R~ . • 1938 EDITION • 586 Pages

2 1000 Illustrations

T HE STANDARD CATALOGUE OF AIRPOST STAMPS is the . i,~ recognized guide book for collector and dealer. The new ec).jtiqn has been completely revised and brought up-to-date, listing eyery ~irpost stamp issued to January 8, 1938. The prices are net ret~iJ se~Ji~g price~. Cloth Bound - $2.00 Air Post Stamps on ApJ:?roval AUCTION SALES l-IELD REGULARLY ON AIR MAIL AND UNITED STATES STAMPS Ask for a copy of the Auction Catalogue .! if you are not on our mailing list. Nicolas. Sanabria, Inc. S/!eco9nizeJ O'YorlJ 3teaJquarfers for·o/lrposl Siamps 11 East 42nd St:reet -co N;~ Yo ~k City CABLE ADORl:SS: NICSAN, N. Y. • The new 6-cent Air Mail Stamp which will be placed on first day sale at the AAMS St. Petersburg Convention Station.

• OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE Tl-IE .AIRPOST JOURNAL • AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY • o MAY. 1938 VOL. IX. NO. 8 . ... • ISSUE 97 lOc PER COPY 3 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL

Throughout its existence the Society has been fortunate in having sustained and active interest from its original leadership. What other National Society c2n show as large a percentage of its charter membership active as of fifteen :vears after its inception Perhaps we've bit off something here-but we are proud oI our records. Death itself has robbed us of i;nember #1, the late .Joseph 'P. Steinmetz. Past President Truby, Mem­ ber #2 and Secretary Angers, Member #3, make this writer tagged #162 feel like a babe in arms so far as Society ac­ tivities are concerned. • • • Speaking of "early birds" it is a source of interest and gratification to know that the Nominating Committee's choice for President for the coming year is Paul F. Robertson, Charter Member 25. Paul has been active throughout the years and has served the Society in several capacities, more recently as a member of the Board of Directors. In addition, and more important, he is · a grand fellow

e ROBERT E. FELLERS. Superin- tendent of Stamps, Postoffice De­ partment, Washington who will sup­ ervise the first day sale of the new air stamp and again honor the AAMS by his attendance at the Convention.

mail transportation, then in its very. in­ fancy. The present Society was originally formed under the name AERO-PHILA­ TELIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA in 1923. In 1927 the name was modiefied to its present form in order to achieve direct­ ness and simplicity and to avoid con­ fusion in its abbreviated form, A. P. S. A., with the abbreviated and commonly uesd form of the American Philatelic Society.-A. P. S. • • • During the first six years of its exis­ tence, the American Air Mail Society held no Conventions. In the formative and embryonic stage, it had not reached sufficient numerical strength and stature to make such a gathering either possible or significant. Today these annual meet­ ings, in their friendships and associations are the highlights of the Society's yearly e GEORGE W. ANGERS. Springfield, activity. Previous meetings have been Mass., president emeritus and one of held twice each at Cleveland, Washington the original organizers of the Ameri­ can Air Mail Society is also secretary and New York and once each at Chicago of the group and editor of the forth- and Springfield. Mass. coming catalogue. 4 MAY 1938 and one who can be expected to further the continued pr,ogress of the So~le1y dul"ing his term. • • • The annual Convention affords an op­ portunity for the Society officers to re­ port to the membership as to their stew­ ardship and permits the members ·at these meetings to coment on and make suggestions as to the acts of the officers. The Constitution and By-Laws of the A. A. M. S. have been purposely drawn to give the officers wide latitude in the administration of Society affairs. In an organization such as ours, this is almost essential. It is a physical lmpossiblllty, even though funds were available, to take each matter of policy or each de­ cision to the full membership. The officers serve without compensation and are of­ ten hard pressed to find the necessary time to devote to the Society's affairs. Their actions are sincere and devoted and any member either at the Convention

• PAUL F. ROBERTSON, Decatur, Ill., dirertor and charter member #25 of the AAMS who has recently been selected by the Nominating Commit­ tee as President for the 1938-39 term.

or at any other time is privileged to question or disapprove them. While on the subject it may be appropriate to point out that the position of Secretary now requires the dedication of a major amount of time, which time must necesarily be deducted from other activ­ ities and in some cases the regular bus­ iness of the incumbent. It is possible that this Convention will be asked to face the situation squarely and deter­ mine whether the time has not arrived to provide some monetary compensation for the Secretary. This would be a step in the right direction even though the present resources of the Society might make it necessary to restrict this stipend to a small and inadequate amount. • • • One of the ever pleasing features of each Convention has been the cordial participation of the Post Office Depart­ • L. B. GATCHELL. Bronxville, N. Y., ment. Again this year, the Department director and past f ersldent of the AAMS has honored the Society by designation served as Nations Chairman of the 1938 Convention Committee. of a special Convention Station at the 5 THE A I RPOST JOURNAL

Suwannee Hotel, the headquarters of the ous airports and inspection of govern­ meeting, and by the issuance of the new ment aircraft facilities and on Monday 6c red and blue air mail stamp first day night, May 16, a fina.l banquet at the Su­ at that station. Special cancelling dies wanee Hotel. At this dinner awards will for the A. A. M. s. St. Petersburg Station be presented and the meeting will be will be provided by the Post Office De­ addressed informally by various Post Of­ partment and will be used on all mail fice Department and civic officials. Ar· dispatched from the special station not rangements for the first-day sale at St. only the first day but on the three days Petersburg will be personally supervised of the convention meeting. What amounts by Robert E. Fellers, Superintendent to a branch Philatelic Agency will also Division of Stamps, Post Office Department be established. This action is similar to Washington, D. C. Other postal officials that taken several years ago at Chicago who are planning to be present include when the 16c blue air mail special de­ the Honorable Ramsey S. Black, 3rd livery stamp was made available first Assistant Postmaster General; the Hon­ day only at the Convention station of orable Harllee Branch, 2nd Assistant the Society in the Congress Hotel. Let Postmaster General; the Honorable Roy the record , show that this appreciated N .North, Deputy 3rd Assistant Post­ co-operation extends throughout the master General; C. P. Graddick, Superin­ year. Let it show that it is received tendent Division of Air Mail Service; J. from each Bureau and Department head E. Lamiell, Superintendent International at Washington from Mr. Farley down. Postal Service, and others. • • • * * • Our hobby exists on the interchange A comprehensive exhibition of air mail of ideas. the study of material, the com­ material is being sponsored by the Tony panionship of those enjoying similar pur­ Jannus Chapter of the American Air Mail suits. This can be had best at a Con­ Society which is the local host to the vention. The friendships renewed, the new delegates. This active group is receiving ones made go on throughout the years the cooperation of the philatelic groups and in the past they have been the of St. Petersburg and of the permanent genesis of many great co-operative pro­ ;1ocal commitJ.tee to iSpon,..Jr P1hilateHi;' jects upon behalf of the hobby. The shows and exhibitions. Judging by the forthcoming AMERICAN AIR MAIL popularity of the annual philatelic ex­ CATALOGUE to be published by the hibition held under the auspices of this Society is a good example. I venture to group each February, the present exhibi­ say that such a project would be im­ tion will command widespread interest posible were it not feasible for most of and will attract some of the finest mater­ the section editors to meet together on ial in the United States. The exhibition occasion. Then, finally the Exhibition will be competitive in character and in provides the vehicle for accomplishment addition to a grand trophy and five so inherent in all of us-and through its medals made available by the national awards achieves the pride of recogni­ society, a number of valuable and useful tion. But why be abstract-I'LL SEE prizes will be awarded. There will also YOU THERE! . , . be the usual ribbons or certificates rep­ resenting the judges' decisions as to the merits of the material on display. A com­ • plete prospectus can, be secured from York Briddell, Chairman of the Tony Jannus Chapter, who can be addressed at the Chamber of Commerce, St. Pet­ ersburg, Florida. The following have been designated as judges: L. B. Gatchell, Chairman; George W. Angers, F. W. Kessler and Maurice S. Petty. In addition to the regular business sessions of the Society, a varied and in­ teresting program of entertainment is promised. This includes a shore dinner e FIRST TRIP Air Mail on the Gov­ on the Gulf Coast, sight-seeing trips in ernment's first regular service route received this cancellation at Washing­ and near St Petersburg, visit to the vari- ton, D. C. 6 • tion by transporting mail by air between New York, Philadelphia and Washington. National Air Mail Week Com­

memorates Twenty Years of Few people knew about this new ser- Regular U. S. Air Mail Service • WENTY YEARS LATER. Thousands T of specially commissioned air mail pilots take to the air in as many planes to fly the Air Mail into the greatest pop­ ularity it has enjoyed in the history of the world ..• Millions of veople mail more millions of red and blue bordered envelopes dec­ orated by colored cachets. which desig­ nate that the letter was posted by the most modern and rapid means of direct communication . . . A new bi-colored air mail stamp en­ courages many more citizens to increase the volume of mail carried through the air to the greatest tonnage ever known

Scheduled flying of Air Mail by the United States now averages more than a quarter of a million miles each day. A special memorial flight Kitty Hawk, N. C. to Dayton, Ohio, steps further back into history to pay tribute to the Wright Brothers, who on December 17, 1903, suc­ ceeded in their inventive genius to pro­ vide the humble beginning which made it all possible . . . While members and friends of the American Air Mail Society in Convention assembled at St. Petersburg, Florida, May 14-16, exhibit their souvenirs of the first air mail flights . . . and like to recall when it all happened . . . WENTY YEARS AGO: Aviation, T scarcely grown out of the bamboo • strut and box kite stage, had roared to e FIRST GOVERNMENTAL SERVICE­ new accomplishments through the added Top: Lieut. H. Paul Culver, who flew the stimulus and fervor of the World War. first air mail from PhiladelDhia to New York, May 15. 1918. Center: One of the Planes, scarcely. safe or sure, were being aeroplanes used. Shill . with crew at pressed into fighting. Dispatches had to Philadelphia air mail field. Bottom: Army go through, and there was an eagerness pilot Torry B. Webb, who flew the in­ augural mail from New York to Phila­ to prove the commercial value of avia- delphia. -Don Smith Photos 7 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

vice which would take their letters into exhibition soonsored by the national the air. Few. pilots did extensive cross society and is awarded to the display re­ country flying. Congress was reluctant to ceiving the most ballots cast by those appropriate the needed $100,000 for ex­ viewing the exhibition. perimentation on the initial route , •• Mr. Oscar L. Mayer, Chicago, Ill., now A new twenty-four cent bi-colored Air holds the trophy, which was awarded at Mail stamp spelled romance to collectors the Chicago exhibition several years ago. and modern-minded others. Few copies The trophy becomes the permanent were sold those first days. It was a lot possession of the first exhibitor to win it of money for the average person· to in three exhibitions. spend on a "novelty." This was the first flight of a new regular air service, the first of its kind,_in this country ..• New York's Belmont Park echoed· to • the strains of the "Star Spangled Banner" ALBION, PA.. WILL HAVE NATIONAL as the Army's pilot Torrey Webb, . com­ AIR MAIL WEEK CACHET missioned to carry the mail, climbed in­ Albion, Pa .. .:i little town of less than to his Curtis .T-N-4 biplane shortly be­ two thousand residents located in the fore noon on May 15 and rose into the northwestern "chimney' of Pennsylvania air with the first regular United States and known better to readers as the Air Mail. Home Office of the AIRPOST J'OURNAL, At one o'clock . the plane reached will have a cachet for National Air Mall Philadelphia, the mail was ·transferred Week Pick-Up Service Day, May 19. to another ship piloted by .Tames c. Ed­ Covers, bearing air mail postage or re­ gerton, and the initial "pony express'" mittance of 6c cash should be sent direct type air mail was again on its way. The to Postmaster Morris A. Rood, who will mail was landed. at the Polo Field in be glad to take care of readers of the Potomac Park, Washington, where an .Journal. · enthusiastic crowd had gathered, includ- . The cachet, which· will be used by ing President Wilson and t.he man who twelve Erie County towns. was designed was to be his next Democratic successor, by the AP.T editor, who assisted the the then Assistant Secretary of the Navy county postmasters in their plans for Franklin D. Roosevelt. the observance of Air Mail Week. Two The Army did not fare too well with Pick-Up flights will be made, one in the the northbound inaugural trip. Leaving western end of the county and the other in the east, both terminating at Erie Washington a.It e~'even o'clock Lieut. Boyle's ship experienced motor trouble Airport, where mail will be transferred from the county planes and flown to a and a crash resulted from the forced regular route stop at Buffalo, Cleveland landing. The ship was wrecked in a field a few miles from the Capitol. The mail or Pittsburgh. Neil R. McCray. owner and operator of the Erie County Airport at was sent to Philadelphia by train. The Fairview and· holder of a number of avia­ Quaker City mail was dispatched by tion records will fly the mail in the plane at two-thirty o'clock, with Lieut. wes­ tern section, including Albion. H. Paul Culver at the stick. It arrived in Other towns on the Erie County Pick­ New York an hour later, with a wel­ Up Service include Girard, "North Girard, coming escort of seven planes from Edinboro, McKean, F:airview, Waterford, Mineola Field. Wattsburg, Corry, Union City, Wesley­ Scheduled flying of mail that day cov­ ville and North East, Penna. The post­ ered four hundred and thirty-six miles. masters will be glad to take care of any • covers collectors desire to send. CLEVELAND AIR MAIL SOCIETY TROPHY W,1LL BE AWARDED AT ST. PETERSBURG EXHIBITION LOOSE LEAF BINDERS for the AIRPOST JOURNAL The beautiful air mail trophy of the Cleveland Air Mail Society will again be Keep your file of back numbers in good condition. Bound in black water­ available for award at the St. Peters­ proof fabricoid, stamped with gold. burg Exhibition of the AAMS. according Will hold 24 issues. Window on back ' to Alton .T. Blank, president of the foi: volume numbers. Each, post­ Cleveland chapter. paid, · $2.00. The trophy is made available at every AIRPOST JOURNAL - Albion, Pa. 8 THE WRIGHT BROTHERS---AERO PIONEERS

A PICTORIAL WSTORY of the fllJllOUS DaytoR, Ohio brothers who first ftew thirty-five years ago. 9 Oft'icial publication of the American Ail" Mail Society. Published monthly at Albion, (Erie Co.,) Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

. THE ;;::.{btPOST JOURNAL is entered WALTER J. CONRATH. Editor · as second-class matter, February 10, Albion, Penn'a 1932,. at the post office at Albion, Pa., GRACE CONRATH, Business Manager · under the Act of March 3, 1879. Albion, Penn'a All editorial copy, advertising, new and renewal subscriptions should be sent ALTON J .. BLANK, Assistant Editor ; direct to the publication office at 1850 Burnett Ave .. E. Cleveland, O. Albion, Penn'a. GLEN W. NAVES, Assistant Editor The AIRPOST JOURNAL is not con­ % Herald-Journal Newspapers ducted for profit. The managing edi­ Spartanburg, S. C. tor, all department editors, feature writers and. contributors serve gratis ASSOCIATE EDITORS and without compensation of any kind. FRANCIS J. FIELD, Sutton Coldfield, All receipts froi:n advertising, su!Jscrit>· · England tions and contributions are applied di­ L; B. GATCHELL. 10 Birch Brook Rd., rectly to ·the betterment of the maga­ Bronxville, N. Y. zine and the promotion of aero-philately. D. E. HELMUTH. 1724 Page Ave., #11, St1BSCRIPTION RATES East Cleveland, Ohio United States...... $1.00 per year JAMES C. HEARTWELL, 341 Carroll Can~da and Foreign...... $1.50 per year Park West. Long Beach. Calif. Single Copies ...... lOc each Back Numbers ...... 15c each F. W. KESSLER, 551 Fifth Avenue, Bound Volumes also available. New York. N. Y. ADVERTISING RATES RICHARD L. SINGLEY, Post Office, One inch, per issue ...... $ 1.00 Lancaster, Penn'a Quarter Page. per issue 3.25 Half Page, per issue ...... ················1 6.00 DEPARTMENT EDITORS Full Page, per issue ...... 10.00 ALTON J. BLANK Front Inside or· Back Cover Pages Airs of the Month (when available) ...... $12.00 FRANK A. COSTANZO Composition charge for solid, tabular Crash Cover News or special typographic layouts: lOc to JAMES C. HEARTWELL 25c per inch additional. Air Stamps You May Have Missed Interested advertfsers may apply for contract rate for space used every W.R. PATTON issue for a period of 12 months. Ad· Canada vertising and editorial copy MUST BE MAURICE S. PETTY RECEIVED BY THE 20TH OF EACH Dedications and Unofficials MONTH. 10 days before publication CHARLES G. RIESS date. Contract Air Mail Routes

ing this year is being held in conjunc­ tion with the celebration of the first National Air Mail Week, May 15-21. AND. THE AAMS THE TWENTIETH anniversary of regu­ HONORING the American Air Mail lar Air Mail service in this country also Society for its ninth annual Convention marks the fifteenth year of the organiza­ and,Exhibition, the Postoffice Department tion of. the American Air Mail Society. h~s granted first day sale of the new bi· The group, formed·. in 1923, had its ear~ colored ·six cent Air Mail Stamp at a liest, beginning in 1912, when a number special .Postal Station at the St. Peters· of ohr charter members banded together burg headquarters on the opening day to siudy and promote the further dev­ of the meeting, May 14; The appearance elopment of the transportation of mail of the new stamp, planned to be one of through the air. Air Mail and the AAMS the most attractive issued by our gov­ are, therefore, inseparable. ernment, will pnovide an outstanding It is fitting then that our. annual meet- feature for the opening of National Air 10 MAY 1938

Mail Week, and, it is hopeu, ~ ...mcate many lication office each year. The magazine more people in the further use of our endeavors to mirror in a modern and in­ extensive Air Mail system. By the same teresting manner the current trends in token, the new airpost adhesive will as­ airpost collecting throughout the world, sist in drawing additional attention to together with a presentation of the his­ aero-philately. torical background of Air Mail as shown THE AME:RZCAN Air Mail Society is through stamps and covers. the oldest and largest organization of Perhaps the most outstanding under­ aero-philatelists-collectors of air mail taking ever attempted by the American stamps and covers-in the world. It is a Air Mail Society is the publication of a co-operative group, formed to further the complete airpost catalogue. Work on study and collection of airmails. The this volume was inaugurated approxi­ Society, all of its publications and ser­ m 3.tely one year ago and the book is now Vices are not operated for profit. AU of in the course of production. Leading the AAMS officers, managers, editors and airpost collectors assisted in the under­ writers serve without compensation. writing of the large expenditure required PUBLICATIONS are issued by the to produce this catalogue through their Society for the benefit of the member­ subscriptions for special editions. It is ship. The AIRPOST .JOURNAL, official hoped the extensive task of writing, edit­ monthly publication of the group, was in­ ing and producing this volume of five augurated by the Society nearly seven hundred or more pages can be completed years ago. The individual editors and in order to assure a publication date some writers who contribute to the magazine time this fall. take a high personal pride in their work, which is justified by the hundreds of let­ Other publications of the Society in­ ters of appreciation received by the pub- clude the Advance Air Mail Information

