea-anµ the flier home from the tion for her collection of Balloon Posts sky ... and Rocket Mail.

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your catalogue accordingly ...... Address of G. F. Lancaster in first ad following AIRPORT dedication section should be 1548 East 96th St., Brooklyn, N. Y ...... The editors of the airport dedication section are ap­ preciative of the many kind words re­ ceived concerning this section. COMING EVENTS: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, airport dedication scheduled for June 7th. Covers to Board of Trade with ~rn1~~n~~ Canaatan stamps on, or money order for postage at 6c each, NO U. S. stamps ...... North Beach World's Fair Airport was COVERS scheduled for dedication April 29th, and news in same mail from G. F. Lancaster, • Dr. J. F. Ulman, and Fred Sanders. Post card notices were sent to all on our by MAURICE S. PETTY list, but dedication was postponed, but is still in prospect. Covers to Mr. Fred San­ News of future and past even ts under ders, American Cover Club, 3628 207th this section shouJd be sent direct to St., Bayside, L. I .. N. Y ...... Dedication Mr. Petty, 507 Quackenbos St., N. W., Wasbington, D. C. at Albuquerque, N. M. still in prospect. Covers to Geo. E. Moore, Box 468 ...... Send to Chamber of Commerce, Madison, • Wisc., for dedication July 4th ...... Sioux Falls, S. D. postponed to some time in If' ATALOGUE CORRECTIONS: B-430, June. Covers to CofC ...... Prospective ..._, (last item on page 430) belongs in indefinite dedications reported at Mar­ its regular numerical order under Octo- shall, Mo., St. Joseph, Mo., Benton Har­ ber 17, 1929 (not November) ...... C-63, bor, Mich., and Rapid City, S. D...... first day of Ft. Worth date of "13" Ticonderoga, N. Y. about July 1st. Cov­ should be "12." ...... K-59a superfluous ers to CofC or Blanche M. Thatcher Box and should be deleted ...... Please note 332...... Dedication reported for Bishop, Calif. June 4th. Try P. M...... It was reported that Palm Springs, Cal. would dedicate in April, but apparently nothing THE KING'S ROLL! happened, and covers without cachet We are probably the only profession­ postmarked there on May 6th have been al philatelists in the world with proud seen. More next month...... P. M. at distinction of being on 'Ihe King's Huntingdon, W. Va., returns covers to Roll and entitled to use the "King's Roll Badge." Why? We will tell you several and says Cabell County Airport if you write to us. is a small field 5 miles north, and knows 'lrans-Atlanues, 1919-1939---an unique of no scheduled dedication of any air­ stock of Flown Covers, from 25c to port nearby...... Also P. M.s' at Chil­ $400 each. Documentary items from dress, Texas, and Herndon, Va. return 60c each. covers to W. T. Wynn, Jr., and say NO Air Defense--Striking pictorial post­ marks (of Japan) depicting all pre· dedications...... Moline, Ill., dedicated cautionary measures, 8c each; 12 diff. City owned airport, 3 miles south of City for 85c. on April 16th and a nice printed bluish Central Europe Crises-Unusual cov­ ers flown during occupation of Czecho, Memel, etc; and pre-crisis covers of Gibraltar, Danzig, Austria, the Balkans PONY EXPRESS STAMPS-25 cents each and other "in the news" countries. Oklahoma via Pony Express to New York We have been consistently in Air World's Fair. Order direct from Golden Mails for a longer period than any Jubiiee Pony Express, Oklahoma City, other specialist business and our stock Oklahoma. Letters to go by Pony Ex­ is absolutely unique as to range and press must have both Pony Express stamp value. May we place our experience and regulation 3-cent govermnent stamp and stocks at your service? or 6-cent a eturn. Every serious collector subscribes to Pony "The Aero Field" (85c per annum, post cane The government stamp will free), the unique de luxe magazine for have New York World's Fair cancellation. Limited Printing. Order your stamps-or beginners, specialists and dealers. send large business envelope with govern­ ment stamp attached and addressed, en­ closing 25 cents per letter to be sent. Pony Express stamps will be placed on cover Francis J. Field, Ltd. here. Cover will be inscribed "Oklahoma Sutton Coldfield, England Via Pony Express To New York World's Fair." Get your stamps now! 24 MAY 1939 COVER AL'BUM

