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April 2016 Volume 87, No. 4 Whole No. 1030

April’s Featured Article — FFCs from : Air France 4R, 1934 Page 137 Zeppelins & Aerophilately Ask for our Free Price List of Worldwide Flight covers and stamps. The following is a small sampling – full list on Website! United States US C13 - C15 set of card and 2 covers w/matched wide bottom plate numbers. VF condition ...... $1,350.00 US C13 FDC--F-VF stamp on unusual front of pictorial airmail enve - lope, flown to with Seville + NY/Chicago RPO Receiving B/S. Interesting usage ...... $750.00 Germany 1930 C38 - C39 Pan Am flight to Lakehurst S.57N ...... $750.00 Liechtenstein 1936 official mail Olympic flight dispatch 020 S.427 ...... $750.00 Luxembourg 1936 1st North America flight ...... Hindenburg $425.00 Malta 1933 Chicago flight to S.238Aaa ...... $875.00 Mauritania 1934 3rd Flight, to S.254Ba . . . . $1,850.00 Mexico 1936 2nd North America Flight S.411D ...... $750.00 Monaco 1932 5th South America Flight, sent to Brazil S.171Aa . . . . . $875.00 Netherlands/Belgium 1937 Flight Crash to Monaco ...... $750.00 New Guinea 1939 (March 13) C46-48,C51-54 on 4 airmail covers, stamped "First Day of Issue," 1 cover registered. T.N.G - Austria, addressed to Garden City, NY ...... $225.00 Newfoundland 1932 DO - X to England ...... $350.00 Henry Gitner Philatelists, Inc. PO Box 3077T, Middletown NY 10940 Email: [email protected] — http://www.hgitner.com

APRIL 2016 PAGE 133 In This Issue of the Airpost Journal President’s Jim Graue Message — ARTICLES — FFCs from Cape Verde: Air France 4R, 1934 ...... 137 New York 2016 Looms Ahead The 2016 World Philatelic Exhibition is coming up very quickly – Dan Gribbin 1946 Flying Mail Car Experimental Flight, Return to the East Coast ...... 142 May 28 through June 4, eight days. Recommended arrival is May 26, set- Dan Gribbin up on May 27, show opens on Saturday, May 28: virtually all AAMS FAKE! ...... 147 meetings and programs are scheduled for the first two days. William Kriebel AAMS will have a society booth – No. 777 – near the Food Court A Deeper Dive ...... 149 area. We are sharing that space with the Metropolitan Air Post Society David S. Ball, RPSL (MAPS) and the Wreck & Crash Mail Society. Each participant in our The ‘LATI Substitute’ Service of Pan American Airways, Part 7 ...... 156 booth (AAMS, MAPS and Wreck/Crash) gets a 16-page frame for pro - John Wilson motion of their group interests and membership benefits. I am undertak - Would Juan Trippe Have Been Furious When He Received this Cover? ..... 164 ing the coordination of preparation of our frame. We need not duplicate Richard Saundry what the others show. The AAMS frame will include examples of world-wide aerophi - — COLUMNS and FEATURES — lately. Photos of the aircraft used will provide heightened interest. We Treasure Hunting for CAM Covers ...... 168 need a "show-stopper" high-profile display that will draw viewers; no President’s Message ...... 135 mundane examples. Every item should be a magnet for the eyes. Sugges - tions for inclusion will all be considered. One page will be dedicated to — NEWS — AAMS promotion, but with AAMS staffing at the table, that will be plen - Help Needed Finding ‘Lost’ Members ...... 146 ty. News of the Shows ...... 167 There is no need to use originals; high quality colors scans are Plan Now for CHICAGAOPEX 2016 ...... 170 sufficient for this display. — DEPARTMENTS – Comments and recommendations are welcome. Time is of the APJ Ads ...... 176 Membership Report ...... 173 essence; no last minute changes. Deadline for having everything in my hand is April 15. I am already preparing a prospective list of items to be displayed. Your participation in this project is invited. Do you have a Editor and Advertising gem or two to submit for consideration? Sure you do . . . we all do! Send Vickie Canfield Peters 11911 E Connor Road Valleyford WA 99036 vcanfi[email protected] it to me as soon as possible so it can be considered for inclusion. Staff Writers and Columnists Please give immediate top priority to this request. Thank you for Joe Kirker Alan Warren your assistance. Chris Hargreaves Bob Wilcsek Lee Downer Copyright 2016 The American Air Mail Society . The Airpost Journal (ISSN 0739-0939) is pub - lished monthly by the American Air Mail Society, 11911 E. Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036. AAMS Membership Services and Benefits Periodical postage paid at Spokane WA 99201 and additional post offices. Postmaster: Send We recently asked for your ideas and recommendations on what address changes to American Air Mail Society, 7 First St., Westfield NY 14787. Domestic sub - we can do as a society to enhance membership services and benefits. scription rate $30 per year; $5 per copy. Thus far we have two responses in hand. Opinions expressed in features and columns in this publication are solely those of the authors and • Index the do not necessarily represent those of the society. Running an ad does not endorse the advertiser. AAMC 7th Edition

PAGE 134 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 135 We received three requests that this be done. We need to have a member step forward who has the time and inclination to undertake this FFCs from Cape Verde: as an on-going project. The sooner it is started, the easier it will be to maintain it by making additions as additional volumes become available. Air France 4R, 1934 If you are willing to take this on, please contact me soon. And ”thank you” for your consideration! Dan Gribbin • Aerophilatelic Exhibits for the AAMS Website In 1934, French and German aviation authorities pursued sepa - “Following your encouragement in the latest copy of here is APJ rate approaches to the daunting task of establishing regular airmail ser - my idea. Strongly encourage all aerophilatelic exhibitors to send an elec - vice across the South Atlantic. The 1,800-mile (3000 km) distance tronic copy (pdf perhaps) of their exhibit so it can be posted on the between the westernmost tip of Africa and the eastermost tip of Brazil AAMS website. Metadata would include exhibitor name, exhibit title, posed a serious challenge to existing aviation technology. Deutsche Luft number of frames, show, date, class entered and award. Hansa began biweekly flights in February, minimizing the overwater “This would accomplish several things. It would encourage col - flight distance by launching a flying boat from a ship that would steam lectors to exhibit and post their work online. It would get both members away from the coast for the better part of a day prior to launch. The and non-members to frequent the website. It assists those of us research - French soon deployed a flying boat, the ill-fated Latécoère 300 Croix du ing new exhibits to see what others have done. The more searchable the , but they also had a land-based aircraft capable of spanning the Sud better. I routinely post my exhibits and get positive feedback. You can ocean, as Mermoz demonstrated in January 1933 with the Couzinet Arc- see them at . . . What they did not have was a dependable runway in Brazil from en-Ciel. http://americanastrophilately.com/Exhibits.html which to dispatch the fuel-laden aircraft for the return flight. David Ball” Indeed, Flight 2R (using the Labrousse designation of flights adopted by Collot and Cornu in ), the 1933 return flight of Ligne Mermoz the did not take place until May, four months after the air - Arc-en-Ciel, Aerophilatelic Programs Available on CD craft’s arrival in Brazil. (1) Similarly, after Mermoz successfully flew the The American Air Mail Society now has seven different aerophi - from St. Louis, Senegal to Natal, Brazil in 16 hours on May 28, Arc-en-Ciel latelic programs available on CD-ROM. Each is a PowerPoint 2010 pre - 1934, the return flight (4R) was delayed by two months. sentation showing covers and related material, along with spoken narra - Following extensive work on the sandy soil of the runway at tion. Titles can be purchased for $10 each. The $10 per program cost Natal, a June 3 test flight seemed to suggest that the runway would be includes shipping. satisfactory. But, fully loaded, the aircraft could not achieve sufficient The programs are ideal for showing at stamp club meetings, for speed for takeoff in the moist sand. (3) Further runway work allowed the educational purposes or personal use. Subjects include Lindbergh, histo - aircraft to get airborne on July 3, but, sadly, that flight had to be aborted ry of aerophilately, Airships of the United States, crash covers, CAM 9. after four and a half hours due to inclement weather. (1) (3) And then the rains came. The eventual successful crossing on Order should be sent to: July 28, 1934, is the subject of this study, specifically the first flight covers Ken Sanford that were generated when the took on a small amount of mail Arc-en-Ciel 613 Championship Drive at the intermediate landing point of Porto Praia in the islands of Cape Oxford CT 06478-3128 Verde. In his award-winning 1938 biography Joseph Kessel Orders must be accompanied by a check made payable to Ken Mermoz, Sanford. Payment can also be made via PayPal to [email protected], indicates that Jean Mermoz made a reconnaissance flight to Cape Verde with Couzinet’s pilot, Charles de Verneilh, in the tri-motor to but please add 50¢ to cover the PayPal fee. Biarritz verify suitable landing areas. (2) In his autobiography, Tout pour la ligne, PAGE 136 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 137 Raymond Vanier indicates that Air France authorized him to establish a proper runway for the in Cape Verde and that a flattened hill - Arc-en-Ciel top on Praia offered the best prospect. (5) Vanier oversaw the prepara - tion of that landing area at Porto Praia and arranged with the postmaster to have first flight covers sent to him for the flight from the islands to Europe. Vanier actually departed prior to the arrival of the transatlantic flight. The July 31, 1934, return flight of the was scheduled Arc-en-Ciel to land, then, at Porto Praia, allowing takeoff from Natal with consider - ably less fuel and thus a lighter load to lift off of that rugged runway for the 1,600-mile (2600 km) overwater flight. Flight 4R is listed as 22 hours, 54 minutes in duration, following the itinerary “Natal—Porto Praia— Villa Cisneros.” (1) That breaks down to about 14 hours Natal to Porto Praia and eight hours Praia to Villa Cisneros.

Figure 2 When I decided to spe - cialize in Air France’s 1934 trans-Atlantic flights, I quickly realized that flight 4R was a study unto itself. The original plan for an early June return Figure 3

flight was scuttled, the attempt on July 3 was aborted after several hours and the eventual successful flight was July 31 using Porto Praia as an intermediate stop on the way Figure 4 to the African coast. Figure 1 What really piqued my interest was an illustration in Collot and The mail from South America carried by the on that Cornu of a cover bearing a special cachet that reads: “Correios de Cabo Arc-en-Ciel flight is dated July 28, as shown by Figure 1 (Argentina to Germany) and Verde/1a mala aviao/Praia—Europe.” The cover is addressed to Mme. Figure 2 (Uruguay to England). The mail was offloaded from the Vanier in Orleans, France. It didn’t take long to recognize that the Arc-en- at Villa Cisneros, Rio de Oro (now known as Dakhla, Morocco) on addressee was the wife of Raymond Vanier, the pilot who flew the mail Ciel August 1 and placed on a Laté 28 aircraft for the flight north. (3) It down the South American coastline after Mermoz’s historic May 1930 crossing in the Laté 28 . These were the covers the post - reached Paris on August 2, as indicated in Figure 3, where the receiving Comte de la Vaulx cds on the Uruguay cover shows the time as 11 a.m. Note in Figure 4 that master in Cape Verde prepared on envelopes supplied by Vanier prior to the special airmail arrival cancel at Cologne lists the time as 21-22 on the his departure evening of August 2. To sum up, genuinely flown 4R covers bear South Gérard Collot, whom I met on the occasion of our visit to the American postmarks of July 28 and Paris receiving cds of August 2. Royal Philatelic Society last May, mentioned that he had seen only a few

PAGE 138 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 139 of these Porto Praia covers in all of his years of collecting. I decided, then Seemingly typed with the same typewriter as the one addressed and there, to make every effort to obtain one for my collection. The prob - to Mme. Vanier, this cover is addressed, as we see in Figure 5, to “Mon - lem was that I had never seen such a cover offered at auction or found sieur le GENERAL GERARD./Commandant l’aeronautique de/L’Armee one in a dealer’s stock. Under “Cap Vert,” Muller lists, in his catalog of du Rhin./METZ./FRANCE.” What’s more, the online version of the auc - first flight covers, four different FFC originating in Porto Praia: two from tion catalog indicated that a letter was in the envelope. The letter, dated flight 4R and two from flight 6A, bound for Natal in September of 1934. July 23, 1934, is written on what seems to be an Air France cargo invoice. Muller #1 is the Porto Praia—Villa Cisneros—Europe July 31 cover illus - In it, Vanier gives his best wishes to Gen. Gérard and indicates that he trated in Collot and Cornu. Muller #2 is Porto Praia—Villa Cisneros. has prepared this special cover to be flown on the closing Arc-en-Ciel, Muller gives no figures to indicate the number of covers carried in either with an indication that he will be in Orleans (his hometown) at the end case, but he values #1 at 5000 fr and #2 at 7500 fr. These are estimates of of the month. The cover received the August 2 receiving backstamp in the value as of 1950, when his book was published. Studying Muller’s Paris identical to that applied to other 4R covers. I am happy to report evaluations of other FFC that do have numbers indicated, I estimate that that this cover, with its accompanying letter, now resides in my collec - there were no more than 50 of #1 prepared and fewer than 30 of #2. tion. Scarce, I concluded, but not impossible to locate if I stuck to my guns. And, as is so often the case, researching a single cover opens a Then came a . The catalog for Roumet auction #542 window on history, as well as providing multiple avenues for further coup de foudre arrived in my mailbox (thanks to Dominique Petit), and there, in the list - study. Recent consultation with M. Collot has resulted in a sort of infor - ing of the lots from the collection of famed helicopter pilot Charles- mal inventory of Porto Praia covers. He says he can account for six of Henry de Pirey, was a Porto Praia first flight cover. And not just any them: the one in his collection, the one in my collection, two in the hands cover: a companion cover to the one illustrated in Collot and Cornu. of Raymond Vanier’s granddaughter and two others in a collection known to M. Collot. I would appreciate any information fellow members could supply about other such covers. I’m also interested in pinning down information about Gen. Gérard, with whom Raymond Vanier may have served during his days as a fighter pilot in WWI. Please address information or questions to me at [email protected].

References (1) Gérard Collot and Alain Cornu. Ligne Mermoz: Histoire Paris: Edi - aérophilatélique, Latécoère, Aéropostale, Air France, 1918-1940. tions Bertrand Sinais,1990. (2) Joseph Kessel. Paris: Gallimard, 1938. Mermoz. (3) Claude Faix, “Quand les traversaient l’Atlan - Arcs-en-Ciel tique.” Vol. 2. http://www.hydroretro.net/etudegh/arc-en-ciel_atlan - tique_vol2.pdf. (4) Frank Muller, (Catalogue Catalog of First Flights of the World des Aérogrammes du Monde Entier). Paris: 1950. Looking for something? Check out the classified ads! Figure 5

PAGE 140 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 141 1946 Flying Mail Car The TWA and American Airlines flights and the United Air Lines flights to San Francisco and Seattle were highly publicized(1)(2) and first flight covers are listed in the .(3) Experimental Flight American Air Mail Catalogue Return to the East Coast However, the United Air Lines Flying Mail Car return flight to the east coast was not advertised by the USPOD and first flight covers are not listed in the catalogue. This article provides evidence from newspaper Zeb Vance articles and first flight covers that flight covers with cachet for the return Beginning in September 1946, the United States Post Office flight were available and were authorized by the POD. An article in the October 1946 (4) lists the stops Department (USPOD) conducted an experiment sorting mail en route on Airpost Journal airplanes, a concept similar to the long-standing practice of sorting mail on each experimental flight including the flying mail car return to the on rail cars (RPOs) and buses (HPOs). Three airlines participated in the experiment, using cargo planes outfitted with mail sorting tables and bins and manned by USPOD personnel. On September 25 and 26, 1946, a TWA DC-4 Flying Post Office flew from Washington, D.C., to Dayton then to Chicago, Pittsburgh and New York picking up, sorting and delivering mail en route. On October 1, 1946, an American Airlines DC-4 Flying Post Office flew west-to-east from Los Angeles to New York and Boston with 10 intermediate stops, picking up, sorting and delivering mail en route. That same day, a Unit - ed Air Lines C-82 "Flying Mail Car" leased from the military flew east-to- west from New York to San Francisco with six intermediate stops. On October 3 the Flying Mail Car flew from San Francisco to Seattle with four intermediate stops and on October 4 it departed Seattle and arrived in New York on October 6 with nine or 10 intermediate stops, again pick - ing up, sorting and delivering mail en route.

PAGE 142 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 143 east. The stops listed for the return flight included Pendleton, Oregon, Boise, Idaho, Ogden, Utah, North Platte and Lincoln, Nebraska, Des Moines, Iowa, Moline, Illinois, South Bend, Indiana, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No reference for the origin of information about those return trip stops is given in the article.

all covers to be carried on the flight and gives instructions for preparing covers. An article(6) in the October 2, 1946, Lincoln Evening Journal (Nebraska), states that the Lincoln postmaster is in receipt of a telegram saying that the flying mail car will be in Lincoln on Special Fairchild Packet Saturday (October 5). The article says that local stamp collectors are informed that a special cachet will be applied aboard ship to all covers. Flying mail car return route to East Coast In the October 7, 1946, (Moline, Illinois), is an arti - Daily Dispatch In the October 2, 1946 (Utah) , an arti - cle (7) telling of the arrival of the flying mail car at the Moline airport on Ogden Standard-Examiner cle(5) announces that the city airport will greet the flying mail car on Fri - Saturday evening, October 5. The article states that more than 500 sou - day, October 4, with a ceremony and speakers. The article states that, venir letters were placed aboard the ship and that a special cachet indi - according to the Ogden postmaster, a special cachet will be provided for cating they were carried on the nation's first "flying mail car" was to be placed on them. The postmaster was quoted as saying that the flying mail car was scheduled to stop at South Bend, Akron and Philadelphia before completing the trip in New York. The stop at Akron was not indi - cated in the referenced article. Airpost Journal The five flight covers shown in this article have a "First Flying Mail Car on Route A.M. No.1" cachet with dates matching those given in the newspaper articles. Based on this evidence, I believe flight covers with cachet for the return flight were available and were authorized by the USPOD.

References (1) USPOD Press Releases; September 16 and 24, 1946. (2) September 17 and September 24, 1946. The Postal Bulletin: (3) pp 85-87 American Air Mail Catalogue, Sixth Edition, Volume One; PAGE 144 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 145 (4) Vol. XVIII, No. 1 - Issue 198, October 1946 The Airpost Journal (5) “City Airport Prepares to Greet 'Flying Mail Car;” The Ogden Stan - , Oct. 2, 1946, p8. dard-Examiner (6) “Stamp Fans to Send Mail Car Saturday;” Lincoln Evening Jour - Oct. 2, 1946, p11. nal, (7) “Air Mail Milestones - - - Packet Attracts Big Crowd at Airport;” Daily Oct. 7, 1946 Dispatch,

HelMpe mNbeersehidp Seecdre tFaryi nJudi iWnasghi n‘gLtoon shats’ pMroviedemd tbhise lirsst of life members whose mail or email was returned without any forwarding information. Judi is requesting assistance in locating these folks.: Walter J. Arnell Ingemar Bengtsson Charles S. Berman Figure 1 Arthur A. Carter, Jr. Richard K. Darlington Kase Dekker Walter H. Flint FAKE! Harvey S. Gold William Kreibel Richard S. Kaplan Joseph F. Lucier A friend and fellow Brazil collector, knowing of my interest in Joseph M. Reed, Jr. airmail, sent me a scan of this auction (VIENNAFIL) offering, a 1931 Edwin G. Rocklin Zeppelin cover (Figure 1). Theodore Rosenbrand Immediately, three details caught my eye. Masao Shiomi 1) I had never seen a Condor envelope with the image of a Zeppelin Donald Z. Sokol below the “VIA CONDOR,” which is unusual; John J. Venskus 2) The cancellation did not look right, and; Anyone with information is asked to contact Judi at j.washing - 3) The only Brazil flights I knew of in 1931 were two in September and [email protected]. one in October. So I did a little scanning of my own.

Aerophilatelic Writers Wanted. No experience necessary. Figure 2, left (It’s just the job for YOU!) Figure 3, right Write an article today and send it to the editor: vcanfi[email protected] PAGE 146 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 147 An enlargement of the “cancel” (Figure 2) compared to a real Condor cancel (Figure 3) shows, among other faults, three “problems:” the inner band of text should read “SERVICO,” not SERVIDO; the “NO A Deeper Dive BRASIL” should be the same height as the other letters, and; the “D” of “LTDA” should be over the “IL” of “BRASIL, not before it. David S. Ball, RPSL I believe the first flight from Argentina was in 1934 and the spac - My new Lindbergh friend, William C. Moyers, shared an unusu - ing between the “3” and the “1” of “31” suggest al CAM 32 cover in the February 2016 (Mine, Too, page that it has been altered (Figure 4). Airpost Journal 61). The cover is shown here as Figure 1. As someone new to routes and Looking at the envelope itself, I believe it rates (and interested in anything Lindbergh) I thought I might dive a lit - is also a fake, compared with a real Condor cover tle deeper. Bear with me as I think out loud. (Figure 5) from one of the three flights of 1931. “POR” instead of “PAR” and the “VIA CON - DOR” instead of VIA “CONDOR” lead me to this conclusion. Figure 4

Figure 1 Routes and Rates How did the envelope, which departed Spokane on September 15, 1929, end up in Port au Prince, Haiti? The back of the envelope has Figure 5 two receiver marks: one in New York on September 18 and one in Port Finally, the 350rs postage wouldn’t have gotten it near the air - au Prince on September 21. How did it get there? ship as a minimum of 2500rs was the norm! Leaving Spokane, the cover traveled south to Pasco, Washing - What I can’t understand is why? Even if real, the “value,” in my ton. Since we know all Caribbean mail left Miami, we suspect it contin - opinion, would not support the time and effort it took the “artist” to cre - ued down CAM 5 to Elko (unless it went west on CAM 32 and CAM 8 ate it! down to San Francisco) and then east on CAM 18 to Chicago. From there it would continue on CAM 17 into New York. Leaving New York per - haps the cover flew on CAM 19 as far as Atlanta where CAM 25 deliv - YOU are the AAMS’s most important asset. ered it to Miami. On eBay (a great place to do research), there are dozens Take an active role in the AAMS. of CAM 32 covers. The vast majority lack receiver marks. In two

PAGE 148 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 149 the Lindbergh rub - ber stamp (sans Pre - mier Vol) was com - mercial mail carried by the “Lone Eagle.” Spooner’s collection included three FAM 6 covers with differ - ent amounts of franking: 10, 12 and 14 cents. None of the three show evidence Figure 3 - 10-cent rate of postage due.

Figure 2 - Contract Air Mail routes 1925–1930 instances found, one reached Connellville, Pennsylvania, on the after - noon of September 17 and the other, to Andover, Massachusetts, arrived on September 18 at 9 a.m. Then there is the question of franking. The vast majority of CAM 32 envelopes have the C11 Beacon stamp. Figuring out postal rates, at least for a novice, is pretty tricky stuff. I consulted references on domes - tic and international rates. The congressional report (dated May 17, 1928) stipulated “that rates on air mail shall not be less than 10 cents for each ounce or fraction thereof.” By August of the following year, apparently you could get an envelope across the country by air for five cents. While airmail stamps are valid payment for surface mail “no mail except that with special air mail postage will be carried over contract air mail routes”. Figure 4 Outgoing Haitian mail with Premiere Vol (first flight) notation in As of March 21, 1929, according to the 10- Postal Bulletin 14947, upper portion of the rubber stamp. cent postal rate to Haiti included both the ordinary postage and the air - Richard Singley, the previous owner of the CAM 32 cover, also mail surcharge. Prior to this the airmail surcharge of 10 cents was claimed that Lindbergh was responsible for mail transported from applied in addition to the ordinary postage. There was also five-cent Miami to San Juan on September 20. As letters, many philatelic, gathered domestic airmail rate in effect at the time, but again that wouldn’t come in San Juan in anticipation of the September 22 FAM 6 Extension (with into play with the mailing being from Spokane to Port-au-Prince; the Colonel Lindbergh as inaugural pilot), the mail headed north to Port au international 10 cent rate to Haiti would apply. Prince left for Haiti. It has a receiving mark of September 21. Since much (most?) of the Haiti mail was not a first flight or carried by “Lucky The Lindbergh Connection Lindy,” it would have been commercial and not philatelic in nature. The late Bob Spooner believed that incoming Haitian mail with Ironically, the Singley item that helped spark the interest in the

PAGE 150 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 151 Rarity Let’s assume that the three covers, as evidenced by the Lind - bergh rubber stamp, were carried by the “Lone Eagle” from Miami to San Juan on September 20 and subsequently flown north to Haiti on Sep - tember 21. How many were there? Singley believed the number to be quite small. In the S.P.A. Jour - he writes, “I believe this is one of the rarest Lindbergh covers in exis - nal tence.” Clearly, when Lindbergh collectors knew Slim was carrying the mail they turned out in force. The “Horseshoe” flights in 1928 moved over 170,000 pieces of mail in two days. The foreign inaugural events were certainly smaller. Mail to all destinations on the Port au Prince – Paramaribo route totaled a scant 711 pieces. The author suspects the postal authorities on September 21 sim - ply masked the “Premier Vol” portion of their outgoing Lindbergh first flight rubber stamp to recognize the incoming letters that were not part of an inaugural event. Twice in CAL’s 10 months as chief pilot on the CAM 2 route from St Louis to Chicago he crashed. Despite the fact that he recovered a substantial portion of the 6,000 covers from these September and November 1926 events, less than a handful have ever reached the collec - Figure 5 tor market. Are the crash covers rare? To those of us who desperately FAM 6 1929. Lindbergh connection was in fact philatelic (at least the CAM 32 part) want to exhibit one the answer is “Yes” even though there may be as and was sent to noted collector E. A. Colson. The franking remains a many as 6,000 out there. So how many “commercial” Lindbergh FAM 6 mystery. Singley attempts to justify the postage when he writes that, covers are there? Maybe a lot. But until we start digging in earnest, per - “Some collectors discovered they could send a first flight from a domes - haps at the World Stamp Show in May, they certainly seem rare. tic route in the United States and tie it to a foreign flight.” He says a dou - ble rate had to be paid for this service. In this case this was true. The Bibliography Volume 3, AAMS, Cin - domestic rate from Spokane to Miami was five cents and the rate from American Air Mail Catalogue, Fifth Edition, Spokane to Haiti was 10 cents. naminson, New Jersey, 1978 Beecher, Henry W. & Wawrukiewicz, Anthony S., The Lindberghiana Section 5th Ed Vol 3) seems to sup - U.S. Domestic (AAMC pg 52 port the belief that these “commercial” Lindbergh covers exist. It says, Postal Rates, 1872-1999, Second Edition Beecher, Henry W. & Wawrukiewicz, Anthony S., “Covers carried from Miami by Lindbergh are canceled Miami, Septem - U. S. Interna - , pg 148 ber 20, and do not have a San Juan postmark. They were not processed in tional Postal Rates, 1872-1996 Moyers, William C., “Mine, Too.” February 2016 San Juan due to insufficient time.” If we are to believe that the Lindbergh Airpost Journal Singley, Richard L., “Struggle for Survival.” Janu - rubber stamp on the face validates that the incoming Haitian mail had S.P.A. Journal previously been brought from Miami to San Juan, then shouldn’t the ary 1966 pg 331-339 three examples known (Singley and the two Spooners) have Miami back - Spooner, Robert B , Gold Medal Lindbergh Collection sold by stamps? It is not known (to the author) about the Spooner covers. The Daniel F. Kelleher Auction Sale 624, April 9, 2011 Singley CAM 32 envelope does not have a Miami cancel. Tiffney, Scott, Reference Assistant American Philatelic Research Library correspondence

PAGE 152 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 153 PAGE 154 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 155 The ‘LATI Substitute’ Service of Pan American Airways Part 7: The December 1941 Transition from LATI to Pan American

John Wilson As described in Part 3 of this series, German mail destined for LATI flights after the service ended was returned to sender with an appropriate “Service Suspended” cachet. In South America, the last Ital - ian LATI flight left Brazil for on December 18, 1941, which meant that mail from Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil addressed to Europe began to accumulate at Natal (and possibly also at Belem). It is difficult to estimate how much mail was carried each week but Beith [1] and Cus - Figure 1 worth [2] report that the trans-Atlantic mail capacity of the LATI aircraft East coast route, October 25, 1941 was limited to a maximum of 1,100 pounds (500Kg) per flight. During December 1941 there were LATI flights from Natal on the 3rd, 9th and 13th with the fourth and final flight on the 18th. In November there were also four flights, so let us assume 1,100 pounds each week. By the middle of January 1942, therefore, there could have been a backlog of almost two tons of airmail sitting at Natal. How was this going to be cleared? My good friend Bob Wilcsek has often said, “The route is in the rate,” but in times of mail crises perhaps we should say, “The intended route is in the rate.” What were the postal officials in to do, knowing that the LATI service to Germany was suspended? A pair of alternative air routes were available to via New York and the North Atlantic: the east coast route via Brazil to Natal/Belem; and the alternative Panagra west coast route via Chile and Peru. The advantage of the LATI route from Argentina to Europe was two-fold: first, the rate was cheaper (1.45 Pesos LATI, 1.70 Pesos via New York); second, the LATI route was free of any British mail interception. Figure 2 For airmail to or through the United States from Argentina using Wast coast route, January 15, 1942 the “via New York” routes, the postal rates were the same, as shown by from Uruguay that had crossed the Andes to use the Panagra route (Fig - two covers from Buenos Aires to the United States carrying the correct ure 3). 1.15 Peso franking. Both covers were intercepted by British mail examin - Airmail from Argentina to Europe via the East coast route to ers, the cover via the east coast (Figure 1) caught at Trinidad (Examiner New York also shows interception in Trinidad (Figure 4). 8042), and the cover via the Panagra west coast route (Figure 2) caught at The censor station in Jamaica was particularly interested in LATI Jamaica (Examiner 367). Jamaica examiner 367 was also inspecting mail mail traveling by the west coast route into the United States because Ger -

PAGE 156 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 157 Figure 5 The sender paid the double LATI rate of 215 Rpf per 5g, making 430 Rpf plus the UPU surface rate of 25 Rpf, a total on the cover of 455 Figure 3 Rpf (RM4.55) for the route Munich-Rome-Buenos Aires-Lima-Cristobal- West coast route (Miami transit October 14, 1941) Mexico-New York. The LATI mail was diverted at Cali and rerouted via Baranquilla to Jamaica for examination. The fact that the British team at Jamaica was accustomed to opening and examining LATI transit mail suggests that they would have done this to mail coming from Argentina by the west coast route. Could mail have been diverted to surface transport? A new pub - lication from Michael Deery [4] is a comprehensive study of “Service Suspended” marks and in the section on Argentina there are illustrations of several types of boxed “Return to sender” cachets. All these examples are on covers intended for surface transport and there are no examples of the cachets on airmail covers. The question is: Why have we not seen a service suspended mark on an airmail cover? Perhaps the South Ameri - can postal authorities were aware that a substitute air service was to be Figure 4 East coast route Argentina to France, May 1941 intercepted Trinidad provided and there was no need to return airmail to the sender. The man mailers were using this route in order to bypass British mail exam - question remains open. Is there an airmail example out there? Figure 6 is iners in Bermuda [3]. A special “LATI intercept” team was established in a cover posted in La Falda, Argentina on December 1, 1941, addressed to Jamaica for this very purpose in July 1941 and a typical intercepted cover Germany but returned via Buenos Aires on January 19, 1942. using this route from Germany is shown as Figure 5. The Brazilians certainly knew that a substitute air service was to

PAGE 158 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 159 be provided. A series of Trinidad or Bermuda, even letters and telegrams [5] though the aircraft carried between Viscount Hali - such mail through Natal and fax, the British Ambas - Belem en route. Cover evi - sador in Washington, dence suggests that mail Figure 6 and Anthony Eden, the being carried from Lisbon to British Foreign Secretary, shows that by the end of July bipartisan talks New York was always exam - were taking place: ined in Bermuda and not in “Assistant Secretary of State Berle informed members of my staff Trinidad. Covers may well this afternoon that the United States Government was seriously con - be found from the period cerned over activities of Lati (sic) and were anxious to take action to ter - before January 1942 that minate its operation as soon as possible” (Halifax to Eden, July 31, 1941). show no sign of British cen - Cusworth [2] quotes extensively from the same files showing sorship, since not all letters that the Brazilians were ready to stop LATI operations as soon as the Pan were deemed “of interest.” It American alternative service was available. These files also stress the seems certain that mail from Brazilian objections to having mail intercepted and examined in transit Europe to South America by British Intelligence. Quite why this is so is not explained, but it is true using the FAM-18 southern that the British had developed some expertise in intelligence gathering route from Lisbon was not by mail interception, having been at war for more than two years before transferred at Natal or 7

the events of December 1941. e Belem. After January 1942, r u

Pan American Airways, having been “invited” by the U.S. Gov - g lack of censorship means i ernment to provide the “LATI substitute” service, was in a difficult situa - F something quite different, as tion. They had only nine Boeing 314 flying boats in their fleet. One was will be explained later. on Pacific service and the others were fully occupied running the special By the end of 1941 the mission program and the scheduled FAM-18 service around the South only airmail route from Atlantic. Providing a southbound substitute service from Lisbon was not Europe to South America a problem since the FAM-18 flights began their winter southern route was from Lisbon by Pan schedule at the beginning of December. These flights were passing American to New York via through Natal and Belem and could carry the “LATI substitute” mail Bermuda, and from South provided that there was sufficient spare load capacity available. Howev - America to Europe also by er, they did not offload mail at Natal or Belem, instead carrying it Pan American to New York through to New York via Trinidad and Bermuda where it could be inter - and Europe via British cen - cepted for examination. The October 1941 shows sor stations. Mail intended Reichspost Luftpostliste the routes available for German airmail at this time. There was no for LATI in Europe was offloading at Natal. being returned to sender, Kohl [6] shows that the same routes applied to Swiss mail while in South America the addressed to South America with airmail fees (+ 30c surface) of 150c for LATI mail was piling up at all-air, 100c for sea to New York and air from New York to Argentina Natal. Pan American Air - and 240c for the LATI service from Rome. Using the FAM-18 Pan Ameri - ways was trying to organize can route from Lisbon meant that the mail could be intercepted in the “LATI substitute” flights

PAGE 160 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 161 with precious few resources. How the situation was resolved in January 1942 will be described in the next article.

References [1] Beith, Richard, The Italian South Atlantic Air Mail Service 1939- (Chester, Richard Beith Associates, 1993) 1941, [ 2] Cusworth, Martyn, The Italian South Atlantic Airline (LATI), ( and Colonies Study Circle, 2012). [3] Wilson John, “Enter the Italians,” (Airpost Journal, November 2015). [4] Deery, Michael, Return to Sender. Devices Used to Identify Ser - (Private publication, 28726 Island vice Suspended Mails During WW2. View Road, Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada N8A 4K9. Also available in digital format: [email protected] [5] File CAB 122/139. “Suppression of Lati.” The National Archive, Kew, London. [6] Kohl, Roland F. Die Schweizerischen Flugpost – Zuschlagstaxen (Postgesichte-Verlag, CH-8024 Zurich 1, 1997). ab 1919. Figure 8 Switzerland to Argentina by FAM-18 bypassing Natal and cen - sored in Bermuda Please support the Airpost Journal advertisers. They’re supporting the American Air Mail Society!

Figure 9 FAM-18 route late November 1941 to May 1942 PAGE 162 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 163 Mail addressed to Argentina was supposed to be forwarded by Would Juan Trippe Have Been PANAGRA using a modified four-day FAM-9 service flight leaving Furious When He Received this Cover? Cristobal April 28, arriving Buenos Aires and Montevideo on May 1, thereby successfully completing a seven-day delivery between New Richard Saundry York and Buenos Aires. In 1930 Pan American Airways was in considerable danger of We surmise Cristobal-to-Buenos Aires service actually occurred as envisaged. But did it? Consulting the FAM-9 section of Vol. 3, losing business to the New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Airline (NYRBA). AAMC Both companies were seeking both the award of the lucrative contract Sixth Edition, there is an unexplained gap in the listings (pages 129-130) from the Argentine Post Office to ferry Argentine airmail to the United for covers flown the April 25-May 1 seven-day service between the Canal Zone and Buenos Aires. Inserted between listings F9-50 to -55 States, and more important, the long-awaited FAM-10 contract from the AAMC United States Post Office Department (USPOD). In February 1930, (covers flown the extension of FAM-9 beyond Buenos Aires to Montev - NYRBA had successfully demonstrated they were capable of operating a ideo in January 1930) and F9-60 to -64 (for the first FAM-9 service to La seven-day Buenos Aires-to-Miami service using the Atlantic route via Paz in May 1930), the aforesaid seven-day express service is described, Montevideo, , Port-of-Spain and the Antilles. It now but no covers are listed. Were the missing catalogue numbers F9-56 to - behooved PAA to respond to this challenge. If PAA could also demon - 59 set aside by editors to allow the possibility of future insertion when strate a seven-day service between the United States and Argentina, evidence from covers themselves could be verified? Or were these num - bers used in earlier editions of the but, for reasons not currently then, with their proven track record of successfully maintaining air ser - AAMC, vice over a number of other international routes, they were in with more apparent, no longer accepted? than a shout to secure the much coveted contracts, the U.S. contract in particular. A seven-day service was quickly organized by PAA using a combination U.S. domestic and modified PAA and PANAGRA airmail routes. PAA’s modified trans-Caribbean route between the U.S. and the Canal Zone, in reality only introduced in response to the need for a seven-day express service to Buenos Aires, is best remembered because the inaugural flight leaving Miami on April 26, 1930, was piloted by Charles A. Lindbergh with Basil L. Rowe as his co-pilot, using the Siko - rsky S-38, NC-9776. This “cut-off” route across the Caribbean, transiting Havana and Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, reduced the time taken to reach the Canal Zone from three to two days. The seven-day clock actually started at close of business on April 25, when mail from New York, Newark, Boston and Chicago was transferred overnight to Miami. The American records the mail successfully arriving in I recently acquired one of the covers intended to be flown on the Air Mail Catalogue (AAMC) Cristobal on April 27. Covers carried on the trans-Caribbean Miami-to- first seven-day New York-to-Buenos Aires express service, which upon Cristobal leg are fully described and are given full catalogue listings F5- close examination raises all sorts of questions. This cover, correctly 44 to F5-46. The reader should also note that together with these listings franked 55 cents for a letter weighing not more than half ounce flown to in the FAM-5 section of the is shown a cachet that was used both Argentina (rate effective January 1, 1930 to November 30, 1937), was AAMC in New York and Newark, for inaugural flight covers flown on the posted at the Grand Central Station P.O., New York at 4 PM on April 25 and bears a clear strike of the cachet illustrated in the that was express service to Buenos Aires. AAMC PAGE 164 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 165 cover did not fit his expectations! Trippe certainly would not have been a happy bunny! I do, of course, fully expect my cover to be an exception. I am confident our readers have in their collections covers proving the seven- day express service to Argentina was inaugurated exactly according to schedule. I also suggest correctly flown seven-day express airmail covers may be of far greater significance than their perfunctory mention in the FAM-9 section of the tends to on indicate. AAMC News of the Shows used on covers flown to Buenos Aires on the first express service flight. Sarasota National Stamp Exhibition This cachet was not an official post office cachet, but was applied by February 5-7, 2016 Sarasota, Florida PAA. The great problem I have with this cover is that on the back of the Grand Award Robert W. Hisey envelope is a machine cancellation for 6 AM May 2 in Cristobal, Canal Fall and Rise of French Africa Air Routes of Zone, together with a further machine cancel, “AEROPOSTAL-B.A.” for World War II 18.00 hrs. May 12 in Buenos Aires. Also: APS Research Award, Postal History Society Award, So how do we explain this inconsistency with the ? I think AAMS Medal, Military Postal History Society Award AAMC the cover was presented in plenty of time to be able to catch the connect - ing flight from New York to Miami. Assuming the crucially important Gold Iris Adair seven-day express flight was performed exactly according to schedule – Ryukyu Islands “Heavenly Maiden” Air Mail Issues and if it were not, we surely would have heard all about it! – this particu - (1951-1972) lar cover must somehow have been mishandled; left behind and only for - Also: APS Medal of Excellence 1940-80 warded to its destination by a subsequent flight. I speculate it was most likely left behind in New York, rather than Miami, but the latter possibil - Vermeil Sam Chiu ity is not completely out of the question. Hong Kong Wartime Airmail, September 1939 - You will, of course, have noted the cover was addressed to Juan December 1941 Terry Trippe, president of Pan American Airways. I doubt Trippe was in any sense a serious philatelist, but it was normal to send covers Single Frame Gold Gary G. Hendren addressed to him personally when PAA was conducting first flights. St. Louis Pioneer Air Mail – October 4-8, 1911 First flight covers were a neat and important way of confirming/docu - menting flights which had successfully taken place. Just imagine, I say Single Frame Vermeil Robert B. Pildes (tongue in cheek, of course), if Trippe was waiting on tenterhooks to Palestine Emergency Deliveries, Inc. receive the return of this cover to help prove to the USPOD that PAA had successfully implemented the seven-day express service to Argenti - na in order to secure the vital mail contracts. What would have been his Have a question, concern or comment? reaction when he realized, to his consternation, the postmarks on this Write a Letter to the Editor! PAGE 166 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 167 Mail Field dispatches on the CAM 8 inaugural. The base of operations Treasure Hunting for for airmail service for San Francisco moved from Crissy Field to Concord CAM Covers Field across the bay in early 1925. Later that year, the post office depart - ment provided the field an AMF cancel. When CAM 8 was inaugurated in September 1926 a small amount of collector covers were given AMF servicing. The lists a variety for CAM 4N4f, the northbound AAMC flight. Logic says there should also have been AMF covers on the south - Lee Downer bound flight, but if they exist, the catalogue editors never saw the proof. In an earlier edition of Treasure Hunter, I mentioned the rarity of westbound CAM 18 AMF covers posted from Reno. Eastbound covers ThGereh aroe sutsusa lalyn codm pClexA reMason Rs feorv ane nairamnailt cs over’s sale occasionally come on the market and are appropriately pricey. Like in price. Mostly it is set by the willingness of someone to cough up enough Concord, AMF cancels should have been applied to covers dispatched in cash to get it away from a seller: catalogues, price lists and asking price both directions; in this case they are both listed. Since I have come up for unique items are often irrelevant. Scarcity is another matter. How empty handed for many years, 18W9f falls into the “ghost” category. many of any specific item actually exist is important. The relationship Dearborn was designated a separate stop on CAM Route 27 on between the two is an age-old subject of debate. In this short article, I’ll October 15, 1928. While airmail may have been dispatched earlier, the focus only on scarcity. POD bulletin established this as the official date, probably on short In four decades of trying to complete a classic CAM collection, notice, escaping most cover preparers. No official cachet was provided there are a handful of -listed items I have never seen, either for and covers are mainly identified by the 330pm time slug in a Dearborn AAMC handstamp. identifies them as 27W14. The circumstances make sale, in someone's collection or in an exhibit at a stamp show (sadly, AAMC there are not many CAM exhibits anymore). While the Treasure Hunter this a difficult cover at best, certainly qualifying as a true “ghost.” usually includes a few colorful examples of covers to show you, this edi - Closely related, my remaining “ghosts” are four pilot-signed tion is different: no pictures because ghosts are hard, maybe impossible, covers, my favorite subject. But there is hope here as well. I had long to see. But there is hope. believed there were no Ross Kirkpatrick-signed CAM 7 covers. Amaz - In one article last year, I talked about the scarcity of CAM Route ingly, one popped up last year, which I illustrated in an article, a true 1 covers from Newark dispatched northbound on September 8, 1930. I classic CAM rarity previously thought to be a “ghost.” My personal whined about never having seen one. Like magic, a few weeks after the medium here in Cassadaga, Florida, urged me not to give up hope, so I’ll publication date, Don Lussky and John Johnson both sent scans of exam - include four pilot-signed items: CAM 8 Medford southbound covers ples in their own collections. This gave me an idea: list a few apparitions signed by R. B. Patterson; CAM 26 southbound covers signed by Robert and see if anyone can conjure them out of the spirit world. P. Hopkins; CAM 30 southbound covers autographed by C. H. Shield; Do they even exist? I have to assume so. In order to get listed, a and CAM 17 westbound night flight covers signed Harry Chandler. Col - collector, way back when, actually produced a copy to convince lectors in the 1920s were persistent, so I’m hoping to flush a few of these AAMC editors to include it. So, I’m pretty sure these exist. If you, or one of your elusive items out of the spirit world. friends and/or colleagues has one, I’d love to see it. All seven covers are scarce, at best, making them high-grade To get this little séance going, I went through my want lists to prospecting targets for the CAM Treasure Hunter. If any “ghost busting” pull out three prime suspects in the classic CAM era. I didn’t consider reader has one or more and would like to share, email a scan, mail a pho - tocopy or just send the item to the editor. She would appreciate the those pesky color variations or wrong direction cachet errors; varieties of APJ that ilk should be scarce by definition. Looking only at primary listings feedback and forward anything to me. To salt the mine, so to speak, if and associated AMFs, this is my short list. you do send in scan or copy of a qualified “ghost,” I will find something Possibly the most interesting are the Concord, California, Air interesting in my CAM cigar box for you as a reward. Eureka!

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