• WALTER .J. CONRATH. Albion. Pa .. country newspaper publisher and editor of the AIRPOST .JOURNAL who i!'; retiring as president of the A. A. M. S. after serving two. terms in that office. 11 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL

Bulletin, published as occasion demands. "Air" at the left and "Mail" at the right This is a service designed to "cover" in heavy dark letters of the Gothic type. members with "flash" news on air flights In rectangular-shaped panels in each in order that they may forward their own covers for events on which little lower corner will be the denomination advance notice has been given. The "6c" in white. An ornamental border Bulletin is printed on regulation govern­ will extend from the top of these panels ment postal cards, supplied, self-address. across the ends of the stamp. In a nar­ ed, to the bulletin manager by individual members. • row panel with dark ground at the lower The Society also publishes a Directory, edge of the stamp will be the inscription listing all members in good standing, to­ "U. S. Postage" in white Gothic-type gether with their philatelic specialties. letters. A "recruiting booklet" describing the story of air mall, air mail collecting and The new air mail stamp will first be the Society is also available. placed on sale on May 14, 1938, at Day­ MEMBERS of the AAMS may partici­ ton, Ohio, the home of the Wright pate in the Sales Department, operated for the group and providing a ready Brothers, builders of the first successful means for the sale and purchase of air airplane, and Saint Petersburg, Florida, mail stamps and covers. An Exchange where the first passenger flight was Department is also maintained as a por­ made. At the latter place the stamp will tion of the Journal, where members may be placed on sale at the temporary postal list their wants or offer their duplicates station of the Saint Petersburg post of­ to exchange for items they require. , fice to be established at the headquarters AIRPOST collectors and prospective of the annual Convention of the Amer­ airpost collectors are cordially invited to ican Air Mail Society. First-day covers affiliate themselves with the American will be given cancellation of this station. Air Mail Society. We shall be glad to Stamp collectors desiring first-day can­ number you as one of our organization. celations of the new stamp on May 14 The annual dues are only $2.00 per year, at the above post offices may send a lim­ which includes a year's subscription to ited number of addressed covers, not in the AIRPOST JOURNAjL. A convenient exceS<> of 10, to the postmaster, \vith a application for membership blank will cash or postal money order remittance be found in another part of this issue. to cover only the cost of the stamps re­ We are certain you will derive much quired for affixing. Postage stamps will more pleasure from airposts through your positively not be accepted in payment. co-operation in the national Society Each cover should bear a pencil endorse­ sponsoring this fascinating hobby. ment in the upper right corner to show the number of stamps to be attached thereto, which will obviate the necessity of sending a letter of instructions with the covers. Envelopes for covers should not be smaller than 3 by 6 inches. and OFFICIAL POSTOFFICE ANNOUNCE­ space allowance must be made for the MENT OF NEW SIX CENT AlR STAMP larger size of the stamp. Compliance can HE NEW six-cent air mail stamp, not be made with unusual requests, such which is to be issued by the Post T as for the affixing of plate numbe'r blocks, < Office Department on May 14, 1938, in etc., and all covers must be fully address­ connection with the celebration of Na­ ed. tional Air Mail Week, will be of the special delivery size 84/100 by 1-44/100 For the benefit of collectors desiring inches in dimensions, arranged horizon-· stamps of selected quality for philatelic tally. The stamp will be printed in bi­ use, the six-cent air mail stamp will be color, the border in blue and the cen­ placed on sale at the Philatelic Agency tral design in red, the latter depicting on Sunday, May 15, 1938. To insure an eagle with outstretched wings, bear­ prompt shipment, mail orders to the ing in its talons a shield, olive wreath Agency must be limited to the six-cent and a bundle of arrows. At the top of air mgiJ stamp, excluding other varieties the stamp will be a panel of convention­ of stamps heretofore on sale. The Agency alized wing design, divided in the center hours on May 15 will be from 8:00 A. M. by a small U. S. shield, with the words to 12:00 M. 12 lnaruj &flUu W:iil eompere .9A national AAMS AIR MAIL WEEK CONTEST .. of issue to Kitty Hawk, birthplace of aviation. Accompanying will be an at­ Local Air Mail Displays, Cachets tractive certificate stating the owner par­ ticipated in the first National Air Mail and Mail Pilot Photos Eligible Week, with personal acknowledgement and- autographs of Superinte~dent of Air • Mail Chas. P. Graddick, and officers of the American Air Mail Society. The certi­ ARLY nation-wide response indicates ficate and cover will prove a worth while E that hundreds of persons will com­ pete in the contest being sponsored by memento of the national event and will the American Air Mail Society for active participants in the obser- vance of the first Nation­ al Air Mail Week. May 15-21. according to Wal­ ter J. Conrath. Albion. Pa.. president of t h e Society. The competition seeks to encourage the display of air mail stamps and covers to the public in cities and town through­ out the country during National Air Mail Week, offers awards to the de­ signers of the picli.:-up air mail service cachets which are judged the most at­ tractive and significant and designates several prizes for the best photo­ graphs of local "air-mail­ pilots-for-a-day." T h e national contest is open to anyone, and it is not necessary to be a member of the society or a sub­ scriber of this magazine in order to enter and win one of the numerous prizes. ·I Souvenir Cover Everyone entering the I contest in any one or more of the divisions of the classification will re­ i·! ceive a specialy prepared souvenir cover bearing the new bi-colored six cent e MISS EVELYN SHARP, 17, Ord, Nebraska, regularly air mail stamp mailed licensed pilot, will fly two trips of air mail, pick up from St. Petersburg, service on May 19, in connection with National Air ~ Week. She will cover 352 miles on the night, fly­ Florida on the first day ing the mail Into Grand Island, Nebraska. 13 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL be suitable for mounting. List Awards Included in the list of awards available to date are: Garden City Pioneer card, representing the first official air mail carried in the United States. Two covers from the New York-Wash­ ington first flight of scheduled service, May 15, 1918, representing the flight of which the 2oth anniversary is being cele­ brated during Air Mail Week. Set of U. S. First issue air mail stamps, also representing the first air mail of twenty years ago and now valued at o FmST Air Mail stam!I is­ more than six dollars. sued by the United States­ twenty years ago. Two covers of the famous Balloon Post of the Siege of Paris, carried in 1870, these are from the first airpost of the for use at some local point for the one­ world. day pick-up service planned for the Transatlantic flight cover carried by the week. Entries may be submitted by either Adamowicz brothers from New York to the designer or the individual or organ­ Warsaw, Poland in .Tune 1934. ization ordering the design prepared. En· Collection of thirty U. S. Contract Air tries will be accepted with impression of Mail Covers and copy of the AAMS hand­ cachet on regular standard size envelope. book on CAMs. Advance Entries One Scott Airpost Stamp Album. Special consider<:ttion will be given en­ One AP.T Album, with fifty APJ Album trants who submit proofs of their cachet Pages. in advance of the event (scheduled to Donations of prizes for this contest have take place nationally on May 19) in order been received, to date, from George W. that the different cachets may be exhib­ Angers, F. W. Kessler, L. B. Gatchell, bited at the national Convention of the Norman Serphos, Scott Stamp & Coin Co., American Air Mail Society at St. Peters­ and Walter J. Conrath. burg, May 14-16. Entries in this section should be sent as soon as possible and Address for Entries if mailed between May 8 and May 14 AU entries must be addressed to The should be addressed to Walter .T. Conrath, American Air Mail Society, Air Mail in care of the Suwannee Hotel, St. Week Contest, Albion, Penna. Petersburg, Florida. Closing date for en­ Classification for :f.:ntries tries in the second division will be May The first division of the competition 23. comprises local aero-philatelic displays, Awards in the third division of the or frames prepared by the entrant for classification will be made for the best public showing in his community dur· photos of a local Air Mail "Pilot-for-a­ ing National Air Mail Week and design· Day." Photos may include the plane, mail ed to better acquaint people with the sacks and associated persons or material advantages and accomplishments of the of interest in connection with the local air mail service, and to instill a bettel' ceremony. Photos may be submitted by understanding of air mail stamp and anyone, but it should be stated if the cover collecting. A 150-word description picture was personally taken by the en­ may accompany the photo, if desired. En· trant. Publication rights must be granted tries for this division must be received and where news service or newspaper by May 21. photos are submitted for competition a A wards will be made in the second release must accompany your entry. division for the local Air Mail Week Credit lines will be allowed when request­ cachet which is judged to be the most ed. Here's a chance for camera hobbyists attractive and significant. Cachet may be to tie in their avocation with air mail either rubber stamp impression, or print­ Entries for this division must be received ed on the envelope. The cachet must be by May 25. 14 The First Uommeruial Airline were pulled off without us. The first • race in the afternoon was a free-for­ The Story of St. Petersburg's all. We followed twelve boats over ·the Historic Air Service line, but, when we came to the first turn, a mile and a half down river, there and Tony Jannus was· only one boat ahead of us. As soon as we had rounded the last of the three • bouys, we opened her up and slid into the lead as though the other boat had by P. E FANSU:R been anchored. The rest of the story Organizer of the St. Petersburg-Tampa hurts. We began to hp the slower boats Airboat Line, 1914 and had only two more of the ten laps to go when a stud holding the gear case • let go, and we were out of it for good ATE IN THE AFTERNOON of De­ and all. L cember 31, 1913, a Missiouri-Pacific Freight car was shunted to a spur run­ To the Air ning down the commercial dock in St. Petersburg, Florida. Half a dozen of us This experience whetted my appetite clustered around it and struggled with for s9eed, and I began to look about our composure while the freight agent for something that would provide the fussed over the necessary papers. Liter­ optimum. Having he,,rd that Tony Jannus ally, that car was a great cocoon, en­ made his famous tri:o down the Mississ­ shrouding a giant moth that was to ippi River in a flying boat built by Tom write a new page in the history of Benoist, in St. Louis, I started corres­ transportation. pondence with Torn. After receiving two or three letters that dealt with the de­ In 1912 I had beeorne interested in speed tails and capabilities of the boat, the boat racing through handling the engine idea popped into my head that instead of a crack racer· owned by a wealthy of monkeying with the thing to give Florida turpentine and timber operator. "Jazz" trips, I would start a real com­ An interested spectator at the Palm mercial line, running-or, rather, flying­ Beach regatta was J. Stuart Blackton, at from Somewhere to Somewhere Else, and that time in his prime as a leader in prove, or disapprove, the possibilities of the movie world. One evening during the commercial aviation. regatta, he voiced his intention to "bring down some real fast ones and take a hand in the sport." I facetiously Looking back through the sixteen suggested that if he did, I'd build one years th•t have elapsed, I am amazed that what I visualized and put into oper­ that "would lick anything he could pro­ duce.u ation was essentially the same as, for instance, the airline between New York The Jacksonville Power Boat Club and Boston as it is today operated :about planned an elaborate three-day regatta the only difference being the length of for the winter of Hl12-13, and, true to filght and the passenger capacity. I his promise, Mr. Blackton wrote to its wrote to Tom about the scheme, and he officials, early in the fall, that he would immediately became enthusiastic. He enter three of the fastest racers in the agreed to build and furnish two boats "if North. I would work out the operating details, select a route and handle the business I laid down a single-step hydroplane. end. My experience all over Florida led My newly acquired bride and I built me to conclude that a line could be op­ this hull in twenty-one working days and erated between St. Petersburg and nights-mostly the latter. Due to lack of Tampa under favorable conditions. The funds, the boat was completed only on distance was about twenty-three miles; the day before the opening of the regatta, some fifteen or sixteen of which were and all of the races of th~ next morning along the shore of Tampa Bay, the re- 15 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL mainder across Old Tampa Bay. There name of the mechanic Tom brought with were, therefore, only seven or eight of him, but we called him "Smitty" and his actual open water route. devotion to the power plants was not­ The Organization able. In St. Petersburg I had a very in­ As the days went by and the car fail­ teresting reaction from the leading busi­ ed to materialize, even the backers of ness men I interviewed. They thought I the enteprise began to josh us about had a mighty clever idea but they didn't the "phantom" boat. The 28th became believe there was any such thing as a the 29th. and the 30th. passed into the flying boat. I talked a group of a dozen 31st, and--0ur frantic joy can be into putting up a guarantee of $100.00 imagined when the local freight agent each, and the Board of Trade "came announced that the car had arrived and in" for a like amount. Considering the would be switched down to the dock millions being invested in airlines today within the hour. We walked beside that these subscriptions seem like cigarette car from the freight yards to the water· money, but in that day almost any piece front, to make sure that it didn't go of Florida real estate, regardless of size, wandering off again. At last it was set. could be purchased for $100.00 cash, plus The seal was broken. Smitty and Tom mortgages running into eternity. crawled into the car and hastily inspect­ ed the contents to see that no damage Before me is the frayed sheet bearing had been done in shipment. Shipping air the signatures of those men who backed boats by rail was new in those days. the first commercial airline in the world; Noel A. Mitchell, Chas. A. Hall, 0. T. Then skids were fastened into place, Railsback, C. D. Hammond, Arthur John­ and slowly and tenderly we lowered the son, C. M. Roser. Lew B. Brown, George hull to a strip of sand beside the track. Gandy, Perry Snell, G. B. Haines, Soren Then the wing sections came out. Whit­ Lund, G. T. Bailey and L. A. Whitney, ney, a man of great personal charm and. acting for the Board of Trade. They one who had not lost faith for an in· agreed to pay us $50.00 a day during stant, took off his coat and acted as January, and $25.00 a day thereafter, for helper. The boat had been flown before every day on which the agreed sche­ shipment, so, when it had been re-as­ dule of four trips was maintained, minus sembled and just before the sun plung­ the receipts from passenger carrying on ed into the Gulf of Mexico, Tony gave these trips, provided the aggregate sub­ her the final inspection and told Smitty sidy did not exceed, in any month, one­ to "crank 'er up." third of the amount subscribed. These men were good sportsmen. None Willing hands laid hold of the wings of them had seen such a thing as a fly­ and guided No. 43, as she was known. ing boat, but they were willing to gamble into the water. A short taxi to warm on the strength of a possible publicity up and Tony took off. Ten minutes later stunt that would direct the eyes of the he landed on the opposite side of the public towards the Sunshine City. lagoon where a rough hangar had been erected and announced that we were I agreed that we would open the St. ready for the start on schedule next Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line at ten morning. o'clock on the morning of January 1, 1914, and told the newspaper men all A traveling showman, one known as about it. Naturally quite a little excite­ Johnny Jones, was in town with a car­ ment was stirred up--thls was early in nival. He gallantly agreed to add a real December-and no little ridicule result­ tone to the opening of the line by ap­ ed. Many thought it was a •10ax. pearing with his band. The morning paper carried a big spread. The hoax Although Tom shipped the first boat was a reality. The St. Petersburg-Tampa in ample time to reach St. Petersburg about Christmas, something happened to the car en route. We deluged the freight officials with telegrams. Tony Jannus came down to act as chief pilot-a e INAUGURATING the world's first com­ handsome devil. one of the most skil­ mercial airline at St. Petersburg. (Photo ful filers of that distant age and always on opposite page). Left to right: Percy Fanslel', founder of the line, Mayor A. C. full of ginger. I don't remember the Phiel, first passenger, Tony Jannus, pilot.

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Airboat Line, first Commercial line in the "crackers" opined that "she'd fall into world, would start its first trip on time, the bay afore she got half across," and I doubt if many actually believed that We had agreed that the first trip would the trip would be carried out on sche­ be sold at auction, and a professional dule. auctioneer was on hand the next morn­ At 10:26 the telephone bell rang and ing when the crowd began to pour down my elation could not be conce~led 3g I onto the pier that connected with the heard the attendant at the Tampa term­ outer mole of the yacht harbor. Johnny inal--a crude runway built down on the Jones swung down the pier at the head bank of the Hillsboro River-say: "Tony's of his band. Smitty and Tony went over coming up the river, and there's a big the bo"t with great care. Tom buzze:i crowd here yellin' its head off." around like a hen with twenty-one Thll.t was all I heard, but it was chicks. enough to keep the crowd. waiting for the boat to arrive on the return trip. First Commercial Flight She was due at 11:30, and at 11:20 Smitty, At 9;30, with nearly 3,000 people on whose keen ear had been trained to pick the mole and pier, Mr. Whitney opened out the hum of the engine. shouted: HHere she comes!" the ceremonies by telling what we pro­ posed to do. Tom modestly told of his Then the watchers saw the speck in development of the boat. I formally de­ the eastern sky, and saw it grow in size. clared the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Tony never did fly high, and coming Line opened, and Tony was introduced home that trip he came in at about 500 as the chief pilot. Then the auctioneer feet, circled the basin and settled to one got busy. In ten minutes he sold the of his characteristic landings. He drove first ride for $400.00 to l\hyor Pheil, after up the slide ind the crowd went ·wild. spirited bidding by leading business men. Tony was a hero that day, yet only his Mr. Pheil explained that he had. to buy flashing smile showed that he appreciated some machinery in Tampa and had to the plaudits. hurry. I don't remember the names of That afternoon there was another those who bid in the second ride, or round trip and then we settled down to the others for that day. Mr. Pheil. in a routine flights-at $5.00 a head. Our agree­ raincoat stepped gingerly into the boat, ment with our backers permitted us to which h3.d been pulled down until it indulge in "special flights" at any price was awash. Smitty pulled down on the we cared to name and we made a num­ starting bar, and the little Roberts mo­ ber of these trips at $10.00 to $20.00 each. tor that was to prove so reliable began But always we had in mind the sche­ to roar. Tony settled down into his seat duled flights, and I am not ashamed of and tested his controls. The crowd looked our record. on with interest. Many had never seen an airplane of any kind, and had little Just the other evening, in looking over conception of what the boat could do. some old papers, I came across a copy of Tony yelled to me for the time, and I the timetable that had been hastily print­ told him that he had a minute before ed. I accumulated, during the operation ten o'clock. He speeded up the engine of this line, nearly a thousand clippings and the blast from the propeller upset a from newspapers and magazines. lntend­ small urchin who had been trying to ing to pass them down to my boys. The stand against it. Then, with a wave of entire lot was stolen from my desk dur­ his hand, Tony gave her: the gun and the ing the war. I had saved a dozen of the boat taxied out over the lagoon to the timetables never dreaming, that sixteen inshore side. Turning, Tony drove her years later, almost exactly similar sheets straight for the harbor entrance, and, would represent the practice of that day. before reaching it, pulled her off the Many and many a time since the war water. The first commercial airline in I have said I'd give a twenty-dollar bill the world had been started. for one, and at last I have it. I'd like to Rapidly old 43 dwindled in size, wing­ know if there is another left. ing her way towards Tampa. The crowd Among the few papers I have bearing settled down to wait for something. I on the operation of the line is one giv­ heard many interesting comments during ing the record of flights in January -the the next few minutes. Some of the first month. We flew every day of the first 18 MAY 1938