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Supplied with 100 Cellulose• Acetate• pockets, to take up to a number 7 envelope. Binder will hold 50 additional pockets. • • • Album with 100 pockets ...... •...... $4.75 Extra pockets, per 50 ...... :...... 2.25 • • F. w. KE·SSLER 551 FIFTH A VENUE A NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Pine, Neb. cover pmkd. May 4th, no cachet. Had been out over 5 years. More on it next month ...... Dedication of Kus- ter Landing Field at Corona, Calif., May 7th brought nice blue cachet by C. of C ...... '.. Covers received pmkd. Baker, Calif. Fair Prices (nearest P. for commissioning date of Silver Intermediate Landing Prompt Payment Field. No dedication held or expected. OTHER AIR COVERS: G. F. Lancaster shows covers with printed cachet by Booklet of Information Collegiate Philatelic Society, reading "Joint Air Exercises No. 1, Conducted by u. s. Army, Navy, and Coast Guard, off the New England-New York Coast, April 17-22, 1939, each signed by the officer fly­ ing same. Covers on hand as follows: Pmkd. 21, Boston Air Mail Field, signed by Lt. J. 0. Ellis; Pmkd. April 21, Bos­ ton Air Mail Field, signed by Major R. F. Cole; Pmkd. April 24, Langley Field, Va., signed by Capt. R. B. Williams; Pmkd. April 25, Langley Field, Va., signed by cachet was applied by the Quad City Lt. Col. Robert Olds; Pmkd. April 26, Philatelic Society and Association of Langley Field, Va., signed b! Lt. W: A. Commerce. 2177 mailed. Also one seen Fountain; Pmkd. April 26, Mitchell Field, without cachet, with private inscription, N. Y., signed by Major P. Melville. and signed by Pilot Ralph J. Hall, as COOPERATION gratefully acknowledg­ flown from dedication to Chicago, where ed as having been received from C. E. pmkd. 17th. Thanks to some unknown Carlson F. Crocker, Robert Hend- donor for a cover ...... Arvin, Calif. cov- erson, G. F. J. V. Murray, Fred ers of April 8th were 256 and of April Sanders, W. F. Siegle, Dr. J. F. Ulman, 9th were 355...... Cover received pmkd. and W. T. Wynn, Jr. Thanks for covers Honolulu, Hawaii, April 18th, with in­ received from Alvin H. Anderson and an scription signed by Pilot Capt. Gilbert unnamed friend. E. E. Tefft, as having been flown there to from dedication of Maui Airport at Puunene in Maui, Hawaii. Another seen pmkd. April 18th at Puunene, with blue • printed pictorial cachet reading "Official Dedication, Maalaea Airport." Fields are RAILWAY P. O. CANCEL the same, "Maui Airport" being the cor- FOR ROYAL TRAIN rect name...... Clipping sent by J. V. It was announced by the Post Office Murray referred to airport dedication at Department that in connection with the Baltimore, Md. April 25th. On securing visit to this country in June of the King Baltimore papers, we learned that on that and Queen of England, facilities will be day, the dedication of the Marine Air provided at Washington, D. C., for apply­ Terminal base of P. A. A. for Trans-At­ ing the postmark "Royal Train R. P, 0., lantic Flights, took place. Christening or u. s. A., June 9, 1939" to philatelic mail. the new "Atlantic Clipper" took place at Persons desiring covers to receive that same time. Do not know of any covers. postmark should forward them to the Di you? ...... Dedication of U.S. Army Air Second Assistant Postmaster General, Depot Repair and Supply Base, and Air­ Division of Railway Mail Service, Wash­ port, 'took place at Sacramento, Calif., ington, D. C. No special cachet will be April 29th, and a nice black cachet ap­ used and the covers will not be actually plied by the CofC. Also reported without transported on the Royal Train. cachet. 857 air covers and 74 non-air mailed ...... J. V. Murray reports Long In order to receive the "Royal Train R. P. O." postmark, covers must be fully prepaid at the ordinary rate of postage. PHILIPPINES - "MADRID MANILA" Unpaid and insufficiently prepaid covers #305/18, 318b-superb used ...... $276.00 will be treated in accordance with the regulations. (You'd pay more at auction). The postage required on covers ad­ Send for special price list of Mexican dressed to destinations within or outside Air Mails the United States or Canada may be as­ PAUL F. BERDANIER, JR. certained from local postmasters. No 3327-80 Street Jackson Heights, N. Y. covers will be accepted after 12 noon, June 9th. 26 MAY 1939

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PRICES-Sets are sold as units, as described above. Title, photo, or map pages cannot be supplied separately. Additional "Pick· Up" or "Trans-Atlantic" style pages for mounting covers available sep­ arately at 2 cents each (plus postage). Either of the com- plete sets, as above sent postpaid to readers of the Airpost $100 J'ournal only ...... • Nearly a dozen other designs of APJ Album Pages also available. Suitable for mounting any type of cover and designed to fit standard three-ring binder. Send lOc for sample set of six different styles in one and 'two colors. RPJ ALBUM DEPT., ALBION, PA.

