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COZUMEL ISLAND, MEXICO On The Air Again!
Cozumel has a ga in been made a sto p on FAM 5, and on very shor t notic~ too. As we all missed out on the first flig hts to this point in 1929, everyone will want co•·ers of this new fi rst flight . Here they are-- MIAMI to Cozumel, April 15, 1932 ...... • . . • ...... • .25 ·CRISTOBAL to Cozumel, April 16, 1932, this will be sc:irce • ...... 75 RECENT FAM 5 & 6 ADDITIONS MIAMl-M<.rida FAM 5, r:::.re error cover with FAM 6 cachet, fine item .... 1.00 BELIZE-Merida, •carce .90 NUEVITAS-Miami .40 BELIZE-P. Barrios ...... •90 PORT AU SPAIN-Nuevitas ...... 9CJ MANAGUA-Merida ...... •90 SAN JUAN-S.P . de Macoris ...... 25 CRISTOBAL-P. Bar rios .60 SAN JUAN-Nuevitas ...... •..25c CRISTOBAL-Merida ...... •60 ST. THOMAS-S.P. de Macorls...... 25 MIAMI-S.P.de Macoris ...... 25 ST. THOMAS-Nuevitas ...... 25 Colon to Puerto Cabezas, F .A.M. 5 COLON-Puerto Cabezas, flown May t , 1930 hy Col. Lindberg h on the first flight of the Trans-Caribbean " express ser vice.. ; one of the very rare cover• of this route, and a very fine cover ...... • • ...... 7.50 Kingston to Barranquilla, F .A.M. 5 KING<;TUN-Barranquilla, May 2, 1931, another ra rity of this rou te which is almost never offered; this is the first direct flight between these points and was a sleeper on the r e-routing of the Trans-Caribbean service ...... • ...... • ...... 4.00
C. A. M. 1 C. A. M. 9 NEW YORK-Boston ...... 45 CHICAGO-Minneap olis ...... 40 HARTFORD-Boston ...... 1.20 MILWAUKEE-Minneap olis ...... 80 HARTFORD-New York .70 LA CROSSE-Minneapolis .•...... 1.35 BOSTON-New York ...... 40 MINNEAPOLIS-Chicago ...... 45 BOSTON-Bangor ...... 20 MADISON-Milwaukee 11-23- 27 . . . . .40 PORTLAND-Bangor ...... 15 MADISON- Rockfor d 3-8-30 ...... 15 PORTLAND-Boston ...... 15 ROCKFORD-Chicago . • ...... 12 BANGOR-Bosto n ...... 15 BELOIT-Elgin ...... •.••••...... •15 NEWARK FIELD-Bangor, scarce .30 BELOIT-Madison, scarce •..•...... •65 C. A. M. 3 C. A. M. 10 (Sept. 15) CHICAGO-Dallas ...... 30 ATLANTA-Miami ...••••..•...... 40 MOLINE-Dallas ...... •60 JACKSONVILLE-Atla nta .. .• ...... 1.35 ST. JOSEPH-Dallas ...... 40 JACKSONVILLE-Miami •.••...... 8.00 ST. JOSEPH-Chicago ...... 40 TAMPA-Atlanta •.•...... •...... 1.35 KANSAS CITY- Dallas ...... 35 TAMPA-Miami ...... 10.00 WICHITA-Dallas ...... •65 FT. MYERS-Atlanta •.••...•...... 1.35 WICHITA-Chicago ...... 40 FT. MYERS-Miami •..•...... ••. 10.00 OKLAHOMA CITY-Dallas ...... 40 OKLAHOMA CITY-Chicago ..... •35 C. A. M. 20 J<'T. WORTH-Dallas ...... 6.00 NEWARK FIELD-Albany ...... 20 FT. WORTH-Chicago ...... 35 ALBANY FIELD-New York, scarce . .35 DALLAS-Chicago ...... 35 FT. WORTH FIELD-Little Rock .... .25 Ask for a copy of my price list - "SKY STUFF" EDGAR C. CANTRELL P.O. Box 1267 San Antonio, Texas I (In San Antonio see me at 210 Glenwood Court)
•'"""1111111111" 11111111" 1111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111" 1" 11111111111 111111111111tlltlt1111111111111111111111u1u1111111111u11u1t11u11u11': THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Official. Publication of The AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY VOL. m No. 1 MAY, 1982 ISSUE 23 On· Board The .Graf Zeppelin ... ,, * THE EPOCHAL 192s. TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT
Written Especialiy for The Airpost:* Journal by Clara Ada~s, ' First: Woman Commercial Passenger of t:he Graf Zeppelin
INCE the early days of 1914 I * In fact, man's God-given ingenuity have done much flying as a seems to have out-witted nature passenger in many di:trerent herself for ni>t ·even .. the most pow types of aircraft in different pa'rts erful bird can make the same speed, of the world. To me, flying is in carry tons.· or encircle the globe. deed a very great privilege. · I never cease to· marvel at the ingenuity or My first experience in the "heaven man that has conquered the air. ly sport" was in Maren of 1914 when
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in 1924, as the ZR-3, the Los An geles, wa-s. making trial flights pre paratory to the transatlantic voyage when the dirigible was to be deliv ered to the United States in accord ance with the Versailles Treaty. As I stepped into the paissenger gondola at Frtedrichshafen, vr. Hugo Ecke ner escorted me through the dirig ible. I was determined to be on t·oard when the big ship started on its transatlantic flight; but .Dr. Eckener gave me no hope. He ex rlained that even it I were his wife or .daughter, he had not the power to take me. He tr:ed hard to con sole me when I pleaded earnestly; and he promised to take me on the first commercial flight, as soon 11.s · he was commander of such a dirig ible. However, I stayed at Fried richshafen for several weeks hoping that I would get my wish. During this period I got acquainted with al most everyone who was connected with the Zeppelin company. Four years later my long cher ished wish was realized when I was privileged to be the first feminine Clara Adams, First Woman Com paying passenger in history to fly , mercial Passenger of the Graf across the Atlantic. Sixty-four men Zeppelin and I were passengers on the pioneer return voyage of the Graf Zeppelin. Captain Walter E. Johnson and The trip lasted over seventy hours. Charles A. Hermann* were taking up It was without .a doubt; the great passengers at $5.00 a ride in a est adventure of my life and so full Thomas flying bo,;it, they, had con of thrills that the average woman structed. Captain Johnson was my . would consider enough for several pilot; we took off at Lake Eustice, lifetimes. We left Lakehurst on Florida. We reached the enormous October 29, 1928; it was 1-54 a .m. altitude of. 700 feet; and as I looked when the gr eat silver airship. left down from that dizzy height, I feit the Naval Air Station. The heaven:i very daring and heroic. I sent up were filled with myriads of bright a silent prayer to the Almighty that stars and the brilliant harvest moon no harm befall us; and finally after lighted up the landscape so that one twenty minutes our craft came down could read by its Ught. We swept on the sparkling waters, I drew' a over the Jersey coast with its net ~ long grateful sigh and a prayer of work of electric lights. The gigantic, deep gratitude went up to my Maker. inky, black, shado'W which our great After this first taste of what was. shi.p cast on the Ianascape beneath destined to be my grand passion, I followed us till it was lost in the flew whenever there was an oppor fog. tunity to do so. Strange as it may This was the first transatlantic eeem, never have I had any desire commercial air voyage in history; to pilot a plane myaelf. I have al;. . and a heating sysiem had not yet most an aversion to handling things been · installed. There were hours mechanical. Principally it is the ro when it was bitter cold, especially mance and spiritual uplifting which when we flew over an area of ice flying affords the person who revels · bergs. We encountered a terrific hi the beauties, of God's creation storm over Newfoundland when an that appeals to me. 8 5 .mile an . hour gale carried us 150 It happened that I was in Germany miles out of our course. However, THE AIRPOST JOURNAL as soon as we had run out of the BULLETIN storm area, the flying weather con tinued ideal. The second day out was perfectly delightful. The ocean COLUMBUS, OIDO,* May 21-22. Army was calm and the sun warmed the Air Maneuvers with 50 planes (also lmman cargo physically and mental Lindbergh Anniversary). Cachet is ly. There was an atmosphere of sponsored by C. of C. but· all covers heartiest cordiality among the men; MUST be sent to Wm. v. Miller, Box and tliey were like a lot of happy 1356. 2c stamp per cover extra boys bent on a jolly excursion. necessary, if air mail field cancella Everybody was collecting auto tion is desired. Air Covers ONLY. graphs on large sheets; and Dr. Eckener's autograph headed the his toric list. Clarence Terhune, the ST. PAUL, MINN.,* May 15. Cachet nineteen year old swwaway, almost sponsored by St. Paul Aviation Club burst with pride each time he penned on occasion of dedication of memor his name slowly and carefully among ial to Speed Holman, erected at the the distinguished signatures. entrance to the St. Paul' Airport. All For hours the mail cachet bear covers MUST be sent to Robert Lloyd ing in red letters "AN BORD GRAF Jone, 346 North Fairview Ave., St. ZEPPELIN, October 29, 1928" was Paul, Minn. (Being held on 15th as constantly in use. The men stamp anniversary of his death-17th ed collars, cuffs, socks, cards, pass falls on Tuesday. ports, vase·s. paper money and ev erything imaginable with the can DETROIT, MICH.* Two events in celler. I made use of it; and my immediate prospect and air covers new leather hand bag was the first to should be sent to W. T. Wynn, Jr., be thus honored. 61;.17 Reuter, Detroit, Mich. HURRY. Champagne, choice wines and Air covers ONLY. liquors were on board; but never did I see an abuse of the privilege were eight paying passengers and even during the tense hours of the $3,000 was the charge for the trip. storm. The food was perfectly de All good things must come to an licious; the kind one gets in a good end; and as Thur!)day, November 1, German hotel. The electric kitchen dawned, the proud silver airship was a marvel, small as it was. floated triumphantly over the seeth There was only one lounging ing mass of humanity which had room which also served as the din gathered to welcome the "pride of ing room; it was about 15 by 16 German achievement" home. Bands feet square and 7 1-2 feet high. were playing, thousands joined in the Cozy and elegantly furnished, it had singing of the German National an pale green, velour carpet covering them, guns were booming and church the entire floor, richly upholstered bells were ringing. Flags, flowers, chairs and setees, four round tables and decorations of red, white, blue, each seating about six persons, four black and green were everywhere in windows to watch the passing show evidence; as the great air liner nosed below, a small Victor talking ma to the earth. chine with an enormous supply of As the American passengers step records from jazz to classic, a six ped out of the airship in the home weeks' old Chow puppy, our mascot, hangar of the Grar Zeppelin, the all contributed towards the en ,band struck up the "Star Spangled joyment of the trip. Banner". Three days. later the Graf There was an ample supply of Zeppelin flew to Berun and in , this running hot and cold water in the 3 7 3 mile flight I was on board as four washrooms throughout the Dr. Eckener's guest. I hope to tell flight. Yes, and we even indulged you later on about my momentous in a little dancing. There was no flight in the Dornier Do-X, the danger of my becomin.g a wall flower. largest air plane ever built by man. We caught our first sight of the flashing light houses on the coast of France; and there was great re Plan now to *attend *the third* annual Con joicing on board the airship. There vention of A.A.M.S. at Cleveland, Ohio s THE AIRPOST JOURNAL
Review of Field's New BULLETIN The Canadian Post Office Depart ment will apply six cachets to first Airpost Catalogue flight air mail when the following routes are inaugurated early in June: Field's Priced Catalogue* of Air Mail Prince Albert-Montreal Lake. Stamps and Air Posts of the \Vorld Prince Albert-Lac la Ronge. 1932 First Edition. Publishers, D. Montreal Lake-Prince Albert. Field, 7 Vigo Street, Regent, Street Montreal Lake-Lac la Ronge. London Wt, England. Lac la Ronge-Montreal Lake. Lac la Ronge-Prince Albert. Letters for t'hese initial flights NEW Airpost* catalogue has should be marked with one of' the just been published by D. above routings and bear six cents A Field of London, England. Canadian postage. All covers, in This catalogue covers the airmail order to insure transmission by the stamps and airmail flights of the inaugural flights, must be sent under world within its 3 7 8 pages. All cover to the District Superintendent varieties of air stamps whether semi of Postal Service at Saskatoon, Sas official or otherwise, connected with katchewan, to reach him not later airmail flights have been included in than May 28, 1932. this catalogue. The prices where quoted have been based on mark8t values and in cases of rarer items EARL MILLS* of *Los Angeles,* adver to their frequency on the Philatelic tises on the back cover page a special market. The prices are listed in service for first day coveJ:'S. of the new two columns and in cases of actu·,i,l 2c and 5c Olympic Games issue. As stamps, the first column refers to an addenda to the advertisement Mr. perfect mint copies and the second Mills states that the seal, which will to ordinary used varieties. All be applied to the special envelope, is flown covers are listed separately and official, and not the envelope. priced in the second column. All items, stamps or flown covers, are are listed but covers not priced, listed in the order of their appear however the U. S. Graf Zeppelin ance . and numbered consecutively covers are catalogued and priced. throughout each country. The The catalogue is a veritable mine countries are listed alphabetically. of information and data about air mail stamps and flown covers and to An addenda has been added bring anyone interested in the hob by it ing the catalogue up to date to Jan is an indispensable guide for their uary, 19 3 2 and supplements to the use. The Airpost Journal heartily catalogue w{ll appear in the "West endorses this publication as being a End Philatelist" published by D. worthy edition published in the in Field. With each listing of stamps terests of aero-philately. The pub or flown covers is given all the sali lishers are entitled to the support ent data conce.rning the reason for of the hobby and this support will tbe issue, the number of stamps is Epur the publishers to proceed fur sued or covers flown and other in ther with their work and give to the teresting information. The catalog airmail hobby future valuable publi is profusely illustrated throughout. cations. The volume, bound in red Stamps as well as covers are repro half morocco with gilt lettering is duced in abundance in this new sold for 10-6 shilling postfree, which catalogue. All Graf Zeppelin flights is about $2.10 at the current rate are catalogued. In the United States of exchange, plus 28c duty, by the section are listed and priced the pi publisher who will gladly accept oneers and early governmentals. In your order, or the editorial offices of teresting to note that a pioneer card The Airpost Journal will take your fully illustrated is addressed to order and secure your. catalogue for Harry A. Truby, New Kensington, you. Penna, a prominent pioneer cover collector and contributor to The Air Plan now to *attend *the third * annu.al Con .. post Journal. CAM and FAM routes vention of A.A.M.S. at Cleveland, Ohio 4 The Vanlman Airship "Akron" which exploded 1,000 feet in the air near Atlantic City ,N. J .. July 2, 1912. The explosion i• said to have been caused by a too sudden expansion of gas due to the heat of the sun.