• TONY JANNUS winging the Benoist hydroplane over one of St. Petersburg's bays. Photo courtesy Tony Jannus AAMS Chapter. and last weeks of the month. We missed off' with: "Hell, whatcha talkin' so much only Friday from the second week. The about. That was nothing." last three days of the other week were We had a waiting list a yard long, and blanks because of bearing trouble-. That's not once during the season did we fly not a bad showing, when we consider the without a passenger. Frequently Tony equipments and the conditions. would say to me: "Son, we need ::tnother five spot. Load 'er up," and we would let Jannus Able Pilot one light passenger sit on another's lap. Tony had absolute control in regard It was a load for the old bus. but it to flying conditions; if he said the wea­ doubled the income for that trip. Once ther was too bad for flying, the trips Tony came in f1 om Tampa with two pass­ were canceled. I believe that he exercised engers. tourists, with their suitcases rare judgment, and only twice during the season was he forced down with engine strapped in a pile behind him. trouble. One of these forced landings A clever advertising stunt was pulled demonstrated his skill as a flier. He had by the advertising agent for a 9romment skirted the shore as usual, but had packer who happened to be in St. Peters­ swung to the north to make the cross­ burg. One morning a local butcher call­ ing of Old Tampa B3.y where it was nar­ ed the hangar and asked if he could have rowest. The engine had been obj~ting to an express shipment of fifty pounds come some dirt in the gas, and it became ab­ over on the next boat. I told him he solutely necessary to drop down and certainly could, and when the boat came clean the carburetor. Landing in a short, in I wasn •t there to see a photographer choppy sea, Tony smashed one pontoon slip out and get some pictures of the and one lower wing section. After calm­ package being taken from the boat. ly cle:ming the carburetor, he got the About six weeks later a full page adver­ boat into the air again with consummate tisement appeared in "Collier's", featuring skill, and flew on in, with a portion of the delivering of Swift's bacon by flying the wing hanging like the broken wing boat. The story was told, in text and of a bird. He landed, helped the passen­ picture of a particular customer of the ger out and. in reply to Tom's hearty St. Petersburg butcher who just couldn't praise, lighted a cigarette and p·assed it (Continued on Page 57) 19 ISTORY is made in flight. e H For proof of that statement we re­ fer you to the annals of aviation for the, by GLENN W. NAVES past decade and more particularly to the complete files of The Airpost Journ~l. S!)artanburg, S. c. containing collectively the most compre~ hensive account of all, outside the official e

e THE VAST FUTURE OF F.A.M. COVER POSSIBILITIES ILLUS­ TRATED! Map showing proposed trans-Atlantic airlines. -PAA photo from the author's collection files of the post office departments of the more--Hamilton stretch dovetails into a world. broad schedule for the future wherein The time is spring in the year 1938. much scientific study, experimental flying and a l~rge expenditure of funds The first official air mail flight on the and time and thought in the development Baltimore--Bermuda route preparatory to of the best flying machines possible in through trans-Atlantic service, is a mat­ this age have gone. It is the age of NEWS, ter of major interest and important to of PROGRESS and many important thousands of aero-philatelists. Air mah events aloft, on land and sea. _Progress is service bridging the Atlantic is actually so rapid that to many of us it has become being launched. Consummation of plans somewhat commonplace. A flight that for regular mail flights over the Balti- once would have exicited millions for 20 MAY 1938 weeks now holds Page 1 in the day'i. news one, two or perhaps three days. The age and its people, having acquired v.ings, h'3ve become accustomed to them. Much Pioneering Yet And yet, particul:1rly on the Atlantic, much experimenting remains to be done. Trade winds, waves. fog, problems in in· ternational law, perhaps, and the meeting of competition remain unfinished oro jects. But brave and resolute men, especi­ ally those hardy and tried and true aerial intellectm11s of Pan American Airways, remain steadily on the job. A time not far in the future should see the com· pleted development of a trans-Atlantit air system, linking the shore-line and in· terior nations of Europe with North American, as Pan American Airways h% already linked the Orient to these United States in its huge and far-flung system. From Bermuda to Europe is a long tri!). The best in equipment Will be required, plus the best in piiots and navigators and in aeronautical science. The Aero-Philatelic Past e STURDY, BRAVE F.A.M. PIONEER, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh.-Photo The past develo!:>ment of Pir mail sys· from the author's collection. terns. including F. A. M. routes, has pro­ duced some superb aero-philatelic m-a. terial, in fact, some of the mos+ interest· ing and .colorful items extant. The trans­ erly so) in having their collections ade­ Atlantic system should provide some of quately supported by historical material the richest cover O!lportunities of all and background, probably will be inter­ time. These covers properly begin with ested in a resume of inter-continental ai:r the two experimerltals--the first fro:n mail development. Hamilton to New York, via Imperial Air­ Almost A Decade Ago ways, and the second from H~l'nilton to Baltimore, via Pan American Airways. The ye

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world, presents a busy scene. History i!r The Air Lanes Thicken being made---important and thrilling history. The nose of an 838 amphibian is Since that memorable flight with the pointed toward the rising sun---towara Lone Eagle at the controls, the Pan South America! The plane is the "Pan­ American sys'em has linked up 21 South American," one of the early PAA craft. and Central American countries with the At 1he controls a famous pilot----Colonel United States. With remarkable rapidity Charles A. Lindbergh, hero of the first solo trans-Athntic flight and known the: have come c:nd gone the experimental globe over for his scientifically planned, and official first PAA flights to Hawaii, timed and executed aerial exploits. Guam, Wake, Midway, Macao and Hong Kong, via Manila; also the experimental Then and there, my hearties, was the fl' ghts to Auckland, New Zealand, via beginning of real trans-oceanic air mail Pago Pago, out of Honolulu; the linking­ history-----marking another series of up of Alaskan points and F . A. M. service almost startling developments tracing between the United Sfates and Canada, back to 1910 and 1911 when America, and the PAA, Imperial Airways and Ger­ .taking a cue from the Wright Brothers, m? n experimental flights over the At­ was just beginning to try its wings in the lantic. Miami, Brownsville, Rio de air. J:-nerio,Brownsvil' e, Buenos Aires 2nd That PAA flight--Uke its other pion­ other ports of call the world over have eering air trips---was completed. Two become well known to airpost collectors thousand and 20 miles away, across the --c- nd n ow we add Baltimore, soon no upper Carribe:m and the jungles and doubt, Charleston, and then those po­ mountains of Central America, the 833 tential European terminal cities.· This ii; soared, flying the first air mail between Flight! Broad wings and roaring propel­ the American continents. lors, guided by science and trained air- ·22 . MAY 1938 men, sewing transportation stitches all over the map, tying together all the hem­ ispheres-·-making real and thrilling his­ tory. ~ Back to 838--Lindbergh But back to that sturdy craft, the 838 ~~~ and Pilot Lindbergh.

The flight was not without hazards, -.- .... -:-·.. •... ·.·.· .. despite the careful planning, continuous};) • ;:;. characteristic of PAA and the colonel. !i' True, an air line streched from the tip o1 Florida to the Panama Canal Zone would • measure only 1,270 miles, but the infant industry of flying had produced no such sturdy wings nor previously the men and the method to fly such a stretch o.f ,,. ocean. Land . and sea flying was ahead. More than a year had been required to build the first Sikorsky 838 amphibian, the result of the first competition on de­ signs among American air transport builders for a commerical type ship. Even longer had been required for other pioneers to chart their way through the tangled wilderness of Yucatan and the steaming Central American lowlands to ANOTHER OF THE P.A.A. PIO­ create airports in dense jungles so that NEERS. Cantain R. 0. D. Sullivan.­ the first mail plane could begin its flight. Ph<'to from the author's collection.

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• SOUTH o Loading the United States air mail on an old-type Pan-American Clipper at Miami. Florida. was headed down through ~he West On To .Tela Indies iShnds, starting a trunk line to From Bellze--on the second day--they South America's east coast. It had ex­ flew to Tela, Honduras. There they tended to Puerto Rico, end of the "land headed south and west, traversing "the bridge." All was in readiness in the west. worst flying country in the world"-­ The late John E . Hambleton, one of tightly-massed jungle, lofty mountains, PAA's flying pioneers, and a radio oper­ spread over ·an area of tricky and fitful ator, Buskey, who stowed away in the winds and tropical squalls---on to Archi­ S38's nose hours at a time rather than peer bald Fi~Ji:l. Managua, Nicaragua. From down upon the wild green jungle below, Managua ~they flew over the volcano set off to mark the first inter-continental ranges and across Costa Rica to David air route in the New World. Taking ofJ in northern Panama, then down the from _Miami, they followed the old PAA Pacific's edge to Balbo;i, where they route to Havana, begun 18 mont;tis before; picked up an escort of army planes for then turned west stopping at LaFe, new tht triumphal flight across the Canal and PAA airport on the Cuban tip, thence into Cristobal. boldly out across the Yucatan Straits, The First North American-South Ameri­ headed for the tiny island of Cozumel, can service flight had been accomplished. used as a fueling station since the d~nse, The first United States air mail had swampy jungle bordering the low Yuca­ been delivered to the door of South tan coast offered no landirig place. From America in three days I Cozumel - - onward I At the end of a The Lindbergh Trail long day, their craft roared into Belize, Six months of steady flytrig and the British Honduras. Lindbergh Trail between the two con- 24 MAY 1938 tinents was opened for the transportation flying clipper ships--the famous Ameri­ of passengers. can Clipper, made its first flight between But these brave pioneers were not sat­ the American continents, with Colonel isfied. Lindbergh again at the controls, and cli­ One year later on April 30, 1930 the· maxed the three-years Carribean con­ Lone Eagle, leading another PAA crew, quested. She was a Sikorsky S-40, a 4 .. flew away to shorten the inter-contin­ engined craft. ental route, striving to clip off a full Another Record day's flying time, via the Carribean. This time they flew from Havana straight The trans-Carribean flight set a record. across the western "corner" of the Car­ Previously the longest open-sea link in ribean 500 miles to Puerto Cabezas in the world's airways were the 200-miles­ Nicaragua, thence along the western coast wide corners of the Mediterranean, flown. to Panama Canal Zone. However, this by Imperial Airways, the Royal Dutch was a methods--testing training route, al­ (KLM) and the French on their routes to though it made seven-days air mail ser­ India and the Orient. vice possible between the United States PAA continued to point its huge ship and Argentina-matching the top servict: southward--to South and Central America German and French lines provided via Finally, in December 1937, the last chap­ the South Atlantic; yet it was not con­ ter was written in the history---hden sidered a practical operating line. conquest of the Carribean, when---with the Pacific bridged to Hong Kong and The Carribean Center Macao---PAA launched a 700-miles open Less than eight months p::issed and PAA sea skyway, straight across the Carribean was ready to strike out directly across to the famous Panama C::inal and dawn the center of the Carribean, from Miami to dusk air mail service became a real­ to Colombia, via Kingston, .Jamaica ity between the once distant American thence to Cristobal, thereby clipping ofi continents. 500 miles from the original route and cut­ Last Febru'.'ry PAA logged with the ting a full day from the United States Carribean Clippers its 4,400th flight across to the west tip of South America flying that tropic sea. time. Here the equipment was further Until the opening by PAA of the United stepped-up and developed, resulting in a States (trans-Pacific) route to the Orient, basic ocean flying c,raft. it was the longest overseas airway in In November, 1931, the first of the the world.

• NORTH • F A.M. routes spread wings of progress over the world from cold to hot clim.e!I. AP.A.A. plane poised for flight in Alaska.-P.A.A. photo from the author's collection. .25 NEW LI:STINGS 1938~ M'INT AIRMAIL STAM'PS SUPPLEMENT to our 1938 Edill:ion of the Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Mint Airmail Stamps. The following listings are New Issues which have appeared since the publication of our Catalogue. We carry all sets llste

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The increasing demand for Airmail Stamps has practically depleted the stocks of . a great many sets of Airmail Stamps. Prices are con• tinuously advancing and we see ourselves forced to make the changes noted below. ALBANIA CANARY ISLANDS Std.# Scott# Year Net Price 1-3 2000-02 1936 First Issue. 36-42 636-42 1931 Tirana- Set of 3 ...... 40.00 Rome ...... 8.00 7 2006 1937 Pts. 1.25 on 5c. 6.00 ,, 32 1937 1.25 Pts. on 50c with black AUSTRIA ovpt...... 450.00 1-3 675-77 1918 l.50K to 4K.. 2.25 39 1937 10cts./5Cts., 4-11 678-85 1922-24 300K to red overprint ...... 10.00 4800K ...... 2.25 ,, 12-21 688-95 1925 Gold Cur- rency Issue ...... 4.00 CHINA 22-28 696-702 1926 Set of 7 ...... 7.75 21 1900 1933 5c Sinkiang 29-31 703-05 1930 20g to 80g .. .50 Delete Price 32-46 706-20 1935 Pictorial Set 9.00 • e CZECHOSLOVAKIA BOLIVIA 1922 50 to 250 h .. 1.50 43-49 335-41 1932 Interior issue 10-12 510-12 Delete Price (Continued on Next Page) F. W. KESSLER 551 Fl FTH AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. t 938 &ua~ue PRICE CHANGES DENMARK PERU 1-5 701-05 1925-29 lOo to lKr.. 3.25 4 803 1932 Piura, 50c scarlet ...... 6.00 ECUADOR • 53-54 525-26 1936 70c ·2nd I Sucre ...... 40 PHILIPPINES 46-51 601-06 1933 2c to 32c • Set of 6 ...... 75 FINLAND 401 1930 Zeppelin 10 • Mark ...... 2.00 POLAND 10 410 1933 30g grey green ...... 25 GUATEMALA 13-14 306-07 1936 Gordon Ben- 25 724 1933 4c orange, nett Balloon Race· set .60 Interior ...... 25 26-28 725-27 1934 Interior and e exterior, 2c to 15c .... 1.00 SALVADOR 15-18 865-68 1930 Bolivar set .. 5.00 HUNGARY 20-23 870-73 1931 La Merced 26-34 976-84 18-33 lOf to 5p .... 4.00 issue ...... 2.00 24-27 874-77 1932 Delgado set .. 1.25 28-32 878-82 1933 Day of the JUGOSLAVIA Race ...... 1.65 1-5 1000-04 i934 50pa to lOd .... . 75 33-35 883-85 1934 Pictorial 6 1005 1934 King Alex- set of 3 ...... 90 ander 3d with 41-45 891-95 1935 Olympic set black• border ...... 40 ovpt... "Habilitado" .. 2.50 LIBERIA 1-3 1001-03 1936 Set of 3 SAN MARINO 11-16 411-16 1933 Zeppelin set 5.00 Provisionals• ...... 200.00 • MANCHU KUO SPAIN 4 1937 39 p blue ...... 1.50 1-3,5-6 701-05 1920 5c to 1 Pesta 1.00 103-06 758-61 1931 Overprinted NEW CALEDONIA" Republica ...... 12.50 1-2 164-5 1932 Paris 169 1936 2 Peseta, Noumea Flight ...... 40.00 ovpt ...... 6.00 e 173 2502 1936 15c green ...... 2.50 NEWFOUNDLAND 174 2503 1936 25c pale blue 35.00 11-13 509-11 1931 Wmkd. 15c 176 2506 1936 1.20 Pts. to $1...... 6.00 green ...... 12.00 e 177 1936 1.20 NICARAGUA Pts./1 Pta...... 600.00 76-80 1069-73 1932 Leon Sauce 181 2511 1936 25c blue ...... 20.00 Railroad ...... 4.50 186 2517 1937 60c apple 501 1300 1929 Mimeo- green ...... 5.00 graphed ovpt...... 25.00 187 2518 1937 2 pts blue .... 5.00 0 188-92 2516, 19, 20,21,22 1937 Salamanca, NORWAY set of 5 ...... 5.00 1-7 120-26 1925 North Pole Issue ...... 1.00 200 1937 30c with e black ovpt...... 1.00 201 1937 30c with PANAMA blue ovpt...... 1.50 18 717 1932 20c / 25c blue.. 1.00 215-16 1937 Bilbao set of 42-44 740-42 1937 Firemen's 2 ...... 27.50 issue ...... 60 222 1937 1 Pta. 50 743-47 1938 Miniature Pontevedra ...... 15.00 Sheet ...... 1.00 (Continued on Next Page) F. W. KESSLER 551 FIFTH AVE. NEW YORK. N. Y. AIRS OF THE MONTH

from Syria. The current Syrian Airs BY AL TON J. BLANK will be surcharged "Sanjak d' Alexand­ All data on New Issues of Air Mail rette" t o comprise a new issue as well Stamps should be sent direct to Editor as territory for collectors to add to their Alton J. Blank, 1850 Burnett Avenue, albums. East Cleveland. Ohio. -F. W. Kessl~r

ANJAK OF ALEXANDRETTE is . a · • CH".LE • The last value of the long S new section for collectors albums. It serier. begun in 1934 has just come to is one of the newest divisions in the Holy hand. It is the 40c. in deep blue in the Land. Domingo Rosillo and Clement familiar design of a plane over a windy Ader are names of two or aviation's pio­ plane and bent trees. neers. They are to be or have already -M. J. Harris been honored with stamp emissions. And • CUBA • In commemoration of the we have some interesting new issues to 25th Anniversary of the longest flight chronicle. overseas---at the time-between Key West e ALEXANDRETTE e Sanjak of, In and Havana, Cuba's first airmail-the 5c, order to satisfy a Turkish claim the San­ blue will be overprinted "5 plus 15c. jak of Alexandrette has been separated Rosillo-1913-1938". The aviator, Domingo Rosillo-who made the original flight in 1913 will re!,'.>eat the feat. It is stated the surtax on the stamps will go to 1938~ Rosillo. Scott's Monthly • FRANCE • A :pioneer in heavier than PRICE CHANGE'S air flights-Clement Ader is to be hon­ ored with a 50 francs commemorative SPANISH MOROCCO air stamo. This man did a good deal 300 1937 0.25..J-2.00 on of experimenting around 1890. 50c crimson ...... 1.25 9 • GUATEMALA • Another Interior ar.d Exterior set is promised from this land. SWEDEN The first set of Interior stamps wUl 1-3 501-03 1920 Provisional consist of 11 values with a tot~l of 2.26 set of 3 ...... 90 quetzals. The Exterior set will total 8 258 1936 50 o blue. coil ...... 25 2.65 quetzals and Will have 12 values. The design ~nd color will be simHar " to the previous issue with the 1·amiliar SWITZERLAND quetzal bird overprinted in one corner in 275 1919 50c ovpt...... 1.00 blue green color. 276 1920 30c OVpt. .... 3.50 -F. W. Kessler 293-98 1935-37 Set of 6 ..••.•.. .85 ~ TRIPOLITANIA 74-79 822-27 1935 Ninth In- dustrial Fair ...... 1.80 VENEZUELA" 83-95 466-78 1937 Set of 13. overprinted "Resellado 1937-38" ...... 50.00

• MEXICO • For the 25th anniversary 551 FIFTH A VE. NEW YORK, N. Y. of the Revolution there were issued 29 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL

tabliclmiento de las Democracia en America." All this is possible because the stamp is of large format-50 x 30 mm in size. It is steel engraved by the American Bank Note Company. Outside of the p!i'ne there is no inclication that it is an ~·irmail stamp. -M. J. Hurls

• SPAIN • The 2 pesetas Autogiro stamp has be.:.n reissued in lilac, en­ graved and perforated llxl1V2. -Sanabrla's News

• SYRIA • In May a Medical Congress set of four values will be issued with a face of 20 piastres. There will be 30,000 All&O sets. There will also be issued, in com­ 't•\.l

• U. S. S. R. • Two new Transpolar sets are to make their appearance in­ stead of one as formerly listed. The first set will comprise four values and will show the three aviators portraits who made the flight from Moscow to Port­ land, Oregon. A map of their route and pertinent data as to time consumed is incorporated into the design. Values are 10, 20, 40 and 60 kor.. .ks. The second set is of three values, 10, e NEW CALEDONIA • This recent issue 20, and 50 kopeks and honors the Heroes is illustrated herewith. of the Moscow-San .Jacinto flight. These stamps will show the portraits of the three aviators in a large wing which separates them from a map of their e SALVADOR e 'i'he 30c. red brown U. route. S. Constitution commemorative air mail is in circulation. And it is a real beauty­ At the base of the design are mountains and over these are the crossed flags of Salvador and the United States. Between is the book of the U. S. Constitution. (The treatment here is the same as that of the similar stamp issued by Honduras.) Above all this is a map of the southern portion of the North American continent. A ,Plane appears in flight over the Atlan­ tic Ocean. At the top the dates; "1787- 1789" and "1937-1939" are prominent. e VENEZUELA e As foreshadowed in Across the bottom beneath the flags is "Rate Changes" article in February 1938 the wording: "CL Anniversario del Es- issue (see page 14 Vol. IX No. 5) there 30 MAY 1938 Of the Italian set stamp number 41 in the sheet of 100 shows a constant variety. The dot is missing so that the stamp reads "180" instead of "1.80." Since this is a variety in the basic stamp naturnlly it will be found with both its subsequent overprints.

has been issued five low value provis­ • VENEZUELA • Four more varieties ionals. They are 5c. on I. BOB blue lOc. to add to the list appearing in Sanabria's on 2.50 grey. 15c. on 2B. chocolate, 25c. Airpost News for l\larch. (Numbers ac­ on 0.40c. green, and 40c. on 3.70 red. All cording to Sanabria) #59-DOUBLE, #83 are surcharged "1938 Vale" and the pro­ Inverted "Resellado", #90 Inverted "Re­ per value. They are all on the Italian sellado" on the 1.95, and 92 with DOUBLE set. The stock of low values of the recent "Resellado" on the 2.50. ABN issue has been de!>leted. Nicolas Sanabria, C. A. Phillips Thirty thousand sets is the quantity of • these provisionals. The · "Cinco" (5) and Send All Your Mail AffiMAIL Duting the '"Diez" (10) are both known inverted. First National Air Mail Week-::\lay 15-21.