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of any philatelic value or interest.-Mexi­ can philatelists request this support from Mexican Manipulations their mates all over the world, to help us win this fight and we are ready to recip­ Provoke Philatelists rocate with you whenever we may be needed. Tell at your next club meeting of this case, write articles in your philatelic • papers, tell your friends about it, and help us bar this stamp from all catalogues. by AL TON J. BLANK -WE NEED YOU TODAY, YOU MAY East Cleveland, Ohio NEED US TOMORROW." (Ed. note:-the capital letters are theirs.) • Without mentioning names I feel it in­ teresting to note that several New York dealers are joining the boycott against ...... EXICO IS REPEATING her phil­ this stamp. Typical of their expressions is ~ atelic history if the facts at hand this letter which I quote: "Regarding the anent the proposed SARABIA stamp are Mexican Sarabia stamp. I have a report true. And since they come from various stating the quantity will be 2,100. There is sources and tell essentially the same story a lot of resentment among New York we will assume them to be true. dealers and I do not believe we will han­ Most collectors may not be familiar with dle them, except on specific order and the issue. A few details follow. consequently will warn our customers it A Mexican Aviator, Francisco Sarabia, will be their own funeral." has been doing literally a "Frank Hawks" in streaking thru the air trails over Mex­ From Mexico comes a letter from a ico. He decided in the early part of April, dealer who states: "This issue has already to make a direct flight between Mexico been banned by many dealers and collec­ City and New York City. As part of the tors here in Mexico as an entirely specu­ "Financial Arrangements" he proposed lative scheme of no postal value. that the Government of Mexico issue a stamp for use on the flight. "The Association de Filatelistas Mexi­ Paul F. Berdanier states in STAMPS canos has been working to obtain from for May 6, 1939, that "Pilot Sarabia-and the government either the cancellation of his proposal was that 1,200 stamps be sur­ this issue, or a much larger quantity to charged specially, 1,000 of which were to be sold freely to the public, but so far be given to him as a gift to be sold by nothing has been obtained. Many collec­ tors have been supporting the Asociacion him later at a price he should fix. The de Filatelistas in this work." President accepted the proposition, but raised the quantity to be issued to 2,100, In the May 1935 issue of the Airpost to be distributed as follows: 1,000 to Sara­ Journal l chronicled the Amelia Earhart bia, 400 to the Universal Postal Union, 300 stamp in the following manner. to the Mexican Philatelic Agency and 400 "MEXICO. Fallen off the . straight and to be used on covers Sarabia would carry narrow again ! After seeingly reforming on his proposed flight." and starting in great style, witness the The stamp planned to be used is the 20c recent permanent air set, our southern Mexican air mail New York World's Fair neighbor has been unable to resist temp­ commemorative to be surcharged SARA­ tation and has reverted to her former BIA VUELO DE MEXICO A N. Y., and self. First she resorted to her old trick the flight is planned to take place some of issuing an "error" and then resorted to time in May, 1939." surcharging in limited quantity." Bulletin No. 6. issued by the Associa­ tion of Mexican Philatelists contains some "We have no criticism of the event and interesting information about manipula­ believe that such a stamp is OK, but when tions in the Mexican Post OffiCe depart­ the issue is limited so that a favored few ment. We reprint herewith from page benefit then we advocate Boycott." 3 what they have to say about the Sarabia It is my firm belief that those words stamp. written four years ago are still as ex­ "SARABIA'S Mexico-New York Flight.­ pressive of the general run of mind of Here again we have another of the Mexi­ the great group of collectors of air mail can speculative issues, perhaps worse than stamps today as they were when written. the Amelia Earhart's commemorative Such high-handed methods as are being stamps.-We are requesting all of our for­ used with the Sarabia stamp smell of rank eign members and foreign friends, that exploitation. It is all right to have stamps immediately after they receive this bulle­ for special flights or world's fair but why tin they take steps in coooerating with in hades don't they let all collectors have us, DECLARING THE STAMP IN QUES­ a chance at them instead of a favored TION A SOUVENffi STAMP, depriving it few? After all they are being issued for 28 MAY 1939

the collectors and not to serve a national Catalogue. We are pleased to be able to posta1 need l report his discovery this month. Despite the fact that official sponsors may be cunning enough to take the rat-her St. Paul, Minnesota important requisites of listing into con­ On June 24, 1929, at 6:45 p. m. a North­ sideration. however limited the· issue may western Airways Ford tri-motored plane, be, there is one important fact to be con· westbound from Chicago to Minneapolis, sidered: IF GENERAL DISTRIBUTION OF AM 9,. piloted by Edwin H. Middaugh, A STAMP OR STAMPS IS WITHHELD, with a steward and six passengers on THAT STAMP SHOULD BE SUBJ"ECT board, experiE;nced motor trouble im­ TO BOYCOTT. And the collectors and mediately after the takeoff while over a dealers can do it by refusing to buy. or bluff near Indian Mounds Park, The pilot stock any such issues. swung the ship around to return to the While we can not speak officially for airport, but was unable to clear the bluff the American Air Mail Society we feel on the river bank, and after striking a that the action of the Mexican Philatelic roof top, the plane sheared off the porch association is heartily to be commended of another house and was badly wrecked and we feel that the members of our on striking the ground. The ship caught society will join in furthering their pur· fire and nearby residents were unable to pose. Our albums and catalogues have no rescue the pilot, who was killed. The oth­ place for such SOUVENIR issues. er occupants were seriously injured. Twenty-one packages of letters and six large envelopes of first class matter were on board, all of which was salvaged. No • special markings were applied, although the mail known is burned around the edges.

