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TexasTexas PostalPostal HistoryHistory WORLD WAR I SocietySociety MILITARY INSTALLATIONS JournalJournal AND POST OFFICES IN TEXAS . . . Page 3 Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013

At right, a Waco, Texas flag cancel from the MacArthur Branch, 1917

At left, a forwarded World War I cover from Texas showing no less than three markings of Texas military installations - SMA Austin, Camp Dick in Dallas and Rich Field in Waco.

= Claire Chennault: A Tiger of a Texan - Page 9 = = Early Texas Transatlantic Covers in Schuyler Rumsey Sale - Page 11 = TEXPEX 2013

Texas Postal History Society Members! Don’t miss these functions:

6:30 p.m., Friday, March 1 - TPHS Spring Fling Social, Hospitality Suite 1 p.m., Saturday, March 2 - TPHS Meeting and Show & Tell, Cap-Rock I

Reserve your room now by calling direct at 817-410-6777 or Visit the TEXPEX website at www.texpex.org and click on the hotel The Conference Center is located five minutes from DFW International Airport. It “book a room” link. is next to the popular Grapevine Mills Mall and numerous restaurants and retail stores. The hotel is set in a 40-acre lakeside location featuring horseback riding, fishing and jogging trails. The APS-sponsored show runs March 1-3, 2013 All TEXPEX functions Postal history dealers such as our own Charles Deaton will be held at the and Jonathan Topper will bring large stocks. Out of state Hilton DFW Lakes dealers include Doubleday Postal History, Stanley Piller, Labron Harris, etc. Executive Conference The Texas Stamp Dealers Association will also be well rep- Center, resented at the show with the likes of Warren Crain, Okla- homa Stamps, Melvin Edmonds, Crown Colony Stamps, 1800 Hwy. 26 E, and Castle Stamps. Grapevine TX 76051 Tom Koch will present a seminar, Texas Transatlantic Mail: www.texpex.org The Albert C. Moÿe Correspondence, at 1 p.m., Friday, March 1 in Cap-Rock III. Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013 Page 1 Texas Postal History Society Journal

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

President From the President by Vince King...... 2 Vince King 315 S. Locust, Denton TX 76201 E-mail: [email protected] World War I Military Installations and Post Offices in Texas. . 3-8 Vice President Jim Doolin Claire Chennault: A Tiger of a Texan ...... 9-10 11258 Goodnight Lane #105 Dallas TX 75229 E-mail: [email protected] Seen at Auction ...... 11-16 Secretary-Treasurer Lyle Boardman 3916 Wyldwood, Austin TX 78739-3005 E-mail: [email protected] On the Cover: Aerial photo of Dallas’ Love Field in 1918 with Bachman Lake (created in 1903) at the top of the image. In the view are bi-planes and pup tents along Journal Editor with larger military structures. (Photo courtesy of the Joseph Weisberg Papers, Se- Tom Koch ries V, box 15, folder 2, The History of Aviation Collection, Special Collections, 1013 Springbrook Drive, DeSoto TX 75115 McDermott Library at the University of Texas at Dallas. E-mail:[email protected]

Charles Deaton Fine Stamps of the World

PO Box 27408, Houston, TX 77227, Phone 713-927-9948 Summer address: PO Box 2836, Orleans, MA 02653 Email: [email protected] Specializing in Texas Postal History for more than 30 years

Stamp Collections Wanted - I am always interested in buying collections of United States and Foreign Stamps, Covers, Old Letters, Cards, etc. For larger collections I will come to your place. You will find that I treat both you and your collection with the respect and courtesy you deserve. Page 2 Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013 From the President TEXPEX 2013 poised as a philatelic experience Vince King

TEXPEX, 2013 edition, is upon us. This years World Series general. In the long run, all of us benefit by having a world class of Philately exhibition will be held March 1-3 at the Hilton show at this world class location. You may find out more at the DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center near the DFW Airport TEXPEX website, www.TEXPEX.org. in Grapevine, Texas. The show, anchored by the American Hel- In a somber closing, we would like to extend our sympathies vetia Philatelic Society, promises to be one of the better attended to long time member John Rowe on the death of his son, Texas shows in some time. Many national level dealers, digni- Robert Keith Rowe, this past January. John has been an active taries and exhibitors will be in attendance . . . as a result, the member of TPHS for many years and was an early collector of show will offer plenty of variety. Dealers Labron and Mary important Texas postal history whose original collection has Harris, Stanley Piller and Web Stickney are three nationally helped provide a foundation for many current day holdings. Our recognized postal history dealers who will be present along with sympathies go to John and his family. our own Charlie Deaton. The esteemed Robert A Siegel Auc- tion Galleries will also have a presence to help attendees evalu- ate collections and/or stamps they may have in their attic. So by all means bring in any stashed-away goodies for appraisal! TPHS Journal editor Tom Koch, will be making a presenta- tion titled “Texas Transatlantic Mail: The Albert C. Moÿe Corre- spondence” Friday at 1 p.m. and our friend Dwayne Littauer At left is a map to will be talking on “Pre-UPU Mail to France” Saturday at 2 p.m. TEXPEX 2013, site These presentations will be very enlightening to the postal his- of the TPHS Spring tory enthusiast. Additionally, our bi-annual TPHS general meet- Fling and bi-annual ing will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday. meeting When you come to the show, please consider staying at the show hotel. By doing so, you will have direct access to all the show activities and eliminate many of the traffic issues. Most importantly, it will benefit the show host, the TEXPEX Founda- tion, The Texas Philatelic Association and Texas philately in