MINT AIRMAIL STAMPS

SALVADOR. U. S. Constitution, 30c value Airmail ...... $ .30 MEXICO. 20c. 40c+l Peso. Pictorials ...... 60 NEW CALEDONIA, set of 3, Pictorials ...... 60 BELGIUM, King Leopold Charity Issue ...... 40 TRIPOLITANIA. 2 Pictorials ...... 20 RUSSIA, North Pole set of 4 ...... 45 CURACAO. new values, set of 3 .70

31- tJ-1/zd ekwta e~ Flight Covers from Shanghai to U.S. and Intermediate Points

We have a limited number of Shanghai to the United States First Flight Clipper Covers. These were carried on the Chinese Airway System to Hong Kong where connection was made with the Clipper on its FIRST flight to San Francisco. A handsome and colorful cover with Chinese and Pan American cachets. Each cover bears the pro­ per Chinese postage in airmail stamps. A splendid addition to your collection 2.50

Covers carried on the same trip to intermediate points were much fewer in number and therefore much scarcer. These should be in every collection if only for the sake of completion. ~a::f:ai.~.:~.~~.~~ .. ~~~:~ .. ~~.~.~.~:~... ~~ .. ~~~ .. ~.~...... 2 •5 0 A similar cover carried to

Guam ...... u ...... u ...... 2.50 Same cover but carried to Hawaii ...... :...... 2.50

ROUND-THE-WORLD COVERS On the historical First Flight of the Hong Kong Clipper a small number of covers were carried which eventually made their way around the world. These covers were placed aboard the first available Royal Dutch Plane to continue Round-the-World in record time. This cover is franked with the stamps of Str·ait Settlements, Netherland Indies and bears cancellation dates shoWing the remarkable time made. The cover was further carried on these same lines to Amsterdam at which point transfer was made to the Pfane for Brazil and from there by Pan American Airways to New York City. !:i;;~:l~. ~~•;p;eli~~i;:: :::~': hd::: 1~:..~.~.~~ .. ~.:... ~~~-~~:..~~~:~~ .. ~.~~... ~~.~~...... 1 .50

Diek MerrillCo'1ers BOTH WAYS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC FIRST TIME IN HISTORY ON A COMERICAL FLIGHT BY PLANE

An outstanding philatelic gem! No Coronation set is complete without this "Coronation Goodwill Flight" and British First Day Cover. No airmail collection is complete with­ out this unique piece of mail that was flown from New York to England and back again in less than 46 flying hours. An unsurpassed achievement in aviation 5 00 history and an indelible record of human progress ...... :.;... • Same autographed by Dick Merrill ...... 7.00 GIMBELS-33rd at Bway.-New York Gimbels Phllatelie Stoek Books ENCORE-The great demand and! approval with which our Stock Books and Mint Sheet Albums have been met has prompted us to offer these unusual values once more. No collector oan call hls equipment complete unless he has the proper housing for his duplicates or for those stamps which have yet to be mounted in his collection. Do not let your stamps lie around where they may be lost or damaged.

GIMBELS ACE STOCK BOOK Produced because of the demand for a better stock book. Contains 20 loose leaf linen-hinged pages. Size 9'hx7'h inches. Extra durable, leatherette covers. Gold tooled :::i~ t~b~s~~~ ~:':s~:l ~;i:e 0:r~~~... :.~~-~~~~~-~.~---~-~~~~~ ...:~---~~~--~~'..~ .. ~~...... 1. 5 Q

GIMBELS SUPERIOR STOCK BOOK

A better stock book-with more pages than has ever been offered! stamp colleotors at such a low price. May be had in either rich blue or deep maroon extra dur·able, leath­ erette cover. reinforced with heavy weight boards. Gold tooled and embossed. Contains 28 looseleaf linen-hinged pages of highest grade manila stock. Ten 2 50 pockets to the page. Size 9'hx71h inches. Our price ...... •

GIMBELS MINT SHEET ALBUM F'or the collector of !!heet~. Here is the most practiaal way of keeping those mint sheets of U. S. stamps which at the same time gives full protection and permits :full v_iew of your s~amps. 100 extra durable glassine pages folded in four. Page 2.34 size 11¥,,xlO'\i inches. An unusual v-alue at ...... • • • FLASH! FLASH! JUST RECEIVED

An unusual consignment of covers carried by the famous "Yellow Bird\' on the First French Trans-Atlantic Flight. Cancelled "Old Orchard, Maine, June 13, 1929," "Santander. Spain. June 14." and "LeBourget Air Field, Paris, June 16." Only 263 covers· carried. Only ·"- very few left. All copies in our possession, autographed by all three pilots aboard plane-Assolant, LeFevere and Lotti.'' 2 5 .OQ While they last ......

Mail and phone orders filled Also on sale at GIMBELS. PHILADELPHIA: GIMBELS. PITTSBURGH GIMBELS

33rd at: Broadway New York City Your Collection Should Be Dramatic • • • Not Just Interesting A good stamp collection should be keyed to the Twentieth Century. It should cap­ F. A. M. 5-CAT. #!)4-Salvador to F. A. M. 8.--CAT. #12d-Same as ture the tempo of these new and faster-moving times, of lightning-swift changes, of Jamaica. June 29, 1931. Box cachet. above. Cristobal to Vera Cruz. progress that defies all precedent! It should certainly include FLIGHT COVERs-dramatic Pilot autographed...... 2.50 Jan. 21, 1930...... 2.00 souvenirs of modern man's battle with the skies. Salvador la (Combin.) Salvador F: A. M. 8--CAT. #16c--Guatemala The drama of COVERS as a souvenir of an important event is undeniable. For, be­ to Bahamas, June 29. 1931. Special City to Managua. First dispatch sides the stamp with which an envelope is franked, a cover be'l.rs the date 0f that event cachet dispatches under contract and in most cases a cachet commemorating the occasion. from. Guatemala. Mar. 16, 1930. to P. A. A. and subsidiaries to Special cachet. Pilot autographed ...... 3.00 Right now Gimbels famous Stamp Department is featuring points on Routes 9 and 6. Pilot FIRST FLIGHT COVERS PIONEER COVERS .., autographed...... 2.50 F. A. M. 9--CAT. #2A--Cristobal LINDBERGH GOODWILL FLIGHT COMMEMORATIVE li:OVERS to Guayaquil, Ecuador. May 17, We list here only a few of the many types of covers we h•ve in our large stock. In Salvador lb-Salvador to Canada, 1929. Special map cachet. First June 28, 1931. Special cachet. flight Canal Zone to Peru ...... 1.00 many cases we have on hand only two or three of a kind, and are therefore unable to 1 Pilot autographed...... 2.50 list them. We suggest you send us your "want" list-or better yet. 'write for our com~ F. A. M. 9-CAT. #26 Cristobal plete listing of Pioneer Airmail Covers. F. A. M. 6--CAT. #1-Miami to to Santiago, Chile. July 16, 1929. Price F. A. M. 5--CAT. #37--Cristobal San Juan. Porto Rico, January 9, 1 F. A. M. 4-Cat. #Z-Key West to to Miami. May 1, 1930. Special 1929. Special cachet...... l.00 ~fo;; :c: &;ii~·r~~.... =~.:~:.::..... ~~~~.~ ... 1.50 Havana. The first flight under new cachet ...... -···-··-····-·- 1.21> F. A. M. 6-CAT. #4-S:m Juan to F. A. M. 9--CAT. #31a Santiago contract, Oct. 19, 1927. Bears special Miami. Jan. 9. 1929. Special to Cristobal, July 21, 1929. Spe­ cachet applied at Key West ...... $ l.00 F. A. M. 5-CAT. #47--Cristobal to cachet...... 1.00 Puerto Cabela. Special cachet cial cachet showing airplane. F. A. M. 4--CAT. #3--Havana to First Flight U. S. A. Canal Zone F. A. M. 6-CAT. #22-Port of (Santiago to Miami) ...... 2.00 Key W11st. Special machine cancell- Venezuela ...... - ...... -···-- 1.00 Spain to Miami Sept. 26. 1929. F. A. M. 9--CAT #35--Cristobal ations and special cachet. Oct. 28, Ordinary postal markings with red to Buenos Aires. Oct. B. 1929 (ex­ F. A. M. 5-CAT. #47a--Cristobal and white air label...... 2.00 1937. First flight...... 1.00 to Maracaibo. May 5. 1930. Spe- tension to Argentine) Pictorial F. A. M. 4-CAT. #4-Miami to cial cachet as above...... 1.00 F. A. M. 6--CAT. #21--Georgetown cachet...... 1.00 Havana. On Sept. 15, 1928. Miami to Miami Sept. 25, 1929. Box cachet F. A. M. 9--CAT. #36--Colon to was made the northern terminus of F. A. M. 5-CAT. # 42a-Miami to British Guiana by airmail...... 1.00 Buenos Aires. Oct. 8, 1929. Box Maraciabo, May 3. 1930. Special cachet Colon to Argentine ...... the route. Very few covers were 1.00 F. A. M. 6--CAT. #26--St. Thomas, 1.50 dispatched on this date as there cachet...... -·-·-- .. V. I. to Miami. Sept. 26. 1929. The F. A. M. 9--CAT. #34-MiP.mi to was no advance notice. No special F. A. M. 5-CAT. #54b-Maracaibo special cachet was not applied to Buenos Aires. Oct. 5, 1929. Pic- cachet ...... 2.00 to Cristobal, May 7. 1930. First North bound mail...... 1.00 torial cachet...... 1.25 MEXICO 16-Tapachula to Guate­ Flight P. A. A. cachet...... - 1.00 F. A. M. 6.--CAT. #26a-St. F. A. M. 9--CAT. #41-Cristobal mala and San Salvador. Aug. 5, F. A. M. 5--CAT. #56b-Miami to Thomas. V. I. to San Juan. P. R. to Montevideo. Jan. 14. 1930. Offi­ 1929. Special cachet ...... l.50 Kingston Jamaica. Special cachet. Sept. 26, 1929. No special cachet...... 1.00 chl first flight cachet. Canal Zone Miami Cien:fueges Kingston, Dec. F. A. M 6-CAT. #26b--St. to Uruguay...... 1.50 F. A. M. 5--CAT. #5 - Miami to F. A. M. 10-CAT. #3a-St. Thomas Managua, Nicaragua. May 21, 1929, 2, 1930 ...... ,.. ___ 1.00 Thomas. V. I. to Santo Domingo F. A. M. 5--CAT. #56a-Miami (Dom. Rep.) Sept. 26. 1929. Black to Cayenne, Fr. Guiana. Nov. 11, Cachet "First Flight Miami to Cen- to 1930. Pictorial cachet...... 1.26. tral America"...... 1.00 Cienfueges. Dec. 2. 1930. Same stamped ...... 2.50 cachet...... _,__ _ 1.00 F. A. M. 6-CAT #27-Miami to LINDBERGH COVERS F. A. M. 5--CAT. #5a-Mi:.mi to Camaguey, Cuba. July 2, 1930. Ef­ F. A. M. 5--CAT. #1-Miami to Belize. British Honduras. Special F. A. M. 5--CAT. #64-Cristobal to fective with this flight, Havana was Cristobal. Feb. 4, 1929. Pictorial cachet as above...... 1.00 La Guaira. Dec. 4. 1930. Special removed from Fam 6 and put back cachet. Black. First flight airmail. F. A. M. 5--CAT. NO. Sb-Miami cachet...... _ 1.00 on Fam 5...... 2.50 International F. A. M. 5. Miami to Tela. Honduras. May 21. 1929. F. A. M. 5--CAT. #79-Maturin to F. A. M. 6--CAT. #46-Miami to to Cristobal ...... 1.00: Special cachet back stamped...... 1.00 Port of Spain (Extension to Ma· Neuvitas, Cuba. Dec. 4, 1931. Spe- F. A. M. 5--CAT. #2--Cristobal F. A. M. 5--CAT. #13--Cristobal to turin-Port of Spain). Feb. 13. 1931. cial diamond shaped cachet ...... , 1.00 to Miami. Feb. 9, 1929. Cachet First Curacao. June 21. 1929. Extension No special cachet...... _...... _ 1.50 F. A. M. 7--CAT. #1-Miami to flight airmail. Picture of Canal to Dutch West Indies. Special Cuba lB (Inter-National Route) Nassau. Jan. 2, 1929. Special roun;i Zone. Canal Zone to U.S. A ...... 1.00 cachet...... 1.00 Havana to Santiago Chile, March cachet. First flight showing air- F. A. M. 5--CAT. #73--Cristobal F. A. M. 5--CAT. #13a--Cristo­ 2, 1931. Special cachet dispatched to Port 00' Spain. Feb. 12, 1931. over Fam #5 ...... _ 2.00 ~~a~~- lV.Ca:::cA:.:r: .. #!):::'Bi-'o~l:uiviii'e:·.... i.oo bal to Cartagena, Colombia. June Texas, to S3n LorenZQ, Hondmas. Cachet completing the Lindbergh 21, 1929. Special cachet...... 1.00 F. A. M. 5-CAT. NO. 85I-Havana Jan 15. 1930. (Extension to Sal­ Circle...... 1.00 F. A. M. 5--CAT. #15a--Cristobal to Cristobal, Mar. 2. 1931. Special vador and Honduras. Pictorial F. A. M. 5-CAT. #73A--Cristobal cachet...... ___ to Maturin. Feb. 12, 1931. Diamond to BarranquiQ3.. .Tune 21, 1929. 1.00 cachet)...... 1.00 Special cachet...... 1.00 F. A. M. 5--CAT. #85-Havana to l F. A. M. 8--CAT #9£--Same -as cachet Canal Zone to Maturin, F. A. M. 5--CAT. #15a--Curacao to Port of Spain Trinidad. Mar. l, above with air field cancellation ...... 1.50 Venezuela ...... LOG Cristobal. June 29, 1929. Special 1931. Special cachet ...... __ F. A. M. 8--CAT. #9A-Brownsville U. S. Combin.--CAT. #4-Miami 2.50 cachet. Curacao - Cristobal - New F. A. M. 5--CAT. #98--Miami to J to San Salvador. Jan. 15, 193'.l, Same to Maturin. Feb. 9. 1931. Two York...... 1.25 cachet as above...... l.00 cachets completes Lindbergh circle.... 1.25 Merida. Mexico. Dec. 4. 1931. -i F. A. M. 5--CAT. #14-Colon to Special cachet First Flight Miami­ F. A. M. 8-CAT. #9Af-Browns- F. A. M. 6-CAT. #13--San Juan to Curacao. July 8, 1929. Box cachet Merida-Puerto Barrios. Effective ville to San Salvador. Jan. 15, Paramaribo. Sept. 22, 1929. First with routing...... 2.00 with the First Flight Merida, Mex­ 1930. Air field cancellation...... 1.00 flight cachet San Juan-Paramaribo. F. A. M. 5--CAT. #14a--Colon to ico and Puerto Barrios. Guate­ F. A. M. 8.--CAT. #12--Cristob"-l r. 15. 1932. No cachet. F. A. M. 8-CAT. #l2b--Cristobal F. A. M. 5-CAT. #31-Panama Addition of Cozumel to Fam #5...... 1.00 to San Salvador. Jan 21. 1930. City to San Jose. First exchange F. A. M. 5--CAT. #95c-Salvador Special cachet, as above...... l.25 lL to Barranquilla Colombia. July 1, GIMBELS of mail m'1.de March 1930 be- F. A. M. 8--CAT. #12c--Cristobal tween Cristobal-San Jose and 1931. Pilot autographed. Special to Guatemala City. Jan. 21, 1930. WORLD'S LARGEST STAMP DEPT. Miami. Red box cachet...... 2.50 Box c3.chet...... _ 2.50 Same cachet...... 1.25 33 St. & Bway "i°PW York City- THE Al RPOST JOURNAL

tion of new AM services during the late spring and summer. Ample notice will no doubt be given collectors to prepare CAM Cover Notes and forward their first flight covers. Bakersfield, S. F. New Routes The first direct Bakersfield to San Announcement has been reported as Francisco first flight was inaugurated on made by Postmaster-General James Far­ April 1, 1938 via. AM-11. This is a new ley that bids will be received by the directional first flight with few covers Post Office Dept. for six new AM routes. reported. One that nearly everyone pass­ These bids are to be opened early in May ed up including the editor of this and if accepted will mean the inaugura- column. First flight via trip 9j. The first direct Fresno to Santa Bar­ bara first flight via AM-ll was flown as a directional flight, trip 16j, on July 20, GIMBELS 1937. The first direct Santa Barbara to 8 Fresno directional first flight was flown by trip l 7a on August 5, 1937. Pilots and (Continued from preceding page) poundages in a later issue. F. A. M. &-CAT. #13B-San Juan to St. John, Antigua. Sept. 22, 1929. Same cachet as above...... 1.00 Norfoik. Va. F. A. M. &-CAT. #13.-San Juan Norfolk, Va. was embraced as a stop to St. Thomas, V. I. Sept. 23, 1929. Same cachet as above...... 1.00 on AM-14 on April 7, 1938. An official F. A. M. 6-CAT. #13C-San Juan cachet was applied in blue. The embrac­ to Castries, St. Lucia. Sept. 22, ing of Norfolk was by an extension of 1929. Same cachet ,as above...... 1.00 F. A. M. 6-CAT. #13D-San Juan AM-14 from Washington, D. C. Hence, to Port of Spain, Trinidad. Sept. covers from both Washington, D. C. as 22, 1929. Same cachet as above...... 1.00 well as the Washington air mail field are F. A. M. 6-CAT. #l3E-San Juan to Georgetown, Br. Guiana. Sept. first flight covers if flown to or via Nor­ 22, 1929. Same cachet as above...... 1.00 folk. Cachet impressions from Norfolk GW-CAT. #94-Panama City. Spe- are neat and clear as well as cancella­ cial Lindbergh stamp. Cancellation Jan. 9. 1928 in red ...... 1.25 tions. Cancellations from Wash., D. C., GW-CAT. #94-The same as are also exceptionally neat and, clear. above but with complete Panama- Pilot and poundage data in a later issue. Lindbergh set of stamps...... :mo GW-CAT. #94a-Panama City. Special. Lindbergh stamp black Boulder City. Nev. c 3.ncellation. Inscriptipn l.jos The long-awaited embracing of Boul­ Correos Nacionales en honor a der City, Nev. finaly occurred on April Lindbergh ...... 2.50 3, 1938 via AM-2 and AM-37. Official GW-CAT. #104-Port au Prince. Feb. 6. 1928. Official cachet red cachet applied in purple neatly and airplane with Lindbergh printed clearly. Las Vegas dispatched its first across wings. Only 12 in stock ...... 1.25 air mail on AM-2 eastbound on April 3, Colon to U. S. A. sent at same time as FAM 5-2 but not P.n FAM 1938 as well as receiving its first air 5 cover. Soecial first flight from mail from Los Angeles. First direct Los Panama to- U. S. A sent by Pan Angeles to Boulder City inaugurated on American Airways...... 1.00 Cuba 3--Santiago, Cuba to Havana. April 4, 1938. Pilots and poundage data in Feb. 23, 1928. Experimental flights a later issue. between Havana and Santiago. Franked with Cuban Lmdoergh AM-35 stamp ...... 2.00 F. A. M.5-Mhmi to Kingston. Although AM-35 was scheduled for in­ First fli2~ sale at Gimbels, Philadelphca; (7im0els, Pittsburgh. •

BY CHAS. G. RIESS GIMBELS Information concerning C.A.M.'s should be sent direct to the editor of section. 33rd & Bway New York City P. 0. Box .. 11. Albany, N. Y. 36 MAY 1938

Nebr. although mentioned as stops on this new route were not given service via the inaugural flights over this route and no doubt will be embraced at a later date. Collectors will do well to set in covers for the first inbound flights to these two points from both directions as such will be listable items. Huron, Pierre, Waterville, Me. via AM-27 has been tem­ Rapid City and Cheyenne used the same porarily suspended account of field con­ type cachet while Deadwood, Lead and ditions. Spe'1rfish used the same but different type cachet from the former points. There was no air mail field station established at Nat'l Air Mail Week Huron and covers from the Cheyenne air mail field bear no first flight cachet. While there will no doubt be thou­ Cachets were applied in colors as fol­ sands of cachets applied during National lows: Cheyenne-blue, Rapid City-blue, Air Mail Week and hundreds of special Deadwood-magenta, Spearfish, blue, Lead­ flights flown, none thus far reported come black, Pierre-magenta and Huron-black. within the scope of CAM cover collect­ All covers thus far seen have been neatly and clearly cancelled and cacheted. ing. Such items will no doubt fall into a Poundage and pilot data in a later issue. separate classification of their own. Let's all co-operate to make National Service Charges Air Mail Week an outshnding success by resolving to send our mail during that Daily Postal Bulletin of March 31, 1938 period by air mail. That is one way ev­ states that stops at Caribou and Presq;ue eryone who writes at all can do their Isle, Me., have been temporarily suspend­ part so let's remember that "ALL MAIL-­ ed from service via AM-27 account of field AIRMAIL" during National Air Mail conditions. No effective date given. Week. Effective March 29, 1938 service at

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Dixie rendezvous for American Air Mail Society officers and members-and so by way of variety we'll head this column into cooler territory-Alaska. Spot news interest connected with that vast area of rich timberlands, flora, fauna and other natural resources pur­ chased from Russia in a unioue terri­ torial "bargain counter" transaction, cen­ ters currently upon the awarding of con­ tracts to Pacific Alaska Airways: for fly­ 0 ing mail over F. A. M. route 15 from Juneau to White Horse, Yukon Territory, BY GLEN w. NAVES and return, and over F. A. M. route 16 The Herald-Journal NeWSl>al>ers from Fairbanks to White Horse and re­ Spartanburg, s. C. turn. May should produce an interest­ ing variety of airpost covers from these e new services. Back of this aeronautical progress lies a fascinating and interest­ ing facts story. CRWAYS AND HIGHWAYS for the A month of M::i.y lead to the Sunshine Probab!y no area on the globe has State. a tropical climate and a delightful been so affected by aviation in its civic

• RUGGED SNOW-CLAD. fog-bound Alaskan peaks over which the big Lockheed Electras of Pacific Alaska Airways drone, flying mail, express and passengers. "Roughest and toughest flying in the world," some pilots say .-(Pan-American Airways photo from the author's col­ lection. MAY 1938 and industrial aspects as has Alaska. Even Sir Hubert Wilkins and others of Broad wings and sturdy men and motors his kind failed to find a trace of plane have brought closer together the wide­ or men. But wings continue to soar over spread sections of this valuable United Alaska and now the air mail goes on a States possession and has, in some re­ further regulated schedule by govern­ spects, astonished even seasoned experts ment contract. who are more or less immune to the Private enterprise during half the past thrills of aeronautical achievement, con­ decade has shifted the picture to an ex­ sidering developments more within the tent. Much individual flying continues on day's work. Probably no where else has chartered and special service basis to var­ aviation been confronted · with · more ious territorial points and a trans-Alaskan natural difficulties from the standpoint service operates on a time-table basis, of climate and terrain. Expert pilots utilizing multi-motored aircraft, adapted agree that flying in Alaska requires a for the arctic, flying over a radio-guard­ t<>.Jhnique pecuUar to that 'erritory alone. ed skyway, and manned by crews train­ They admit that flying in that country is ed for Arctic flying. probably more dangerous than in any other parts of the world. Wiley Post and Alaska has no natural landing fields. Will Rogers died suddenly and tragically Airports must be built up out of swamp there. Likewise, the last Moscow-Ameri­ and tundra or cut out of forests to make can expedition on wings disappeared summer operations possible. During win­ somewhere in the vast count.cy of for­ ter planes make safe landings when the ests, glaciers, mountains and rivers. tundra, lakes and rivers are coated with hard-packed snow. Despite many difficulties airways have CHINA CLIPPER COVERS been built and entirely at private ex­ pense. Pan American Airways has in San Francisco to Macao ...... $1.25 Alaska five miles of airways for every San Francisco to Hong Kong 1.25 mile of highway or railroad track. At Macao to San Francisco ...... 1.85 Juneau an entry airport was constructed Hong Kong to San Francisco 1.80 at the foot of Mendenhall Glacier where Complete set of 17 point-to-point 50,000 yards of glacial gravel was blasted covers on this first flight to China and return ...... $21.00 from frozen pits to fill a 3,000-foot run­ way. Landing strips were cleared through Stamps not accepted. Please use forests and laid over tundra fills or caved Money Order. from the edges of glacial lakes and riv­ er banks over the entire l,400 miles aero C. E NI C KLE:S ARC from Juneau on the Pacific to Nome ASDA on the Bering ·sea. Radio stations and 205 Seaton Pl. N. E. weather observation posts located in iso­ Washington. D. C. lated mountain country, Wasp Senior Electras from the States, brave and ex- "SWIVELOK COVER ALBUM" T(@§?.Ne With Either Gray or Bla.ck Sheets An efficient and durable cover album as only Elbe can make it. Black Imitation Leather bind­ ---- ing over stiff boards. Album comes complete with 50 (grey or black) album leaves scored to lie fiat. "Swivelok" mechan­ ism permits an expansion up :..--~-"'"' to 200 sheets. Made in six standard sizes - from $1.60 to $9.20 retail. FREE: Cat. #9-P. ELBE F1LE & B1NDER Co. 215 Greene St., N.Y. Dept. A. 39 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL

e National Air Ma.U Week cachet to be used at Spartan­ burir. I'll. «:'.

perienced pilots and trained radio men industrial little Sol;lthern city and we say and "grotmd engineers," plus foresight -CORDIALLY and ENTHUSIASTICALLY and a pioneering spirit that launched WELCOME, American Air Mail Society PAA ships across the Pacific to the officers and members, to Florida and all Orient, over the Atlantic to Bermuda and her neighboring states which must be across the Carribean to South and Cen­ combined to make DIXIE. We'll be see­ tral America have figured conspiciously ing you. in this new aeronautic:i.l system. There­ OVER SEAS fore, airpost collectors, when your new Alaskan covers come flying home soon Representatives of Royal Netherlands vism:l:.ze all this, p1us Ketchican, Skag­ Indies Airways have announced the Aus­ way, Chilkooy-gateway to the old Klon­ tralian government has granted permis­ dike-White Pass. White Horse and the sion for a service between Batavia, Java, w:st fog-sh!'ouded and sn.ow-dusted mys­ and Brisbane, beginning July 1. Lock­ tery of the Yukon Territory. Thus, these philatelic treasures will mean more to heed 14 transports will be used on the you in the fascination and interest they new line. ·bring to your albums with earlier Alas­ A fleet of planes, powered with Wright kan Air Covers. engines and valued at more than $1,- WELCOME! 000,000, is being completed at the Lock­ Herewith, is reproduced the National heed plant in Burbank, California. The Air Mail Week cachet designed for our route of the proposed service will be from Batavia via Surabaja, Rambang MORSEMERE STAMP SHOP and Koepang to Darwin and thence to Brisbane. Later, the company will ex­ HARRY SIMON. Prop. tend service to Sydney. Also on the fu­ Covers of many Countries in stock and ture operations schedule of the "flying "Everything for the Stamp .Collector" Open till 9 P. M. Dutchmen" is an extension of the East Indian line from Batavia to Manila, con­ Call or '\.'\trite for Price-Lists necting with Pan American Airways' San 41 Broad Avenue Palisades Park. N. J. Francisco-Orient service. 40 Puerto Rico's New Inland Airmail

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Air mail service from Puerto Rican in­ land towns is now carried by the Aerovias Nacionales Puerto Rico Inc. (ANPRI), thereby speeding up mail addressed to the United States, as sent from San Juan. The daily plane service of this company, which now operates two planes, is from San .Juan to Ponce, Gwanica, and stamps and colors are as follows: 5c. red Mayaguez, all in Puerto Rico; to St. and blue; 10c. light blue and dark blue; Thomas and St. Croix in the Virgin Is­ 15c. surch::i.rged on 10c. light blue and lands, and to Vieques, an island off the dark blue; 25c. orange and · blue; 40c. Puerto Rican coast. brown and blue; 75c. emerald green and On the initial trip of April 28th. 1938, blue: $1. violet and blue. the Puerto Rican postal officials approv­ Covers received at New York, carrying ed of the mailings, which carried the Registered mail, received the regular local stamps on the address front, togeth­ New York Registry Receiving Mark. First er with the U. S. stamps required to day covers were received at New York May 1st, 1938. bring this mail to the United States. The local stamps carried the postmarks of -Nicol2s Sanabria, Inc. the carrying-company. This local service is similar to the ser- . vice inaugurated to supplement the Guam 0 mail service, which service was created for the convenience of mail between OFFICIAL P. O. COVERS FOR Agana and the interior towns. See U. S. NATIONAL AIR MAIL WEEK Stamp Catalogue, 1938 edition, page 341. Sin·ce the initial announcement of the The adhesive stamps, as prepared for observance of National Air Mail Week these operations, consist of a set of seven hundreds of specially printed official stamps, in three designs showing Puerto postoffice department air mail envelopes Rica and the adjoining islands. The h:ive been prepared and used by virtual­ ly all offices located in principal cities. The majortiy of these postage free otfi­ cial envelopes are of the long size and .printed on the regulation postoffice de­ partment brown kraft paper stock. Colo1·s are red and blue, some with the oblique parallelogr::ms, others with the horizon­ tal stripes.. Some of the designs have been 2dded to by the use of planes. The envelopes are used by state chairmen and dist!"ic~ ch.,irmen in the larger of­ fices to forward press releases, inst"uc­ t!ons and Air Mail Week communic::i.tions. A large variety of these envelopes r,:-resents a colorful and interesting d..Ls­ play. Glen W. Naves and Walter J. C-:m­ rath of the APJ staff have received and preserved a number of these special en­ velopes and hope to show them at th'? St. Petersburg Convention. 41 For Mint or Used Air Mail Stamps---Here is .fl~ NEW ISSUE SERVICE ANY AIRPOST COLLECTORS find it advisable to keep their collections up to date by adding new issue sets and -varieties as they appear. The best means of securing the new stamps is through a Mreliable New Issue Service.

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NAME ...... ADDRESS ...... ,...... CITY ...... STATE ...... Commercial references, if unknown to us: ...... CJ-IAPTl:R NO. 12 Ot= TJ-11: AAMS • and has exhibited her wonderful air mail collection here several times, in­ by GEORGE F. CROCKER cluding the famous block of 24 cent in­ St. P;:tersburg, Fla. verted a irm"il stamps, valued at $20,- 000.00. 0 The follow ing is a list of the chapter HE TONY JANNUS CHAPTER. No. 12, members, all of whom are also A.A .M.S. T of the American Air Mail Society, on­ members: ly recently organized, has many real dyed C. P Neet (369) , A. P. Kester (411), Y. in the wool collectors. The Air Mail Briddell (1026) M rs. H. Bland (2029) , G. Society of St. Petersburg dating back to F. Crocker (2031) A. C LeDuc (2032) A. 1930 will vouch for that. Th is society has B . Levis (1765), Mrs. E. B. Stewart (1657) always done its part. joining with the Mr s. W. E. Heathcote (2028) W. A. Bo­ St. Petersburg Stamp Club in their an­ gert (2030), Rdph Bennett (2033), Don P. nual exhibits held the week of February Davis (2034), Doris Valentine (2035) H . W . 22. The members have received m'lny Chase (2036). E . P. Radford (2037), Max awards not only at the annual exhibits here, but also at Tampa. Florida, during the South Florid'!. State Fair and also at the S . P. A. Exhibition at Asheville, N. C. during the summer of 1937. Several of its members are old AAMS members and from their number one can see that they date back several years. Mr. C. P . Neet Asst . Postmaster of St. Petersburg holds number 369, Mr. A. P . Kester in the tail­ oring business holds number 411, York Briddell, of the Georgia Vitrified Brick and Clay Co., number 1026. These three men and Mr. George F . Crocker past president of the St. Peters­ burg Air Mail Society, recently got to­ gether and decided to organize a chap­ ter of the AAMS. They canvassed the city for collectors of air mails and through the efforts of Mr. Kester and several others this chapter can boast thirty-six members to date. The AIRPOST JOURNAL has carried the n ames of members who have been accepted and those that have filed their application for membership. Several w om­ en members appear on our membership rolls. Mrs. W. E. H eathcote has a very outstanding collection of air mail stamps and covers 'and has received many awards not only here but at the national shows. • C. P. NEET. a.

Amie! (2038), Harry L. Porter (2039), Les­ ter Willson, Geo. H. VanOrmen, E. c. McPherson, J. D. Pearce. Dr. L. B. Adams, H. E. Warner, F. O. Blackburn, Stuart H. Lampe, H. Wackerman, Lou Trefeisen, J. Still, J. Jackson, Joe Reeves, C. L. Hinson, George Bull, R. C. Onions, H. L. Gilliam, A. L. Newman, Chas. Auato. We hope to have a membership of at least fifty by the time the convention opens on May 14th, as inany more have expressed their intention to join. The name of the chapter was chosen to honor Tony Jannus, who made history in the aviation world, as the· only pilot on the First Commercial Airline in the world, which operated from St. Peters­ burg to Tampa, Florida, the first flight taking place January 1, 1914. The chapter holds meetings each week and its officers are as follows: York Briddell, President; Mrs. Howard Bland, Vice-President; C. P. Neet, Trea­ surer; George F. Crocker, Secretary. The members of the Tony Jannus Chapter are looking forward to the con­ vention in May, when they can entertain their fellow members in the Sunshine City.

Q NORMAN SERPHOS, member and for­ mer officer of the AAMS aD'd edit.or of • two sections of the forthcoming catalogue who has recently become owner of the Scott Stamt> & Coin Co.• Inc., largest firm of its NORMAN SERPHOS BECOMES kind.

OWNER OF SCOTT COMPANY On March 17. 1938. Mr. Hugh Clark, and demands upon his time in connec­ treasurer and general manager since 1914, tion with the editorial work on cat­ became sole owner of the Scott Stamp alogues. & Coin Co.. Ltd. With Mr. Serphos' extensive experience · Negotiations have just been completed as a leading wholesaler of postage stamps whereby Mr. Clark has sold to Mr. Nor­ and with Mr. Clark's knowledge of edit­ man Serphos the entire stamp stock of ing and pricing of stamps in the various the Scott Stamp & Coin Co., Ltd. (ex­ Scott publications, each man is the logi­ clusive of the reference collection which cal person to carry on successfully in his remains with Mr. Clark), all retail sales respective concern. of stamps and publications. Scott's Monthly Journal and the business of J. C. Morgenthau & Co. Mr. Serphos' firm BOUND VOLUMES will be known as the Scott Stamp & of the AIRPOST JOURNAL Bound in dark blue waterproof fabri­ Coin Co., Inc. coid, stamped with gold. Mr. Clark will continue in the pub­ Vols. 2,3,& 4--0ct. 1931 - Sep- lishing business and handle wholesale tember 1933 ...... $4.00 Vols. 5 & 6-0ctober 1933 to sales of catalogues, albums and acces­ September 1935 ...... $4.00 sories, to be knows as Scott Publications, Vol. 7-0ctober 1935 to Sep- Inc. His decision to sell has been actu­ tember 1936 ...... $2.'15 AIRPOST JOURNAL - Albion, Pa. ated by the increased volume of business 45 E 1\IRPOST JOURNAL

• Official Postoffice Department cachet to be used on Kitty Hawk commemorative :Bight Air Mail.

TWENTY YEARS OF AIR MAIL been designated as National Air Mail • Week, to intensify the consciousness of aviation and air mail. Headquarters and by PERCY E. BJERREGMRD chairmen have been designated in each Brooklyn. N. Y. state. Plans are being formulated and committees organized to care for various spectacular events to emphasize the his~ • toric as well as the "speed, efficiency and N MAY 15. 1918. the world's first '\

S. postage at the regular air mail rate of National Air Mail Week is specifically 6c each ounce, enclosed in an outer en­ to show the advancement in speeding man velope addressed to the Postmaster of by air and to commemorate the 20th An­ the city in question, with a note (make niversary of the inauguration of the air it brief) to "hold for Air Mail Week." service New York to Washington on May This is in order that your letters will 15. 1918. . not be assumed business and sent out be­ Flights in which mail is said to have fore the special Air Week Cachet is used. been carried, date from the balloon era of The Post Office has further announced the eighteenth century, when aeronauts it shall issue a new 6c Air Mail stamp carried a letter of introduction from the in blue ·and red, in time for use during local mayor, or other authority. However, this week. It seems, however, we will not until 1918 was there any air mail have to wait until Monday, May 16th, for service set up on other than experimen­ the stamp, whereas on May 14th, the tal, or temporary and emergency line&. stamp is on initial sale at Dayton, Ohio Public attention, however, was attach­ and the St. Petersburg AAMS Convention ed to the mail flights of Earl Ovington Station. during the 1911 Air Meet at Garden City Estates, Long Island. Postmast~r · General Among the cities planning special Hitcheock swore in Pilot Ovington as Air events •are Dayton, Ohio, and Kitty Hawk, Mail Pilot #1 to serve without cost to N. C. Both these places are historical the Department. For a week he took centers of interest due to the Wright mail from the air field and dropped it brothers and may be considered the birth­ to the Postmaster at Mineola, eight miles place of aviation. away. The Wrights, as you known, made the Similar experiments were made dur­ first controlled flight in a heavier-than­ ing the next few years, in conjunction air machine propelled by power other Y.'ith air meets and for short experimental than manual. In other words, flights pre­ flights between certain points. In each viously made were either without a motor instance, though, the service was tem­ or resulted in a crack-up on t he first porary and without expense to the De­ flight. The amazing rate of advance in partment; a carrier was sworn in upon aviation can be noticed by a view of the authority of Frank H. Hitchcock, Post­ Wright's box kite of 1903 and of the Air master General in the Cabinet of Presi­ Clippers pictured almost d·aily in the dent Taft. Mr. Hitchcock became firmly press. convinced of the practicability of develop-

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ing the airplane for transportation of press and reception committee, he be­ mail by air, and he recommended to Con­ came, in fact, an idol of the public. gress, early in 1912. an appropriation of The next day the pilot taking the mail $50.000. to start an experimental service. from Philadelphia started off in the right Congress refused then and each year as direction toward Washington, but before reQuests were rcpe2ted. long realized he was lost in the sky. To inquire of his whereabouts he dropped It was not until 1916 ''"me funds were down for a neat landing on the race made available from the appropriation for track at Bridgeton, New Jersey. He was "Steamboat or other Power Boat Ser­ forty miles off his eourse, but before he vice," and the Post Office then advertised could again take off, his plane was dam­ for bids for a service on a route in aged by a group of horses. Massachusetts and for several in Alas:k;a. No bids were received, due apparently After a phone communication to head­ to the terrin of the proposed routes. quarters, a truck was sent to bring back the mail which was promptly placed in With still the thought of developing another plane with another pilot. After fest commercial and mail transportation, £ome thirty miles, just as it began to get the Post Office officials used every means dusky, the plane's old and worn out OX5 of converting Congress to lend a hand. engine started to kick up and the pilot An appropriation of $100,000 was finally thought it best to return to the air field. made for the ftscal year beginning July Jim Edgerton was not made Chief Pilot 1, 1917 to establish an experimental air for nothing. With d3rkness eoming fast, mail service. he jumped into the same plane, without C2reful preliminary study was made to a look at the bad engine, revved the mo­ determine the route to serve to the best tor, signaled for release and off he went. advanfage, with the thought of publicity No parachute, no flares for lighting the :md an eventual scheduled route. Finally ground for a forced landing. Providing on May 15, 1918, the 218 mile route from he found his way safely to Washington,. New York City to Washington was es­ he knew he would have to land in utter. tablished with a stop at Philadelphia for darkness on the narrow Polo grounds exchange of mails (and planes if neces­ field, surounded by tall trees. A most sary). It was decided to fly one round hazardous attempt. Edgerton realized all trip daily excent Sund'>". The> W 0 r De­ this but he was as impatient and adven­ partment furnished the planes and pilots turous as he was a good pilot, besides he and cared for the flying and maintenance, did not want a black mark and criticism while the Post Office took earc of the hurled at the new service. mail and all incidentals thereto. Word was sent by wire to Washington The set-U!l of this air sched1·Je ;>7cVided ll.nd the news of the flight quickly spread. for service on a ".'ernHnent basis and was Soon a throng of people gathered wonder­ continued as such. Absolutely none of the ing how crazy this man was to tempt mail flicrhts ".'rior thereto can be regarded fate, by trying to land in the inky black­ as a eommercial air m>il service owing ness of night. principally to their temporary nature. The spectators had half :a dozen auto­ mobiles parked around the field to out­ The first flights of this route are ex­ line the landing ground. Edgerton was tremely interesting. Chief pilot was able to guide his plane to good position ,Lieutenant J'ames C. Edgerton, a hand­ for landing coming down in

was of a reconditioned war plane, affec­ tionately called •a Jenny-otherwise known as J. N. 4, manufactured by the Curtiss Compmy and apparently had the original OX5 90 h. p. motor. The 24c value was seemingly arrived at by an estimated cost of 2c regular post, IOc Special Delivery, and 12c for the air fee, making a 24c stamp necessary. Later the same year the rates were reduced. And now, twenty years have passed since the United States Post Office inaug­ urated its epochal Air Mail route. Mean­ c:Random cNow while lusty young men of high mental by ALl'ON J. BLANK abilities, with •9. thirst for adventure, and scientific achievement, are keeping pace with the peace-time conquests of the OR THOSE INTERESTED in Cmadi­ air. Pilots, navigators, plane and engine F an airs there is . available a fine manufacturers vie with one another for checklist published in "Stamps" maga­ the attainment of perfection. zine. This appeared on page 422 of the Sho"."tly after the inception of the New March 19. 1938 number, in the column. York-W•::rshington route in 1918, the Po<>t cor:.ducted by F. Walter Pollock. Office took over the operating of the line 'IP from the War Department and made it All first-class mail from England to­ a nucleus of an extensive system ot: air the following countr!es now goes by Am:: mail delivery. Aden, B:ihrein, Brunei, Burma, Ceylon, Egypt, India, Malay States, North Bor­ 4!I neo, Palestine, S a r a w a k, Seychelles.. Send All Your Mail AIRMAIL During Straits Settlements, Tibet and Trans­ First National Air Mail Week-May 15-21. Jordan, according to a notation in Linn's_

• F. W. KESSLER. prominent New York airpost dealer and active member of the AAMS, will ·attend the St. Petersburg Convention of the Society, together with Mrs. Kessler. 49 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL

Air mail to Seychelles is questionable, An exhibition of things relating to Seychelles being a group of islands in Count Zeppelin will be held at Constance the Indian Ocean-as to Tibet-well! ! Switzerland, July 8th to 12th. The af­ fair is to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the famous Zeppelin builder. A Bright idea that-having" the A.A.M.S. philatelic exhibition of all Zeppelin convention during National Air Mail stamps is being assembled. Week. It ought to bring lots of fine -Clipped Linn's. publicity to the national organization. "Stamps" contains •the news that there • will be new sets of airmails for all of Those of you who failed to hear the the Portuguese Colonies. Let's hope they Wright memorial broadcast the night of issue the stamps for a real postal need in­ April 16, 1938 missed something. It was stead of merely issuing a lot of stamps broadcast from the bicycle shop that for so-called collect~::-s. Henry Ford caused to be removed to Greenfield village at Dearborn. To Norman Serphos,• new president of Scott Stamp & Coin Co. Inc., a host of • best wishes and lots of good luck. It will One of the largest and most preten­ be interesting to watch the trend of the tious price lists to come to hand in new company under the hand of an recent date is that of Fred W. Kessler. American Air Mail Society member. All airs are listed by sets and illustrated. The issues of Canary Islands and Spain are given great detail so that the average collector should have no trouble iden­ AAMS ST. PETERSBURG tifying the various issues . CONVENTION PROGRAM • Saturday, May 14-9 :30 A.M.-First day The French Air France and the Ger­ sale of the new 6 cent air mail stamp at man Condor Syndicate continue to handle the American Air Mail Society postal air mails to Argentina under a tempor­ sub-station located at headquarters in the ary contract, pending study by a gov­ Suwanee Hotel. ernment authority of the question. Air 10:30 A. M. Opening business session of France has just celebrated its tenth an­ convention, with addresses of welcome niversary. from civic officials and greetings of postal H. G. SPANTON, officials and officers of the society. Buenos Aires, per Linn's. 1:00 P. M.-Exhibition Hall opens. 2:30 P. M.-Bridgi; party for the lady • delegates. After January 1st, 1938 Curacao was to 7:30 P. M.-Moonlight ride on Tampa be called Dutch Antilles. If so how Bay or dancing. come the recent three values issued in 10 :00 P. M.-Exhibition hall closes. addition to the air set still bear the no­ Sunday, May 15-10:00 A. M.-Exhibi­ tation on the base "Curacao" instead of tion hall opens. the new title? l:Oo P. M.-Trip over Pinellas County. • 4:30 P. M.-Bathing party followed by Readers who have read "The Forty fish fry at 5:30 P. M. Days of Musa Dagh" will readily recog­ 10:00 P. M.-Exhibition hall closes. nize the location of the "Sanjak of Alex­ Monday, May 16-10:00 A. M.-Business andret.te", a new stamp issuing country. session opens. 10:00 A. M.-Exhibition hall opens, closes at 10:00 P. M. 2:30 P. M.-Inspection U. S. Coast LOOSE LEAF BINDERS Guard Air Station and Albert Whitted for the AIRPOST .JOURNAL Airport. Keep your file of back numbers in 3:15 P. M.-Official Convention photo at good condition. Bound in black water­ proof fabricoid, stamped with gold. Coast Guard Airport. Will hold 24 issues. Window on back 6:30 P. M.-American Air Mail Society for volume numbers. Each, post­ annual dinner at the Suwannee Hotel. paid, $2.00. Prominent guests of honor and awarding AIRPOST JOURNAL - Albion, Pa. of prizes for the exhibition. 50 MAY 1938

eu.eAIJ eoiieet.o.4 o.& AIR MAIL STAMPS

Should Write at Once for a Catalogue of Our 23rd Auction Sale

To he Held Tuesday, June 7th

At 2 P. M.

Which contains: Used and Mint Sets, Single Stam!>s, Rarities, Errors, Varieties, Covers, Blocks, a Fine Showing of S!>ain and Canary Islands Civil War Issues, Philippine-Madrid-Manilla and Other Items to Numerous to Mention.

This Worth-while Sale Will Command Your Attention and Repay Your Interest.

The Pioneer House of Air Mails THE NICKLIN CO. 110 West 42nd Street. New York, N. Y.

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Construction barely started and will not be completed for some time ...... G. F. AIRPORT Lancaster reports cover pmkd. Akron, Colo. Apirl 19th, 8 :30 A. M. backstamped 3 P. M. ·at Denver, said to be for an air- port opening. More anon...... Also that intermediate field was established at Winder, Ga. May 1st...... M. F. Mccam­ ley, 2135 North Alberta St., Portland, Ore. has sent a nice assortment of air ~rn1~~1m~ baggage labels, etc., and kindly offers to send a similar lot free to any collector COVERS sending a three cent stamp for postage...... • •

BY MAURICE S. PETTY News of future and past events under this section should be sent direct to Mr. Petty, 507 Quackenbos St~ N. W~ Washington, D. C • Air Mail Week •

COMING: Airport Dedications May 15th, Prosser. Wash. Send to Airport Manager...... Danville. Pa. May 18th. Send to Danville Stamp Club ...... Bruns- • wick, Ga. May 20. Send to Board of NATIONAL AIR MAIL WEEK: We list Trade ...... Our thanks to Chas. A. Erb, all additional points known at this writing. G. F. Lancaster, and Dr. J. F. Ulman, for Be sure to send air mail covers and en­ supplying information for dedication post close note of instructions. Most of the cards this month ...... W. S. C. says Win- points named are special air mail pick chester. Va. about June 1st ...... August up, others cachets. Postmaster, here in Rosqvist, 1264 No. Grant, Pocatello, Idaho, Washington will have cachet entire week. will hold for possible dedications. Covers to him. Send to Postmasters at the SORRY but new dates set for Conven­ following points: ARKANSAS: Hot tion prevent writer's attending this year, Springs, Jonesboro, Pine Bluff, Fort after having enjoyed seven consecutive Smith, Little Rock, Texarkana ...... ARI- ones. A good time to all. ZONA: Tucson...... CAILIFORNIA: Lud· low, Susanville, Sonora, Compton, Hay­ P>AST.: M1'S. Wffi,. W. Schoonmaker, ward, Orange, Colosa, Pittsburgh, An­ Clo Black Hills Supply Co., Edgemont, tioch, Concord, Martinez, Walnut Creek, S. D., says mistaken report that she Sacramento, Avalon FLORIDA: would hold covers. No dedication, so Clearwater, Dunedin, Tarpon Springs, send postage for return of covers ...... Re- Coral Gables ...... GEORGIA: Athens, ported that Philadelphia, Pa. dedicated S. Ashburn, Atlanta, Augusta, Baxley, Davis Wilson Municipal Airport on March Blairsville, Blakely, Blue Ridge, Bremen, 26th. Member Dr. J. F. Uhnan, of Phila· Buena Vista, Buford, Dalton, Dawson, delphia, says this is the old Philadelphia Forsyth, Fitzgerald, Gainesville, Jefferson, Airport, rebuilt and name changed. Was La Grange, Louisville, Lumber City, opened on March 26th, a rainy day, NO Lyons, Madison, Marietta, McPae, Mill· dedication...... Although some one ap- edgeville, Mitchell, Pembroke, Rome Sea plied a printed "Airport Dedication" Island Beach, Swainsboro, Sylvester, cachet to first flight covers from Norfolk, Thomasville, Toccoa, Valdosta, West Va. April 7th, there was NO airport Point, Young Harris, Zebulon, Atlanta. dedication that day. In a driving rain and ...... ". PLLINOIS: Chicago, Berwyn, Bloom­ 20 mile wind, 500 people welcomed the ington, Normal, Springfield, Evanston, first flight planes and christened them. Collinsville ...... INDIANA: Fowler, Bre- 52 MAY 1938

Special Offer of Canada Air Stamps Only a few dealers have a really representative stock of these popular stamps. They were principally issued to carry mail and not to racketeer your bank account. Dealers' supplies have diminished. reserve stocks are nearly gone, while collectors' demands continue steady. The Standard Catalogue of Air Post Stamps for 1938 has a detailed listing of these stamps, at net sell­ ini< prices. These are reduced prices. Cat. Year Description (All o. g. except as marked) Cat. Special No. Price Price 302 1919 $1.00 Toronto-New York, no gum, uncommon ...... $ 2.00 $ 1.10 304 1924 .25 Laurentide green, rouletted ...... 1.50 1.25 306 1924 .25 Laurentide red, perforated ...... 1.00 .90 308 1925 .25 Northern Air Service ...... 1.75 .95 308 1925 .25 Northern Air Service. no gum ...... 1.75 .75 308a 1925 .25 Northern Air Service. tete-beche pair ...... 6.00 1.75 308a 1925 .25 Northern Air Service, tete-beche, pair, n. g. 6.00 1.75 RED LAKE, JACK V, ELLIOT 309 1926 .25 Red and yellow ...... 3.00 1.10 309b 1926 .25 Red and yellow with rosette ...... 3.25 1.45 310 1926 .25 Red and yellow, Swastika background ...... 1.75 .85 1926 .25 Red and yellow, Swastika bkgd. with rosette 1.25 RED LAKE AND ROUYN, ELLIOT-FAIRCHILD 1926 .25 Red and yellow ...... 2.00 .90 :<.. .. 1926 .25 Red and yellow, tall, thin "r" ...... 1.60 ~1 2 1926 .25 Plane and boat. blue; also deep blue, each 1.50 .45 313 1926 .25 Red, Rouyn ...... 1.25 .65 314 1926 .25 Ultvamarine ...... LOO .65 314a 1926 .25 Ultramarine, tete-beche pair ...... 25.00 1.90 315 1926 .25 Blue, Rouyn ...... 1.25 .65 315a 1926 .25 Blue, tete-beche pair ...... 3.50 1.80 RED LAKE AND ROUYN, PATRICIA AIR AND EXPLORATION COMPANY 1926 .25 Yellow, lower lettering in blue black, scarce 3.25 316 1926 .25 Yellow. lower lettering in moss green ...... 3.50 1.60 317 1927 .10 on 25c "Haileybury and Rouyn" perforated .. 2.iO .85 318 1927 .05 on 25c for Red Lake District perforated ...... 4.50 2.45 322 1927 .10 on 50c "Haileybury and Rouyn" perforated .... 3.50 2.75 323 1927 .05 on 50c for Red Lake District perforated ...... 4.50 2.00 327c 1927 .05 on 25c for Red Lake District, large type, roulette ...... 1.00 .60 327f 1927 .05 on 25c for Red Lake District. small type, roulette ...... 1.00 .70 328a 1927 .05 on 25c for Red Lake District, also with Rouyn surcharge roulette ...... 1.50 .70 329a 1927 .05 surcharged "Red Lake" only, Inv't'd roulette 2.00 .75 VARIOUS ISSUES 332 1927 .10 Western Canada Air. pink and black, used.... 5.00 .90 332b 1928 .10 Western Canada Air, vermillion&black ...... 25 333 1927 .10 Western Canada Jubilee, orange and black 1.00 .65 334 1927 .25 Blue, Yukon Airways. two shades, each ...... 50 .35 335 1928 .10 Patricia Airways Ltd...... LOO .40 336 1928 .05 Brit. Columbia Airways, two shades, each .... .15 .10 337 1928 .25 Klondike Airways, two shades, each ...... 50 .45 338 1929 .10 Black, Commercial Airways, VIA AIR ...... 1.50 .45 339 1930 .10 Black. Commercial Airways, AIR FEE ...... 75 .30 339 1930 .10 Same, but used ...... 20 A reconstructed sheet of 10 stamps. used. something unusual 2.00 342 1930 .10 deep orange. this stamp had a short life ...... 1.25 .50 347 1929 .10 Cherry Red Airline, black and red ...... 30 .18 348b 1934 .10 Canadian Airways, blue & orange, surch...... 30 .18 MARITIME AND NEWFOUNDLAND AIRWAYS These were originally proposed to be used in 1931 but the arrangemente were never completed. They might be described as "prepared for use but never issued." These have full original gum These have no gum 25c red on yellow, perf ...... 35 20c light red on yellow, perf...... 20 25c red on yellow, imperf...... 40 20c dee!l red on yellow, perf...... 20 25c red&violet on yellow, imperf . .4ll 25c black&red on yellow, perf...... 25 25c vermillion on yellow, imperf.. 60 25c light green on green. perf...... 20 25c dark green on green, perf. .25 These will make an interesting addition to your collection of the regular air stamps. MARKS STAMP CO~IPANY 462 SPADINA AVENUE. TORONTO 2, CANADA.

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men, South Bend ...... IOWA: Cedar, Clear .... MISSOURI: Grant City, Bethany, Lake, Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Lamoni, Princeton, Chillicothe, Kansas City, St. Mason City ...... IDAHO: Pocatello, TWin Joseph, Rockport, Maryville, Kirksv!lle, Falls ...... KANSAS: Kansas City, Leaven­ Macon, Huntsville, Richmond, Hannibal, worth, Atchison, CoffeyVille, Pittsburg, Ft. Joplin, Higginsville, Marshall, Booneville, Scott, Hiawatha, Seneca, Marysville, Clay Center, Ft. Riley, Topeka, Lawrence, Con­ Columbia, Jefferson City, Sedalia, War­ cordia, Norton, Stockton, Osborne, Be­ rensburg, Bagnell, Lebanon, Springfield, loit, Mankato, Goodland, Hays, Russell, Clinton, Lur-ay, Kahoka, Neosho, Kirks­ Salina, Osage City, Emporia, Garnett, ville ...... NEW JERSEY: Salem ...... NEV­ Ottawa, Seneca ...... COLORADO: Durango ADA: Cathage ...... NEBRASKA: Beatrice, MASSACHUSETTS Pick-Dus: Dal­ Syracuse, Crete, Johnson, Weeping Water, ton, Pittsfield, Sheffield, Great -Barring­ Auburn, Omaha, ·Tecumseh ...... NEW ton, Northampton, Westfield, North Graf­ MEXICO: Alburque ...... NEVADA: Reno ton, Palmer, Brookfield, Southbridge, 16 diff. flights), Hawthorne (3 diff), Tono­ Springfield, Westboro, Turners Falls, pah (2 diff.), Fallon (3 diff.) Winnemucca Fitchburg, Gardner, Orange, Athol, Ayer, (2 diff.), Lovelock, Carson City. Mendon, Framingham, Hudson, Marlboro, OHIO: Coshocton, Zanesville, East Liv­ Newburyport, Lawrence, Haverhill, Low­ erpool, Springfield, Warren, Piqua, Green. ell, Nantucket, Hyannis, Provincetown, ville ...... OKLAHOMA: Claremore, Pauls Falmouth, Edgartown, Oak ·Bluxs, Chat­ Valley, Watonga ...... NORTH CAROLINA: ham, Brockton, Taunton, Fairhaven, Salisbury ...... PENNSYLVANIA: Albion, Wareham, PJymouth, Hanover, North Girard, Erie, Grove City, New Castle, Easton, Beverly, Hingham, Quincy, Nor­ E2ston. Emaus, Milton, Conestoga, West­ wood, Rovers, Gloucester, Salem, Lynn, fleld. Chester, Donora, Philipsburg, Clear­ Woburn, Winchester and Wakefield ...... field, State College, Duncanville, Martins· MASSACHUSETTS (Cachets, not Pick­ burg, W!liamsburg and over 400 other cities Ups): Groton, Monson, Wilmington, New­ and towns. If you go for this send for com­ ton, Wayland, Stoughton, Osterville, West plete list from Penna. Headquarters, Natl. Boylston, East Harwich, Boxford, Mans­ Air Mail Week, Philadelphia, Pa...... field, West Townsend, Bancroft, North Ox­ UTAH: Brigham City, Cedar City, Delta, ford, E9st Brookfield, Becket, Westford, Enterprise, Eureka, Grantsville, Green­ Hubbardston, Holbrook, OXford, Ware, river, Kanab, Logan, Milford, Mt. Plea­ Uxbridge, Woods Hole, Greenfield, Charle­ sant, Myton, Ogden, Panguitch, Price, mont, Sterling, Chesterfield, Ludlow, Win­ Provo, Ritchfield, Roosevelt, St. George, chenden Springs, Somerville, Andover, VPrn>'l, Wen:lover, Preston, Idaho ...... Ballardvale, South Hanson, Milford, May. VERMONT: Burlington..... TENNESSEE: nard, Dunstable, Spencer, Dudley, Attle­ Gallatin, Portland, Westmoreland ...... boro, South Attleboro, Billerica, Water­ WASHINGTON: Friday Harbor, Mt. Ver- town, West Tisburg, Rowe, Ashby, Avon, non ...... WISCONSIN: .. Kenosha ...... Branstable, Hubbardston, Beverly Farms, Postmasters at the following points are Brank Rock, Deerfield, East Pepperell, State Chairmen and can furnish you with Hamilton, Hopedale, Huntington, Lenox, additional names, as well as mail covers Lenox Dale, Lexington, Manchester, from their own offices: Birmingham, Ala., Marshfield, North Plymouth, Peabody, Phoenix, Ariz., Hot Springs, Ark., San Rutland, Shrewsbury, Sunderland, Taun­ Pedro, Calif., W•ashington, D. C. Denver, ton, Truro, Tyngsboro, Webster, West Colo., New Haven, Conn., Wilmington, Peabady, Worcester, Yarmouthport, Mar- DeL Jacks1mville, Fla., Atlanta, Ga., lon ...... MAINE: Calais, Thomaston, Bel- Boise, Idaho. Chicago. Ill.. Indianapolis, !1)3rde, Showhegan, Pittsfield, Madison, Ind.. Des Moines. Iowa. Topeka. Kans., Waterville. MICHIGAN: Detroit, Grand Lou'sville, Ky., New Orleans, La., Port­ Rapids, Kalamazoo, Wayland. MONTANA: ""nd, Maine, Baltimore, Md., Boston, Mass. Butte, Great Falls ...... MINNESOTA: Minneapolis Minn., Vicksburg, Miss.. De­ Owatonna, Duluth, St. Paul, Minneapolis, troit, Mich .. St. Louis. Mo .• Helena, Mont., Faribault, Glencoe, Tamarack, Roosevelt, Omaha, Nebr., Reno, Nev., Concord, N. H., Delano, Franklin, Sauk Center, Brainerd, Newark. N. J .. Albuquerque, N. M., New Hibbing, Excelsior, Taylor Falls, Makimen, York, N. Y .. S&lisbury. N. C .. Fargo. N. Little Falls, Bovey, Ada, Cold Spring, D .. Cleveland. 0., Oklahoma City, Okla., Chicago City, Center City, Askov, Red Portland, Ore., Philadelphia, Pa., Provi­ Lake Falls, Leonith, Stacy, Albert Lea, dence, R. I., Greenville, S. C., Sioux Falls, Morris, Lindstrom, Mankato, Rochester.... S. D .. Nashville, Tenn .. Dallas, Tex.. Salt 54 MAY 1938 APJ ALBUM PAGES •For the convenience of collectors we have prepared several designs of Album Pages, attractively printed in one and two colors. All pages are made from fine quality white Hammermill Bristol oi substantial weight. Pages are round-cornered on the two outside corners and punched to fit any standard three-ring binder (Sh x 11"). All pages will hold two standard covers. Binders will hold fifty or more of these pages mounted with covers.

PAR AVION- Plane and modern two­ OLD GLORY- Plain parallel borders side border in red and light blue. all around in red and blue. Fifty Fifty pages $1.00; hundred $1.75 . pages $1.00; hundred $1.75. • AIR CLIPPER- Top and bottom bor­ • der with Clipper ship, wavy lines in SHADOW- Shaded border all around red and light blue. Fifty $1.00; hund­ page. Printed in black. Fifty 85c; red $1.75. hundred $1.50.

SILVER STREAK-• Modern mail and • passenger ship and decorative arrow. OXFORD- Heavy and light ruled Silver and blue, top and bottom. Fifty panel all around. Printed in black. $1.00; hundred $1.75 . Fifty 85c; hundred $1.50.

AIR MAIL- Regulation• oblique paral­ • lelograms bleeding all around page. PLAIN- Blank sheets of same ma­ Air mail red and blue. Fifty pages terial. Round cornered and punched. $1.00; hundred $1.75. Fifty 60c; hundred $1.00.

•All sheets are printed on two sides. We can supply same styles printed one side only at 25 cents per 100 less for the two-color designs and 15 cents per 100 less for the one color designs.

••POSTAGE EXTRA on all album pages. Weight packed. per 50 pages 2'h lbs; per 100 pages 4 lbs. Fourth Zone rate (300-600 miles: to New York or Chicago) 50 pages 17c: 100 pages 21c; 200 pages 31c. Mint stamps accepted, or we will frank with desirable commemoratives. 4nd Im tite 41/uun A PRACTICAL ELBE BINDER •Many cover collectors have found the regular standard 8¥.i x 11" three ring binder the most convenient, inexpensive and practical means of mounting their callee- tions. We offer ELBE Binder #1026. covered in black grain fabric, one inch 95"'I" capacity and equipped with clamps for easy opening. Each. postpaid ...... THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Album Department • Albion, Pennsylvania THE Al RPOST JOURNAL

Lake City, Utah. Burlington, Vt., Rich­ jamaica, jamestown, johnstown, Kings­ mond, Va.. Seattle. Wash., Charleston, W. ton, Lake George, Larchmont, Lebanon Va., Milwaukee, Wisc.. Cheyenne, Wyo., Springs, Leicester, Livingston Manor, Honolulu. T. H. San juan, P. R...... Lake Kushaqua, LoWVille, Macedon, Mass­ NEW YORK STATE PICK-UP POINTS, ena, Medford Station, Mlddleburg, Mil­ 19th: New York. Brooklyn. Staten Island, ton, Mineola, Mount Kisco, Mount Morris, East Williston, Floral Park, Freeport, Narrowsburg, New Rochelle, Niagara Glen Cove, Garden City. Long Beach, University, North Chili, North Creek, Merrick, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda. Norwich, Odessa, Palmyra, Pawling, Pier­ North Tonawanda, Bay Shore, Dobbs Fer­ mont, Pine Bush, Pleasant Valley, Pulaski, ry, Harrison, Hicksville, Highland Mills, Quoque, Rhinebeck, Richfield Springs, Huntington, Huntington Station, Islip, Rochester, Rosendale, Sag Harbor, Salis­ Long Island City, Middletown, Monroe, bury, Saranac Lake, Schnectady, Schuyler Mount Vernon, Newburgh, Oyster Bay, Lake, Schuylerville, Seneca Falls, Setauk­ Port Chester, Poughkeepsie, Rye, Say­ et, Sherrill, Spring\vlater, Syracuse, Tux­ ville, Spring Valley, Suffern, Tarryton, edo Park, Valley Stream, Victor, Wad­ Westhampton Beach, Wurtsboro, East hams, Watervliet, Watkins Glen, Way­ Northport, Binnewater, Callicoon, Corinth, land, West Camp, Westfield, West Point, Delmar, jeffersonville, Keene, Liberty, Yakhank, Yonkers...... The following Oeonta, Rensselaer, Saratoga Springs, individuals are handling cachet covers in South Fallsburg, Troy, Windham, Palmer, their respective town: Dr. j, N. Lowe, Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, Marquette, Mich., for all northern Michi­ Alexandria Bay, Canton, Cortland, Endi­ gan towns (Chairman) ...... james R. cott, Fort Plain, Gouverneur, Hammond, Ferguson, Stephenville, Texas, john F. Ilion, Ithaca, Little Falls, Mohawk, Og­ Pendergast, 262 Wahconah St., Pittsfield, densburg, Oneida, Potsdam, Rome, Mass...... A. j, Keffer, Garden City, Skaneateles Falls, Utica, Alfred, Batavia, Ks.ns...... Robert F. Nicodemus, 412 Elm Bolivar, Castile, Cheektowago, Dansville, St., Frederick, Md. (Also for Emmitsburg) Eden, Filmore, Hamburg, Hornell, Hunt, ...... K. j, H. Latcher, 007 jones St., Old Lancaster, LeRoy, Niagara Falls, Olean, Hickory, Tenn H. S. Philatelic Perry, Randolph, Welsville, Bath, Canan­ Society, Red Lion, Pa...... Scott Nixon, daigua, Geneseo, Geneva, Hammondsport, Southern Finance Bldg.. Augusta. Ga. ... Honeoye Falls, Lima, Livonia, Newark, .... john Coulthard, 117 Elm St., Modesto, Penfield, Pittsford, Walworth, Williamson. Calif...... Pocono Stamp Co., 600 Main NEW YORK STATE CACHETS Not Pick­ St., Stroudsburg, Pa...... E. F. Pursell, Ups): Accord, Atlanta, Auburn, Aurora, Supt. ,Navy Yard Station, Bremerton, Bainbridge, Bayport, Beacon, Bingham­ W•ash...... North Hudson Philatelic ton, Brewster, Brockport, Buffalo, Cale­ Society, West New York, N. j, ...... A. I. donia, Campbell Hall, Camel, Cayuga, Olding, Redfield, S. D ...... C. of C., Mead• Cl:l!autauqua, Cherry Valley, Clarence, ville, Pa...... C. of C., Hartford, Conn..... Clifton Springs, Clinton, Cohocton, Col­ .... C. of C.. Norristown, Pa...... A. J. lins, Cooperstown, Copake, Crompond, Paul, Route 2, Austin, Tex ...... Wm. Holl- Cuiijj"10gue; Dewitt!vi!J\e, DunkliT'k, Elalllf; ister, Clear Lake, Iowa ...... Ira Dodrell, Bloomfield, East Greenbush, East Hamp­ Jefferson, Ohio ...... Gordon Daun, 125 ton, Eastport, East Quogue, East Setauket, Portage Ave. W., Soult Ste Marie, Mich. East Springfield, Eastview, Endwell, ...... C. F. Harper, c/o P. 0., Elkins, W. Farmingdale, Far Rockaway, Flushing, Va ...... Harlan C. Taylor, 226 Court St., Fort Covington, Fredonia, Fulton, Garri­ Clarksburg, W. Va ...... All air mail pick- son, Gasport, Gloversville, Great Neck, ups will be May 19th ...... most cachets Greenport, Greenville, Harriman, Haup­ will be applied the entire week. pauge, Hempstead, Highland Falls, Hamil­ COOPERATORS: For assistance we are ton, Hudson Falls, Hurleyville, Irvington, indebted to C. E. Carlson, j_ R. F. Dan­ zinger, Charles A. Erb, james R. Ferbu­ son, Robert D. Henderson, E. S. Horwitz, G. L. Lancaster, Dr. J. N. Lowe, A. B. WHEN YOU caANGE YOUR AD­ Mills, john E. Pendergast, Dr. H. B. DRESS . • • be sure t-0 notify tbe Miller, Hervey W. Reese, Dr. J. F. minan, uuhlfoatinn nlflr.P.. W. T. Wynn, Jr., F. H. Wilde, Gossip, THE AJRPOST JOURNAL Llnns, Chambers, and innuma,fable P. Albion Penn'a M.'s and C. of C.'s. For cover, thanks to Miss A. B. Cilley. 56 MAY 1938 THE FIRST COMMERCIAL AIRLINE OPPORTUNITY • (Continued from page 19) Brealcins Up • a~~ get along without some Premium bacon. The butcher had none, but agreed to Cover Collection telephone to the distributor in Tampa and have some expressed via air boat. gathered over a period of rriany Of course the photographer recorded the years by a discriminating philatelist. This great lot contains such a wealth loading, as well as the landing, and it of material that every collector ot made a very interesting ad-I believe the airposts should find something he first express shipment of any size by a needs. There is the finest assortment of regular commercial airline. ZEPPELIN MAILS Of course the st. Petersburg Papers (early drop mails. SA and Polar flights). many pioneers. were making the most of it. We had Paris Balloons front-page stories in the morning and Airpost "classics" (De Pinedo. Ross­ evening papers. An itinerent flier appear­ Smith Australia etc.) Austrian First Flight ed in Miami, then a keen rival of the Catapults (Bremen and Ile de west coast Florida resort. A Miami paper France) published a story of this "jazz" flier, DOX covers. Balbo covers. under the caption "Miami Has An Air­ Foreign First Flights plane Too." Archie Dunlap, the clever U.S. Govt., CAM'S FAM'S. city editor of the St. Petersburg Indepen­ Scadtas on covers etc. Please do not hesitate to state your dent. reprinted the item in a "box," v.

ed. Ray had not been able to get his speed suddenly "jumped" several miles boat into the air. During the two days an hour. He evolved the theory that, at Tony and Roger had made more than a a certain height, a sort of air roller was dozen flights with passengers. Yet not a formed that increased the velocity of the word or a glance from the army officers plane, and that, at slightly greater or indicated that we were in the same less heights, turbulance retarded it. In­ world. I felt quite certain that some real asmuch as I had dabbled in photography data on commercial aviation a la 1914, for many years, I wanted to set a line could have been seocured had the Army of smudge pots on the water, fly the been able to look over the edge of its plane over it and take photographs show­ orders. ing the air disturbance. But such crude Pioneering experiinents cost money, and there was Tony had some advanced ideas re­ just about enough of that to keep the garding construction details, and we gang from being hungry. all were constantly itching to try these At that time the Atlantic Coast Line and others of our own brewing. Nearly Railroad carried through passengers from every type of plane in that day sported the North from Jacksonville to St. Pet­ as much wire as a grand piano and Tony ersburg, while the Seaboard Air Line wanted to see all the struts and wires (No, it wasn't an aerial transportation replaced by. one big stream-lined strut. line, as its name seems to indicate) ran We had little knowledge of airfoils or from Jacksonville to Tampa, and Its of any of the aero-dynamic principles, passengers had to ferry to St. Petersburg and we constantly came across pheno­ on a dinky little steamer that could mena that mystified us. Tony claimed hardly get out of its own wake. that, when he came down close to the ConsE!Jluen~, I began negotiations water, when it was glass-smooth. the with the Seaboard officials looking to the

~ ~ ------:-_ijj .~ COMPLETE SETS ~ ~ :J:···'> "· Rt :;~/ \ ON FLOWN COVER ~ 'I.! SALVADOR, U. S. Constitution, both .. ~ _ :"'" ~.•~. .... , .._ ,1 ;,. values on First Day Cover ...... $ .50 ' ""-··- ' RUSSIA, North Pole set of 4 on ~ ' • ~~· " - Iii' Special Official Envelope ...... 65 .. llr.... -- -- -".-..-.. .- _.-1,. ECUADOR-U. S. Constitution on ~ We Maintain a New Issue First Day Cover ...... 1.00 llr.... Service ofth!iW;Nd.stamps of H~i:~~~u ·.:.~:... :~.~~~~~~~.~~.'...... _50 -- ~ I:~:li: "Vil,fJ-j~j l~rl ~ -. 551 FIFTH AVE. £ NEW YORK. N.Y.· . -­ ~ "'-""'~ .,..._ """"'-"""-~~ ~""'" ...._ 58 MAY 1938

EVERY STAMP GUARANTEED AIR MAILS '. ! !_:VERY FINE TO SUPERB Country Scott No. • oi:- o catalogs Net Price U.S. A. 1300-02 0 $ 3.85 $ 1.85 1303-05 0 4.10 2.45 AUSTRIA 675 to 677*. both papers. 6 stamps ~;.40 2.80 686 to 695 3.38 2.45 700 to 702 * 5.40 3.90 601 to 605 • 2.27 1.55 612 7.50 4.85 Same imperb block of 4 37.50 21.40 Same block of 4 superb 37.50 26.75 201-2 stamps on cover unpriced 11.40 CURACO 202-1 stamp on cover unpriced 7.40 201 to 202 8.00 4.65 Sanabria #3a • 25.00 18.75 DOMIN. REP. 701 to 705 • 3.25 1.75 706 to 709 * 2.30 1.65 854 to 855 * 4.00 2.85 EGYPT 253 Zepp. block of 4 * 12.50 9.80 254 Zerip. block of 4 * 12.50 9.80 253 to 254 * 5.00 3.80 ESTHONIA 201 to 206 * 5~65 2.95 207 to 208 * 10.00 4.70 GERMANY 630 se-tenant pair •sanab. 8.00 #28b 5.85 633 to 635 0 3.35 2.70 Same on flown cover • unpriced 3.2t> 637-638 Zeppelin * 5.50 2.90 Same 0 5.00 2.70 same on flown cover • unpriced 3.40 639 • 6.00 5.40 Same 0 5.00 3.60 Same on cover o unpriced 4.85 640 * 15.00 9.80 Same 12.00 7.80 Same on cover o unpriced 8.90 644 0 12.50 9.80 Same on cover o unpriced 12.50 HONDURAS 412 * 3.00 1.85 413 to 415 * 4.25 2.55 438 to 440 • 2.50 1.65 441 to 445 3.00 1.85 447 to 450 the worm-hole set • 2.00 .9~ LATVIA 251 to 257 * 3.00 2.15 239 to 248 5.38 3.40 415a *Sanab.30.00 19.80 417 *Sanab. 2.00 1.65 l5b. 16~. 17c. Type *Sanab. 2.50 1.85 421 to 426 * 3.30 1.95 MEXICO 906 ~o 911 2.25 1.65 930 to 931 5.20 2.85 Same in blocks of 4 26.00 13.85 935 to 940 2.80 1.45 Same in blocks of 4 14.00 7.35 Sanabria 201 to 203 unpriced 2.65 Same in bocks of 4 unpriced 13.35 NETHERLANDS701 to 705 * 3.30 2.10 706 to 708 * 13.50 7.85 NICARAGUA 1001 to 1008 • 5.80 3.95 1001 to 1003 bl. of 4 • 10.25 6.25 PANAMA 702 a & b RARE used on cover-only 300 exist- VERY few used. SANAB. * 30.00 35.00 706 2.50 1.60 706 in block of 4 12.50 8.45 PARAGUAY 422 to 431 7 .24 4.95 Same in blocks of 4 36.20 24.85 PERU 801 * 10.00 B.45 SALVADOR 857 double surcharge * unpriced 6.45 865 to 868 * 6.00 3.45 SIAM 401 to 408 o l.22 .95 406 to 408 * 2.10 1.70 SPAIN In blox of 4. IMPF. 718. 719. 720. 726. 728 *San e'.lCh. 20.00 16.85 ea. SURINAM 501 to 507 • 4.82 2.75 SYRIA 334c unpriced. 4.80 UNION OF S. A501 to 504 6.75 4.35 Same in blox of 4 • 33.75 23.85 Orders filled in rotation as received. Wh;-t else do you need? Numberless flown covers-Rarities-and common foreign and U.S. NEWFOUNDLAND STAMP "EXCHANGE Room 511-Monadnock Block-Chicago, Ill. Established 1893 59 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL

Y3~' AIR MAIL HANDBOOK • A 36-page booklet covering all phases of airmail stamp and cover collecting-invaluable to the beginners interesting aml informative to all airpost coIIectors . • List of Contents: EARLY HISTORY OF AIR MAIL AMERICAN PIONEERS HOW TO GET NEW AIRMAIL ISSUES COVERS AND CACHETS PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE AIR MAIL BUYING AT AUCTION MOUNTING THE COLLECTION PILOT AUTOGRAPHS AIB MAIL GLOSSARY AVIATION'S IMPORTANT DATES

Sent postpaid to any address ... 15e (Also on Sale at St. Petersburg Convention) • CLEVELAND AIR MAIL SOCIETY Branch Chapter No. 3 of the A. A. M. S. Clarence E. Carlson, Treasurer 3562 Cedarbrook Blvd. CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OHIO MAY 1938 issuance of a joint ticket-rail from impossible to put it over: I still have northern points to Tampa, thence by St. the prospectus. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line to the Tom had designed a twelve-passenger Sunshine City. Had the officials been boat and planned to build it in time for possessed of one iota,:of vision, we would the next season. He actually did com­ have antedated the modern air-rail lines plete the boat, and it demonstrated its by nearly two decades. carrying capacity. But it was wreckeq, and there was no Guggenheim or similar I also attempted to interest Post Office beneficent force in that day to lead the officials in the transportation of mail by struggling child. Then came the war, and air between the two cities, but aside all our plans were disrupted. from the postmaster in St. Petersburg, there was no one who could picture the Tom met an unglorious end. He had U. S. Mails attaining s~ch speed. learned to fly through watching the buz. zards in his native Ozarks. No one taught From the first I kept account of all him to handle the controls, or coached expenditures and evolved some significant him to the point of his first solo. He first figures showing operating costs per took off with a motor that could hardly passenger mile and per ton mile. I lift his crude ship into the air. His final rather imagine that we had the only flight was from a prosaic street car in data available on that subject. Unfor· Sandusky. He leaned from the window to tunately, these figures have been lost. wave to a friend and was instantly kill­ We segregated the costs and proved that ed by striking a telegraph pole. Tom had commercial aviation was possible, even many friends and, I believe, many who in that day, and with the limited carry­ failed to appreciate what lay behind his ing capacity afforded by the best de­ frequent brusqueness. He and I ni;ver sign. Early that summer I started to form had a business difference on any ac­ an honest-to-goodness air transport or· count, oo: a difficulty, a'!ifjhough there ganization, but there was so little real was nothing but a verbal agreement be­ money available in Florida that it was tween us. He .;,as the soul of honor: his

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WILLIAM H. PETERS 48-29 58 Lane, Woodside, L. I., NEW YORK, N. Y. A.P.S. A.A.M.S. S.P.A.

61 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL word meant more to me than any leg.al whole country, Pennsylvania Airlines of document that could have been drawn up. Pittsburgh, laid before Eugene L. Vidal, Tony went West in Russia. Director of the Bureau of Air Commerce I have been led into these reminis­ in Washington, the results of its inquiry. cences through several forces. Several The Florida enterprise was selected by years ago a series of articles in the "Sat­ Mr. Vidal as the first worthy of the name urday Evening Post" exhaustively cover­ of "airline," and then the search for the ed the history of commercial aviation first passenger to buy a ticket was begun. and the then status of passenger carry­ A. C. Pheil, since deceased, and also ing. In its opening paragraphs credit for at one time mayor of St. Petersburg. was the first commercial aviation line was the first cash passenger. In a public auc­ given to Great Britain-to Aircraft Trans­ tion of the first seat, Mayor Pheil top­ port and Travel, Ltd. I am not anti­ ped Mayor Mitchell's bid of $375.00 with British, but I see no reason for giving a bid of $400.00 and thus became the first credit to a foreign line that started three man to buy a ticket on an airline oper­ ye3rs after ours. The same kind of in­ ated regularly on schedule. After his re­ accuracies have persisted; for instance. turn from a 20-mile round trip flight to in the new edition of the "Encyclopedia Tampa, Ma. Mitchell paid $175.00 for the Brittanica," the earliest commercial air­ honor of being the second passenger. Mr. line mentioned is one organized ln Pheil's demise leaves Mr. Mitchell as the Europe after the war, the line having man to be honored by Pennsylvania Air­ begun operations in September, 1919, be­ lines as the pioneer cash air passenger tween Paris and London. The final hap­ on an establl$hed route. pening was the finding of a box of negatives taken that J"anuary 1, 1914, and The Florida line was organized by P. during the next few days, and of a pack­ E. Fansler, now editor of Oil Heating age of papers, reports and a single copy J"ournals, 167 Madison Avenue, N. Y., and of the timetable. Tom Benoist, flying boat builder of St. -From Aero Digest (December 1929) Louis, With Tony J"annus as pilot. J"annus was killed in Russia during the war and * ... Benoist was killed in a traffic accident First Air Passenger in Ohio. Mr. Fansler is now convalescing Noel Mitchell, former mayor of St. in New York from a recent illness. J. D. Petersburg, Fla., was the first cash pass­ Smith, mechanic of the first airline, is enger, yet living, on a regular scheduled living in Washington, D. C., after thrill­ airline. Mr. Mitchell bought passage on ing experiences in the aviation section the st. Petersburg-Tampa airline J"anu­ during the war. ary 1, 1914. The airline operated with remarkable After a long search through the history regularity, carrying a passenger on ev­ of all early airline operation over the ery trip, over a period of three months, and then the tourists deserted the Flor­ ida cities. The disturbances of the war prevented continuance of the service and 7 rare &.nd obsolete var. of air baggage the contemplated installation of a 12- labels hcving a net value of $5.00 free passenger flying boat on the line. with yot:r order for the latest edition of Mr. Mitchell, as guest of the Pennsyl­ "Martin's Standard Air Transportation vania Airlines, will make a tour of the Label Catalog. Price $1.00 per copy post­ present-day network of airlines in this paid. Lists and describes every known air country, admittedly the best in the bsggage label U!l to time of publication. world, to observe the great progress GEORGE ATEN made during the brief history of air 1621 Asbury Ave. Evanston, Illinois transportation. Tentative plans call for a flight to Washington on Eastern Airlines, BOUND VOLUMES thence to Chicago on Pennsylvania and of the AIRPOST JOURNAL Bound in dark blue waterproof fabri­ United Air Lines, to Milwaukee on North­ coid. stamped with gold. west Airlines and then back through De­ Vols. 2,3,& 4-0ct. 1931 - Sep- troit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, to Wash­ tember 1933 ...... $4.00 ington on Pennsylvania Airlines. He will Vols. 5 & 6-0ctober 1933 to September 1935 ...... $4.00 appear before groups of business men in­ Vol. 7-0ctober 1935 to Sep- terested in aviation, and on his visit to tember 1936 ...... $2.75 Washington will meet government offi­ AIRPOST JOURNAL - Albion, Pa. cials high in aviation circles. 62 I

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~------1 Date...... I The AIRPOST JOURNAL I Walter J. Conrath. Managing Editor I Albion, Penn'a I I I The FOR the enclosed remittance of $ ...... I AIRPOST please send THE AIRPOST JOURNAL for I JOURNAL The World's Leading one year (six months). I Aero-Philatelic Magazine NAME ...... ' ...... I SUBSCRIPTION I PRICE: United States STREET I One year ...... $1.00 Six months ...... 50 I Canada & Foreign One year ...... $1.50 CITY ...... I Six months ...... 75 I Back Numbers 15c Bound Volumes Also STATE ...... I Available ~------~-----~------' Jlm,eJ,i,ean, .llih. mat£ ;/.o-cletlf APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP

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The Secretary's Report NEW MEMBERS 2056 Hyde. Dr. Chas. E .. 881 Lafayette St.. Bridgeport, Conn. 2057 Carter. Glenn E .. Forest Hills. East Rochester, N. Y. 2058 Miller.L. P .. P. 0. Box 733, Scranton. Pa. 2059 Cummings. M. W .. 508 Aseale St .. Tampa. Fla. 2060 Hertsberg, M., 736 HilJ.gert Circle, Oakland, Calif. 2061 Hertsberg. B .. 554 Merritt Ave.. Oakland. Calif. 2062 Goerth, Leo F .. P. 0. Box 209, Rossmoyne. Ohio. 2063 Rice, Frederick R .. Box 7. Arlington, Va. 2064 Dyer. Fred E .. Worthington. Indiana. 2065 DeJesus. Rog-elio. P. 0. Box 1220. Manila. Philippine Islands. 2066 Konig, George, 1055V2 47th St .. Oakland. Calif. 2067 Sweeney. Raymond J .. 2022 26th Avenue. North Seattle, Wash. 2068 Wee, Dr. G. C .. 1135 Padre Aigue St.. Manila. Philippine Islands. 2069 Godinas. Francois, Rue Station 91, Eghezee (Namur) Belgium, 2070 Klug, Carl Michael 16 Andrew St., Bethel, Conn. 2071 Zeltmann. Frank J .. 719 Bay Ridge Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 2072 McPherson. E. C .. 3300 4th St.. North. St. Petersburg Fla. 2073 Van Orman, Geo.. 628 2nd Avenue. South. St. Petersburg, Fla. 2074 Wilson. Lester. Equitable Bldg.. St. Petersburg. Fla. 2075 Jackson. J. W. 1045 11th St .. South. St. Petersburg. Fla. 2076 Duato, Charlie, 1529 12th St.. South. St. Petersburg, Fla. 2077 Pearce. J. D .. P. 0. Dept. St. Petersburg. Fla. 2078 Wackerman, Edward H .. 316V2 Franklin St.. Tampa, Fla. RE-INSTATED 259 Gorham. Albert E .• 1428 Hall Ave.. Sharon, Pa. CAM FAM lD. By Walter J. Conrath. 1743 Coffman. Ramon. Shorewood Hills, Madison, Wisc. By George W. Angers. APPLICATIONS POSTED Trefl'eisen. Lura P. O. Box 3980. St. Petersburg. Fla. Age 23, Stenographer. AM Air­ mail Flown Covers. By York Briddell. 65 THE Al RPOST JOURNAL

Drew. Austin A .. 920 9th Ave .• South. St. Petersburg, Fla. Age 35, Linotype Oper. Airmail Flown Covers. By A. P. Kester. Newman. Alfred E .. Times Publishing Co .• St; Petersburg, Fla. Age Legal. Advertising. HC CAM. By York Briddell. Sayer. Irma. 314\12 4th Ave .. South, St. Petersburg, Fla. Age Legal. Dressmaking, FF. By Mrs. Howard C. Bland. CHANGE OF ADDRESS 1670 E. R. Ballesteros. P. 0. Box 3613. Sas Francisco. Cal. 1543 Roy C. Votaw, 2124 Channing Way, Berkeley, Cal. 1688 Robert Schoendorf. 5854 78th Ave., Ridgewood. N. Y. 1979 Antoine A. DuPuis. 2310 37th SL N. W .. Washington, D. C. DROPPED FOR NON-PAYMENT OF DUES AND OTHER REASONS 1846 J. W. Oakes, 1413 Charles St., Houston. Texas. SPECIAL ADVANCE NOTICE Immediately ·after the Annual Convention to be held at St. Petersburg, Fla., May 14-16. 1938, the Secretary will begin work on the 1938-39 Membership Directory. We request that members report any changes in add·ress also the designation of the specialties immediately following the member's name. If you would like to have us list your specialties, please use code as given in the 1937 Directory. We extend CONGRATULATIONS to the St. Petersburg Chapter. Messrs. Briddell, Kester and Neet are doing a splendid job of recruiting new members and it is hoped that by Convention time. they will boast a membership of 50 AAMS members. If Snringfield. Mass .. and St. Petersburg. Fla .. can do it-why not other larger cen­ ters such as Philadel New York and Chicago, etc. LET'S GO ... our member­ ship is increasing ra 'dly and with a little more effort on the part of everyone. we can make substantial gains in the list of active members. Drop a line to the Secretary for membership blanks. Respectfully submitted. GEORGE W. ANGERS. Secretary

RATES MEXICAN AIR MAIL STAMPS, COVERS, le PER WORD-MINIMUM CHARGE 25c information wanted for ·specialized collec­ tion. Write first describing what you have tu offer and prices wanted. Paul F. UNITED STATES AND CANADIAN Berdanier, 3327 Eightieth Street, Jackson First Flights, Dedications, and other in· Heights. New York. 95-6t terestlng Covers and Airpost Stamps from many Countries in stock, including Loose WILL TRADE CAM COVERS FOR MINT Leaf Albums and pages and other Phila­ stamps. Want to exchange Baggage and telic Accessories. Wanted used Airpost Air Mail labels. H. Wittber, 2516 New Stamps, what have you to offer? When Haven Ave., Fort Wayne. Ind. writing, please state in detail, what you Ex-97-lt have, price wanted, etc. Store open eve­ nings till 8. Morsemere St.amp Shop, HAVE DEDICATIONS AND CAMS TO Harry Simon, Prop. (Member A. A. M. S. exchange for CAMs or 1923 regular issue 1722) 41 Broad Avenue, Palisades Park. First Days. Orlan E. Green. 555 W. New. Jersey. 95-tf Drayton Blvd., Ferndale, Mich. WILL TRADE OR BUY AIRMAIL WEEK HAVE EARLY CAM & OTHER COVERS airpost dedice.tions. Fred Wide, 917 N. Bur­ to exchange for CAM's I need. Chester ris Ave.. Compton, California. Ex96-2t Ernest Lee. 1635 So. P·llrk Ave .. North Chicago, Ill. Ex-97-lt FIRST FLIGHT MIAMI TO MARTIN­ iaue & Pointe a Pitre July 13th. Very scarce. Price $1 per cover. Frank Herget; 553 Suffolk; Buffalo, N. Y. 97-lt USE the Want Ad Section FIRST FLIGHTS; FOREIGN & CAM; airport dedications and other important to buy, sell or exchange covers. Priced right. Approvals against references. Frank Herget; 553 Suffolk; airpost stamps and covers. Buffalo. New York. 97-3t WILL EXCHANGE-ZEPPELIN, DO-X, historical, F. A. M., C. A. M., air baggage THE AIRPOST JOURNAL labels etc. for mint U. S. Stamps, China Clipper Covers, P. A. A. flights and Zep­ ALBION, PENN'A pelins. Charles C. Smiley, 107 Garfield St.• Waynesboro. Pa. --lttx 66 GREAT RECORDS of GREAT RECORDS SUPtRB OFFtR Flying-Officer A. E. CLOUSTON and VICTOR RICKETS TERRIFlC RECORD BREAKING FLIGHTS London-Australia-New Zealand-London We are proud to have the exdusive handling of these outstanding historic covers. The greatest Record Flights ever offered. 26,500 miles in under 11 days. ROUND FLIGHT cover, postmarked London Mar. 15th, Sydney 19th, Blenheim 20th, Darwin 23rd, London 25th $25.00. Signed by pilots ...... $35 LONDON-AUSTRALIA, postmarked London and Sydney $18. Signed ...... $25 LONDON-NEW ZEALAND, postmarked London, Sydney, Blenheim (available only in sets). ( 12 only flown). NEW ZEALAND-LONDON, postmarked Blenheim, Darwin, London (the 1st Record mail from New Zealand). $18. Signed ...... $25 AUSTRALIA-LONDON, postmarked Sydney and London $18. Signed ...... $25 COMPLETE SET OF FIVE COVERS (only 12 exist) for $100 (including Signed Covers L Photographs of Pilots Free With Order Owing to the small numbers flown on these great flights prices will soar. Immediate application is advised.

CLOUSTON CAPE COVERS. London-Cape Town £ 10. Cape Town-London £10. Round Flight £15. 1936 Crash Cover £5 , A. PHILLIPS AIR MAIL SPECIALIST FOUR AND l<'IVE DOCK STREET NEWPORT MON ENGLAND Est. 1895 Tel. 3789 NEW YORK CITY

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