Oklahoma City, Okla. March 26, 1929. Trip 1 of Braniff Air­ ways, southbound from Chicago to Brownsville, AM 9-15, piloted by Capt. Claude Seaton, suffered a major accident at Oklahoma City at 2:50 a. m. only a few minutes after leaving the airport. Due to motor trouble. the pilot turned the plane about to land again at the Municipal Air­ port but was unable to maintain the ship's balance and came in with the left wing low. This wing struck an embank­ ment near the edge of the field resulting in the plane being completely wrecked on striking the ground. The wreckage CRASH COVERS caught fire and was destroyed. The stew­ ardess and seven passengers were killed, • while the pilot, co-pilot Malcolm Wallace, by HAROLD A. JONES and two other passengers were injured. 607 Shelby St., 222 lbs. of mail were on board, of which Detroit, Mich. only ten pounds were salvaged all in bad­ ly burned and charred condition. It was forwarded the next day after application • of a four line cachet in purple a!i follows: DAMAGE DUE TO AIR MAIL/INTER­ ~ OVERS HAVE APPEARED from the RUPTION NEAR/OKLAHOMA CITY ..._,. one major accident of March which OKLA/MARCH 26, 1939. It was delivered is noted this month. Another mail plane by postmasters at destination in official accident occurred at Atlanta, and due to envelopes with variously worded notes the difficulty of identifying the mail in­ explaining the damage. volved, it will receive no further men· tion other than in this column unless Atlanta, Ga. covers are submitted to your editors prov­ March 27, 1939. Atlanta, Ga. 12:30 p. m, en to have been on board the plane. EAL. AM. 6-10. Northbound. Miami-Chi­ April has been a quiet month. R. Lee cago. Pilot, Capt. F. B. Kern, two other Black, an enthusiast of Des Moines, is to crew members and 15 passengers unhurt. be highly commended for bringing to Coming in for a landi,ng, the pilot light a cover from a mishap away back in overshot Candler Field, and was unable 1929, which has been fully authenticated, to regain flying speed when the plane's and which event has not been reported right motor failed. The big airliner came before, nor has it been included in the down in a field 1170 feet from the airport, 29 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL

ripping through some low trees and a Notes fence before coming to a stop in the soft Congratulations to Lionel F. Ascher for ground. The landing gear, wings, and a prize winning showing of Crash Covers propellors were damaged. at the Intercollegiate Philatelic Exhibi- 52 lbs. of mail on board, all undamaged tion at Columbia University recently ...... and it was forwarded a few hours later There is a very good list of French Crash from the Atlanta AMF via AM. 5-11 for Covers running i.n L'Echo de la Timbro­ connection at New Orleans with AM. 8, logie. Translations of a few of the listings Trip 4. No special markings were applied. will appear here later, as some of them This mishap will not be catalogued until are of interest to American collectors .... covers c.arried are positively identified. .... Our esteemed contemporary, the AERO San Juan, Puerto Rico FIELD, will keep you informed of current An interesting cover has appeared from mishaps on the air mail routes of the Bri­ the San Juan, Puerto Rico, accident of tish Empire, the May issue containing February 19th, reported last mon1h. It is notes of several recent ones ...... How do postmarked Detroit, Mich., Feb. 17, 1939, you like our section of the new Cata­ the stamps are missing, and it is wrinkled logue ? Beefs as well as bouquets are and unsealed from its immersion in San equally welcome as we are anxious to Juan harbor. The envelope was resealed keep it reliable and authentic ...... An in Argentina with round official seals and interesting variety of cachet used for 2.31 a red oval cancellation was applied over has appeared, with scrambled wording and the seals on the back of the cover. Buenos two inverted letters, viz: DELAYED BY Aires used a machine backstamp with the PLANE/ CRASH NEAR 1-22-31/WASHON­ the cancellation. This is the first time such G'L WU. nords AVION ATRASADO as a part m Thanks for help this month are due to a means of marking has been used on Frank A. Costanzo. George W. Angers, crash covers, a hand stamped cachet be­ Willis M. Pott, Erik Hildesheim, and R. ing the usual practice. Lee Black. Cleveland Air Mail Society Plans 10th Anniversary Celebration On June 11, 1929 some forty odd American Airlines and Thompson Airmail collectors in the Cleveland Products Corp., are we able to pre­ area met and formed the Cleveland sent such an extravaganza of colorful Airmail Society, Chapter #3 of the Air Travel information and data American Airmail Society. With the consisting of models of Planes they celebration of its tenth Anniversary use on their lines, photographs of Cleveland is the oldest active chap­ Pilots that fly the Airmail, operating ter today. On Saturday and Sunday, models of Airplane motors, and last June tenth and eleventh, 1939, the but not least the complete outline of Cleveland Airmail Society takes the world famous National Air Races. pride to announce that it will cele­ The Cleveland Airmail Society is brate this tenth Anniversary wtth a the culmination of a dream of sever­ two day bourse banquet and non­ al pioneers of Airmail collecting of competitive Philatelic Exhibition of a decade ago, such as H. H. Griffin, United States and Foreign stamps J. T. Schweier, F. W. Grant and many and covers in the luxurious Petite others. Under the able guidance of Room of the Hotel Carter in the these men the Cleveland Airmail heart of Cleveland, Ohio. Society has grown and carried on in This exhibition by members only the traditions inculated at its incep­ will cover all nhases of Airmail col­ tion in the early days of the infancy lecting both United States and For­ of our Airmail Service, which today eign. Through the perfect coopera­ is so necessary to our every day life. tion and generosity of United Air­ During the past ten years the lines, Pennsylvania Central Airlines, Cleveland Airmail Society has grown 30 MAY 1939