THE FIRST DIRIGIBLE "AKRON"
U. S. S. Akt·on's Ancestor of a Decade ameter. Beneath the gas bag was Ago was a 258 Foot Blimp the so-called car, which was about 150 feet long. This compartment by HARRY* W. AARON was connected to the gas bag by steel tubing of light construction. The dirigible was powered 'by three ELVIN VANIMAN'S* airship "Akron," built and flown gasoline engines, one a 100-horse twenty years ago, was th<;i power motor and the other SO-horse pioneering ancestor of our present power. queen of the skies, the U. S. S. "Ak On the morning of July 2nd, 1912 ron." The sweet potato-shaped '" Commander Melvin ·Vaniman and his blimp "Akron" of 1912 was then the crew, with the help of about a hun latest thing in lighter-than-air craft, dred policemen, firemen and others, a ~ is the rigid type Navy ship bearing .floated the dirigible " Akron out of the same name today. its hangar. The launching was ac Vaniman, commander of the first complished without difficulty and the dirigible to carry the name "Akron" £hip sailed gracefully away over the waters of the Absecon inlet. Vani into the sky, built his ' airship to man·maneouvered her down over At withstand the storms of the Atlantic lantic City, N. J. and after a few ocean and to carry at least a dozen minutes headed the "Akron" out to inen across its water to Europe, but sea. In this great airship with Commander Vanlman was his young on a test .flight, the last prior to the er brother, Calvin, Fred Elmer, attempt to cr~s the ocean, the "Ak George Bourrilllon of Philadelphia ron" went to her doom in calm and Walter C. Gest, a friend of Var weather. iman's financial backers. When th' a burst of flame outlined against th~ morning sky. In a rew seconds they witnessed the car of the dirigible he 'Round the World tach itself from the gas• bag and shoot downward into the water, .fol With the lowed by the collapsed gas bag. By intuition everybody appeared to have realized what had occured. Graf Zeppelin Fishermen and yachtsmen ,immedi ately started to the rescue. Every kind of a craft was brought into use (Material through* the kind permis and soon a hundred boats were on sion of the National Geographic their way to what, a few minutes Magazine and its Editor. ago, was the greatest dirigible in history. When the noats reache;l Gilbert Grosvenor) the wreck they founa only the col lapsed gas bag floating on the water. The car was submerged in about HE WORLD* FLIGHT of Graf eighteen feet of water and after a Zeppelin was not launched by search a submerged body, that of T Dr. Hugo Eckener for the sole the younger Vaniman was found. purpose of giving a few thousand Divers went down, but little could be cover-enthusiasts pretty-looking cov done until low tide, when Gest's body ers, in fact, I d4ubt whether the was disentangled from the wreck eminent Doctor had ever heard of 'as were the others. :::uch a racket as that of having cover eollectors finance his trip as other There were many theories as ~o men of renown have done, without the cause of the disaster. One was much success. that air got into the gas bag. An other that the rays of the morning This main object and purpose waR sun expanded the gas and caused the to 'make the world Zeppelin-conscious bag to burst. A third· was that or rather show that lighter-than-air flames somehow reached the gaso type of machines could fly great line tank and a .fourth theory ad distances. In addition, he meant to vanced was that a stray rope caught €how the world, that in a world trip in one of the propellere and was one would have to pass through all whipped around so that it tore a hole kinds of rou.gh weather and that the in the gas bag. Graf Zeppelin was capable of it at Death came instantly to Command any time. er Vaniman and .his. crew of four, His greatest task that lay before who had hoped to be' the first to cross him was the second lap of the jour the ocean in a dirigible. ney-from Friedrichshafen to Tokyo I have been told this great adven -the most difficult piece of air ture cost its backers $E•OO,OQO. Mr. stretch to go through, since most of F. A. Seiberling, President of the the country lay in uncharted region,1. Seiberling Tire and Rubber Co., who Especially in Siberia the land itself was at that time president of The is wholly uncharted and there are Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, treacherous mountains which loom was one of the backers of the first within a minute's notice. In a case airship "Akron" as was his brother, of this kind, the pilot, however, must C. W. Seiberling. be fully informed · of the exact Souvenir postal cards said to have heights of the mountains before been made from the same material venturing forth, as the foggy and used for the bag of the "Akron" and cloudy weather is of a certain degree ·bearing a likeness or the ship are of density and is unavoidable. known to exist. If plans were made So the route through upper Si for the carrying of mail on this air beria was abandoned for one through ship, they probably were never com southern Siberia, but was also found pleted. to be unnavi.gable ·due to certain rainy seasons that would make the Plan now to* attend *the third* annual Con flight at this time impossible. Fin vention of A.A.M.S. at Cleveland, Ohio ally tlie Doctor tried the most far- 6 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL by Edwin Brooks * * * thest northern route; over the mouths of the Ob and Yenisei rivers. This would lead into unknown terri tory, but seemed interesting indeed to the able explorer. Quoting the experience of the Doctor we find that: "The flight beyond the Urals led over such wonderfully interesting re gions that the d~viatitib. from our original >plan was perhaps not to be regretted from the point of view of geographical interest. "On the Siberian side of the mountains we eaw dozens of tre mendous forest fires, the dense smoke of which covered a vast area of many hundred square miles and hid the earth from the airship. "We were obliged to pass through layers of smoke, which drifted from the south to north at a distance of from 40 to 50 miles, until it was clear enough for us to be able to see fairly distinctly below, but for many miles the view was very in· distinct and the smell of the . fires r,ontinued for hours. "After passing this zone we turned toward the northeast, over a bend of the River Ob, where, after des cribing an easterly course, it flows in a northerly direction. We soon - arrived at the taiga territory, a region of widespread swamps which lie on both sides of the Ob." Soon ·the giant ship, its cabins lighted, the occupants carefree and happy, sailed silently and majestical ly over the deadly black-green swamp lands, unmindful of the tragedy that would occur should the big ship de cide to take a nose-dive. But as nothing really happened we will let Dr. Eckener say that: "We flew over that dread waste Photo Shows* * Dr. * Eckener (right) in front of cabin of the Graf Zeppelin at the Friedrich shafen hangar. 7 · THE AIRPOST JOURNAL the whole night, from 7 in the eve It was at six o'clock the next nin.g until 9 o'clock next morning, morning that the ship crossed the and it was with sensations of relief southwest point of Hokkaido and that we finally hailed the broad Yen then to the sought-for point of the i-sei River, which, notwithstanding trip--Tokyo. This was reached the its loneliness and remoteness, seem same afternoon at five o'clock after ed to us like a safe street that would having traveled almost 7 ,E•OO milas lead us again to towns. and people. from Friedrichshafen in leiSS t)J.an "The banks of the river extended one hundred hours. A remarkable endlessly, a monotonous waste, not accomplishment! a house, not a settlement, in sight, This, as had been seen before, was not. a boat on the broad, powerful the most hazardous lap of the entire f.tream to enliven the picture. After trip, for the Lakehurst to Friedrich about an hour, a tSmall village of a .shafen lap had been quite eventful few huts appeared on the left, and to compare with thiS and as a matter at the right was Imbatsk, for which of fact so were the other laps. we had been looking·." Covers and mail were taken When finally inhabitants, animals aboard at Lakehurst on August 7, nnd humans, were noticed below the delivered to Friedrichshafen on giant Graf Zeppelin, they took to August 10, ;oome dropped and more their heels in fright, no doubt thinl( taken on for the trip to Tokyo which ing the world was at end. Soon the was r'eached on August · 19. The ship was flying toward the lower same procedure was done at Tokyo course of the Tunguska River, where and the ship left on August the 23rd. it turns directly northwest. Never The Zeppelin arrived at Los Angeles before had anyone seen these terri on August 27th, taking off on the tories, as least not from the air. following. day to arrive on the 29th Late in the afternoon, the ship at Lakehurst. On September 1st flew through a wen of black menac the giant ship left for its birth-place ing clouds which for a moment shook and arrived there on the 4th. It the Zeppelin somewhat but was soon took the Graf Zeppelin exactly 351 righted without much ado. hours and ~42 minutes for the whole trip with a total of 24,983 miles.. By the next morning the ship was flying through uncharted space Had Jules Vernes been alive today known as the Stanovoi Range, a huge he would have been overcome with row of treacherous mountains, with joy at the far reaching affect of his an average of 3,500 feet. This was prophecy in his book, "Around the cleared by the Graf Zeppelin by a World in Eighty Days" which in scant 300 feet, at times through those days seemed like a drunken man's dream. But it was no· pipe dense fog. dream and it won't be long before It was soon learned that rocks; some air-n;iinded person will make and not clouds alone forced the navi the trip without a stop, clipping off gators to go higher. Here is how several more days. But at the same they found out: time we mustn't forget Dr. Eckenei' "Halfway toward the Okhotsk Sea in making this dream of Count Zep we had flown over ridges. of 3,300 pelin come true--More power to you; feet and more. By following deep Doctor Hugo Eckener, in making the canyons as lon.g as possible, we were world air-minded!· able to maintain an elevation of 2,300 to 2,600 feet until vast bar riers of rocks blocked our way and *11 DON'TS * 11 * forced us to ascend higher and higher. UON"'.r forget that a word of thanks shows appreciation for the "The mountains became more nbrupt and awesome, partly covered 3ervice that some other col with woods, partly barren and rising lector is doing for you. to m~gnificent peaks. We tried to nON'T use a filler smaller· than your find our way, if possible, over lower cover. It wilr cause ·yo.ur ridges, but soon had to ascend to, cover to be torn in handling 3,600 and 3,900 feet." thru the majJs. s ZEPPELINOLOGY HARRY \V.* AARON The New York Herald-Tribune of Feb. 7th, states that the giant Zeppe 17417 E. Pal'k Dr., Cleveland, Ohio lin LZ-129, now being built in Ger many, is to have a capacity of 600,- 000 cubic feet more than the AKRON HE DAMAGE* done to ·tlie but it will be shorter by thirty-five AKRON on Feb. 22nd, was feet. T not a's bad as first reported, and no doubt by the time you read Alton J. Blank tells me that the this, she will· be ready to start, if gas bag of the first Akron was cut not already on her way to the coast. into pieces, the size of a postcard, carrying 15 0 pounds of collectors' with an appropriate inscription mail. printed on one side and were sold to the public. The design on the I think that all editors will agree front shows the airship at sea, a with me, that it was only through . group of gulls flying nearby, and a 1lle untiring efforts of Mr. W. Irving ship or two on. the waters beneath. Glover, Second Assistant Po.stmaster On the other side was the ordinary General, and the Post Office Dept. postcard information such as that the Navy consented to have mail "Stamp Here", "Correspondence" carried on the AKRON when it was and "Addre;Ss." Anyone having one to leave for the west coast. It is of these "cards" or knowing more no doubt very disheartening to those about them, please write me. who are trying to do everything for the collectors that they can, to have The ZRS-5 has been named the U. an Editor of a magazine condemn S. S. Macon, after the city of Macon, them for not sending out the notice Georgia: at least thirty days prior to the Dr. Karl Arnstein has been called flight. I feel assured that Mr. to Lakehurst, N. J., to supervise the Glover sent out the notices as soon repairs of the AKRON. Which leads as he knew that the AKRON would me to believe the report that the carry mail, and this information was ship would be. ready to leave for the not held until the last for favored coast on April 1st, is false. · friends. What is the difference between a I think that we aU owe Geo. D. blimp and a dirigible? During the Kingdom, Bulletin Manager, our sin war the British used a B type of cere thanks for having the · AAMS limp airship, as distinguished from bulletin out in four hours after Ile the rigid type, quite naturally the received notice that the AKRON B-limp ships were contracted into would carry mail. Members shouid Blimps by the people and name has have envelopes with .him at all stuck. Dirigible means a balloon times. that is equipped with motors and We will soon know if the ZRS-5 steering apparatus, to make it di iis to be made larger than the AK rectable or dirigible. Any motored RON or not, as the sixth ring will be lighter-than-air ship can• be called in place this month and as that will a dirigible. Therefore a blimp is a complete half the frame work, it dirigil;>le, but not all dirigibles are will have to be decided, before the blimps: work can continue. · .