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WORLD WAR I MILITARY By INSTALLATIONS John Germann & POST OFFICES IN TEXAS

First of a two-part series

On April 6, 1917, after three years of struggle to re- a few were large enough and existed long enough to main neutral during “The Great War,” the United garner a distinct branch from the United States post States declared war on Germany. Given the state’s di- office; for the others, collectors will need to rely on re- rect involvement in the border war with Mexico that turn addresses and other indicators of origin. was just winding down, Texas was primed to make a The following list incorporates all of the installa- quick contribution to the war effort. Regular infantry, tions. Exact years for closure are often unavailable. In cavalry, artillery, and support units were joined by the such cases the year 1919 is given, inasmuch as quite a fledgling aviation corps, national and federalized state few are known to have closed in January-February of guardsmen, and newly formed United States Guards in that year, and in most cases it would have taken more camps and fields across the state. Some trained for Eu- than a month-and-a-half beyond the armistice for com- ropean duty, some for border duty, and some for plete closure to have taken place. The symbols “< coastal defense. With the signing of the armistice on “and “>” respectively indicate that the installation ex- Nov. 11, 1918, just a little over a year-and-a-half later, isted before or after the war years. “Ins:” is followed it was all over. Many of the army camps, air fields, by the dates of installation itself and “PO Branch” pre- schools, depots, and hospitals disappeared almost as cedes dates of post office operation in italics. quickly as they cropped up, most by early 1919. Only Page 4 Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013 WORLD WAR I MILITARY INSTALLATIONS AND POST OFFICES IN TEXAS

AUSTIN

Camp Mabry, Ins: <1917-1919> PO Branch: 27 May 1918-14 Dec 1918 (Mabry) (Army Training Facility + Auto Mechanics School)

Penn Field, Ins: Sep 1917-1919 PO Branch: 21 Oct 1918-15 Jan 1919 (Penn Field)

Radio School, Univ. of Texas, Ins: 18 Mar 1918-8 Aug 1919

School Of Military Aeronautics, Ins: 21 May 1917-1919 PO Branch: 1 Feb 1918-31 Dec 1918 (Aeronautics) (12-Week Ground School at The Univ. of Texas) DALLAS

BEAUMONT Aviation Repair Depot, (at Love Field) Ins: 8 Sep 1917 – 28 Mar 1921; PO Branch: 1 Oct 1918 – 2 Aug 1919 (Avia- U.S. Guards, (19th Battalion) Ins: Jul 1918-Feb 1919 tion Repair) (Probably Stationed At Sabine Pass) Camp John Dick Aviation Concentration Camp BRACKETTVILLE Ins: Jan 1918-Jan 1919; PO Branch: 18 Feb 1918-21 Dec 1918 (Dick). (An Aviation Concentration Camp for forming Fort Clark, Ins: Ins: <1917-1919> aviation units, located on the Texas State Fair Grounds). (Post of the Eagle Pass District, Mexican Border Patrol) Headquarters, Southwestern Supervisory District, BROWNSVILLE Dept. of Military Aeronautics, Ins: Nov 1918-1 Mar 1919 Love Field, Ins: <1917 -1919>: PO Branch: 18 Feb 1918-2 Fort Brown, Ins: <1917-1919> Aug 1919 (Love Field). (Home for Bombing School & Re- (Headquarters, Brownsville District, Mexican Border Patrol) serve Military Aviators’ Concentration School; Bought by the City of Dallas in 1927) COLLEGE STATION DEL RIO Radio School, Ins: 1 Mar 1918-30 Nov 1918 (Located at Texas A&M College) U.S. Troops (aka Camp Del Rio, Camp Michie) Ins: Apr 1917-Apr 1918. (Home for The 14th Cavalry; Headquarters, CORPUS CHRISTI Del Rio District, Mexican Border Patrol)

Camp Scurry (aka Camp Corpus Christi) Ins: <1917- EAGLE PASS 1919> (Occupied by 4th Field Artillery & 5th Engineers (7th Division) & Texas National Guard Units; Closed as a Camp Eagle Pass, Ins: <1917-1919> Post Office Branch before the War but operated as a base (Headquarters, Eagle Pass District, Mexican Border Patrol; during the war) formerly Camp Duncan) General Hospital #15, Ins: 7 Apr 1918-May 1919 (Set up in The Corpus Christi Beach Hotel and Bathing EL PASO Pavilion) Camp Boyd, Ins: 1917-1919 Camp Dick News from the Texas Col- (A Motor Transport Corps base) lection - Military, Baylor University Digi- tal Collections. Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013 Page 5