ATTRACTIVE GRAND PRIZE of the First Philippine Air Mail Exhibition awarded to Walter Bruggmann for his outstanding showing of 108 frames of airmails. until it commands a top position in time. the American Airmail Society and Commemorative Philatelic exhibi­ amongst Stamp Societies throughout tion sheets of this event will be in the country. Many of its members four colors, red, white, blue and gold have served the ·American Airmail in perforated and imperforated form Society in various official capacities and will sell for twenty cents per set. and lent their support to the further­ These may be secured by communi­ ance of Airmail collecting and Phil­ cating with Frank A. Kiraly, 3494 ately in general. West I 17th St., Cleveland, Ohio, who will enclose upon request an official . A spirit of good fellowship and first and last day cover, which has helpfulness and assistance to the be­ been produced through the courtesy ginner is our creed. Saturday after­ of the United Airlines for return noon and Sunday afternoon at one postage for same. thirty P. M. climaxes the program of each day with a select auction The Cleveland Airmail Society ex­ by the famous Don Dickason of Woo­ tends a hearty welcome to all who ster, Ohio. Bid sheets are being dis­ attend and help us celebrate our tributed by him upon request, with 10th anniversary. We promise an en­ many a choice item never yet of­ joyable and instructive visit both for fered. The Saturday evening ban­ the collector and the layman who is quet at seven P. M. will introduce interested in Airmail and Aviation. several well known notables in Air­ mail and Aviation circles to ·the at­ For additional information con­ tending pubiic. Every thing is being cerning hotel reservations and bourse done to assure both the dealers who tables kindly contact Secretary Mark will participate in our bourse and C. Emsley, 2192 Brown Road, Lake­ the collectors who will visit us that wood, Cleveland, Ohio. a most en~oyable and educational -Frank A. Kiraly 31 American Air Mail Societu ORGANIZED 1923 AS THE AERO PHILATELIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA

President • ORIAN E. GREEN. 555 W. Drayton. PAUL F. ROBERTSON, c/o Decatur Ferndale. Michigan. Garment Co.. Decatur, Ill. MRS. ETHEL B. STEWART. Lake Lenape, Andover. N. J. Advisory Board Secretary GEORGE W. ANGERS EMIL VLASAK. WAT,TER J. CONRATH. 293 Bridge St. Springfield, Mass. L. B. GATCHELL Treasurer HERBERT H. GRIFFIN GEORGE W. ANGERS, FRANCIS B. LEECH 293 Bridge Street, Springfield, Mass. HARRY A. TRUBY Sales Manager CHARLES P. PORTER Vice-Presidents 143 Beechmont Drive, New Rochelle, ALTON J. BLANK. 1850 Burnett Ave., New York. East Clevel:md. Ohio. Advance Bulletin Superintendent CHARLES G. RIESS, P. 0. Box 11, WALTER J. CONRATH Albany, New York. The A.IEPOST JOURNAL. Albion, Pa. WILLIAM M. STUART, Apt. BOB, The Advance Bulletin is sent regularly 2124 Eye St .• N. W .• Washington, by the manager only to those members D. C. who are in good standing and provide a supply of self addressed regulation Direct-Ors Government .Postal Cards. WILLIAM R. ALLEY, 261 Broadway. Exchange Department New York City, Each member Is entitled to two 25-word YORK BRIDDELL. P. 0. Box 668, St. Exchange Notices per year, in the Offi­ Petersburg, Fla. cial Publication, without charge. Ad­ ALBERT N. BROWN. 270 Tehama St., dress direct to the publication office S2n Francisco. Calif. at Albion, Penna. WALTER BRUGGMANN. P. 0. Box Official Publication 1314 Manila. Philippine Islands. THJil AIRPOST JOURNAL FRANK A. COf:TANZO. P. 0. Box 32, Published monthly and sent to all Punxsutawney, Pa. members in good standing.