(Continued on Page 32) 9 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL THE of her experiences on this flight. Don't mi:Es this. Airpost Journal AIRPOST JOURNAL readers, we are sure, appreciate im Published Monthly at Albion, Pa., mensely the efforts of Miss Lamport to give them Mrs. Adam's story. U. S. A., by the AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY WELCOME NEWS has been received EDITORIAL OFFICES: Conneaut, 0. to the effect that the Third Annual Convention of the. AAMS will be held Address Communications to "The in Cleveland, Ohio on September 1st, 2nd and 3rd, at the Hotel Hollen Airpost Journal" Albion, Pennsyl den. The Cleveland Air Mail So vania or Tyler Bldg., Conneaut, O. ciety is to be the host and this active society is noted for its hospitality. Geo. D. ·Kingdom, · Editor-in~Chiet A good time is assured by :all col Walter J. Conrath, Business Manager lectors that atten!f.. this three d_ay conclave and the writer urges that ASSOCIATE EDITORS everyone make plans to be there. Charles G. Riess ...... C.A.M.'s The writer will be there and would L. R Gatchell ...... ; ..... ~ ...... F.A.M.'s like to meet all the readers of the Alton J. Blank...... Alr Mail Stamps Journal. M. S. Petty...... ;. l)edications, et .al. ERIK HILDERSHEIM kindly for QElo. W. Angers ...... •. Crash Covers wards a card prepared for maffirig.. on W: R. Patton .... : ...... , ...... Canada the first dirigible named "Akron", a D. E. Dickason...... Auction Review co~plete story . of which. appears in Shylock ...... ; ...... Market Notes this issu·e. The card is made· fro in Fred H. Wilde .... Pacific Coast Notes a piece of the fabric of this airship and is a ·very attractive · and · · SUBSCRIPTIONS item. Uri!ted States ...... '. ... $1.00 per year Canada. and Foreign ...... $1.5'1 per year "THE LANDING J:t'mLD" is the Silngle Copie&,. 10c iiame of a four-page paper .published by the Aerophilatelic Society of New Entered' as seeond~class. lllatfur, February York: The news is mainly• about 10, .1932, at the post office at· Albion, Pa:., New York collectors and their ac . under the· Act of Mar·ch · 3, 1819. tivities but is sent free to any in terested collector. Further informa ADVERTISING RATES tion is securable from Harold Apple One !nch . pel'.. _IS1sue · .•...... " ... ,$ 1.00 baum, 1258 Brook Ave., Bronx, New Quarter page, per i"'8ue ..•.•...... $ 3.25. York City. · Half P-age, per issue ...... $ 6.00 Full }?age, per issue ...... $10.00 EDMOND L. MILLER, 812 W. l<'ront. Inside or Back . Cover Page when available ·...... ,.: ...... $12.00 Creighton Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind.', Interested a•dvertisers may apply for has just sent samples of a new air~ contract rate for space used every iS<:lne mail envelope which he is printing; for a period of six months. ·. . The Airpost Journal is publish'ed on the The designs. are very attractiVe and 25th of ea~h -month, AdvertLsing copy the. quality . of .paper very fine. must be received by , the _15th of each Samples will be mailed to anyone month, 10 days befGre ~ublication. <:ending five .cents to Mr. Miller. IT IS WITH SINCEREEST REGRET MISS FLORENCE hAMPORT of Phil- that we pubUsh the o.bituary of adelphia, Pa., ilecurecJ.* the most in philately's friend, A. V. Dworak. teresting article by . Mrs. Clara The editor ot this column wrote his Adams· appearin~ in this issue. We first airmail column through .the are really . pround of th_e fact that kindness of A. V. Dworak. an aero-philatelic magazine was able \\'EARE very much pleased to have to publish an article written by an a visit from t.. B. Gatchell of Syr actual passenger on this world acuse, N. Y., National Secretary of traveling Graf Zep])elin. Mrs. Adams the A. A. M. s .. and editor of our has also . been a passenger on an~ F.A.M. section. Bart is a niost other of the giants of the air and efficient Secretary and entiiusiastfo has promised to write for' us,: some airtnail collector. · 10 Cleveland I-lost to 1932 MMS Convention To the Members of the American announcement that the Cleveland Air Air Mail Society, Mail Society will be the host. De Dear Fellow Members:- tailed plans are being worked out The time has arrived when an and full announcements will be nouncement should be made regard forthcoming in the next issue of the ing the Convention of our Society Journal. for 1932. A competitive exhibition of airmail This important matter has been -stamps and covers will. be sponsored under consideration by your Officers by the local society in conjunction and Directors for some time as we with the convention and every col wished to serve the Society to the lector will be given an opportunity to best of our ability in the selection displaYf his favorite collection. of the time and place for our annual Proposed plans indicate that the fee meeting. for entering your collection in the Because of the present financial exhibition will be less than in the condition of the country and the previous exhibition held in Cleveland need for economy among most of our in 19 3 0. In fact, it is expected that members, we have been influenced the general cost of entertainment, by the idea that we ;should convene !banquet and other !incidentals in in a locality which would be acces connection with the convention will sible to the largest percentage of our be reduced to the minimum in order membership. This means that we to have a conventfon in harmony must select some place in the middle (Continued on Page 35) part of the country. The "Cleveland Air Mail Society" :ntlltllllllllt1111HlllUUlllUlllUtltltUUiUUUUUtlUHIUfltlllllt:. which is Branch Chapter No. 3 has extended a very cordial invitation i Russian Air Post ! for us to meet with them; the Offi cers and Directors ,aave accepted tllis invitation. This invitation also ; STAMPS ! includes the arrangement for an Aero § 1922, 45r ••••••.••. (Scott 701) $1.40 ~ Philatelic Exhibition with proper § 1923, lr to lOr, set of 4 (702-706) 3.2b § awards in each class. of entries. § 1924, 5k to 20k, set of 4 (706-709) .60 ii Therefore it gives me pleasure to : 15k on lr Inverted surcharge § announce that the annual Conven (708a} ...... 90.00 § tion of our Society will be held in 1927, 10k and 16k •..• (710-711} .25: the Hollenden Hotel, Cleveland, 0. 1930, Zeppelin 40k and 80k per- E on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd of Septem forate 101/2 ...... (712-713} 1.75 § Similar set, perforated 12'h S ber, 1932. I shall look forward (712-718} ...... 1.75 : to a large attendance. Similar set, imperforate hor- ~ Yours sincerely, zontal pairs (712a-713a} 45.00 :§ H. H. GRIFFIN, 1931, "Dirigible Construction" lm- President. perforate lOk to lr set of 5 1.40 § _ Similar set of 5, perforated 1.25 §_ The News is Out-Cleveland, Ohio § "North Pole" irnperforate 30k to will be host to the* Third Annual Con 2 50 vention of the American Air Mail a:! 4· > " i Society to be held September 1st, 2nd -=-==~==§ s~:;.u:~t :r ~~;:~~;: and 3rd, at the Hotel Hollenden. The invitation of the Cleveland Air .:= Mail Society to the National organiz E~:::~-~~~~~ "°I ation has been accepted by the Board . 200 SOUTH 13th STREET § of Directors. That the Convention ~PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA~ will be a success is assured by the ~n1u1n1uuu1unuu1lunuu111uuu11un1nn11u111111n1111uuu~ :11 Airs of the Month Alton J. Blank TALY comes to the front with two sets for chonlcle this I month. A set of five values, up All data on New *lsoues of Air Mail right in design, commemorates the Stamps should he sent direct to Editor Alton J. Blank, 1452 Beall St. Wooster, fiftieth year of Garibaldi's death. Ohio. Another, of six, honors Leonardo da Vinci, and are horizontal in format. Paraguay also issues two triangu lar stamps for the Zeppelin. DOMINICAN* * REPuBLIC* Two varieties of the 20c. blue Solar quadrant stamp have been COLUMBIAN* REPUBLIC noticed with distinct dilference in the Herewith are figures on the num arrangement of the numerals indi bers printed of the recent provision cating the value. On the normal als made by surcharging the SCAD stamp the numerals "20" slant TA set with the words "Correo · downward in the lower left and up Aereo". 6c. 10,000; lOc. 90,000; ward in the right. The variety has 15c. 440,00-0; 30c: 200,000; · 40c. the numerals slanting just the oppo 40,000; 60c. 15,000; 60c. 23,000; site. According to Mr. H. E. Huber soc. 10,000; lp. lS,000; 2p. 6,000; these stamps were printed in sheets 3p. 5,000; 6p. 3.600; and 20c. (reg of 2 E• ( 5x5,) and the second and istry) 16,000. fourth rows are normal while in the ...It is .reported that a permanent set first, third and fifth rows the variety is being prepared. - · occurs. From this it would appear CUBA that the normal stamp would be less Covers are at hand dated April 4th common than the variety. as well as the 6th, both represented to be first day of issue of the 5c. ·EGYPT purple stamp in the design of the The design for the new set has national series which_ appeared last . been temporarily discarded and a year. Who will set us right as to . new one ls ln preparation. It ap the correct date? The app:earance pears that authorities were· not of this value is a companion -to the pleased with the first proofs and 10, 20, and 60c. for use on the in are having pictures taken of planes terior lines of the island. flying over the pyramids · in an at- 1 CYRENAICA tempt to obtain a more satisfactory The five values of the new set design. mentioned last month are to be 50 IBAQ and SOc. and 1, 2, and 5 L. Colors and design have not yet been an Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co., have nounced. been commissioned to engrave a suit- 12 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL able sel'ies of· stamps for li~e ~ i~ this and the 6 L plus 1 L olive green, the kin_gdom. '.Th0-·atamp will probably hero himself. The frame consists of be the siZE:l .. o(- the current Persiou a pair of eagles with curved wings series, and in ·design show. the River and· the inscription "Cinquantenario Tigris with· palm trees on .either side Garibaldino 1882-1932." F~rst day and in the ·background an Imperial of sale was April 8th, 1932. There Airwars plan·e,- is a strong possibility that the set ITALY- will b.8 suitably overprfoted for the colonies. _ The Garibaldian National Volun teers are to receive the benefit of the Six very attractive stamps were surtax derived. from the aale of five issued 'the 14th of March under the stamps issued in honor of the Italian auspices of -the Dante AligherCNa:. national hero, Guiseppe Garibaldi. tional Society depicting the portrait The 50c. carmine-shows. a group · of of Leonardo -do Vhici alid one of his · men in front of a house;' the soc. inventions~ a -fiyhig machine>·Celors olive green presents Garibaldi's and . denominations . ~re : as ·follo'iVs: home, the 1 -L plus· 26c. red brown 6 Oc'. ' brown; · l ~ purple, · 3 I~ iicarlet, the same -as the. -60c.,. the 2 L plus 6 L greeri, 7.70 L plus 2 L blue, and 60c. blue the_ ~ortr11-if of a woman, (Con,tioued on Page ~ 36) : '~ ·. · SUPPPLEMENTARY PAGES ··-.~ .. - ·'• - ~-· Fpr · ~he lnternati(Rlal .. . \ - " AIR POST :ALBUM NOW ON SALE ' -~, ·. . . . · Provjding ~spaces for-all Air Post ~Stariip~ i~sued- and ch:roriicled sine~ . January c 1_9.~1 to.~ January 1932; :: < This is the second set for the De Luxe Linen · ~~: Hinged . Edition and ·:th_eJirst ·for the ' . ~ -. .Hinged Post E,4i~~W}· . . PRICES DeLuxe Edition, Pages Linen Hinged $2.50 - Hinged-Post Ed-ition ·Pages -.. _-· - _.. - $1.25 . · - ·-P,ostage Ext:ra~. · • • • 'IQ, ,...... , ~ -: ...... ~ -. -Scott Stamp & Coin ·c._. __ . J West 47th Street -:- New·Y()rk.Citv . . . •••.•• .. • '"f - " 18 THE AJRPOST JOURNAL by L. B. Gatchell All F.A.M. news should be sent direct to the editor of this page, 120 Shotwell Park, Syra<;use, N.Y. their initial* dispatch * on January* 29th over FAM 6 to connect at Paramar ibo with FAM 10. The covers from San Juan and St. Thomas bear the normal cancellations of these points, 6. AM at San Juan and 9 AM at St. Thomas with (as expected) no ca chet. They bear the Maceio back stamp of the 10th and the Correia Aereo backstamp of the 11th. Geo. S. Chapman alw i:hows us a covel' from Santo Domingo, dated Feb. 5, by the same first flight to Maceio. HE MANY *LETTERS received The cover has no special cachet but commenting on the absence the usual CORREO AEREO and T of this column last month has registration cancellations. Back more than ever convinced the writer stamps same as above. (who has never doubted it) that the interest in FAM's. is a keen, active and healthy one. Thanks indeed F. A.* M. 5 friends, for your letters. Sickness The Postal Bulletin of Wednesday, and other troubles, prevented the April 6, carried the following an column being with you. Apropos of . nouncement: the interest in F AM's there seems Service on F. A. M. 5, route 5, ·to be a quiet, but determined, drive Miami, Fla., to Cristobal, Canal going on behind the scenes to fill up Zone, will be changed to embrace the missing spaces in many a collec Cozumel Island (Mexico) between tion. This refers in particular to Hal ana and Merida both ways, effec the scarcer items of which the quan tive with flight leaving Miami April tities are but meagre. These are 15 and with return flight leaving not going on the auction market al Merida, April 19, 1932. together but are changing hands ac Service on F. A. M. route 8, tively through private sale. No this Brownsville, Tex., to Mexico City, is not propaganda to bull the market. Mexico and San Salvador, El Salva As many will testify in personal cor cior, will be changed so as to per respondence and publicly I have al f.:irm the twice-a-week servicefrom ways set down these covers as those Mexico City, by Vera Cruz, San Ger which I felt should have special at onimo, Tapachula, Mexico, and Guat tention. I can assure you that I am emala City, Guatemala, to San Sal fully satisfied with the "market" as vador and return, omitting service it is. There's too many vacant between Tampico and Vera Cruz, spaces of my own to be plugged! effective with flight from Mexico City, April 16 (with connection leav F. A. M. 10 ing Brownsville April H•) and with * northbound flight leaving San Sal The dispatches to Maceio as per vador April 17, 1932. No change in note in the March issue were duly schedule for F. A. M. route 5. made and are now in hand. San .Tuan and St. Thomas made their first Apparently the only portion of official dispatch on February 6th, special significance to collectors is but Miami interpreting the order that referring to dispatches to and "effective February 1" to mean "on Crom Cozumel, Mexico. The time and after February 1" from the was short-yet we still have hopeo;;. start of the F. A. M. 10 route, made (Continued on Page 32) 14 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL ZEPPELIN MAIL ~ Special Offer: @j}J ARCTIC FLIGHT 1931 10 difl'erent cards, mailed from 8 to 9 different countries ...... $ 7.00 :10 difl'ercnt covers, mailed from 8 to 9 different countries ...... $12.50 15 difl'erent cards, mailed from 8 to '9 dllferent countries ...... $11.00 15 different covers, mailed from 8 to 9 different countries~: .... $18.50 1. SOUTH AMERICA FLIGHT 1931 10 different cards, mailed from 8 to 9 difl'erent countries ...... $10.00 10 difl'0rent covers, mailed from 8 to 9 different countries ...... $18.00 2. SOUTH AMERICA FLIGHT 1931 10 diffe1·ent cards, mailed from 8 to 9 difl'erent countries...... $.10.00 l 0 dllfercnt covers, mailed from 8 to 9 different countries ...... $18.00 3. SOUTH AMERICA FLIGHT 1931 10 different cards, mailed from 8 to 9 difl'erent countries...... $10.00 10 difl'u·ent covers, mailed from 8 to 9 d:ifl'erent countries ...... $18.00 1., 2. and 3. SOUTH AMERICA FLIGHT 1931 30 different cards, mailed from 8 to 9 difl'erent countries ...... $27.50 30 dffi'erent covers, mailed from 8 to 9 difl'erent countries ...... $50.00 - PRICE LIST FREE - l have just made up a special price list of the 1,, 2, and 3. SOUTH AMERICA FLIGHT of 19 31. Different cards and covers are listed. lf you want to complete these three flights in your collection ask for the the above mentioned list. ZEPPELIN MAIL FROM 1910 to 1931 I have the largest stock of Zeppelin cards and covers on hand. If you need anything write me at once and I will make a special offer. APPROVAL SERVICE Two references will bring you a very interesting approval selection of ZEPPELIN MAIL at real bargain prices. Auction of First Flight Covers, Zeppelin l\lail & Airmail Stamps lf you are interested in my coming AUCTION let me put your name on my auction catalogue mailing list. ADVANCE SERVICE FOR ZEPPELIN l\IAIL l!lvery collector who is interested in cards and covers of the COMING ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS should write to me asking for my special mformation bulletin. -DEALERS-- I want to get in touch with dealers who are interested in the sale of my HANDBOOK OF ZEPPELIN LETTERS, POSTAL CARDS & STAMPS --Ask for information.--· CAM's, FAM's and FOREIGN FIRST FLIGHT COVERS H you want any of these flights, please let me know and I will make you a specfal offer. 1 have just taken over the business of Mr. I. Gomez Sanchez and will continue to specialize in Zeppelin mail, First Flight covers and Air- mail Stamps. · · F. W. KUMMER Successm· of I. GOMEZ-SANCHEZ P.O. Box 66, Wall St. Station 56 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 15 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL into being in June, 1915. The.print IN MEMORIAM ____,, ery was moved to a small outbuild __ l ing at one side of the house, after l the bedroom became too crowded. A. V. DWORAK The young girl he married in Denison 1871 - 1982 became an invalid and we see him A. v. Dworak, owner of The Gos moving the printery to Siloam ~ip Printery and publisher of Weekly Springs, Ark., in an effort to im Philatelie Gossip, The Air Mail Col prove her health. She died in 1920, lector, The World Stamp Market, and he moved the printery to Holton. The Mail Order Trade, and numerous He remarried in Holton, in 1921, other publications, died at his home and built his present printery in in Holton, Kansas, March 23, 1932, 1924, equipping it with new ma aged 6 0 years. chinery almost throughout. Mr. Dworak was born near Crete, He is i:urvived by his widow, Mrs. Neb., June 2, 1871, where his father Dorothy E. Dworak (who will carry was schoolmaster of the district on the business); two children, Ger school. The family moved to Gen ald R. Kirby of Weed, California and ova, Neb., in 1880, and it was there Mrs. Josephine E. Nostrum of Kan that Mr. Dworak received his early sas City; his mother, Mrs. Anna S. training in the printing trade. He Dworak of New York City, and a sis later attended the University of Ne ter, Mrs. William Cotton of New York braska, but came back to finish his City. apprenticeship at the printer's bench. The first Gossip Printery was WEST COAST* AIRMAIL* * SOCIETY ltarted in a little back bedroom of The second regular meeting of a bungalow he had built himself, in the West Coast Airmail Society was Denison, Kansas. It was here that held Sunday, March 27th, with the Gossip, his senior publication, came newly elected President, Mr. A. N. Brown in the chair. The Constitu- §IUUHitUU11UlllltlflU61UUllllHUIJHllHUUU111111111111111Hlllf~ . tion and By-Laws were formally adopted, and plans made for the future activities of the organization. Primarily organized for the· purpose I En~J1~ST C~~~~H~1;la~d I of uniting airmail collectors of San ~ Air-mails from John Bull's Is- ~ Francisco and the Bay Region, pro § land to Cyprus, the Isle of Venus § vision has been made for inclusion § and Love, (see your Shakespeare § of · out-of-town members. Further information may be secured by ad E and Scott's No. 116) and from § § Cyprus to England were inaugur- § dresEing the Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. ated April 16. The flights will be 'fed Hofer at 819 Geary St.. San § § Francisco. Meetings are held the § among the major First Flights of § last Sunday of every month-and § this year, and covers ought to be § thru the generosity of the Manage § a good investment as extremely § ment of the Hotel Steart, these meet § short notice was given of initial § ings will be held in that well-known § ftights. Covers listed below are § hostelry., the next being April 24th. § neat, specially designed, with § Everett Earle, § backstamps. § Publicity Director l<'irst Flight, Engalnd to ~ ~ MINT AIRMAIJ,s ~ Cypms ...... $1.00 ~ Newfoundland 50c unwmk ...$1.50 : First Flight, Cyprus to : Panama 256-7, Cat. 9-0c ...... 40c § England ...... $1.25 § G-uatemala 703 used, Cat. f'•Oc .. 2l5c:: ~ Both-$2.00. Banknotes or M.O. ~ -Postage Extra ; § Airmail St.amps P. W. Ireland on Approval - References essentia1 165 \Vootlstock Rd. Oxford, Eng. ~ H. D. DI 0 K 'i111uu11,IDUIUIUUllllUllllUHUlltltHlllUUtUU11tlllllllllllUUi P.O. Box 36 Rome, N.l'.. 16 TH~ BALLOON POSTS OF PARIS 1870 - 71 Written Especially for* The Airpost Journal by L.A. Chaintrier* Translated by John W. Prevost Editor's Note-This story is a con Le Daguerre * tinuation of the article on Paris Balloon Posts in the April issue. Subsequent issues will contain com E DAGUERRE* was the twen.tv-· plete stories of the flights of these fifth balloon and was sent out balloons. L by the Post Office Depart ment. Its cubical capacity' wa•s 2045 passed over* the first * trenches * of the meters and its outer envelope was Prussian army. They attained an made up of strips of yellow and blue altitude of 800 meters, but Le percaline. Daguerre was pierced by several The pilot was Mr. Sylvain Jubert, projectiles and the damage was real a sailor of the National Marine. ly serious. Le Niepce, more fortun There were two passengers, Mr. ate succeeded in passing the danger Pierron, a civil engineer and Mr. zone _without damage. Le Daguerre, Nobecourt, a pigeon fancier. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 The mail carried consisted of five x t:h OLYMPIAD sacks weighing 260 kilograms and FIRST DAY COVERS FROM LOS ANGELES in addition, there were five baskets CALIFORNIA I WILL SEND YOU 9 First Day covers of pigeons, 17 belonging to Mr. Nobe franked as foll: 1 with 2c single; 1 with Zc court and 13 to Mr. Laurant. It is ,Pair; 1 with 2c BLOCK of 4; 1 with 5c also claimed that Mr. Pierron took ·single; 1 with 5c pair; 1 with 5c BLOCK of 4; 1 with 2c & 5c singles on same cover; his dog along. 1 with 2c & 5c pairs on same cover; 1 with 2c & 5c BLOCKS of 4 on same cover. 'IUie ascension took plac.e, from Plate No. Blocks will be supplied where the Orleans Railway Station, Satur possible. day, November 12th, at 9: 15 A.M. ALL FOR ONLY ...... $1.75 And here is the Service that goes with it: At the same time another balloon, ;l. Personal attention to all orders. 2. Positively no straight edges. Le Niepce, ascended, but carrying 3. Covers neatly addressed & mailed direct no mail. It was sent out by tlle to you. Post Office Department, carrying Mr. 4. Covers via air & registered when post age permits. Dagron, a photographer, Mr. Ferni 5. Special cacheted envelopes of fine quality. que, engineer of Manufactures and 6. Special "stuffers" in all covers to prevent Arts, Mr. Poissot, an artist and a damage & preserve cover. 7. Money refunded on any unsatisfactory relative of Mr. Dagron, Mr. Gnocchi, cover. · an aid of Mr. Dagron's and Mr. 8. All prders reaching me by Noon the day Pagano, a sailor and aeronaut. In preceeding the Day of Issue, will be filled. addition the balloon was laden with This is the latest, most economical & com 6 OO kilograms of apparatus, belong plete Service I know of. This low price possible only on orders for entire set (as ing to Mr. Dagron and destined for listed above). All 9 covers to go to one use in the fabrication of the films name and address. for the Pigeon Post. TERMS: Cash with order. REFERENCES: First National Bank & The two ballons were subject to Postmaster, Holtville, Calif. a violent gunfire from the enemy, MEDIA FROST Holtville, Calif. Air Mail and Cover Specialist from the moment they arose and 17 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL losing its gas, in spite of the efforts pursuing calalry to arrive on the of the occupants who kept throwing scene was an artillery man named overboard sack after sack of ballast, Muhlbacher. It was 11 o'clock A.M. approached the earth, carried by The three aeronauts were made the wind. prisoners by Lt. Count de Soulheim, At ten o'clock it passed above who seized the balloon, the four Guermantes (Seine & Marne.) Here sacks of mail and 24 pigeons. the enemy calvary started in pur The journal Le G;rnlois of Paris suit and finally overtook the balloon of November 16th, offers the follow at Jossigny, near Ferrieres, 21 kilo ing information. meters from Meaux and 42 kilo "The news of the loss of Le Dagu meters from Paris. erre was brought to Paris by five The unfortunate aerial voyagers, pigeons, each the bearer of an iden .seeing themselves pursued, threw tical dispatch which was sent by a overboard all of their ballast and guard of the Ferriers wood. The began to make preparation to throw di~patch was as follows: 'Large yel over the mail sacks. Mr. Pierron low and blue balloon fell at Jos succeeded in unhitching one sack signy near Ferrieres. Prussians cap and a basket of pigeons, just as the tured the talloon the aeronauts and balloon passed over the Ferriere:i the rest. I saved only one sack of wood. But now the balloon began mail and six pigeons'.'' to twist and turn with great violence, and the occupants could only crouc.h This referred to the bag of mail at the bottom of the basket, and and the basket of pigeons thrown await with anguish the first contact out over Ferrieres wood by Mr. with the earth. This was rude en Pierron. ough, but no serious damage was The aeronauts were taken to Ger done. After the three voyagers many as prisoners. It was learned alighted, the balloon in two bounds after that Mr. Nobecourt was carried arose and caught on the roof of a to Versailles in a cart where he was farm house. kept in a cell for 1 E• days. From The journal Der Schwabischer thence he was sent to Glatz in Mercur of November 18th, 1870 in Silesia, where he remained five forms us that the first man of til.a months. The four captured mail sack3 UtlllltUllltllltlUUltUUllllflllllllltlllltffllltlfll tllllltlltllflllltt' were sent to VersaiHes, where the 1 USED AIR MAILS correspondence was opened by the Cat. Net Netherlands, 701-3...... 50 .25 German Secret· Department. The Nicaraffua, 701 ...... 1.25 .50 four baskets of pigeons were also 0 702 . . • . . . . . 1.50 .60 put at the disposition of the same 708 . . . . • • . . 1.00 .40 704 ...... 1.00 .40 department. Used Airs on approval against references. Le Daguerre was the second bal JOHN ARNOSTI, A.A.M.S. 1328 loon car:tured by the enemy. Box 445, Gr. Cent. Sta., N. Y. City 111111nuu1n1nrntnu11n111u11111111un1111n1111nun1n1u1111n111 Note We have just learned of the fail llUHUlflllllllllt.lltlll11111111HttlUUUlllllllUIUll111tllftUllllUHtt ure of two balloons, Le Galilee and Le Daguerre. NOW OUT! The Department of Paris is much The United States Specialized Catalog disturbed and with reason, and un of First Day Covers dertsands that the departure of bal 1982~SECOND EDl'fION-1932 loons in dayligh News of future and past events nnder ings. Don't know if he is the send this section should be sent direct to Mr. Petty, 617 Kennedy St., N. W., er or someone connected with an \Vashington, D. C. event of that date. PASADENA-ALHAMBRA AIR DROME dedicated for use of Lincoln UTURES: SAN* PEDRO, CAL. Air Lines, with 52 covers mailed by C. of C. will cachet air covers Fred Wilde, on March 12th and 33 on arrival of U. S. S. Akron, if on March 13th. Typed inscription sentr= OPEN AND EMPTY and outer E'igned by R. B. Curtis .... CLEMEN envelope marked "For Akron CEAU, ARIZ. dedicated on March Cachet" About May 2nd. 19-20. Montezuma Stamp Co. of OMAHA, NEBR., May 27-30. An·· Clarksdale, Ariz. had 2 5 O envelopes nual Air Races, and National Elimi printed on short notice, stated not nation Balloon Races. No cover for speculation but for convenience information, but C. of C. proba:lly of collectors who may have them for will hand covers ..... ST. PAUL, MINN. 15c each. Fred Wilde reports few May 16-22. Northwest Aircraft Show. without markings. All mailed on No cover information ....ST. PETERS 19th, none on 20th as Post Office BURG, FLA. Cachet for air covers closed Sundays .... AUBURN-OPE May 12, 13, 14, event not stated. It LIKA Airport Opening or dedication is further stated a cachet there even took place on April 4th. About 1500 month (reason not given) this year. covers from both cities, three line Covers to York Briddell, Chairman hand stamp cachet from Auburn, but Aviation Comm., C. of C. OPEN. •11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111• BOUND BROOK air mail days aet for March 12-13 cancelled. All covers were mailed from NEW OR George Washington LEANS Air Carnival, April 8-11. Pictorial cachet by Famous Flier. Inc., was applied there four days. Memorial Building On the 10th a different nice cadiet by American Airways Inc. and Aero Will be Dedicated Philatelic Club was applied in honor MAY 12, 1932 of the 20th anniversary of first New The portrait on the present 9 cent Orleans Air Mail Flignt. Covers cap stamp was taken from the pic ably handled by AAMS member, E. A. Thurman. ture in Washin.gton's Masonic NO airport dedications will be Lodge at held at Brownwood, Tex., Marfa, ALEXANDRIA, VA. Tex., Oxford, N. C., Annapolis, Md., Special em bossed envelopes will Lamar, Colo., Hays., Kans., Del Rio, be addressed to you for this his- 3 Tex., French Lick, Ind., Rexton, torical occasion. These covers Mich., Owensboro, Ky., Union, Mo., Effingham, 111 .... Sprrngdale, Ark, will : will be officially cacheted by the dedicate in about three months ac·· ~ Post Office Department. cording to their Community .Club in Cover with 9c stamp...... $ .18 letter to Charles Walter. Cover with block 9c...... 47 SANFORD, FLA., mailed 260 cov Set both covei·s ...... 60 ers on January 19th airport dedi cation .... HUNTINGTON, TENN. mail ROBERT M. HAYES ed only ten or fifteen last October 13 2019 Howe St. Chicago, ID • .... I have just received cover .... poot In answering please mention marked Detroit, Aprll 10th, signed The Airpbst Journal by Ralph R. DeVore with no mark- :u1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111uu. 19 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL 1l printed three line one from Opelika flight there. Four line ink cachet Lee County C. of C. advises me that to about first ten. Dedication not the airport was not completed on yet held .... SAN DIEGO, two line ink date of Post and Gatty visit Decem cachet and P.M. signature on April ber 9th and was not turned over ))y 7th covers, the 20th anniversary of contractors until February 20th. first air mail flight there. Hence, I doubt if the previously re Very pretty cachets for Old Iron ported covers of Dec. 9th, have auy sides" visit to Lake Charles, Tampa rank as Airport covers. (They are ::>.nd St. Petersburg. OK as Post and Gatty covers) .... OTHER UNOFFICIALS SINCE TULSA, OKLA., dedication Munici last issue, briefly, have been: Nor pal Airport, March 24th with poor walk, 0., March 11, visit Asst. Sec. two line cachet by C. of C. to about Navy, Ingalls ... .l\fadison, Wisc. Mar. 500 covers in black and same by P. 12, and Chicago, Ill. March 12, ca 0. to about 300 more in red. Very chet by Chicago Assn. Commerce. few have date "3-24-31" changed unofficially carried on experimental to "32" in ink. flight over Northwest Airways line3 CHEBOYGAN, Mich, dedicated .. c.Newark, March 12, first passengar October 9th and covers bear four mail flight to Montreal.. .. Akron, Mar. line cachet or sticker of that date. 18, typed cachet ~or raising zero Flown in Detroit News autogiro to ring in U.S.S. Macon .... Springfield to Detroit and were not mailed from Buffalo, Ill., April 5th, carried by there until December 31st. About Lowell B. Mason, first candidate to 150 of them and they certainly make aerial campaign .... Masillon, 0. should rank as dedication covers .... Mar. 29th, visit Paul Siple .... P'ort McALLEN, Tex. mailed most of ded land to Seattle, April 1st, 125 covers ication covers 011 Jan. 9th, few on carried on shuttle flight by Air Ex 10th and about 100 altogether. press. Bear United Airlines cachet GALVESTON used black cachet tu and Amer. Ry Express sticker and a bout 800 covers on March 17th, the were handled by friend McCamley of 20th anniversary of first air mail Portland .... Los Angeles Air Mail •U1t11111rtlll1111U11111HHIUUHUUltUHllttJllllllllllUlllllllHUH,! Field, April 1st, four line red cach~t for first shuttle flight by United An· Lines .... Byrd visit to Clarksburg, W. ~ ECUADOREAN ~ Va., on March 15, resulted in 2 5 printed envelopes by Lions Club; to STAMPS Lorain, O. on March 28th in printed hlue cachet by Kiwanis Club; and The Only Firm Specializing in to York, Pa., on April 2nd, in: at~ Ecuadorean Stamps tractive purple cacnet by Junior Service League .... Detrott, April 2nd, Largest Stoel' for Dealers and first day National Aircraft Show, pur Collectors ple cachet of Transamerican Air Lines applied to 3 210 covers by AA USED AND UNUSED STAMJ>S J\IS member Vv. T. Wynn, Jr. and his eommittee .... LOS ANGELES, April §:== ' I•'irst Flight - E'lown Covers 6th had familiar design cachet in Eeuaclorean Airwn;rs Nrw Issue two colors for .Army Day Aerial Re : Serviee view. The editor of this page would like S11erial Terms for Dealm·s to see airport dedication covers of Clyde, Cal., Nov. 1, 2, or 6, 1930; Address to Colo, Sept. 29, 19 3 0, and St. Peters burg, Fla. on second day, Feb-ruar:y: Francisco J. Meneses 26th. Immediate return promised. P. 0. Box 262 I would like to express my person al acquiescence in item on Stop QUITO - ECUADOR - S. A. Press page and on editorial page of · Mekeel's of April 11tn, concerning :\leml>er ~"cachet" colle;s:ting, ais termed in "Anwrlcan Ph!lntellc Soeiety"~Will - "Society Philatelic Americans"---6176 Gossip issue of same date "cachet ~-~111 um I Ull llJ 111110 • ·~IUUHUU~UIUI ~!"~I~~·~ II!~! I~ ~~u um f~ _u; anaemia." 20 All information concerning Canadian rell, Hollick-Kenyon, McLaren. Last Air lllail should be sent direct to Contract Flight, March 30th, 1932. Editor \V. R. Patton, Box 2384, Pilots: Ashton, Calder, Farrell, Winnipeg, Man., Canada. Hollick-Kenyon, Jarvis, Moar, Stull. The other cover hasi the following TIIE mmuCTION OF AIR MAU, descriptive material: Canada's Prair * ie Air Mail. Length of route 9 91 SERVICE 1-2 miles. Contract price 7 2c per · mile. Took off March 3rd, 1930. Landed March 31st, 1932. Forced ESPITE the* many reports of down by the great depression. () reduction in the air mail services of Canada, the only Farewell, a sad farewell, line dropped was the Prairie Service Thou, child of happier days; running between Winnipeg and Ed None knew thee but to cherish, monton. All other services will be None named thee but to praise. kept up as before. However, the closing down of the Prairie route cuts off almost 1,000 miles of Can Plan now to *attend *the third* annual Con ada's airways. The last fiight was vention of A.A.M.S. at Cleveland, Ohio made, both from Edmonton and Winnipeg, ·on the night . of March 30th arriving at destination 7: 00 A. M. March 3 lst, after which no i" ...... N ..:·: .. A..; ..;·~·;:·:;·;·~ .....1 more mail will be carried until the Government considers they have the necessary funds. ~ Italy, 6 varieties, ...... $2.00 ~ Through the generosity of a Tripolitania, 4 varieties good friend, the two following I .751 covers reached me on the last fiight. Both have at the left hand side printed facts of this route, and wit:1 5 Nicaragua, ~.O. Reconstruction. ~ heavy side borders of black in Me ~ Nicaragua, Officials ~ moriam. The first cover has at top top "The end of a great enterprise?" Underneath in a square 2 1-2 x 2 0 1-2 inches, with quarter inch heavy ,,_! Col;:~~-n ~::=::..:~ ~~~TA =-' black border, we have a picture of a plane that has come down. The Bmash-up is labelled on· the side = AIR-MAIL APPROVAL SELEC- "Western Air Mail". Very good descriptive material of the route follows underneath as for instance; "Canadian Prairie Air Mail. Length of route 991 1-2 miles. Con tract price per annum $481,869.00. 1 Experimental First Flight Dec. 10th, co::~~~:~=~!~'.'.~~~~s I 1928. Pilots: Buchanan; Calder, Dick ens, Farrington, Wester.gaard. In augural Contract fii:ght March 3rd, ~ Box 7120 ELKINS. PARK, PA. ~ 1930. Pilots: Brown, Buchanan, Far. ~llUUHlllllMIUllUUUIUUUllUllllllUllU~llUUUIUUUIUUUllU~ 21 CRASH COVER NEWS * By Geo. W. Angers, Crash Historian of A.A.M.S. DIEU - another important * of Punxsutawney, Pa., a most serious task in connection with devotee of the crash hobby fraternity. A CRASHES makes it impera I trust my co-operators will give him tive that I relinquish my duties aa the same courtesies as I have had the editor of the Crash Cover News.. pleasure to receive during the past months. This popular column, however, will not be discontinued. With the next My new duty will be the editing issue, the well known enthusiastic of the Crash Section of the Standard crash editor of the Air Mail Collec Airpost Catalogue which will make tor will succeed me. He needs no its appearance next Fall. The task introduction-he is Frank Costanzo is a difficult one but with the collab oration of my co-workers, I hope to make it a welcomed addition to the 11111111111111111111•11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111~ high grade catalogue published by --BRITAIN'S BEST- the Berkshire Exchange.· PHILATELIC MAGAZINE IS OFFICIAL REPORT OF RECENT THE CRASHES, ACCIDENTS* AND FORCED LANDINGS PHILATELIC March 15, 132* (Accident) ...... MAGAZINE Hartford, Conn., A. M. No. l, AA. Eastbound. 7: 20 A.M. No further Fortnightly - 7-6 per Annum. details as to weight of mail, name FULLEST NEW ISSUE CHRONICLE. ALL THE CHIEF HAPPEINGS of pilot, etc. Mr. Plourd of Hart RELIABLE MARKET NOTLS. ford reports that the New York plane SPECIMEN FREE. landed at the Hartford Field about 7: 20 A.M. A high wind was blow BRITAIN'S BEST 'rRADE ing and as the plane turned so as PAPER IS to approach where the mail clerk THE was waiting to receive the mail, the PHILATELIC wind got under a wing and blew the plane over, smash~ng a wing. Mail TRADER - for Hartford and vicintty was hand - ed to the mail clerk direct from the Monthly (15th) 2-6 per ·,nnmn wrecked plane. Mail for Bosto r:t OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE PHILATELIC TRADERS' SOCIETY was transferred to a chartered plane SOUND NEWS AND VIEWS and flown to Boston. Further de ~ ON ALL TRADE MATTERS. tails will be given next month. Harris Publications, Ltd., March 19, 1932 (Crash) I Calimesa, Calif., A.M. 33 AA. ~ 112, STRAND, LONDON, w.c.2 Westbound, 7: 30 P.M. Pilot Harold i11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 J. Kelsey. (Co-pilot Hollis H. Camp- 22 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL bell and five passengers) killed. sleet storm as he was nearing Steu Mail, 107 pounds. About 10 pounds, benville, Ohio. As ice was forming approximately 750 letters, recovered on his plane making it impossibl9 from the debris. Forwarded on to gain altitude, George decided to March 21st from Los Angeles to ad return to Columbus, 0. Flying low dressee or returned to sender ac at a speed of about 120 miles an cording to legibility of address on hour, plane crashed in the Ohio the envelopes. All salvaged mail River, near Brown's Island, four badly burnt and sent under official miles above Steubenville, O. The caver with the following mimeo wreckage was not discovered unttl graphed form:- "Yucaipa, Calif. 12 hours later. The body of the Wreck of AM 33, Plane NC 625-E, pilot, with his parachute wrapped Mar. 19, 1932. The enclosure is a about him, was found under the part of the air mail recovered from plane in about 20 feet of water. At the above mentioned wreck. The this writing the body of the woman plane burned and as this letter has had not yet been recovered. been damaged it is sent you under March 31, 1932 official cover. F. E. Smith, P.O. Inspector!' The only marking ap Bedford, Ohio. AM 17 UAL. West plied was on the P. 0. Inspector's bound. 2: 3 5 AM. Pilot Forrest Mal Envelopes in black "SALVAGED AIR lick, killed. Mail 581 pounds. For MAIL 3-16." warded from Cleveland without Pilot Harold J. Kelsey was fiyini; markings. a trimotored passenger mail plane Battling a howling storm on the from Phoenix to Los Angeles. Due night air mail run between New to dense fog, Pilot Kelsey was fiying York and Cleveland, Pilot Forrest low through San Gorgonia Pass and Mallick crashed to his death in an as he approached Calimesa, he struck open field known as "the jungle". approached Calimesa, he · struck a near Bedford within a few miles of high power line of the Southern the Cleveland Airport. Mallick had California Edison Co., and crashed enc,ountered a storm over "Hell in flames in an apple orchard throw •1t1111u1111t1uu11ut1n1uuou·n111•1111u11111tut1n1ununnuu1,:: ing one of the passengers clear of the wreck, but still strapped to his !Air Covers in Packets ! seat alive and conscious. drying the Buying regular stamps in packets next day with a broken back. Kel § § has been a "stand-by" for years. § say had 6,000 hours fiying experi il il Why not do the same thing with ~ ence. § Flown Covers? Here is your : March 21, 1932 il chance-try it out-see how it ~ Steubenville, Ohio. (Brown's Is §works. § land) AM 34 AA Eastbound. 3:00 § While there are no rarities, you'll § AM. Pilot Hal George and one a find plenty of cachets, cancella- il passenger killed. Mail 4 7 pouches, : tions and other doo-dads. Some il 427 pounds. Recovered, 28 pouches il of the covers are 4 or 5 years old, il and search is being continued for § so you will get mighty fine value. ~ the balance of the cargo. Letters il 10 dUf. Foreign Air Covers $1.aO il recovered were badly watersoaked ~ 25 dift' Foreign Air Covers $6.00 § 1and forwarded from .Steubenville. il 50 dift'. Foreign Air Covers $20.00 § The Postmaster advises that a special § 75 dift Foreign Air Covers $40.00 il marking "Received in damaged con il 100 di:if. l<'oreign Air C'v'rs $70.0o § dition" was applied to salvaged il There are many First Flights in § mail. From another source, we are ~ the iast three collections ~ informed that no marking was used. il Not a single U.S.A. § Confirmation is requested. § or Canada in § Pilot Hal George was flying the il the lot il airmail from St. Louis eastward ac ~ AEROPl1ANE VALUE § companied by a woman passenger : SUBMARINE PRICES il who had obtained special permission to fly with the mail pilot to reach i Marks Stamp Co. Lt:d. i the bedside of her daughter, ill at ~ 462F Spadina Ave. Toronto, Can. g Orange, N. J. He encountered a : 1111111111u1u11111u1nunn1uu11tt11111111111t1111uu11nnuunuu': 23 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Stretch" just before reaching Belle QUARTERLY REPORT OF TH.~ fcnte, Pa. At this· point he was m SALES DEPARTMENT formed that the weather was thicken ing . and getting worse toward Cleve January, F€·bruary, March, 1932 land. Having flown this route for. Balance on hand Dec. 31, 1931. ... $181.17 over eight months, decided to con Books on hand Dec. 31, 1931-191 value ...... $3863.77 tinue .his flight: A violent head~ Books received Jari•Feh-Mar wind carried him off the airway 1932 65 ...... 1447.80 lights and apparently lost his· way. Total books 265-value .• $5311.57 Books retired Jan-Feb-Mar As he had switched off his ignition, 1932 - 49 : . . . 436;23 he evidently knew he was going to Books.on hand Mar. '22, 207 crash. value- ...... · "' ...... $4875.34 Cash sales, quarterly" period MalliclCis the third air mail pilot (Jan-Feb-March, 1932 ...... $429.69 to have ·crashed near Cleveland. Thomas p: Nelson; crashed in De $610.86 cember 1929 near Chagrin Falls in Expenses for qu-; rterly period a blinding snowstorm. and Samuel J. (Jan-Feb-March, "1932) Samson was forced to jump when To members on account ...·,$303.66 Commission paid ...... "·· 70.30 motor trouble deyeloped at Bedford, To regular ·insurance ...... 6.47 Ohio on May 24, 1930. To - extra insurance ...... : . 4 ..90 Postage to memb.ers ... -. . . 4.70 390.03 Balance on hand March 31, 1932 .. $220.83 ··" f'.-0rrection'*' in the 1\!arch fssue, under date of I~dications at th~. beginning of February 2nd, crash at l\IIarcellus, the . year pointed to increased sales Mich., reported that the i;;pecial for this quarter, however, there has marking applied at Kalamazoo read been a decrease instead, the. decline in . the volume of sales. starting in "Forced Landing at Marcellus, Mich" the early part of February-, many This source of information wbile official, has been proven· to be' in members being compelled for the correct. Upon further investigation, present at least to giY.e .up buying on the proper endorsement should have account of. the economic. conditions. :read: "Received in damaged· condi An interesting fact to· be noted ls tion . at Kalamazoo, Mich." The that although the .total sales fell be error is explained by the Superin low that of the previolls quater, the tendent of Mails at Cleveland, Ohio. cover sales of this quarter exceeded We quote from his· letter dated that of the previous one; This per April 14th: "The· m.atter of en haps is accounted for by the fact that dorsement was taken up with the many collectors are taking~advantage Postmaster at Kalaniaz6o·; Mich., of the lower net prices. where the damaged mails were han The Department has available all dled,· and I am· informed that on a~ kinds· of cover's, including Pioneers, count of no stamp reading "Forced Government, Dedications,- CAM's, ·F ·Landing at Marcellus, Mich." avail able and insufficient-.time to prepare AM's, etc. also .slamps in blocks, such a stamp the letters were all singles iriciuding rarities and errors. backstamped with the Kalamazoo, There are .also .. books o~ semi-officials Mich. postmarking si;amp and. those as well as book,s, .containing airway in :damaged condition were also en company stamps and labels. dor:sed "Received in dam::i;ged i:on Members should ·write for Circuits dition at Kalamozoo, Mfoh." on the stating .·the 'class' 6f material they face side. desire. - Fraternally submitted, :.n1tUIUIHUUUU1UtllllllUUUUIHIHfUUUllUUUllUHUIUlUIH!; § CANADA AIR MAIL ~ H. C. CARPENTER, Sales -Manager. ~ Fh st Day Covers New 6c -Stamp from ~ 5 18 official cities conlplete. Mighty E 600 Southern Ry ;; scarce in entirB sera. Ce.sh or M.O. E Cincinnati,· Ohio.. ~ $3.50 per ·set. : ~ THEODORE DOYLE ~ j !J726-88.. St. Woodhaven, N.Y. ~ Plan now to attend* *the third* annual Con ~·••~un1u1n11111111111111nu11111n111uuuu1utu11111u11111n1111t': vention of A_.A.M.$, :·at Cleveland, Ohio AUCTION Rl:VI EW By Donald E. Dickason Ni<:0las Sanabria-Third Sale March 26 N TlllS SALE,* of· which the :first 19 8 lots were air mail stamps, I some very low and some very high prices were realized, as well ns a great many which were about in line with the average market. A few interesting .items are given as folows: Argentina first set com plete $7.00, the blue Zeppelin set ~10.25 and the green Zepps. $21.00. •------• The Chile 6P on lOc., catalogued by true status by bringing $70-and at Scott at $50, brought almost a record that it was a bargain. Sweden No. low of $18.50. The set of Cilicia, 2 504 sold for $365. The Venezuela copies sold "as is" brought an as 40c slate blue error, not often of tonishing high price considering the fered, brought the very decent price lack of guarantee, in selling at $62. of $ 7 5. This sale was a good cross The first Colombia, $481, went very section 'of the present market, ln decently at $372 for a perfection . mint copy. The semi officials. of thi:s country brought rather low prices in comparison with the generally in 1······c;~:i····i:·~~:·i~~····R~:~"d...... I creasing interest in this interestin!'l' group. The French Ile de France set, with the blue stamp centereti left, went at an even $75. A num 1 ber of the :first issue of Honduras =:!__ ='- averaged from one-fourth to two .:~;;;;o:'.d~ ~:~;e::"'" thirds catalog. The 20c on 25c - ltouND THE WORLD COVER - black brown Nicaragua earthquake, s Carried in 19 2 9 by the Graf !! which has apparently been discovered § on its Lakehurst to Lakehurst § in a total quantity of 100 copie"l, § Trip § though its history is still somewhat ~ This Cover is Franked With § obscure, brought $65 for a fully $3.55 in Postage. :i: guaranteed copy. ~ u. s. Postmarked New York and _ The complete :first issue of Persia. --: priced by Scott at $129.60 sold for = Backstamped Lakehurst. = the Insignificant sum of $17.E•O. The I Catalogued by Dworak at $20 I first issue of Peru, second printing, overprinted inverted, brought $14. 9 The Philippine high values of the I Write ~~;:i~;e~ ~~~Y of my I Madrid Manila set continued to § Weekly Airmail Cover Pricelist. ~ demonstrate that present catalogue § Just send 2c to cover the cost or !! figures are too low in bringing $12, § Mailing. Autographed Covers a i $21, $50, $56, and $111 for the one, ; Specialty. ~ two, four and 10 peso stamps re spectively catalogued at $17.50, $40, ~ FREDERICK W. WEINGETZ, JR. ~ $60. and $100. The Salvador 20c § 8761 • 118th St. A.A.M.S. 1265 il green with red surcharge, Scott No. § RICHMOND HILL, N. Y. E 651, catalogued at $60 showed Its iu1nn1u1111111111u111u1111u1u1nn111111u111u11•1n111111u111n111S THE AIRPOST JOURNAL which we find many items bring as number of lots of used airs on pieces fine prices as they ever did, and of . cover were bargains for several others equally fine pieces, simply for bidders who got them at figures the lack of interested bidders at the which will give a good profit when particular sale, going for prices that the present increasing demand for are ridiculously low. If there was used airs makes itself a little more ever a time when it paid to attend evident. these auction sales in person, or be Pion.eer covers were pretty slow, represented by an agent, that time averagmg not much over one"fourth is now. General prices are really catalogue, in contrast to almost remarkable in consideration of those twice that average in the sale pre being realized or securities and valu ceding. C.A.M. and F.A.M. covers ables in other fields, but the fa~t held strong interest, with bids con remains that in every sale there are centrating on the unlisted and scarce a certain number of lots on which pieces. A copy of tne Tampa C.A.M. the mail bidders do not happen to 10 with cachet (normally without) bid very heavily, and these give the went for $ 9. 5 0; the Fort Myers to man on the floor a chance to pick Miami brought $4.90, and even lot> up some rare bargains. as described as in only fair condi tion received very decent bids. The Berkshire Exchange Inc. 16th Sale recent F.A.M. covers were much in April 16th,* 1932 demand, being bid on by a great This sale, as is ul!ual for this firm, many collectors, and final- price.a was composed of both airstamps and were practically all ahead of recent covers, as well of certain pieces of retail figures and offerings in the allied interest in the way of can advertising pages of the Journal. cellations, first days, etc. The same Pilot and other signatures were woe general remarks as made for the fully weak, and I should advise any Sanabria sale apply equally to this one interested to buy rather than try one, and without other preliminary to sell at prices as realized at pres remarks, I shall note some of the ent. prices realized. The U. S. Zepps. In Crash covers were, as usual, at or singles brought $14.50, and in near catalogue figures, and seem to blocks $55. A block of the 65c on be increasing in interest steadily a fllown cover sold for $8.40, and a first day cover of the U.S. 2c brown singles on cover brought propor Oct. 1, 1883, Scott No. 210, sold for tionate prices. A large lot of Bolivi $11.20, though a non-aero item in an Zeppelins in full and broken a.n air mail auction. First day cov sheets went at bargain prices to the ers were generally strong, bringing dealers who bid on them. The larl'!;e proportions of catalogue. Zep French Ile de France lOfr. on 90c relins maintained their strength in brought $39.60 as compared with a general, with, as us-ual, few bids, $50 catalogue. A rather notable lot 1'.owever, on the more common items. of Honduras, both first and later is Foreign covers were up and down, sues; brought very decent figures, following no particular system so averaging one-third to one-half cat far as I could see. The general alogue even for the large sheets and average of this sale showed a con •blocks. The first Nicaragua earth tinuation of the improvement noted quake set of 4 totalled $67.10, and in the one preceding it, and it is the second set $38.60, while several tc be hoped that this general trend lots of the 15·c on 25c individually will continue and grow in the whole went at contrasting low figures. A market. I have received, through the courtesy of Mr. Eugene Klein., a LINDBERGH 2nd ANNIVERSARY COVERS copy of the prices realized in his May 21, 1929 sale of March 16. Through an un Dworak's No. 199-13 Norristown, Pa ... 15c fortunately zealous housecleaning Dworak's No. 201-13 North Platte, Neb. 40c my copy of the original catalogue Dworak's No. 195-13 Hartford, Conn ... 20c has disappeared, and I shall have to H. D. EGOLF procure another before I can use the Box 396 Norristown, Penn'a price list. This sale will be reviewed 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110 next month. ·26 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL by Chas. G. Riess Information concerning O.AJll.'s should be sent direct ·to the editor of section, -P.O. Box 11, Albany, N. Y. .a:re · a};iparentry contused in regard to direction listing* of covers as listed in. airmail cover catalogues. During the past year many letters have been received from collectors ·stating that covers as listed in -catalogues are in error in regard to direction in Which the covers were flown. The main reason for this misunderstand·· fog apparently seems to be due to . the fact that on some of the ( C.) A.M. routes planes often change their direction of flight to a considerable extent when flying from one inter mediate point to another between the LL IS QUIET* on the ( C. )A.M. terminals of the. ro.utes. The :route front as there is no news to (Continued on Page 35) report concerning new addi Ations or routes during the past UJllllUlll~••f1tfJ1JtftiJtflllllitrtllJUtlllfJUtJi1n1unttUll~llfllUH month. The only news concerning N E;W SW'ISS these routes are a few minor sched~ .....DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE ule changes on a few routes that are AIR MAIL STAMPS of no material importance to collec~ .. 15, 20, 90c Complete tors.. However, with the approach 32c of the summer season it is expected S. E. THACHER that new additions will be made to 88 Milk Street, Fitchburg, Mass. the airmail system and perhaps R 11nn111u1111uu111uu11n111u11uu111ou1111u11uu111u111111111nn_ few spurs and routes inaugurated al though the necessary appropriations :,1111111u11ti.not111iti111u1iuu11nu11u1u11nnn1ut11u1u1111111u:; required for the carrying· · out of : REVISED PRICE lJST a such a program of air mai.l expan sion does not appear to be available until after July first. It is reported that Yuma, Ar1zon!l. as well as El Centro and San Diego, I _ TOBID~!r:::CATEIPatchogue, N. Y: _ California are to be added as .stops - either on the main line or by a spur ;.lllllllllHlllUUlllUUllUUllHlllllUUllllHllllUlittUlllHllllllll: to A. M. 3 3. It is possible that if 1 and when night flying is inaugurated 1··········A·;·;8ov.ALs...... ! over the western half of route 33, that these points may become stops : We have three departments for yo!> on this route. However, for the § to select from: time being there is no aeflnite news : First-Jumbo Books containing stam1•s : of the world at one cent each. - about this at hand. E Second-United States and British ; It appears that many collectors : Colonials at the average prices. : E Third-Airmails and Short Sets, Mint :; •ti UilUtlllUUUUIUJltJiUlllOf,HllltffHIUIUtUIUfUtUUllUUHU! : and Used. : ; WANTED - a Bargain Hunters Here's your Chance-- ~ :; Kansas overprints can still be gotten in ;: §U.S. AIRMAIL COVERS &.CARltS : singles at 85e per set. Blocks $3.50. Of i! § 1919 :; course to make these a bargain they 5 Flown Before : are mint. . 5 § Send with lowest cash . price.·· E Blocks mint M:oily Pitcher ..• 30c !! i ~ '·' § Remit with order any ·way· you desire. ~ § F. B. LEECH § INTERNATIONAL STAMP HOUSE ~ §National Press Bldg., Washington ~ · · Clifton, N. J. ! iuuut,lllHllll~llttllU!llllllllllllU"IHIUUUIUUHllUUUUIUllll'W :1 1 u~··~u.~••.•.tt.t~1.~nn•.~n~••!n~11u1111111~11111~11~11~u~11~-"!"~"!ta': 97 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL SUPPLEMENTS• to the Standard Airpost Catalogue In each issue of the Airpost Journal will appear supplem~nts to the Standard Airpost Catalogue. If the airstamps of a country are . listed, it will he a complete listing of the air stamps issued since. the 1931 edition of the Catalogue. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111•111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111~1111111 COSTA RICA Habilitado 1981 ' Correo Aereo (gl 2.00 1931, Dec. 19. Tax stamps of 1929-SO Unwmkd. •Jverprinted in red (gl Perf. 12 11 2col on 2col grey green (2,000l 12 3col on 3col red brown (2,000l 18 6col on 6col black (l,600l Nos. 11-13, complete set 4.00 17.50 · 'l'his issue appears to have been -of a speculative nature but any com ments but be withheld until further information is received. 500 stamps of each ~ value were sent to the postal union at Bern. LATTAKIA ~.)~ Jal lAlTAOUIE 1931, Nov. 19. Air stamps of Syria Unwmkd. overprinted in red or black .. (a) 1931, Nov. 10 · Multiple N.Z. and Star TYJ.>e (al Perf. 14xl4Y2 1 Sd chocolate (200,000l 2 4d grey purple (200,000l . 3 7d brown orange ( 60,000 l No•. 1-3, complete set 75 (Continued on Next Page) 28 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL ...... ,,,,,.,,,,,,,_....,, •• ,,,,,,.A+~¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥.....-. ¥Y1' FIVE PENCE (bl 1931, Dec. lS. Previous type surcharged in red ( b} 4 5d on 3d green 15 ~o Issued to cover postage and airmail fee on special Christmas flights. TRIPOLITANIA (d) 1931 W m kd. Crowns Perf. 14 10 soc dark purple (c) 11 IL deep blue (d) 12 l.20L deep brown· (d) 18 • l.50J. red orange (d) 14 5L deep green (d) N.1s. 8-14, complete set 1.00 Designed by Prof. E. da Rosa. Printed in rotogravure at the State Printing Office, Rome. (e) 1931 !liar. 1. Wmkd. CrownA '!'ype (e) Perf. 14 15 50c deep blue 15 15 25 50 Iesued for sale during the 1''ifth Agricultural Fair at Tripoli from Maren to April 30. Designed by Prof. Aleardo · Terzil. (f) .i93l Wmkd; Crowns ·!'ype (f) Perf. ] ( ·: · '16:: 50c deep blue ... ·1.7-'., SOc light violet 1'8' ~ lL black • 19 • 2L light green 2·a 5L-1-2L. bright rose Nos~ 16-20, complete· set 90- · · Designed by· M. A. Falorsi. Prlnted in'. rotogravure· at the State . '.\ Printing OffiCe, Rorr.e. · THE AIRPOST JOURNAL N. Y. mail originating In L. A. 1s PACIFIC COAST carried over this route. at present, but night service will shortly be re NOTES sumed, according to report of Law rence Smith, Glendale. No dedication at Los Gatos (The By Fred* H. Wilde Cats)-Saratoga airport, is reported from Jas. W. Green. All nows of Pacific* Const aerial events April 30, San Francisco is putting should be sent to Fred H. Wilde, 917 on a big Washington Colonial event, N. Burris Ave., Compton, Calif, as for which J. D. Long, 3326 Fulton early as possible, St., will care for covers, ordinary or airmail. Cachet being arranged. I Juanita Burns, under contract to N March 12* and 13, Pasadena- "solo .girdle" the world by air, is al Alhambra Airdrome, the old so under contract to riot marry. fO<'. () W. A. E. airport at Alhambra, two years afterward. That auspic use of which was discontinued a.year ious event, however, is also con 1Jgo, was rededicated to the perma tracted, so it is reported, and her nent use of Lincoln Air Lines, who auto~raph thereafter would be Juan moved in so hurriedly they had not ita Walton. No covers, no auto even a rubber stamp to apply to cov graphs, on this aero event, due to ers which the editor took over. A contract. Ho hum. There were notice of the event come from Ed. arout thirty covers autographed by Schrader, of Pasadena on the evening Miss Burns last year, for an event, of the 11th, and search of three daily and the covers were not sent out due papers through tbe previous few days ·to a misunderstanding. These have failed to reveal any. publicity there been located, and will go out on the on. A much delapidated typewrit Army Day cachet event from L. A.. er served to place a four line black April 6th. inscription for the 12th on fifty-two An airport was established at Ar (52) and red for the 13th on thirty vin, Kearn Co., to offer facilities for three (33) covers, which were au~o aviators visiting there on the occa ,graphed bY. Mrs. R. B. Curtis, wifo sion of the famous wild flower fe'lti of the operator and owner of the val, held at Arvin yearly. No dedi L. A. L., a courtesy which helped to cation ceremony. verify the event. Change of schedule on A.M. 34 Thanks for that IrirEhman's cara from 3: 0 5 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m., daily from Cork, Jas. W. Green, on March service, formerly only six days, and 17th. fast monoplan~ carry the mail on On March 19, Clemanceau, Ariz. this run, without passengers. All held dedication ceremony for Verde Valley Air Lines a.p. Covers sent UUIUIHUlllHUfUUllUlllHlllHUHtlll1UUIHllUUIUUllllllllUfU F. A. M. 6 from L. A. were returned without Miami-Havan·a, 1-9-29 ...... 60c cachet, but with correst date. Covers Miami•San Juan, 1-9-29 ...... 50c mailed by Mr. Chas. W. Fairfield of Miami-Santo Domingo 1-9-29 ...... 7 5c Clarksburg, carry a very nice print Santo Domingo-Miami 1-9-29 ...... $1.2 b Nuevitas-Miami, 12-6-31 ...... 40< ed cachet, in two colors, alternating -Anything Sent on Approval- through a square, a plane and five HERMAN C. KLEINERT lines of wording. He reports there TreVose Penn•a were something under 300 covers. "llUUlllUllllUltlllllftlltlllllillUfHllllltllUUIUIUilUllllUlllUU THESE COVERS ARE AV AILBALE TO COLLECTORS AT 15c EACH, CANADA PROVISIONAL HAVING BEEN PUT THROUGH ON AIRMAIL VERY SHORT NOTICE. Dedication 6e on 5c-Su.pply Limited Mint . . 8c; Blocks pro rata cover collectors will surely appreci 1st Day Covers ...... 15c ate this courtesy on the part of Mr. H~turn postage extra. Postage rate to Fairfield, who conducts the Monte Canada is now 3c. Lists Free. zuma Stamp Co. at Clarkdale, Ariz. VICTORIA STAMP COMPANY 241 Queens Ave.~ London, 16, Ontario. (Continued on Page 34) 80 American Air Mail Societg Organized 1923 as the Aero Philatelic Society of America PRES.-H. H. Grltfin 1st VICE-PRESIDENT Wm. H. Conkling 6801 Lucerne Avenue, 2nd VICE-PRESIDENT Cleveland, Ohio George D. Kingdom SECRETARY-TREASURER L. B. Gatchell, 12() Shotwell Park, Syracuse, N. Y. SALES MANAGER H. C. Carpenter, 60-0 So. Railway Bldg., Cincinnati. Ohio EXCHANGE MANAGER T. F. Donahue, 2352 Washington Ave., Newton Lower FalLs, Masa. HISTORIAN AND RECORDER Karl B. Weber, 114 Montana Street, N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa. ADVANCE BULLETIN SUPERINTENDENT George D. Kingdom, Conneaut, Ohio DIR'IDCTORS George W'. Angers, Raymond V. Bahr, \Valter Conrath, Henry S. Parsons :\Ian-rice •S. Petty, James T. Schweier, Karl B. Weber. The. Exchange Department-Each member i MEMBERSHIP CARDS lly the time this appears in print all •hould have received their 1932 membership cards. If you have paid and have not recdvecl same l}lt:ase communicate whh the decretary at once. PINS At present there are no Society pins in swck. We have had several calls for these of late and if 25 will indicate that they will need one of these. a reorder will be placed. Send no money but advise the Secretary. Three color gold enamel inlay, emblem of the ::Society, a beauty. l'rice $1 Vvhich i,;; a few C(;.nts below original cost. DECEASED It is with regret that we :report the d<.ath O• two members, that of Mr. Dworak, wide ly recorded in the philatelic press and that of Mr. 'l'rown, reported by his mother, with out details. The:·e is little we can add except our sympathy to those left behind. Mr. Dworak performed a signal service to the Society for some years, his publication GOSSIP and later the AIR MAIL UOLLJ£CTOR acting in the capacity of official organ for th• Society. As was to oe expected there were many things on which Mr. Dworak and cer tain officersof the Society were not fully agreed. It is only fair to add that each believ ed sincerely th:::ir particular viewpoint. Mr. Dworak fought firmly, but always fairly, for that which he believed correct. lie had a host of friends in the hobby who will sor row at his passing. We also record, in passing, the death of Walter B. Arno. While not a member at the time ofhis death. Mr. Arno was a former member and enthusiast. UNSOLICITED APPROVALS AGAIN Many collectors and dealers, particularly those in foreign countries, continue to dis regard the well established rules of all National Societies against the sending of unsolicit ed approval selections. Thia practice inust be discontinued or offenders will be summar· Uy dropped from the rolls. This is not only a nuisance b'ut an imposition as return postage is rarely sent. 'Will all receiving such merchandise in the future advise the /::lec1·etary promptly who will handle its disposition. It is hoped that there will shortly be a law on the statute books prohibiting the sending of unsolicited merchandise under penalty of forfeiture and other severe penalties. ln lieu of this it is hoped that the Committee on By Laws will make this prohibition an integral and definite part of our own Hy-Laws at the next Convention. Respectfully submitted, L. B. GATCHELL. Secv.-Treas. ZEPPELINOLOGY Rigid Airships (Continued from Page 9) U. S. S. Akron ...... 6,500,000 Lighter than air ships are divided British R-100 ...... 5,000,000 into three classes; the non-rigid, the German Graf Zeppelin .... 3,700,000 semi-rigid and the rigid ships. American Los Angeles .... 2,500,000 NON-RIGID ship is primarily a The fi.gures showing the volume balloon, shaped to give directability in cubic feet of lifting gas. and carrying motors to give it for·· ward movement. It maintains its I want to thank Anna Schafer, shape by means of the pressure of Don Dickason, Alton Blank and Geo. the gas it contains. Porter for information they have The SEMI-RIGID ships are be- sent me. tween a rigid and a non-rigid ship. I would appreciate hearing from It is a pressure ship, but the fabric all collectors, as to what you would bag is strengthened by a metal keel, like to see in this column each extending the entire length of the month. Your suggestions will be ship, with reinforcement at the no:e, greatly appreciated. to prevent this being forced in by air pressure during high-speed flying F. A. M.'s and also at the tail where the control * * * surfaces are. (Continued from Page 14) The RIGID ship has a complete If we "click" we'll tell you. about it metal structure, which gives it its next month. Cristobal dispatche'l shape. The lifting gas is contained to Cozumel on October 29th, 1929 in a dozen or more separate cells set (No. 21 Berkshire). The only cover inside of the framework. The rigid I have had the pleasure of seeing in ship would maintain its shape even this dispatch was that in possession if all the gase were removed. of my good friend, Heine Steiger. Non-Rigids The text in Berkshire refers to sup U. s. Army TC-type ...... 210,000 posed Miami dispatches to and from Navy J. type ...... 210,000 Cozumel, being based on information Goodyear Defender ...... 183,000 furnished by the Post Office Depart Goodyear Pilgrim ...... 53,000 ment. In view of the contrary state Semi-Rigid's ment of the Mexican Department to Italian Norge ...... 670,000 the effect that' there never have been American RS-1 ...... 719,000 direct dispatches between Miami anrl CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING JUSTAMERE BARGAIN. PILOT SIGNED A.M. 1 Portland to Bangor, or Pilot signed RATES* A.M. 9, Bismarck to Mandon, $1.00 each. Returnable. Justamere Airmail Collection, le PER WORD - MINIMUM CHARGE 25c 158 Hollis-Jackson, Mich. 25-26 Copy for this section must be received by WANTED-NEWSPAPER OR MAGAZINE the 10th of the month. Clippings and Photos of all Graf Zeppelin flights. Also picture postal cards, folders WANTED: BUY, SELL, EXCHANGE Pl1.; or original photographs of Zeppelins. Send tures Pilots, airplanes. Postcard photos Ad material, stating cash price or covers you miral Byrd, pole plane, Balchen, Smith, would like in exchange, if I am able to Parker, June, Lindbergh, Partridge 15c, supply. Walter J. Conrath, A.A.M.S. 471, 2-25c. Swap hundreds 8xl0s movie actresses Albion, Penn'a~ tf for ? ? Belmont Shoppe, AJ-9, Downers Grove, Illinois. EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT U.S. ZEPPELIN, COMPLETE, SUPERB, A. A. M. S. Members are entitled to two well centered, $16.00; St. Paul Coste & Bellonte, crash cove.rs. Warren, Ohio, 9-21- 20-word ads per year in this Exchange 30, $5.00, very rare. Neat air covers, some Section, free of charge. backstamped, 14 for $1; Many other de sirable covers cheap, or trade for stamp8, coins, gutographs. 19 2 2 Lincoln Cents I::; c EXCHANGE each; National Geographic Magazines lOc up. Money refunded if desired. Odds & I OFFER HIGHGRADE BRITISH COI,ONi Ends Shop, 377 West 7th St., Saint Paul, als, general issues, in exchange for Airpost Minnesota. stamps only, no covers. Leonard Whiteley Port Antonio, Jamaica, B.W.I. AAMS 1211'. COVERS CARRIED BY LINDY 75c EA., Dedications 1928-1929 25c ea., Registereu WANTED: FOREIGN AIRMAIL (PAR Boat, Ky. boat cancellation, $1; North Pole Avion) labels for exchange, or purchase. submarine autogrophed by Hubert Wil Everett Er le, 2 3 0 3 Bush St., San Francisco kins. Launcelot J. Plourd, 48 Catherine St. California. • Hartford, Conn. EXCHANGE GRAF ZEPPELIN TOKIO FIRST DAY AND SOUVENIR COVERS, 5 Los Angeles, small card and cover. Want -25c each. Send for list. Feb. 22nd covers, general stamp collection. Hard, 833 E. 5th Mt. Vernon. lOc; Washington, 15c; both St.. Long Beach, Calif. 20c. Valz, Box 452, Staunton, Va. WANTED-WORLD WAR A.E.F. AND USED AIR MAIL STAMPS ATTRAC'l'IVE Civil War covers. Will give good airmail in ly priced. Brazil 824 Cat. 2.00 net .65. exchange. Charles Housman, Bridgeville, Pa. Chile 605 Cat. 2.00 net .65; Guatemal>.. 703-704 Cat. 1.00 net .35. Approvals again""· SEND USED OR UNUSED U.S. No. 1300 good commercial references. See display ad to 1305 inclu"sive for other used U.S. A. on page 18. John Arnosti, Box 445, Gr. 0. Litt, 67 West 44th St., New York. 25-26 Cent. Sta. New York, N. Y. 25-26-27 WANTED: AIRMAIL AND FIRST DAY WISH TO CORRESPOND WITH COLLEC Covers, mint and used stamps, commemor tors in all Foreign countries who will ex ative half dollars and other coins. in ex change Foreign mint sets for United States change. H. Hippensteil, 1128 Russell Ave., mint sets. D. C. Randall, Albion. Pa., U.S.A. Bethlehem, Penna. 25-26 Cozumel, and further in view of the to show that we don't know as much present notice, this writer is inclined as we think we do about these and to believe that there has been a mis other covers. take in the records. As no covers of the supposed Miami-Cozumel dis patches have ever been seen it looks Polish* Air * Mail *Notes as if collectors will have to accept Correcting the notes on Page 16 this first di\Spatch as FIRST dispatch of the December issue to the effect in ANY event. that no mail was carried to Athens While on the subject of the earlier from Warsaw (from Salonica by the flights, Mr" L. S. Manning shows the Greek Air Line) on the 30th of June, familiar Miami-Belize and Miami 19 31. The local Greek line, only Tela, May 15, 1929, Nos. 5A and B,' began to function on the 10th of cachet type 5c in Berkshire, with the July, 1931. All mail from Warsaw cachet, normally in violet, in black. for Athens was sent on by rail to Thanks Mr. Manning, which all goss Athens. P. I. DROSSOS. 33 THE · AIRPOST JOURNAL PACIFIC COAST NOTES concerned. Temperature runs to (Continued from Page 30) 145 degrees in the sum\ner months Capt. Yancey landed at United Air up there. More on this as soon as port, Burbank on March 26 to give we hear. a series of exhibition flights in his The airport at Visalia is being im autogiro. proved in preparation for service of American Airways inaugurated 22 Century Air Lines, which expects to hour service between L. A. and Chi in6tall passenger and express air ca-go, via El Paso, Fort Worth and service about the middle of april. Kansas City. Westbound on same schedule March 31. Two hours and sixteen minutes continuous fight was registered by F!irst iSilrnttle flight-United Air D. W. Wilson, of Detroit, in a glider Lines-covers arrived at A.M.F. P. 0. meet near Redondo, April 3. Bal Burbank, 1 p.m., April let. Cove:·s loon bursting and distance flights bear four line cachet in red, and ar,~ also featured the meet, the fifth of autographed by R. P'. Stimpson. a series of six pre-international con Carried by him from Almeda to L.A. tests, for selection of team of glider Extra service on mozt of United Air ·pilots to meet foreign contestants in Lines routes went into effect the a meet immediatey following the same day. Olympic games. Under supervision of Wing Com mander Major Carl Spatz, the entir<; Covers from the Auburn-Opelika bombardment wing of March Field a.p. dedication came through from staged an air review over L. A. and ,both places. Those from Op llflUlllJttlllltll,tlJUllJftlltltl,llltfflilfltllllllfflllllllllllllJtttllll of this service. Many thanks, W. AEROPHILATEUO CLUB A. S. OF FRANCE Pacific Coast Note-way down -CAF- south. Cover dated March 18, and (Club Aerophilatelique de France) postmarked, Wellington, N. Z., ar Ask for free circular rived in the editor's mail on April M. GAUVIN 9, via San Francisco, bearing the t 7 Bis Rue Jeannette long 3d green airmail stamp, sur TROYES, (Aube), FRANCE, charged FIVE PENCE. Someone UUllllltUllUlllllllllllllJlllltllllltlllllUUIUllUUHllllJUltlltllUI, please tell me if this is a F.D.C. 84 ,------·---- THE AIRPOST JOURNAL CLEVELAND HOST TO 1932 which it is possible for a plane fly A.A.M.S. CONVENTION ing from one terminal point to an other terminal point to first fly (Continued from Page 11) southeast, then south, then south with these times of economy. west and finally northwest. Ex The Cleveland Air Mail Society is ample: a plane flying from Muskegon famous for its activities and the to Chicago. Covers carried from agressiveness 'of its members in Muskegon on the first flight a1·e hoosting the. field of aero-philately. shown listed in catalogues as being This club has over 120 members and westbound covers although they are half of them are active in the ac actually carried southeastward from tivities of the club. All attendants that point. Likewise, covers listed to the 1930 Convention welcome the as being eastbound covers from opportunity of again accepting the, Grand Rapids were actually carried hpspitality of the Cleveland Airmail northwestward from that point and collectors and many others surely covers listed as being westbound will be glad to have the opportunity covers from Grand Rapids were act so soon to be g,uests of this local ually carried southward from that society. point. In .the American catalogues (Dworak and Berkshire) covers are At present no definite plans can be listed according to the general direc given but it is certain that as ·a tion .of the route, that is, a route is part of every convention program either east and west or north and there will be an evening for a stamp south, but not a combination of and cover bourse, an evenJng for the these unless s-purs or parallel legs are auction, probably under. the direc inaugurated on the same date. The tion of Don Dickason, and the ban Post Office Department and the op quet. The usual business sessions eartors of the route also go by this of the Convention will reveal the standard. progress of the is.ociety for the past twelve months and· future plans will A good way in which to ·determine be materialized. The Convention which is the proper direction in will be three full days of airmail talk which a cover was carried from any and doings, the exhibition, the bus iness sessions, and the entertain ment. DEDICATIONS The most pleasurable part of the Cat. Net. Ottumina. Ia ...... , .5.00 1.75 Convention will be the renewing of Miami, Fla. 3 days ...... 2.25 .75 old friendships and the making of Dearborn, Mich, (signed by C. M. Ford 1.00 new friends in the hobby. Many a Mott, N. D...... , ....• 3.00 1.25 lifelong treasured friendship is Others in stock, reasonable started at a convention. It is the CHARLES W. HOUSMAN best chance that a collector has to Bridgeville Pennsylvania meet other hobbists and cat with them concerning the hobby. t1111111u1111uu111tutu1utn1111u1111111111cu111nt111n1unu1n11111 FREE Cleveland is centrally located and easily accessible to hundreds of air Newfoundland 1932 mail collectors. Make your plans Catalogue now to attend the Third Annual Prices .average 38 % Scott. Convention of the American Air Man Society. The dates are September REV.BUTLER 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Every collector can Sandy Point, St, Georges, Newfoundland be assured that he or she will havei UUlllllllllllHllllUHtHHUUtlUlllUUtl1111111HllllUtHllHHIUllfl three days of pleasure and enjoy u1111u11111111111n1111u1ttlUIHIHHUlllUU1IUU•1uu11n1tnnnu11 ment with theif hobby and fellow COSTA RICA LINDBERGH hobbists. STAMPS No. 147 Cat. $6; nett $3.50 C. A. M.'s Nice Used Copies. What do you * * * need in Airmail Stamps? (Continued from Page 27) ERNEST KOHL which most frequently confuses col Box 45 Newton, N. J. lectors is (C.) A.M. route 27 on UitHIHIUlllUUtlllllllltHllllUtUUllllllltUUlllUti••••u11111111nt 35 , .J THE AIRPOST JOURNAL particular point one shoul4 s~a,rt BULLETIN at any one terminal of the route Lieut. George Hill,,, airmail pilot and follow through 'continuously on A.M. 27 was killed in a plane until they reach the point from crash at the Fort Wayne, Ind. airport which the cover was dispatched. If April 21, 1932. He was flying the the cover was carried in the same mail from South Bend, Ind. into direction from the particular point Fort Wayne and as he was attempt in question as one is following thru ing to land, his plane went into a from a terminal point then that cover E'tall and crashed. There was less was dispatched from the point in than four and one-half pounds of question in the same direction as mail on the plane and the letters covers listed for the terminal point bear no special markings other than from which one started to follow "received in bad condition." E. L. through. In the case of A.M. route Miller received credit for this prompt 2 7 any cover carried from any in news being sent direct to the editor termediate point in a direction away and permitting it to be published in from Chicago is an eastward cover this issue of the magazine. from that intermediate point irre gardless of whether the plane carry light ultramarine · and 16 P red ing the cover from the intermediate violet. This brings the total of point in question flew north; soutn Zeppelin stamps to 65. east or west from the intermediate point. In a similar manner any TRIPOLITANIA cover carried from any intermediate The set chonicled last month has point toward Chicago, or in other made its appearance and is very at words away from any of the four tractive. Fifty thousand of the two termi~als of route 27 except Chicago lower values and 15 and 10,000 each is a westward dispatched cover from of the high were issued. the intermediate point in question, UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA irregardless of whether the cover was According to a newspaper dis carried north, south, east or west patch from Pretoria the issuance .of from the particular intermediate r pecial air mail starnPl3 is to be dis point. continued. Regular postage stamps are to be used. This also appliAs AIRS* OF THE* MONTH* to Southwest Africa. (Continued from Page 13) ,. 11 u11111n1n11u1u111ru111•1111111n1111n1n1nu1111nu111rn11111n•:; 10 L plus 2.50 L violet brown. The 50c. and the 7.70 L plus 2 L shows ~ HI Denominations and colors are: 4 P :nHUIUUllllllUIUltHUliHlllllHltllllllllllllHUlllllUHUtUU II• 86 §ll1IHHHt ______lffUUUt"UttHtll'IUHllU111H llllllllllllllllll l llllllllllllUllllllllllllllllHl l l11111 1111111:. RECEN:T ARRIVALS Aust.ralia. 6d ~os" official .... $ .15 lte.ly, new set of 6 ....•..... 2.35 Oumda. &e provisional ...... 10 Nicar a g ua, 6 new officials ...•. . 4.75 Costa Rica, new 5c provisional .. .OS T ripolitania, 2 new values . . . . .15 Cuba. 5e "National" ...... 08 New Zealand. 5-3d prov. (new Honduras, "Nov:, set of 4 ... . .80 supplies) • ...... 15 Blocks pro rata, postage extra on orders under $1.00, please U. S. STAR ROUTE AIRMAIL Lake Erie Flights in December, 1931 Sandusky-Kellys I .• bks...... $1.00 Sandusky-Put In Bay, bke. Pilot's Sandusky-Middle BaEs, bks. . . . . 1.00 autograph ...... 1.35 Put In Bay-Sandusk, Pilot's auto 1.3<> Sandusky-Isle St. George, bks. . . 1.00 The five covers for ...... $5.25 FOREIGN COVERS (Air Stamps) So:ith West Africa First Flights 4d "S.W.A.." large type ...... $1.50 3d "South West Africa" ...... 1.50 4d " small type ...... 1.50 3d, lOd complete set ...... 2 .00 3d "Suidwes Afrika" ...... 1.50 New Zealand, 5-3d, 1st flight cover .60 1932 A. P. S. Conventfon Stickers Set of five varieties ...... 15 Set of five complete sheets (4 sets) .50 NEW AIRMAIL BOOKS Field's Airmail Catalogue. post Gomez- Sanchez, Zeppelin paid ....••.•...... $2.50 Sieger Zeppelin catalogue ...... 30 Catalogue ...... $2.00 Invisible Art Corners Black gummed back with invisible top, fitting over whatever mounting you have - blocks, covers. photograph s, etc. Per package of 100, ])ostpaid - 25c; 5 packages for ...... 1.00 Cellophane l:nvelopes The invisible material. clear as glass, made of the finest quality cello phane. We bought them in huge quantities, enabling us to offer them at theEe extremely low prices. Size 6 3-4 x 3 3-4 only - 60cper 25; $1.00 per 50; and $1.85 per 100. The Standard Airpost Catalogue --LATEST 1931 EDITION- - An indispensable aid to collectors of: AIRMAIL STAMPS (official and semi- official) fully illustrated and priced in rnmplete sets as w ell as individually. Four prices, Mint, Used, On Cover and First Day Covers. FIRST ruid SPEC IAL F LIGHTS of the entire world listed in complete detail with illustrations of cachets used. CLOTHBOU!\'D 479 PAGES OVER 1000 ILLUSTR ATIONS $2.00 Postpaid THE BERKSHIRE EXCHANGE, Inc. Airpo!:ts of the \Vorld Stamps, Covers Publications, Auctions Wooster, Ohio :...... ,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,, ...... ,.. ,...... OFFICIAL Xth OLYMPIC GAMES ENVELOPES 6% Size FIRST DAY C OVER SERVICE will use the OFFICIAL OLYMPIC ENVELOPES with the Most BEAUTIFUL SEAL (CACHET) in 5 color3 on fine BOND Envelopes made for this special puri:ose Prices For First: Day Covers AddresRed to you, neatly typewritten with the best centered stamps ·and positively no straight edges 2c & 5c on one co\•er·...... lac COMPARE PRICES 2c Single on cover'...... JOc WITH l'>c Single on c:>ver...... 12c 2f'. Pair on cover...... 12c OTHERS i>e Pair on cover...... 22c 2c Block of FOUR on cover• 17c 5c Block of FOUR on cover· soc OF F ICIAL E XVEI.OP ES 30c doz. OFFICIAL SEALS 20c sheet of 2.> The set of 7 cove1-s to )·ou $1.18 5 01• More Complete Sets of Covers 10% le>s MINT STAMPS 20 % over face sent in OFFICIAL Envelope and franked with same with each ord~r for• $1.00, I will give 1 sheet of 2:; FREE OFFICI AL Xth OLYMPI C GAMES POSTER SEAUi nnd the)' are BEAUTIFUL, in a COIOJ'S All ord.~rs taken-I wilt not turn anybody from the HOBBY be cause he has only a dime. And if they can't afford it, I will send them one Free, If they will write. COME TO THE OLYMPIC GAMES - JULY 30th to AUGUST 14th AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFOR NIA Member;;, this is my home town and I have been responsible for ove:r tw~lve Cachets and have worked many hours applying same &.nd will continue to do so. POSTAL MONEY ORDERS OR CASHIERS CHECKS OYLY Earl Mills 7150 N. HAYWORTH AVE. A.A.M.S• LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 0 ... t ••• t • "* t •• t • t t t •• t t • t • t •• t t • t t • t t t t t • t t t • t t t t t t • ..;.., . 228 S. Cedar St., Charlotte,_ N. C. 1394--John R. Hopkins, 15 St. Paul St.. Cambridge, Ma•s. 1395--Roscoe B. Martin, Forestville, N. Y. J1396--Raymond A. Peters, 5751 S. Wood St., Chicago, Ill. 1397-Elmer L. Mundy, P. 0. Box 644, Plainfield, N. J, 1398--Dominick J·. Perota, 1189 Washington Ave., New York, N. Y .. ADDRESS CHANGES 410-Seymour 'Rose, P. 0. Box 592, Chica.go, Ill. 420-Royee A. Wight, Box Ul5, Cambridge, Mass. 466--Normart B. Ringelman, 1441 Goodale Ave., Toledo, O. 530-A. H. Davis, Calle Conde 2104, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 77S-Erneat J. Hadorn, Route 7, North Canton, Ohio. 782-Edmund R. Wormer, 215 W. 23 St., New York. N. Y. 827-G. E. Carlson, Box 776, Battle Creek, Mich. 878-James E. McNeal, 468 Fern St., West Hartford, Conn. 954-George Stotz, Jr., 412 Watchung Ave., Plainfield, N. J. 97S-F. H. Wilde, 917 N. Burris Ave., Compton, Calif. 982-Lawrence S. Clark, 1125 S. Washburn Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. (Always use the full first name LA WREN CE in addressing the above as there are two L. S. Clark's in Minneapolis. 1218-Lavina Horton Wing, 39 Palmer Ave., Bronxville, N. Y. Special Notice Commencing with this report only the NEW addresses are shown rather than both new and old. Old address, if desired or necessary, may be secured by reference to the Society Directory. RESIGNATIONS ACCEPTED If no objection is entered, will be accepted next report: 156--E. R. Povolny. DROPPED FROM THE ROU..S By action of the Membership Committee: 1127-Ernesto Hammer. DECEASED 543-A. V. Dworak, Holton, Kansas. 823-Joseph Trown, 1574 Third Ave., New York APPLICATIONS POSTED Following have made application for membership in the Society. If no objection la ,·eceived and rei'er<'nces are fonn