Field; Aerial Gunnery School) Camp Cotton, Ins: Oct 1918-Jan 1919 (Staffed By United States Guards - 21st Battalion) Taliaferro Field #1, Ins: 1917-1920 Camp Courchesne, Ins: 1917-1919 PO - 15 Dec 1917-30 (An engineer’s camp) Apr 1918 (Taliaferro #1) (Changed To Taliaferro Camp (Newton D.) Baker, Ins: 1917-1919 Br. (aka Hicks Field) (A Mobilization and Signal Corps Camp; The Signal Corps trained carrier pigeons there) Taliaferro Branch, PO - 1 May 1918 -15 Mar Camp Owen Beirne, Ins: 1917-1919 1919 (aka Hicks Field) (A cavalry camp) Taliaferro Field #2, Ins: 1917-1919 Camp Stewart, Ins: 1917-1919, PO - 15 Dec 1917-30 Apr 1918 (Taliaferro #2) Changed to Barron Branch Pennsylvania National Guard Camp + HQ, El Paso Dist., Mexican Border Patrol); PO Branch: 1 Sep Taliaferro Field #3, 1917-1919 1916-Op (Fort Bliss) PO - 15 Dec 1917-30 Apr 1918 (Taliaferro #3) Changed To Carruthers Field. (Note: Canadian fliers Aviation Field, Ins: 1917-1919 named the Fort Worth area fields Taliaferro 1-2-3; The Cavalry School, Ins: <1917-1919> names were changed when the U.S. took them over). 4th Officers’ Training School, Ins: by May 1918-1919 (U.S. Helium Production Plant), lns: late 1918-1919 Department Base Hospital No. 2 , Ins: <1917- Apr (Naval Facility; No full scale production until after WWI) 1918 (Changed To U.S. Base Hospital) U.S. Base Hospital, Ins: Apr 1918-1 Sep 1918 FREEPORT

Southern Dept. Machine Gun School, Ins: Oct U.S. Guards (2nd Battalion, Co B), Ins: Jun 1918-Jan 1919 1918-1919> U.S. Guards (21st Battalion), Ins: Jul 1918-Oct 1918 GALVESTON

General Supply Depot, Quartermaster Corps, Ins: <1917- Fort Crockett, Ins: <1917-1919> 1919> (Headquarters, Coast Defenses of Galveston)

General Supply Depot, Signal Corps, Ins: @May 1918 - Fort San Jacinto, Ins: <1917-1919> 1919 (Artillery Station, Coast Defenses of Galveston)

Medical Supply Depot, 1916-Summer, 1917 Fort Travis, Ins: <1917-1919> (Artillery Station, Coast Defenses of Galveston) (Operations shifted to the medical supply depot in San An- tonio) (Naval Air Station - Under construction at time of armistice) FORT WORTH (Naval Kite Balloon Station - Never materialized) Barron Field, Ins: 18 Sep 1917-1921 PO - 1 May 1918-31 Mar 1919 (Barron) United States Guards, 2nd Battalion, Ins: Jul 1918-Jan (was Taliaferro Field #2, aka Everman Field) 1919 (Probably stationed at San Luis Pass)

Camp Bowie, Ins: 25 Jul 1917-15 Aug 1919 HARLINGEN PO - 1 Aug 1917-15 Aug 1919 (Bowie) (housed over 30,000 troops in May, 1918) Mobilization Point, Ins: 1917-1918 (26th Infantry – For Overseas) Carruthers Field, Ins: 1918-1919 PO - 1 May 1918 – 31 Mar 1919 (Carruthers) HOUSTON (was Taliaferro Field #3, aka Benbrook Field) Aviation General Supply Depot, Ins: 1 Jun 1918-1919 Hicks Field (see Taliaferro Field #1, Taliaferro, aka Jarvis (Located at City Wharf #4) Page 6 Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013

Fort Mcintosh, Ins: <1917-1919> PO -10 Jul 1916-31 Dec 1921 (Headquarters, Laredo District, Mexican Border Patrol) (known as Military Sta. Laredo)

LEON SPRINGS MILITARY RESERVATION

Camp Bullis, Ins: 12 Sep 191-1919> (A Cavalry Camp, Target Range, and Maneuver Ground for troops at Fort Sam Houston; Note: No units were stationed at the camp during the war)

Camp Funston, Ins: Feb 1917-26 Oct 1917 PO Branch - 18 May 1917-3 Oct 1917 (Camp Funston) Changed To Camp Stanley. (Site of First Officers’ Training Camp, producing the “Ninety-Day Wonders”)

Camp Leon Springs, Ins: 15 May 1917-27 Nov 1917 (An Infantry Training and Signal Corps Station)

Camp Samuel F. B. Morse, Ins: May 1917-1 Aug 1918 (A Signal Corps Training Camp)

Camp Stanley, Ins: 27 Oct 1917-1919> PO Branch - 4 Oct 1917 – 15 Dec 1922 (Stanley) (A Cavalry And Field Artillery Training Camp)

Military Branch, PO 1 May 1917-17 May 1917 Above - A view of Camp Logan and “Logan Branch” flag machine Changed To Camp Funston cancellation on a post card. MARFA Camp Logan, 20 Jul 1917-20 Mar 1919 PO - 6 Aug 1917-20 Mar 1919 (Logan) U. S. Troops, Camp, Ins: 1917-1919> (An Existing State Guard Encampment federalized as a (HQ, Big Bend Dis., Mexican Border Patrol - Provided bor- National Guard Mobilization Center and Training Camp for der duty with cavalry and mobilization for overseas; the 33rd Division) Also housed a Motor Transport Corps)

Ellington Field, Ins: 18 Sep 1917-1919> U.S. Guards (21st Battalion, Co A), Ins: Aug 1918-Jan 1919 PO - 26 Nov 1917-15 Feb 1920 (Ellington) (Operated an Armorers’ [est.-Jan 1918], Bombing, Aerial MERCEDES Gunnery, And Radio Schools) Llano Grande, Ins: 31 Aug 1916-5 May 1917 HQ, Southern Supervisory District, Ins: 1 Oct 1918-1 Mar (Note: Although the official closing date goes into the war 1919; Department of Military Aeronautics period, operation during WWI is questionable)

Park Place Flying Field, May, 1918-22 Sep 1918 ORANGE Changed to Ream Field, 6 Oct 1918-4 Mar 1919 U.S. Guards (19th Battalion, Co A), Ins: Jul 1918-Jan 1919 Ream Field, Ins: 23 Sep 1918 – 5 Oct 1918 Chgd Back To Park Place Flying Field. (An Advanced Fly- POINT ISABEL ing Field; for the Second Provisional Training Wing) Naval Radio Station, Ins: 1917-1919 U.S. Guards (22nd Batt., Co C), Ins: Aug 1918-Jan 1919 PORT ARTHUR LAREDO U.S. Guards (19th Battalion, Co D), Ins: Jul 1918-Jan 1919 Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013 Page 7

Headquarters, Southern Dept., Ins: <1917-1919

U.S. Guards (20th Batt.), Ins: Jun 1918-Jan 1919

General Supply Depot, Signal Corps, Ins: By 15 May 1918 (i.e. 1917?) - 1919

Kelly Field, Ins: 30 Jul 1917 – 1919> (aka Camp Kelly, 11 Jun 1917 – 29 Jul 1917). (Initially served as a “Concentration” Camp to organize new recruits into units; Construction started 24 Jul 1917, flying began 11 Aug 1917) RIO GRANDE CITY Aviation Mechanics’ School, Ins: Nov 1917 – 1919. (Note: Offered a 3-Month “90 Days Wonders” course) Fort Ringgold, Ins: <1917 - 1919>; (Post, Brownsville Dis- trict, Mexican Border Patrol; Served infantry and cavalry) Ground School For Adjutants, Ins: Sep 1917-17 Jan 1918. Supply officers, and engineers SAN ANTONIO Primary Flying School, Ins: 1917-1919 Aviation General Supply Depot, 25 Sep 1917-1919> (An equipment station located at Kelly Field; Supplied Kelly Medical Supply Depot, Ins: <1917 - 1919 Field, Brooks Field, Ellington Field, and Gerstner Field, La.) San Antonio Arsenal, Ins: <1917-1919> (A general supply Brooks Field, Ins: 11 Dec 1917 – 1919> ordnance depot and ordnance supply school) (Hosted an Instructors’ School – Six-Week Course; Con- struction started 11 Dec 1917)

Camp John Wise, Ins: 20 Jan 1918-1919 (An Army Balloon School; abandoned in 1920)

Camp Normoyle, Ins: 1 Jun 1918 - 1919> (A motor transport general depot and a mechanical repair shop; Note: Construction Began 1 Jun 1918 but the base was not established until 12 May 1919)

Camp Travis, Ins: 18 Jul 1917 - 1919> PO - 3 Sep 1917 – 15 Feb 1923 (Travis) (Formerly Camp Wilson)

Camp Wilson, Ins: Jul 1916 – 17 Jul 1917 (A National Guard Mobilization Camp whose site was taken South San Antonio Military Branch, PO - 15 May 1917-1 over by Camp Travis; Note: There was a post office station Apr 1921. (Served Kelly Field and environs) at the camp but it closed 24 Mar 1917 before the U.S. entered the war) SAN LEON

Fort Sam Houston, Ins: <1917-1919>; PO Station - Aerial Gunnery School, Ins: 1917-By 17 Jan 1919 <1917-1919> (A station rather than a branch) (A gunnery school and bombing range; A branch of Elling- ton; Note: While flying his plane upside down Lt. Chester Dept.Base Hospital, Ins: Apr 1917-1919 (ex Base Ashley Adams fell out and was killed, 19 Nov 1918) Hospital #1) WACO Engineer Depot, Ins: 1917-1919, (Equipped all troops in the Southern Dept., the Infantry School of Aviation Branch, PO - 7 Jan 1918-15 Dec 1918 Arms, and the Field Artillery School of Fire at Fort Sill) Aviation Concentration (Mobilization) Camp, Ins: 29 Dec General Supply Depot, Quartermaster Corps., Ins: 1917-1919 <1917-1919> Page 8 Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013

Base Hospital, Ins: Sep 1917-Mar 1919 (A Flying Field with an Observation School [Advanced Fly- ing, with a 5-week course for observers, a 4-week course Camp MacArthur, Ins: 18 Jul 1917-7 Mar 1919 for pilots] plus a Reserve Military Aviators’ Concentration PO - 6 Aug 1917-30 Apr 1919 (MacArthur) Camp.) (Infantry replacement and training camp; Lots of National Guardsmen from Michigan and Wisconsin) Bibliography: Rich Field, 11 Sep 1917-1919 (A primary flying School (8-Week Course) plus Temporary Swanson, Robert. Domestic United States Military Facilities Storage Depot; Construction Started 11 Sep 1917, Flying of The First World War, 1917-1919: A Postal History. Began 1 Dec 1917) Rapid City, SD: Robert Swanson, 2000.

WICHITA FALLS Order Of Battle Of The United States Land Forces in the World War: Zone of The Interior. Vols. 1-3. Washing- Call Field, Ins: 4 Sep 1917-11 Jul 1919 ton, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1988.

Helbock, Richard. Postmarks on Postcards: An Illustrated Guide to Early 20th Century U.S. Postmarks. Re- vised, Second Ed. Lake Oswego, Or: La Posta Publi- cations, 2002.

The New Handbook of Texas. Vols. 1-6. Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association, 1996.

A World War I crash at Call Field in Wichita Payette, Pete And Payette, Phil. North American Forts, Falls, Texas. 1526-1956. American Forts Network, 1998-2011. www.Northamericanforts.Com. Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013 Page 9

Claire Chennault: A Tiger of a Texan

By Tom Koch

Claire Lee Chennault, the scraggily-faced na- tive Texan who grew up in Louisiana, was a sub- ject in a World War II patriotic cachet series titled “American War Leaders” produced by PentArts. Nearly 50 years later he was depicted on a 40- cent U.S. stamp. Most who have heard about Chennault recog- nize him as the leader of the famous Flying Tigers that were formed when he was sent as a civilian to China hired to train Chinese pilots. He later be- During World War II PentArts out of Kansas City, Missouri, also came National Government leader Generalissimo known as Collectors Surplus, produced several patriot cachet se- Chiang Kai-shek’s chief air advisor. In 1940 when ries. The “American War Leaders” series included Chennault the Chinese Air Force had collapsed, an American (Texas), Chester Nimitz (Texas), Dwight Eisenhower (Texas), Ernest King, Bill Halsey, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Volunteer Group of pilots and mechanics was Mark W. Clark, Joseph Stillwell, and Jacob L. Devers. Cachet va- formed for China. Posing as tourists, some 300 rieties come in blue, black and purple ink. “retired” American pilots and ground crew were recruited by Chennault. Shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack Chen- nault had his Flying Tigers in old P-40s intercept- ing Japanese raids on strategic targets in China. The Tigers were incorporated into the U.S. Army Air Forces in 1942, whereupon Chennault re- joined the Army with the rank of colonel. He was promoted to brigadier general, then major general. He commanded the Fourteenth Air Force. Born in Commerce, Texas in 1893, he was reared in Gilbert and Waterproof, Louisiana. Chennault got his wings at Kelly Field, Texas after World War I. He studied aeronautical engi- neering at Kelly. A few years later he became a In 1990 Chennault was featured on a 40-cent stamp that was a pilot instructor at Brooks Field in Texas. He grad- part of the Great Americans Series. This is the first airbrushed uated from pursuit pilot training at Ellington first day cover cachet made by Kendal Bevil. The official first day Field, Texas in 1922. He rose to the rank of cap- site was Monroe, La. but this cover was cleverly canceled in China, Texas linking Chennault’s birth state and his country of See CHENNAULT, Page 10 glory. Page 10 Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013

Chennault Letter to Whiting Willhauer

“Willhauer, Shanghai, COPY May 19, 1946

Offered small lot window glasspanes and maximum fifteen thousand cases bacardi gold rum at nineteen dollars fifty cents or bacardi white at seventeen fifty per case CIF Shanghai stop Both bottled one fifths twelve per case stop Believe I can finance purchase on ninety days terms if we can dispose there promptly after arrival corvette stop Believe corvette excellent buy and urge purchase two more prior June first when option expires Clault .”

This handwritten copy of a telegram was released among others by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2009, a copy of which is found in the History of Avia- tion Collection Civil Air Transport/Air America Archive, McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas. Note that Chennault signed by using the first three letters of his first name and the last three letters of his last name. A corvette is a small, quick warship between 500 and 2000 tons. CIF Shanghai is a shipping term refering to “cost, insurance, and freight (destination). This appears to be a barter Chennault and Whiting Whillauer were trying to arrange. They created Civil Air Transport in 1946 as the Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Air Transport (CNRRA). It lifted supplies and food into China but quickly began helping Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist battles against the communists. After China fell to the communists the airline began to struggle finan- cially. The CIA formed a private Delaware com- pany called Airdale Corp. with a subsidiary called CAT, Inc. That CAT continued to fly com- mercially to maintain its civilian appearance but engaged in covert missions through the 1975 fall of Saigon when it was known as Air America (1959-1975). tain but left the service in 1937 because of partial deafness, chronic bronchitis and disagreements with superiors. From 1948 to 1950 he was president of Civil Air Transport (CAT) that was active in transporting supplies, munitions and troops for the Nationalist Gov- ernment. CAT did paramilitary work for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and was later purchased by the spy agency when the Communists overran China. CAT eventually became Air America, the covert air force used in the Vietnam War. Air America helicopters were active in many search-and-rescue missions in Laos during the war and transported civil- Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault with CAT pilot Bob Rous- ians and government officials out of Saigon, South selot, right, at Kaitak Airport, Hong Kong. - Image courtesy of the Robert Rousselot Collection, History of Aviation Vietnam when the city was overrun in 1975. Collection, McDermott Library, The University of Texas at Dallas. Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013 Page 11

Seen at Auction by Vince King Winter Transatlantic Mail Sale includes early Texas

The Richard F. Winter collection of transatlantic mail in early February offered a handful of Texas items, three of which we know were claimed by Texas collectors. Winter is certainly one of the modern authorities on pre-UPU mails to and from Europe and the United States. While the Schuyler Rumsey sale offered a considerable selection of transatlantic mail, Texas covers were few. Winter has been Associate Editor and Editor of the Foreign Mails Section of The Chronicle, the journal of the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, for 24 years. He was elected a member of the International Association of Philatelic Experts for Transatlantic Mails and signed the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society’s Distin- guished Philatelist scroll in 1996. Winter received the American Philatelic Society’s John N. Luff Award for Distinguished Phila- telic Research (1999), the American Philatelic Research Library’s J.C.M. Cryer Research Award (2001), and the Lichtenstein Award of the Collectors Club New York (2003). In 2008 he signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists, re- garded as the world’s preeminent philatelic honor. He was elected Rumsey Lot 257 to the Writers Unit Hall of Fame APS affiliate in 2010. His set of Understanding Transatlantic Mail volumes of re- cent years has reinvigorated interest in 19th century mail markings and rates. Both Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 were published by the American Philatelic Society. Vol. 2, published in 2009, received a Large Gold award at the London 2010 international stamp show. Winter collaborated with Walter Hubbard in writing North At- lantic Mail Sailings, 1840-75 (1988).

The Richard F. Winter Collection of Trans-Atlantic Mails, Sale 50, Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auc- tions, Feb. 4, 2013

257 - 1847 (May 4) San Antonio, Tex. to Cassel, Hesse-Cassel, folded cover with manuscript "San Antonio" postmark with matching "Paid 20" rating, carried by Cunard Line Britannia from Boston Jun. 1 to Liverpool Rumsey Lot 259 arriving Jun. 13, London (6.14) backstamp with manuscript "3/6" 3s6d debit to Prussia, various manuscript ratings including final "44" silbergroschen postage due, Very Fine, a scarce early Texas transatlantic usage 311 - 1847 (Dec. 9) Damme, Oldenburg to Nacogdoches, Tex., folded to German States through Aachen. Letter weighed 1 1/8 loth (manuscript cover carried privately to Bremen and posted with "Bremen 13/12" cds, center left) requiring two British and Prussian transit rates and three carried by Ocean Line Washington from Bremerhaven Dec. 13 to New Belgian transit rates. Aachen used manuscript entry marking in red pen York arriving Jan. 16, New York red "24" due rating for transatlantic fee, (upper right) which preceded its handstamps and marked letter for 41¾ final blue manuscript "34" cents due rating, Very Fine, a scarce Bremen sgr. Cassel marked 44 sgr. due. Est. $400-600. Realized $400. Mail Treaty cover to Texas. Est. $200-300. Realized $1,100.

259 - 1848 (Feb. 20) New Braunfels, Texas to Limburg, Nassau via 528 - 1856 (Aug. 19) Mexico City, Mexico to Bremen, folded letter with New Orleans, folded letter carried privately and posted with black "New "Vera Cruz 21 Agust 1856" backstamp, "New Orleans La. Aug 26" cds Orleans, La. Mar 25" cds with matching "Paid" and "10" rating hand- and "Steamship" circular h.s. with "30" unpaid rating for Prussian stamps, carried by Cunard Line Caledonia from Boston Apr. 5 to Liver- Closed Mail, "New York Br. Pkt. Sep 3" backstamp and "28" cent debit pool arriving Apr. 18, London backstamp and manuscript "1/8" debit h.s. to Prussia, carried by Cunard Line Africa from New York Sep. 3 to 1s8d rating to Prussia updated to "1/10" (1s10d), early use of Aachen Liverpool arriving Sept. 14, Aachen (9.16) arrival backstamp and red "AMERICA per ENGLAND" boxed h.s., various red ratings including crayon "34" grote due rating, some toning, F.-V.F., a scarce PCM cover final red crayon "1/17" postage due in Limburg, Very Fine and scarce from beyond the U.S. to Germany via the U.S. Est. $300 - 400. Letter transatlantic use from Texas. Est. $300-400. Realized $400. carried to New Orleans from Vera Cruz by the U.S. Mail Line steamer Page 12 Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013

589 - (Retaliatory Rates) 1848 (July 30) Galveston, Tx. to Schwanden, Switzerland, folded cover with red "Galveston Tex Aug 2" cds with matching "10" prepaid rating, red "New-York Aug 11" exchange cds with large "24" debit h.s. to Bremen, carried by Ocean Line Hermann from New York Aug. 21st to Bremerhaven arriving Sep. 7th, various manuscript ratings; file fold, F.-V.F., a rare First Bremen Treaty cover to Switzerland. Bremen debited Hannover 9 gutegroschen (manuscript red crayon upper left). Hannover added 1 1/3 ggr. transit fee and debited Thurn & Taxis Post 10 1/3 ggr. Thurn and Taxis Post converted this to 46 kreuzer (blue pen in center) and added 18 kr. transit fee to Baden. Basel marked letter for 70 kr. total foreign postage (which included 6 kr. Baden transit fee) and 76 kr. debit to Canton of Glarus, adding 6 kr. for transit fee to Glarus. Total postage due included 4 kr. internal Canton of Glarus fee, or 80 kr., which was 1 gulden 20 kr. (red crayon lower right). Est. $200-300. Realized $800.

Rumsey Lot 311

Rumsey Lot 1921

United States Postal History, Sale 51, Schuyler Rumsey Philatelic Auctions, Feb. 5-6, 2013. Rumsey Lot 528

1921 - (Texas) Galveston Bay, 1st August 1843 (Texas, Republic), dateline on 3-page cross-written letter in which a son proposes starting a cattle ranch in Texas with "Est.d cost & profit on 600 head of cattle for ten years"; postmarked partial blue New York cds and matching straightline "Ship" with blue manuscript "52" rate, Very Fine. Est. $200-300. Re- alized $170. 1923 - (Texas) Oak Valley, Texas, Hill Co., Jan 10, 1880, purple octagon date stamp and star duplex on 3¢ green entire to New Orleans, La.; missing backflap, Extremely Fine strike. Est. $100-200. Realized $180.

Rumsey Lot 589 "Texas" on the last voyage of the line. New Orleans marked distinctive STEAMSHIP handstamp (with defective rim at bottom) to show letter brought in by contract steamship and handstamp "30" to show desire to send via Prussian Closed Mail. New York debit to Prussia included 5¢ transit fee from Mexico and normal 23¢ PCM debit. Aachen marked 15¼ silbergroschen postage due and Bremen marked 34 grote equiva- lent. Realized $350. Rumsey Lot 1923 Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013 Page 13

1924 - (Texas) Sisterdale, 20 Sept, 58, manuscript postmark tying 1857, 3¢ dull red on folded letter to San Antonio; light even toning, otherwise Very Fine, a rare Texas townmark. Est. $150-200. Realized $15

Rumsey Lot 1985 Bureau Issue, nat. s.e., tied by Houston Tex. Apr. 14 to Southington Conn., reverse with overall illustrated ad of two additional Winchester Rifles; small flap mend, Very Fine. Est. $100-150. Realized $240. Rumsey Lot 1924 2440 - (Publications - Magazine) The Texas Cow Boy! illustrated de- 1985 - New Baker Gun, two covers with similar designs in red showing sign showing Cow & Horse, on fresh cover franked with 1883, 2¢ red Open Shotgun, one franked by 1890 2¢ Issue from Batavia N.Y. to brown (s.e. at left) tied by 1884 Dallas, Tex. duplex postmark, Extremely Cleveland Oh., and other franked by 1893 2¢ Columbian Issue tied by Fine. Scott No. 210 Est. $50-75. Realized $210. Austin Tex. Nov. 25 duplex to Bristol Conn., latter with large multicol- ored illustrated label showing Hunter ready to Demolish Skeet Machine 2936 - Texas Town Postmark Covers, some 130 covers and cards in with Rifle, Very Fine pair. Est. $200-300. Realized $450. slips; mostly 1870-1930's, includes many better postmarks with 1884 Buchanan, 1893 Sherman on double rate cover to England, 1880 Willow 2068 - Winchester Repeating "Take Down" Shotgun, red illustrated Point octagon, 1858 Galveston, rare 1850s Uralda straight line, 1850s design on 1899 cover showing "Take Down" Shotgun, franked with 2¢ Alvarado m.s., 1876 City of Honey Grove, 1880s Pilot Point, 1880 Co- lumbia, 1860s Sequin, etc.;. Est. $750-1,000. No realized price listed. Republic Post

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Harmer-Schau Lot 368 Harmer-Schau Lot 366 Orleans, blue "Ship" handstamp of New Orleans and port of entry "6" Harmer-Schau Auctions, Jan. 11-13, 2013, ORCO- due (New Orleans 6 collect is the inbound U.S. ship fee), age stained and EXPO. interior folds cracking, scarce, very fragile letter speaks of coming con- vention, soiling and some possible water damage. Est. $200-400. Real- 366 - U.S.; States Postal History, Texas Republic, Austin Incoming ized $220. 1840 (?) addressed to Dr. Goodrich via New Orleans (agent mark on reverse), entered U.S. mails prepaid in New York NY Dec 28 18?? and di- 369 - U.S.; States Postal History, Texas Republic, Matagorda Incom- rected "care of Wm Bryan, Esq Texian Consul" in New Orleans for ing 1840. Folded letter, Dec. 27 from Mobile to Rev. Ives, via Galveston forwarding to Austin, Tex., Wm Bryan Texian P.O. agent handstamp on and New Orleans (agent mark on reverse), prepaid in Mobile AL (Dec verso, interesting study piece, Fine to Very Fine. Letter shows no evi- 29?) and directed "care of Texas P. Office Agent" in New Orleans for dence of entering the Texas mail system and appears to have been "ad- forwarding to Matagorda Texas. Wm Bryan Texian P.O. agent hand- vertised" in New Orleans. Est. $150-200. Realized $400. stamp on verso, entered the Republic of Texas at Galveston and rerated 43� collect for delivery to Matagorda, some usual condition issues and 367 - U.S.; States Postal History, Texas Republic, Harrisburgh In- separations around the folds, scarce, Fine. Est. $250-300. Realized $425. coming 1840 (?). Dec. 27 folded letter entered U.S. mails prepaid in Springfield IL, MI, MA? with red cds addressed to Capt. William Harris via New Orleans (Ricker agent mark on reverse), sent to New Orleans for forwarding to Texas, Sam Ricker Jr. PO agent handstamp on verso, entered the Republic of Texas mails by ship (ms.) and rerated 31 collect at Houston for delivery to nearby Harrisburgh, Postmaster at Houston, apparently thought the letter had been missent there evidenced by the manuscript "m&f" notation at top center, showing "PAID" and ms. rate markings, vert. folds and some condition issues, another interesting study piece, otherwise Fine. Est. $150-200. Realized $450.

368 - U.S.; States Postal History, Texas Republic, La Grange 1845. July 1st/45 ms. postmark and "Paid 25" (Republic of Texas rate covered 20c for distance and 5c outbound ship fee) rate on folded letter to New

Harmer-Schau Lot 369 U.S. and Worldwide Sale, Cherrystone Auctions, Jan. 9-10, 2013

United States 1861-66 Issue 1867 "Cramer & Co., New Orleans" (Forwarding Agent) 36x18mm double oval backstamp (Rowe S/R 3) on FL addressed to Parral, Mexico, datelined Altona (Germany), endorsed " Str. Allemania, via New York, New Orleans and Brownsville," fine and unusual forwarded to Texas from Germany. Est. $290. Unsold.

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1153 - Confederacy, [Texas] Chapel Hill, "Chapel Hill Tex/Jan/28" cds with "PAID" straight line (Dietz II) with manuscript "10" rate on 1864 folded letter sheet addressed to Independence TX; horizontal filefold, Harmer-Schau Lot 367 Fine to Very Fine. Est. $250-350. Realized $266. Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013 Page 15

Cherrystone Lot Kelleher 1155 1157 - Confederacy, [Texas] Nacogdoches, "Nacogdoches Tex/Jun/14/1861" cds with "PAID" straight line and "5" rate (Dietz IA) on cover addressed to Melrose TX; reduced at left, Fine to Very Fine. Est. $200-300. Realized $295

Kelleher 1153 1154 - Confederacy, [Texas] Galveston, "Galveston Tex/Nov/28" double circle cds with "PAID 5" rate (Dietz IA) on cover addressed to Fair- port Texas, with original letter; reduced at right, Fine to Very Fine. Est. $300-400. Realized $266

1155 - Confederacy, [Texas] Galveston, "Galveston Tex/Jan/20" double Kelleher 1156 circle cds with "10" rate on cover addressed to Decatur GA, manuscript "T.J. Stokes Private Co F/Nelson'd Regt T.V.I."; small tear top edge, reduced at right, Fine to Very Fine. Est.e $400-600. Realized $266.

1156 - Confederacy, [Texas] Marshall, "Marshall Tex/Mar/7" double circle cds with "10" rate on cover addressed to Sweeten TX, manuscript "From L.W. Farrow/Co E, 19 Regt"; light overall wear, Fine to Very Fine. Est. $300-400 . Realized $325.

Kelleher 1157 Ebay Realizations

1848 Marshall Texas To Henderson Tx Stampless Letter & Cover, Dec. 31, 2012. Item 390513960563. Up for auction is a vintage folded stampless letter and cover combination, that was written at and mailed from Marshall Texas and addressed to Colonel Julien Devereux, Hender- Kelleher 1154 Page 16 Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013

Sharrer Lot 27 Ebay 390513960563 of ornately-framed “PAID” handstamp with separate “5” numeral hand- son, Texas, Cover has strong postal markings, Letter dated December 5, stamp, partly clear “Galveston Tex. Oct. 15, 1861” double-circle date- 1848. Letter written by the addressee's sister, Mrs. L.A. Holcombe. Let- stamp on yellow cover with Howard & Burkardt (fancy and staple dry ter easy to read. paper wider than usually seen, so scans 2 & 3 are of the goods) blue oval cameo corner card, addressed to Col. W. W. Browning first page. Paper has interior tears, and a few foldline pinholes. Letter at Chappell Hill Tex., with original Oct. 14, 1861, letter enclosed, minor has to do with the writer moving and her slaves, who she apparently edge nick at top right corner not noted on certificate. Extremely fine. A bought from Julien. Comes with a transcript of most of the letter. 13 remarkably clear and complete strike of the Galveston postmaster’s pro- bids. Realized $87. visional handstamp on a beautiful corner card cover. Ex “Camina” (Castillejo). 1994 P.F. certificate. Est. $3,000-4,000. Realized $19,000. 1866 Civil War Official US cover/Letter Dengue Fever Texas>Ten- nessee, Dec 30, 2012. Item 321045439182. Old Post Civil War letter sent from Brownsville Texas to Crittendon Arkansas about a man who was a physician who had contracted Dengue Fever or Breakbone Fever as mentioned in the letter. 21 bids. Realized $58.97.

Sharrer Lot 29

29 - Goliad Tex., 10c Black on Buff (29X7 var). Large even margins all around, tied by “PAID” straightline cancel, second strike to left, on Ebay 190791205776 brown cover to Susan F. Moody, Victoria Tex. - the wife of Victoria Postmaster James A. Moody - with original letter enclosure datelined 1846 San Antonio Texas Stampless Letter Cover Missionary John Mc- “Goliad, August” (circa 1864), light pre-manufacturing fold in cover at Cullough CONTENT, Feb. 4, 2013. Item 190791205776. 1846 earliest left, small piece out of backflap from opening, these negligible flaws known San Antonio Texas Cancel, Stampless cover / letter from Rev mentioned only to emphasize the exceptionally fine condition of this rare John McCullough (1805-1870) to Walter Lowrie who was previously a provisional cover. Extremely fine. One of the finest of the four 10-cent United States Senator. The content is incredible concerning the need for Type II Goliad covers available to collectors. The stamp is printed on schools to teach the Mexican children. He is frustrated with the Fandan- buff paper, not the listed gray paper. This stamp is more accurately de- gos and says that he often thinks "can any good thing come out of San scribed as buff. The cover was acquired in 1988 by Charles W. Deaton Antonio". He talks about the army of occupation and 2000-3000 calvary from descendants of the Moody family. It is the last Goliad provisional and infantry. He sees the masses uttering blasphemy, exhibiting intem- to come to light. Illustrated in Deaton’s The Great Texas Stamp Collec- perance, fandangos plus gambling in the night. 16 bids. Realized $799. tion (plate 15). Ex “Camina” (Castillejo). With 1994 P.F. certificate as 10c Black on Gray 29X7. Est. $40,000. Realized. $110,000. The Peter Sharrer Collection of Confederate Postmasters' Provisionals, Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries Sale 1035, Dec. 10, 2012.

27 - Galveston Tex., 5c Black entire (98XU1). Unusually sharp strike Texas Postal History Society Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1 February 2013 Page 17

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