The Secretary's Report:

NEW MEMBERS 2188 Lust, Dr. Charles A., 35-55 168th St., Flushing, N. Y. 2189 Jones, Robert L., 4027 N. Franklin St., Philadelphia, Pa. 2190 Cadman, Charles R., 1338 North 4th Street, Toronto, Ohio. 2191 Bowman, Bliss R., South Saint Joseph, Mo. 2192 Jager, Henry c/o General Hospital, Paterson, N. J. 2193 McCoy, C. L., Horatio, Ark. 2l94 Cupitt, Richard, 1335 Arm St., Victoria, B. C. Canada. 2195 Shirley, Joseph B.; 3543 Bayard) St., Cincinnati, Ohio. 219(; Phillips, Lieut. Kenneth C., Coast Guard Depot, Curtis Bay, Md. 2197 Kreger, A. E., Box 251, Rainy River, Ontario.

RE-INSTATED 432 Griffin, Joe W., 1805 Davis Ave., Whiting, Indiana. Age 29. High S::hool Teacher. US20 UC FF CAM FAM DC CF lD. By Emil J. Vlasak.

APPLICATIONS POSTED Hansen, Hilding, 19 Fern St., Hempstead, N. Y. Age 49. Draftsman. AM AU U20 UC PC CC Z lD CMC EX. By Erik Hildesheim. Sweetser, Al. W., 730 Eddy St., San Francisco, Cal. Age 35. Salesman. AM AS. By Wal­ ter J. Conrath. 32 MAY 1939

Murray, Joseph V., 1311 Henry Avenue, Mamaroneck, N. Y. Accountant. HC DC EX. By Maurice S. Petty. Haynes, Jesse E., 35 Western Avenue, Brattleboro, Vt. Age 62. Sales Manager. AM AU U2Cf UC PC PA GF lD PIX. By Walter J. Conrath. Tyler, Mrs. Dorothy D., 2445 Pine Valley Court, Houston, Texas. Age Legal. By Walter J. Conrath. Knight, George W .• 49, Wall St., Room 409, New York, N. Y. Age 26. Salesman. AU EX. By S. Nicholsky. Frank, M. P., Hotel Shoreham, Miami Beach, Fla. Age 47. AM AU' CAM FAM lD CMC. By Walter J. Conrath. Benedict, Mrs. Harold, 110 Riverside Drive, New York, N. Y. PC FF GF CAM FAM RP DC Z CF lD EX. By Walter J. Conrath. Bowen, Mrs. B. J.,13 Hillside Terrace, West Newton, Mass. Age 57. Housewife. AM AU U20 PC lD EX. By Robert G. Fisher. Kramer, Siegfried, 24 East 21st Street, New York City. Age 38. Owner. Z lD PIX EX. By Emil J. Vlasak. Hartman, Mrs. E. R., 121 Marion Ave., Mansfield, Ohio. Age 45. Housewife. AM. By Emil J. Vlasak.

ERROR IN LISTING OF NAME OR ADDRESS 118 Lee, Chester Ernest, 1201; Doidge Ct., Long Beach, Calif. (APJ-March) 2185 Koon, C. Harold, P. 0. Box 305, Pottsville, Pa. (APJ-April)

CHANGE OF ADDRESS Creed, Jacques, 5251 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Decker, John, 424 East 75th St., New York, N. Y. Dufour, W. D., 6212 N. Mozart St., Chicago, Illinois. Fisher, G. v .. 5 Fell St., San Francisco, Calif. Hayes, Frank R., 47 School St., Springfield, Mass. Johnson, Lieut. J. G .• Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va. (July 1, 1939). Kronstein, Dr. Max, 3900 Spuyten Duyvil Parkway, New York, N. Y. Lamport, Florence, 5364 Sydenham St., Philadelphia, Pa. Owen, Frank L., 3930 13th St., Des Moines, Iowa. Porter, Geo. H., 1557 Chesterland Ave., Lakewood, Ohio. Radasch. Dr. H. E., 307 So. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Rohde, F. W., 24 Leonard St., North Haledon, N. J. Schelm, Mrs. G. W., 2864 Brinker Ave., Ogden, Utah.

DROPPED FOR NON PAYMENT OF DUES Arnold, Josph H., 1022 Lakeview Road, Cleveland, Ohio. Barr, Dr. Charles, Highland Mills, N. Y. Bray, Dallas G., 3048-36th Street, Long Island City, N. Y. Breuer, H. A., 1217 Waveland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Clifford, James E., 9915 Denison Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Gridley, Chas. Stanley, 815 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, N. J. Kunze, John M., 106 No. Mh St., Newark, N. J. La Chance, A. E., 31: East 216th St., Cleveland, Ohio. Lubin, Mrs. Herbert, c/o D. D. Beecher, Richland Farm, Ellicott City, Md. McEvoy, F. A., Mt. McGregor, N. Y. Parrish, Warren N., 2128 E. lOOth St., Cleveland, Ohio. Prather, Fred 1701 Wallen Ave., Rogers Park Sta., Chicago, Ill. Rand, John A., 40 Morton St., Andover, Mass. Scholand, Walter J .. 26 Evans Street, Williamsville, N. Y. 'Whitham, Leslie D., 40 Kirkham Street, Newington, Conn. Worsfold, Jay M., Box 262, Bronxville. N. Y. Yudkin, Samuel, 546 Elm Street, New Haven, Conn.

RESIGNATION 1939 Davis, Russell, 32 Malden St., Springfield, Mass. We extend our sincere congratulations to the several editors who worked so un~ selfishly and untiringly that the A. A. M. S. might present such an outstanding first edition of the American Air Mail Catalogue. Let each member endorse this fine crea­ tion of our fellow collectors by purchasing a copy. No collection is complete without a ready reference. The center of attack will now be on the new membership directory. It is planned to have this work completed so that the booklet may be mailed to the membership with the July issue of the Airpost Journal. Respectfully submitted Emil J, Vlasak, Secretary ASK YOUR COLLECTOR FRIENDS TO JOIN THE AAMS 33 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL WANT ADS

RATE: WANTED-USED FOREIGN AliRMAILS One cent per word per insertion. Re­ in exchange for mint U. S. commemora­ mittance should accompany order and tives or U. S. mint sheets. Wholesale used ·copy. airmail lots preferred. M. Amiel, Box 1903, St. Petersburg, Fla. Ex-108-2t TRANSOCEANIC MAIL FROM FLOWN or attempted flights bought and exchang­ AIRPORT DEDICATIONS - EXCHANGE ed. Wh~t have you? Write William H. wanted. Send lists of what you have and Krinsky, 2520 Glenwood Rd., Brooklyn, need. J. V. Murray, 1311 Henry Avenue, N. Y. 105-12t Mamaroneck, N. Y. ex-109

SCARCE UNfTED STATES COINS 30c AIR MAIL FIRST DAY COVERS AND bought for cash. Buying book 25c. Eugene Trans-Atlantic Flights offered for other Morrison, Reseda, Calif. 109-3t* First Days and Flights. L. P. Miller, Box 733, Scranton, Penna. USED AIR MAIL STAMPS FOR SALE China 1933-37 issue of 5 varieties 667-671 PHILIPPINE FLIGHTS NOS. 40-73-86-87- $5.00. Australia 111-112 at 20c, 301 to 305 lll-118(L)-124-127-136 to exchange for at $1.30. Perforated "GS" $2.00. Bolivia 1935 Guam firsts and Luxemburg stamps. 342 to 351 set of 10 fu $1.50, later Bolivian. R. E. Parke, North Conway, N. H. ex-109 Howard Davis, Dealer, 249 Pearsall, Ridge­ wood, N. J. 109-2t* EXCHANGE FIRST DAY AND DEDICA­ tion covers or will buy the latter. Also WANTED LINDBERGH PLATE NUMBER exchange dedications :for stamps. Ken booklet pa.nes of three stamps with ori­ Tallmadge, Palace Theatre, Flint, Mich. ginal tab advise position, number, per­ ex-109-2t centage showing, quantity and price will purchase or . trade other numbers. Oliver J. Williams, 760 Bryant Street, San Fran­ USED AND UNUSED AIRMAILS EX­ cisco, Calif. 109-3t changed for unused United States. Jacques Creed, 5251 Chestnut St., Philadel­ phia, Pa. ex-109-2t SElVmaAL 'TH;OUSAiND AERO-P!HOTOS ·4x5. 15c per print. I may have some you MIMEOGRAPHED LIST OF DUPLICATE need. Bart A. Brady, 158 Amherst Street, CAM's and want list now ready. Basis East Orange, N. J. 109-lt 1940 Air· Mail Catalogue. Bill Hafner, Babylon, N. Y. ex-109 I HAVE A RUN OF THE AIR MAIL Collector and Airpost Journals as fol­ HAVE CAM's AIRPOST DEDS AND lows: 64 numbers, vol. 1; #1 November a few First Days. to exchange for Mint 1928--Jan. 1934. 21 numbers April 1934- and used U. S. and British Col. E. Mundy, Jan. 1936. 8 numbers March 1936 to Oct. Box 644, Plainfield, N. J. ex-109-2t 1936. Tlie whole lot for a $10 bill. F. R. Acomb, c/o The Fifth Third Union Trust EXCHANGE CAM AND FAM COVERS. ·Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 109-2t* Basis new catalogue and WIAE and NYBRA covers for others. I need these EXCHANGE-WANT TRANS-OCEANIC lines. John G. Kunz, Miranda Oriente, record flight and pioneer covers. Will Cuba. · ex-109 give Zeppelin and all European covers. ir. H. L. S. Adama, Waalsdorperlaan 42, WANTED TO TRADE !ST DAY COVERS, ·The Hague (Netherlands). 109-2t* anniversary, CAM covers for CAM, DOX, Zepp and Pioneer Flights. What hav\' you AAMS EXCHANGE ADS to offer? F. W. Rohde, 24 Leonard St., (Each member is entitled to two 25-word North Haledon, N. J. ex-109 ads per year). SPECIAL N. Y. WORLD'S FAIR AND ·w ANTED TO TRADE AIRPORT DEDICA­ Washington First Day cards and covers tion covers. Send for my want list and mailed on U. S. naval vessels. Also 1936- send me your list. New 1940 catalog used 7-8 Bendix rare covers. What's offered? ·w. T. Wynn, Jr., 8544 Cloverlawn, Detroit, Joseph H. Spiegelberg, 519 Ralph Ave., Mich. Ex-108-2t Brooklyn, New York. 34 Est. 1896 A. PHILLIPS 11a!l1ad$~ NEWPORT MON ENGLAND

N. Z. TO U. S. A. GREAT TRANS-PACIFIC AIR MAIL

AUCKL.A,.1W, NEW AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, to LON. ZEALAND, to PAGO gg~ovia SAN FRAN· $2.50 PAGO, SAMOA Superb Cover, Listed $5,. Superb Cover with 4/6 Frank- E A C H Postmarked "31 De 37 8pm," ing (including 3/ - Pict orial Stamp) Backstam ped .. San Backstamped "Pago I Jan Francisco Jan. 6" ------5pm"

Collectors of First Air Mails should not miss this opportunity of securing a record of this immense :6ight, the great~s t Trans-ocean Mail Flown. Over 6,000 miles across the Pacific. Epoc~·m a k i.n g special covers.

Owing to a favourable purchase we offer these superb items below market value. Orders can be placed with confidence as we guarantee satisfaction or refund, of payment. '

SPECIAL EXHIBITION GREEN LISTS OFFERS OF FIRST AIR MAILS 290 Monteverde Crash from 10/~ 289 Propaganda. 2/6 to £5,000 Collections:- 288 Gift Ofter. 14 Firsts £1 $12.50 to $25,000 287 Collections. 50/- to. £5,000 286 Thl!t is the Air Aie Samples:- 285 Paris Balloons. Check List 5 different $ .62 284 R. A. S. A Guaranteed List. 10 283 Recent Green. Lists different 1.25 282 Pacific. Priced Check List. 15 different 2.50 These and other Gr een Lists 30 different 5.oo tree on request of the American Air Mail Catalogue "THE SAGA OF Am MAIL transportation from its in­ ception long before the era of the Wright Brothers' in­ vention is portrayed in the American Air Mail Catalogue ...•. Although compiled primarily as a guidance to aero-philatelists, it is a companion piece to aviation pro­ gress, for here is factually recorded virtually everything of value and significance which postally relates to this subject. It is something more than a volume for collectqrs only." -Kent B. StilH in THE NEW YORK TI}4ES

"THE FffiST ISSUE of the American Air Mail CatalQi\le surprasses our expectations, in spite of our having known what excellent cooperation from many well-known ex­ perts had gone into its making •• .• The catalogue cer­ tainly is a "must" for every collector who includes air mails in his collection." - "STAMPS" Magazine (New York)

"AN EXTREMELY MARVELOUS work .. • . The amount of research and the statistical material contained in this catalogue show the painstaking effort which was behind the work of the Society and the editors." -Franklin R. Bruns, THE NEW YORK SUN

"A CATALOGUE of which air mail cover collectors may justly be proud. - WEEKLY PHILATELIC GOSSIP !Holton, Kans.)

"THE AMERICAN AIR MAIL CATALOGUE is an ex­ tremely fine example of the cataloguer's art and merits a prominent place on the bookshelves of all air mail collec­ tors . . . . On the 720 pages of this very complete cata­ logue are more than 1,100 illustrations of covers, cachets and U. S. air mail stamps, 78 maps of contract and for­ eign air mail routes and authoritative data contributed by hundreds of aero-philatelists . •... The pages are good heavy stock that show the illustrations clearly." - P. B. Digby in PITTSBURGH SUNDAY SUN-TELEGRAPH

"AN IMPOSING volume . . .• Attractively printed and bound the book will, of course, be the most valuable ad­ dition to the llorary of every air mail c-0llector and deal­ er . . . . You cannot be without it if you collect this 720 Pages: 78 Maps: branch of philately." More than 1,100 ruuura· -August Diets, Jr. in STAMP AND COVER lions. A complete band· COLLECTORS' REVIEW book of American Air· posts. "THE CATALOGUE is another monument to air mail $ collecting." 3s.o -Justin L. Bachrach, N. Y. JOURNAL-AMERICAN Postage Extra (Wt. 3 lbs). "ONE OF THE MOST COMPLETE air mail catalogues AMERICAN . . . • . definitely a ''must" for every collector of air AIR MAIL CATALOGUE mail." Albion, Penna. -Sydney E. Goldie, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER