tke Airpost Journal
NOVEMBER, 1945
VOL. XVI I, No. 2 TWENTY CENTS
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Air Mail Sta1nps ,I I SENT FREE UPON REQUEST F. W. KESSLE R
1 500 FIFTH A VENUE NEW YORK. N, Y. A.A.M.S Greets Foreign Aero-Philatelists • Urges Mutual Aid and Co-operation • HE lighting has ended and the people of the world are preparing to resume nor mal relations again. At this time the American Air Mail Society, by its officers Tand members assembled in annual meeting at Newark, N. J., sends its friendly greeting to aerophilatelists abroad, especially to the aerophilatelic societies in all the brother republics of the Western Hemisphere, in the liberated and neutral countries of Europe, in all parts of the British Empire and in the other United Nations. We hope that they may cooperate in the new post-war aerophilatelic world and we pledge ourselves to do our share full heartedly.
The Society is currently at work on a new edition of the American Air Mail Cata logue which will have many detailed sections of international importance, such as the Transoceanic Flight Section {Norman Serphos, 1 West 47th Street, New York 19, N. Y., chairman) and the development of the American Foreign Airlines and of the services abroad connected with such lines {Richard L. Singley, Lancaster, Pa., chair man). There will also be a special section for Early Foreign Pioneer Airmails (Dr. Max Kronstein, 3900 Spuyten Duyvil Parkway, New' York 63, N. Y., chairman.)
Your cooperation in this great effort is solicited. If you have any specific sug gestions to make, contact the Editor-in-Chief, L. B. Gatchell, 24 Brook Road, Brom: ville 8, N. Y., or the section chairmen.
The philatelists in this country are also making preparations for an International Philatelic Exhibition to be held in New York probably in 1947. We hope you will cooperate in this effort as well, when the time comes.
Let us weid together the aerophilatelic world by a common effort.
AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY George D. Kingdom President
(Philatelic papers, part'lcularly those in foreign countries, are requested to reprint the above announcement.)
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE T~E AIRPOST JOURNAL AMERICAN A1R MA.IL SOClETY Entered as second-class matter, February 10, 1932, at the post office at Albion, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published monthl.Y. NOVEMBER 1945 - VOL. XVII, NO. 2 - ISSUE 187 - 20c PER COPY 24 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL C. A. B. ASSIGNS FOREIGN AND HAROLD GATTY TO HELP DOMESTIC AIR ROUTES FOR RE-OPEN PACIFIC AIR ROUTES EARLY OPERATION Harold Catty, whose spectacular With new equipment rapidly being re round the world flight with Wiley Post leased by the Army the Civil Aeronautics in 1931 won him international acclaim, Board has moved swiftly to approve has returned to the Pacific-Alaska Di several key foreign and domestic flight vision of Pan American World Airways, routes for early inauguration. L. C. Reynolds, Manager of the Pa Pan American Airways has been au cific-Alaska Division with headquarters thorized to operate between New York in San Francisco, announced today. Cat and Johannesburg, Union of South Africa ty will assist the Company in putting into with intermediate stops at Lagens, Azores; operation its proposed world-wide post Dakar, French West Africa; Monrovia, war plans providing international air serv Liberia and Leopoldville, Belgian Congo. ices at costs within the reach of the On the domestic operational front average man and woman. These include Colonial Airlines, Inc., was authorized to round-the-world schedule flights which extend its present routes by a new ser it is expected may be made in about vice from Montreal and Ottawa, Canada 88 hours, as compared with approximate to Washington, D. C., by Massena, ly 208 hours required by Catty and Post Watertown, Syracuse and Binghamton, on the world record trip fourteen years N. Y.; Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Read ago. ing, Pa., and Baltimore, Md. The same company was also authorized to fly a For ten years prior to Pearl Harbor, spur from its ·existing route between Catty was the Company's special repre Montreal and New York, from Burling sentative in the South Pacific where he ton, Vt. by Massena, N. Y. to Ottawa, plans to return in a few weeks to study Canada, Pennsylvania Central Airlines, recent developments which have a bear Inc. was authorized to add Elmira, Corn ing on the resumption of services to ing and Rochester, N. Y. as stops on its New Zealand and Australia, originally Washington-Buffalo service while Ameri . pioneered by Pan American in 1939, as can Airlines, Inc. was permitted to in military conditions permit, Reynolds add clude Elmira, Corning and Binghamton, ed. Since the war started Catty has N. Y. on its New York-Chicago service. been working closely with the military All of these routes and first service in authorities and has made available to connection therewith are subject to prior them the valuable information resulting approval of the Post Office Department from his practical world wide aviation which will make suitable announcement experiences accumulated over the past 20 in regard to first flight service. years. His work in connection with sea rescues has contributed to the saving of lives of many men forced down during • their military operations. Resumption of Limited Air Mail Service to Philippines According to a recent announcement of the Post Office Department, air mail • service has been resumed to the islands of Leyte, Luzon, Mindoro, and Samar in the Philippines. For the present such service will be limited to articles not OUR COVER exceeding 2 ounces in weight as pro Two handsome Air Mail Stampe, vided by Postmaster General Order No. just issued by Russia, are shown on 18605 published in the Postal Bulletin our cover this month. The top illus of Sept. 4, 1942. Such matters may be tration shows a Lakovelev-9 Fighter registered. The air mail rate of postage plane in action while the bottom from the continental United States to stamp depicts a Petliakov-8 heavy the Philippine Islands is · 50 cents per Bomber. Courtesy F. W. Kessler. half ounce. DISCOVER ADDITIONAL "BUFFALO" BALLOON FLIGHT COVER • 0 - gentle reader you are NOT seeing double! We actually ARE illustrat ing· TWO diHerent and distinct covers bearing copies of the famous Buffalo N Balloon Post stamp on this page. Originally in possession of Doctor Philip G. Cole and now in the collection of Mrs. Louise S. Davis we illustrate at the bottom of this page the origmal cover ~ appearing in the American Air Mail Catalogue and hitherto thought to be the only such item in existence. At the top we show a photograph of al!. additional Buffalo cover in the pos- . session of Mr. Ross O'Shaughnessy of San Francisco, Calif. As will be seen the newly located cover is in very fine condition. It has the Buffalo vignette at · the right hand comer adjacent to and tied by the regular postage stamps. It bears the same Gallatin, Tenn. postmark as does the original cover. Who was it who said .. Nothing new under the sun"? 26 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL CROUP PLANNING TO C.B.S.CONDUCTS CAMPAIGN FOB S. F. T, W. REORGANIZE C.A.M. UNIT • • Five million postage stamps, to be Committee At Work to Resume distributed by ST AMPS FOR THE Activities Suspended by War WOUNDED to thousands of hospitalized • servicemen, was the goal set by the Co It is proposed to immediately resume lumbia Broadcasting System when it activities of the CAM Unit of the Ameri launched a radio campaign at 8:45 a.m., can Airmail Society. This unit, suspend Monday, Sept. 24. ed during the war, and devoted exclu sively to CAM collecting, will again take CBS is the latest American industry up its activities in the very near future firm to cooperate with philately's volun with three prominent CAM collectors, teer service committee in providing Bill Hafner, Perham C. Nahl, and Sam patients in 74 army and navy hospitals uel S. Goldsticker, Jr., at the helm. If with the "tools" of a hobby that takes present plans materialize, this Unit will their minds off white ceilings and black greatly expand its service with many new futures. The campaign was launched by features added. Margaret Arlen at 8:45 a. m. Monday In addition to being a "Brotherhood" ( Sept. 24) when she interviewed Ernest A. Kehr, National Chairman of the of CAM collectors, some of the features Stamps for the Wounded Cimmittee, and planned include ( 1 ) A newsy monthly explained how stamp collecting has al Bulletin; ( 2) Speedy advance notices as ready aided 10,000 veterans on the road to forthcoming first flights-mailed in to mental and physical recovery. time to permit members to prepare their own covers for the flights; ( 3) A research The campaign has continued with ap bureau to provide statistics and data on peals to individuals and bu5iness firms flights; ( 4) A Service Plan. providing to contribute all postage stamps they coverage for those collectors who do not receive on mail. It was carried on var wish to send out their own covers; ( 5) A ious other CBS programs throughout ' Washington representative; ( 6) The us country. ual Sales and Exchange departments; and many other features. As yet, dues, • and other requirements of membership, A ROOSEVELT ALBUM have not been determined. However, it Gimbels Stamp Department is gath is requested that all AAMS members who ering material in preparation for a loose are interested in joining this Unit send leaf album for the stamps issued by the their names and addresses to SAMUEL U.S.A. and other countries for the late · S. GOLDSTICKER, JR., 453 MT. President Franklin · Delano Roosevelt PROSPECT AVENUE, NEWARK 4, This album is being prepared with great NEW JERSEY, as soon as possible, in care and will feature pictures and stories" order that the Organization Committee about the stamp collecting activities of can get some idea as to the number of our late President. If you have any let members interested in this venture. No ters or information, or if you know any one will be under obligation to join, by interesting stories with regard to this so doing. The main object of this Unit phase of our great President's life, com will be to associate all CAM collectors municate with Mr. Jacques Minkus, at together; and it is believed collectors of Gimbels Stamp Department, New York CAMs will certainly require the facilities 1, N. Y. it is proposed to provide. Send yo~r name and address to Sam • Goldsticker (or to Bill Hafner; 252 Lo cust Ave., Babylon, Long Island, New BUY VICTORY BONDS York; or Pelham C. Nahl, 4004-48th Street, N.W., Washington 16, D. C. at AND STAMPS once. NOVE~ER, 1945 27
206 Wed Pack.rd A••ft•• Fort: Wayne, lndi1ft1
H. E. Harris & Co. 108 Massachusetts Ave. Boston 17, Massachusetts Gentlemen: Many thanks for the check in payment for the collection of stamps I recently sent you. I would like to express my entire satis faction for the way you handled the transaction. The fact that your appraisal agreed with mine almost to the dollar convinces me that your reputation for tair dealing is well deserved. You may be interested to know that the recent write-up or your oocpany in a stamp magazine was the deciding factor in my offer inc this collectipD tg you for purchase. Your prompt and friendly service certalnly justifles every word or that enthusiastic article. Be assured that I shall gladly recommend H. E. Harris & Co. to others who have stamps to sell. Cordially yours,
To replenish our extensive retail stocks we are constantt1 buying - at generous prices - collections and accumulatlon1 ot postage stamps, provl - H. E. HARRIS & CO., 108 Mass. Avenue, BOSTON, MASS. . NEW. ISSUE NOTES . • • . Cl . By GEORGE D. KINGDOM • Costa Rica For the centenary of the San Juan de Dios General Hospital an airmail set of thirteen values will be issued in Decem ber. . Values will be 5c, IOc, 15c, 25c> 30c, 40c, 50c, 60c, 75c, le, 2c, 3c and 5c. It is reported that only 15,000 sets will be printed. A set of ;even stamps has been issued by Bolivia to mark the twentieth anni Ion ian Islands versary of service by Lloyd Aereo Boli viano and to honor the contributions of Greek Occupation this completely nationalized airline, an Upon evacuation of the islands by the affiliate of Pan American-Grace Airways, Italians, the posts were taken over by tb Bolivia's transportation progress and Greek authorities. One air mail value the Allied war effort. was overprinted in red and black on the 50c brown. · The overprint is "ELLAS- L.A.B., as the airline is familiarly 2-x-43" enclosed in a square box. Also~ known, was founded in 1925, when on overprinted in red are the words the occasion of the centennial of Bolivian "!SOLE JONIE." independence, the oountry•s "German col ony presented the government with a German plane. The plane was a gift, Greece but it became an instrument whereby Italian occupation of Cefalonia. When the Germans gained control of Bolivian the Italians occupied this island, 53 val aviation. Later, as the Nazis prepared ues of postage, air and charity stamps for war, pilots of the Reichsmarshal Her were overprinted. The overprint on all man Goering• s Luftwaffe were sent to stamps is in pairs in four lines and reads: South America to gain experience by Hy "ITALIA-Occupazione Militaire-ltaliana ing over the high mountainous terrain, isole-Cafalonia e Itaca". Four airpost and to acquaint· themselves with territory values known to be overprinted are Id, they dreamed of later controlling. 2d, 5d and 7 d ( C22-C25). Recognizing their infiltration motives, the Bolivian government sought the aid Guatemala of the United States in ousting this Nazi A surcharge reading "2l,'2c Feria del control. In 194,1, L.A.B. was completely Libro 1945" on the Sc air mail ( Scotts nationalized and Pan American-Grace Cll3) has been reported by Gimbels Airways, whose routes already covered Stamp Deparbnent, New York. Only all of western Latin America south of the 10,000 copies were issued, during August, Canal Zone, was called in as technical for the purpose of taking care of the advisor. Under this arrangement L.A.B. new reduced air rate of 7lhc. Only 20 service was brought up to international copies were sold by the Post Office to airlines standards. each customer. The set includes: 20 centavo, purple; 30c, sienna; 50c, green; 90c, violet; 2 Salvador boliviano, blue; 3b mauve and 4b olive The I Colon Black ( Scotts #582) is bistre. The map and air routes in the reported by Gimbels Stamp Deparbnent vignette are printed in blue and orange as being overprinted "Aereo,. in order t<> in all denominations. make it available for air mail usage. -Stamps for Illustration, Courtesy F. W. KESSLER • Recent NeVf Air Flight Issues • Reading Left to Righi Around the Table: Alberto Perez. F. W. Kessler.\ Edelberio de Carrea. President. Rafael Oriol. Dr. Ernesto Bello. Dr. Tomas ·A. Terry. Ing. Ricardo J. Moreyra. Emilio de Soto. Luis Angulo Pintado. Roberto Brach. Alfredo Cano. · 32 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL this worthy cause. The Jack Knight Air Mail Society conducts a stamp club in a A.A.M.S. Chicago Military Hospital. An active committee of members of the Philadel phia Air Mail Society works for this pro Chapter News gram in the England General Hospital in Atl,mtic City, N. J., and the local • nav,,_J. hospitals. by FLORENCE LAMPORT f'he American Air Mail Society has News of A.A.M.S. Chapters should be sent direct to Miss Lamport a.t 1800 indorsed this program for all Chapters W. Ruscomb Street, Philadelphia and gave a contribution to tbe cause at 41, Pa. their annual meeting in Newark, N. J. Every Chapter should support tbis op • portunity to help the hospitalized service The Essex Stamp Club meets in men. Newark, N. J., every Monday night Notes of interest about the society: at the Essex House. President George "Bill" Hafner, former chairman of tbe D. Kingdom presented the national "C.A.M." has returned to civilian life charter to Secretary William C. Webb after several years of active duty with for admission as Branch Chapter #25 at the army. The society welcomes him back the American Air Mail Society's banquet to his home in Babylon, L. I. In the on August 18th at STAMPEX. August issue Paul Gatty was listed for membership in tbe society. He will be The interest in the air mail hobby remembered for his round the world was enhanced by the fine display of flight with Wiley Post. His position witb 180 frames of air mail material in the Pacific Division of Pan American ST AMPEX sponsored by the E s s e x Airways will be to work on post-war Stamp Club. The fourth Monday of each international air service plans. month will be devoted to air mail exhib its by this group. • The first fall meeting of the Jack Knight Air Mail Society, Chapter #23, was held on September 21st at the Aus "Bridging the Atlantic" tin Town Hall in Chicago, Ill. This group sponsors the Major Schroeder Unit • at Brookfield, Ill., which will celebrate An Aviation History and Priced Air their third anniversary as a junior group. Mail Catalogue of proposed, attempted The junior members will insure tbe fu and successful Atlantic Flights, 1873- ture growth of this club. 1944. OVer 350 major events are summarized In "A Contest for Stamp Publications" with exact data, and about 200 illus held by STAMPS, the second prize was trations of Pilots, Aircraft, Cachets, awarded to "The Jack Knight Air Log" Postmarks and Maps. which is issued quarterly. This fine pub All pigeon, balloon, airship, catapult, lication is edited by Earl Wellman, sec solo, mass ·and other flights are re retary. The issues are well illustrated corded. with the histories of the air lines. Collec Price $2.15 post free tors interested in air mail labels should The edition is strictly limited. Order at write to Earl Wellman, Editor, at Brook~ once from "The Airpost Journal" office, field, Ill. This group is planning a cat Albion, Pa. alogue of air mail labels. • Excellent work is being done by the PUBLISHED BY Chapters for "Stamps for the Wounded" in tbe various sections of the country. FRANCIS J. FIELD In the spring, tbe Essex Stamp Club held Sutton Coldfield England a Donation Auction and raised $265 for NOVEMBER, 1945 33 Earliest Use Dates of Borderless 6c Air Envelopes ---*---- As Reported From Various Army APO Offices By Carl T. Lemponen Collectors having covers showing earlier usage from any of these offices or from offices not reported are asked to communicate with the compiler at 976 Broad Street, Conneaut. Ohio. 1-0ct. 10-44 2-Nov. 27-44 4-eept. 24-44 6-Nov. 5-44 8-Aug. 27-44 23-Nov. 11-44 27-Feb. 28~4S 28-Feb. 11-45 29-Sept. 9-44 30--Nov. 12-44 32-Sept. 30-44 33-J'an. 14-45 34-0ct. 12-44 36-Nov. 3-44 37-Dec. 14-44 43-Feb. 6-45 45-0ct. 6-44 Sl-Nov. 6-44 113-Sept. 6·44 58-.Tuly 27-44 61-Sept. 16-44 62-Sept. 14-44 83-Aug. 23-44 69--Sept. 21-44 70-Jan. 29-45 78-Mar. 1-45 79--Aug. 7·44 80--Dec. 27-44 85-Sept. 14-44 88-Sept. 13-44 90-July 18-44 91-Sept. 21-44 93-Dec. 3-44 96-Nov. 7-44 104-Sept. 30-44 lll-Aug. 11-44 113-0ct. 6-44 l21-8ept. 12-44 126-Sept. 12-44 121-0ct. 12-44 128-Aug. 27-44 129--Sept. 9-44 130--Sept. 27-44 131-July 25-44 133-Aug, 4-44 134-0ct. 4-44 135---Sept. 18-44 l36-Aug. 21-44 140--July 27-44 142--0ct. 7-44 143-Sept. 23-44 l45-Aug. 15-44 148-Nov. 29-44 149--0ct. 27-44 151-Dec. 1-44 l53-Aug. 6-44 157-Sept. 25-44 159--0ct. 2-44 161-0ct.. 17-44 l62-Sept. 19-44 163-Dec. 16-44 169--Aug. 13-44 175-July 16-44 l76-Sept. 7-44 178-.July 28-44 179-0ct. 6-44 197-Nov. 4-44 198-0ct. 10-44 204-Aug. 4-44 205-Aug. 21-44 207-Aug, 11-44 209-0ct. 5-44 ~18-0ct. 24-44 :129--0ct. 22-44 230-Sept. 3-44 235-0ct. 30-44 244.--Aug. 30-44 246-Dec. 4-44 252-0ct. 30-44 2,53-Nov. 8-44 254-0ct. 2-44 255-Sept. 24-44 ~56-Dec. 19-44 li7-0ct. 29-44 259-Jan. 9-45 260--Dec. 13-44 261-Dec. 13-44 !!70--Aug. 30-44 305-Sept. 18-44 307-Sept. 27-44 311-Nov. 4-44 U2-Aug. 25-44 316-Nov. 4-44 317-Jan. 30-45 322-Nov. 14-44 339--Sept. 25-44 340-Nov. 11-44 350---Nov. 8-44 351-Dec. 6-44 157-Sept. 28-44 361-Feb. 23-45 372-Jan. 25-45 403-Sept. 10-44 U3-Aug. 24-44 419--Dec. 11-44 420-Jan. 10-45 i21-0ct. 5-44 124-Nov. 25-44 427-Feb. 7-45 433---J'an. 6-45 442-Dec. 30-44 151-Jan. 25-45 464-Nov. 18-44 469--Aug. 25-44 470--Dec. 26-44 490--Nov. 15-44 499-0ct. 18-44 500-Jan. 12-45 505-0ct. 17-44 506-Dec. 4-44 513-0ct. 23-44 516-sept. 29-44 . 519-Sept. 27-44 520--Sept. 4-44 527-Aug. 21-44 539--0ct. 19-44 540--0ct. 24-44 543-0ct. 9-44 545-Nov. 21-44 547-Feb. 15-45 551-0ct. 11-44 552-Sept: 13-44 553-sept. 18-44 554---0ct. 15-44 556-Sept. 21-44 558-Dec. 12-44 560--0ct. _1-4 562-Aug. 19-44 565---0ct. 12-44 567-0ct. 10-44 568-Dec 5~44 · 571-Aug. 7-44 573-sept. 25-44 474-sept. 23-44 575---Aug. 29-44 - 580--Aug, .17-.44 581-0ct. 31-44 586-July 20-44 587-Sept. 7-44 589-July 30-44 592-Sept. 30-44 595-July 24-44 _ 596-'-Aug. 21-44 598-.Sept. 8-44 627-Nov. 25-44 628-Nov. 9-44 629--0ct. 23-44 635-July 20-44 636-Aug. 16-44 631-Sept. 10-44 645-0ct. 9-44 646-NOV;. 30-44 647"-Mar. 10-45 649-sept. 14-44 650--Nov. 23-44 667-Jan. 22-45 706-0ct. 28-44 709--0ct. 25-44 710-""Nov. 10-44 713-Nov.-•-28-44 716-Nov. 3-44 . 726-Sept. 25-44 729"-Sept. 16-44 758-Feb. 19-45 766-Sept. 11-44 769-Sept. 14-44 772-Nov. 26•44 -783-Jan. 24-45 825-Dec. 23-44 832-Jan. 29-45 - 853---J' an. 9-41 862-Aug. 1·44 869--Feb. 20-45 871-Aug. 8-44 872-Sept. 7-44 ' 873-0ct. 16-44 874-July 18-44 883-0ct. 5-tf 887-8ept. 17-44 920--Feb. 10·45 968-Sept. 18-44 20th Base Postottice-Oct. 29-44 17th Base Post office-Sept. 16-44 Official Publication of the American Air Mail Society. Published monthly at Albion, (Erie Co.,) Pennsylvania, U. S. A. THE AIRPOST JOURNAL is entered L. B. GATCHELL, Editor as second-class matter, February 10, 24 Brook Road, Bronxville 8, N. Y. 1932, at the post office at Albion, Pa., GRACE CONRATH, Business Manager under the Act of March 3, 1879. Albion, Penn·a The AIRPOST JOURNAL is not con ALTON J. BLANK, Assistant Editor duct.id for profit. The managing edi (On military leave) tor, all department editors, feature writers and contributors serve gratis GLEN W. NAVES, Assistant Editor and without compensation of any l!:lnd. (011 military leave) All receipts frol_ll ac:tvertising, su1:>scrl1? tions and contributions are apphed di ERNEST A. KEHR, Art Editor rectly to the betterment of the maga Richmond Hill, N. Y. zine and the promotion of aero philately. ASSOCIATE EDITORS R. LEE BLACK, Des Moines, Iowa SUBSCRIPTION RATES Interrupted FU«ht Cover NeWll United States ...... $2.00 per year Canada and Foreign ...... $2.50 per year FRANCIS J. FIELD, Sutton Coldfield, Sln~e Copies ...... 20c each England ]3ac Numbers ...... :...... 25c each Second .(duplicate) copy sent to D. E. HELMUTH, East_ Cleveland, Ohio member's same address, l yr ...... $1.00 F. W. KESSLER, New York, N. Y. Bound Volumes also avallabl~. GEORGE D. KINGDOM, Conneaut, ADVERTISING RATES 'Jhio One Inch, per Issue ...... $ 1.25 DR. MAX KRONSTEIN, New York Quarter· Page, per issue ...... $ 3.7~ Air Malls and the War Half Page, per issue ...... $ 7.00 Full Page, per Issue ...... $12.00 FLORENCE LAMPORT Front Inside or Back Cover ...... $15.00 Philadelphia, Pa. Composition charge for solid, tabular A.A.M.S. Chapter News or special typographic layouts: lOc to G. F. LANCASTER, Brooklyn, N. Y. 25c per Inch additional. Dedications and Unontclals Interested advertisers may apply for RICHARD L. SINGLEY, Lancaster, Pa. contract rate for space used every F.A.M. Notes Issue for a period of 12 months. Ad vertising and editorial copy MUST BE WILLIAM R. WARE, Malden, Mo. RECEIVED BY THE 20TH OF EACH MONTH. 10 days. before publication. Contract Air Mall Route. THE AIRPOST JOURNAL has been published under the auspices or THK AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY since October, 1931. It has reached Its hlch place or usefulness to the hobby primarily throuch the cenlus, Industry and devotion or the late WALTER J. CONRATH •ucces1lvely Business Manager and Editor. To his memory are the future Issues or the JOURNAL cratefully dedicated. WHERE TO WRITE Correspondence concerning advertis Department Editors may be written ing, new and renewal subscriptions, direct at the addresses printed at the back numbers and bound volumes, top of their columns. All general edi address changes and other matters of torial copy and· communications on all circulation, business matters of all Jther matters should be sent to the kinds and all remittances should be personal attention of the Editor at sent direct to the Publication Office at 2'l Brook Road, ALBION, PENN'A BRONXVILLE I, N. Y. Here and There with the Editor • demonstrated, however, that it will give R. MAX .KRONSTEIN calls our atten most sympathetic consideration to a con Dtion to an unfortunate error in . the sensus and cross section of such wishes story about "John Wise tn Contemporary wh~n submitted in practical form by your Society. If you want these courtesies European Literature" which appeared in °?ntinued-heed carefully these sugges ~eptemb~r. Due to an error in composi tions. ~10n, w~1ch was completely missea by us· m readmg the proof, it was stated that Heinrich V. Stephan, first Postmaster A number of A.A.M.S. members have General of the German Empire, was "one been participants in the fast moving events incident to the Jap surrender. Out of the first to advocate general use of the telescope. Obviously this last word standing, we think, was the part played should have been teleph'one. As is well by our Vice-President Commander Jesse G. Johnson, USN, Skipper of the USS known it was largely through Stephan's Webster, who flew ,over Wake Island efforts in this connection that most Euro pean telephone systems are operated by broadcasting special surrender instruc the Post Office rather than privately. We tions to the beleaguered Jap Garrison on also note that we failed to give credit to that Island. The next day they capitu lated. This seems to us like poetic jus Ernest A. Kehr, our Art Editor for the fine informal photo shots of the' Newark tice. As many members know, Com meeting which appeared on page 389. mander Johnson, then a young Lieuten And while recording these corrections we ant, was the first Naval flyer to map and should also state that Perham C. Nahl, chart Wake by aerial survey for the Navy. We have received a nice cover rather than G. F. Lancaster as printed, was one of the M.A.C.C. speakers at the from Jesse in this connection; also a later one from Tokyo Bay where the Webster STAMPEX banquet. is serving as part of the occupational We are sure' collectors will be grateful forces. We also have had several letters for the decision of the Post Office 'De from Assistant Editor, Yeoman 3/ c Glen partment to restore official cachets on W. Naves, en route to the States and from our other Editor, Sergt. Alton J. future first Hight air mail services. As announced in the October Joumal the Blank, also en route home from the Philippines. · first use of official cachets since the war will be at San Bemardino, Calif., on or about November 1. The Department has Notes at random: A card from H. B. always been most co-operative in their Manning, President of our Los Angeles treatment of collectors hut are often con Chapter tells us that the L. A. Cover Ex fused as to just what is wished, particu change, which is managed by him is now larly when they are bombarded with let located at ~026 Bagley Ave., Los Ange ters from all sides. It should be a func les, 34, Calif., and we are in receipt of tion of national philatelic Societies to a nice first day cover from the Clube reflect the views and requirements of Filatelico de Brazil hearing the new collectors in this connection. Most cer stamps and appropriate cachet honoring tainly the American Air Mail Society is Brazilian forces which served with the prepared and equipped to perform such U. S. Fifth Army in Italy. a function insofar as Aero-philately is concemed. If you must write someone • WANTED about these things, write President George USED U.S. COMMEMORATIVES Kingdom of the A.A.M.S., C.AM,, Editor From Railroad and Steamship to date Will give credit of $5 per 1000 toward· Bill Ware or the Editor of the Journal- purchases of used or mtnt airmails not the Department. The Department is from our approvals. Minimum trans not equipped-nor is it required-to study action $5. - DONALD A. HOWE and .answer the individual desires and 33 Church St. Hopkinton, Mass. ideas of lmndreds of collectors. It has CHAPTER All.2 MAIL AND TH~ WAl.2 lines will not continue contract flight By DR. MAX KRONSTEIN service for the Navy Air Transport Com 3900 Spuyten Duyvil Parkway mand in 1945, but will continue their com New York 63, N. Y. mercial and A T. C. services. The North Atlantic Division of the u. S. Army Transport Command officially celebrated • December 3, 1944, as the formal opening HUNGARY: date of the second winter of uninterrupted Further north Hungarian territories were operations of the Northern A. T. C. reacped by Russian advances from Tran route. On this service large C-54, four sylvania and in the region of Szeged motored J'lanes fly non-stop from New (September 30) and of Debrezen (October foundlan to the British Isles. 20), both former Bulgarian air mail cen Regular air delivery of about 750 pints ters. Russian leaflets dropped over Hun of blood a day from U. S. A. to the Eu garian troops called (September 30) for ropean theater of ·war was reported on their capitulation, since "it was not too December 1. The service began on Aug- ust 21, 1944 , late to desert Hitler." . When the Russians The P. A. A. services crossed the At neared .the .capital of Budapest, the Hun lantic 305 times in 1944 carrying from garian Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy New York 1,420,654, lbs of mail and 379,- asked for peace. (October 15). The Nazis 600 lbs. of express, including matrices took control of Hungary and dropped for U. S. papers published overseas The leaflets denouncing the Hungarian Gov Trans-Canada Airlines completed in 1944, ernment. As the Russian advance con 116 trans-Atlantic round trips with 1,029,- tinued a new Hungarian Government was 153 lbs of mail. In 1943 they, together established on December 24, 1944 in the with the RCAF Transport Command, car liberated areas and this Government en ried by air some 39,000 lbs. of mail mark tered into an armistice with the Allies on ed for surface transportation. The Ameri January 21, 1945. It declared war on can Airlines, from August, 1943, to July Germany and relinquished Transylvania 1944, made 2680 flights across the North to Rumania and returned areas given to and South Atlantic. The British BOAC Hungary in the Hitler dictated "Vienna made 1000 North Atlantic flights between Document" to Yugoslavia and Czechoslo September 1941 and September 1944 with vakia. Hungary's air fleet and air fields 332 tons mail 529 tons freight and 11,378 were given to the Allies for the duration passengers. There were no fatal accidents. of the war. Civil administration was re Between May and October 1944 the three stored for about 100 kilometers behmd the Boeing 314a flying boats made 135 trips front lines, but communications to foreign from Botwood. One of its captains (W. countries remained under Allied control. L. Stewart) made his lOOth North Atlantic ITALY: flight on November 26, 1944. Between the liberated areas of Italy On July 21, 1944, the BOAC Ship "Ber and U.S.A. additional regular mail services wich" made the Foynes (Ireland) Bot were resumed during the fall of 1944. wood flight in 11 hours 33 minutes. In Italian flyers serving with the Allies be September, 1944, the BOAC included Nas gan issuance of their own newspaper and sau as regular call on the route to Balti published first on August 10, 1944 the more. The company is making prepara "Giornale dell Aviator." In an interesting tions for a South Atlantic Route to Rio report to the N. Y. Herald-Tribune (Oc de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. tober 16) it was revealed that the German The BOAC landplane base in U. K. was and Italian attempts to use the islands moved in November, 1944, from White of Corsica and Sardinia as air bases had church, Bristol to Hurn Dorset. Since resulted in heavy losses of personnel September 11 1944, the British North from malaria Collectors may sometimes Atlantic· Air Services carry also light have wondered why these islands are weight civilian air letter sheets from Eng hardly mentioned in our catalogues. land to Canada, Newfoundland, the British West Indies and the Falkland Isla'nds. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC: Swedish dispatches announced that a The number of trans-Atlantic flights Swedish air service will soon be inaugu was rec'ently given as follows: From No rated from Sweden to Iceland-Labrador vember, 1940, to the end of 1943 a total New York, with Col. Bert Balchen in o:f 10,000; to the middle of May 1944 a charge of operations. Also the project total of 15,000; to the middle of AugUst of a Scandinavian service to New York 1944, a total of 20,000 and to early in No~ has been reported, to be jointly operated vember 1944, a total of 25,000 flights. by Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The 200 millionth V-mail letter from Swe.den (and Denmark) entered bilat !he Europ\\an theater; of war was a greet eral agreements With the U. S. A. con ing from G. I. Joe' to President Roose cerning rights for air lines U. s. lines velt. It was mailed on January 20 1945 can pick-up and deliver air mail at stock In the Atlantic area post-war ciVillan holm, under this agreement (around Jan routes began to shape up, based upon the uary 1, 1945). Iceland entered a corres great experiences of thousands of war ponding agreement with the U. S. A. con- time flights P.A.A. and American Air- cerning the post war and commercial use NOVEMBER. 1945 37 • The far-flung routes of lhe Pacific wing of lhe Naval Air Transport Service Command. Map released for publication lo The Airposl Journal. prior lo V-J Day. by CINCPAC. through courtesy Comdr. Jesse G. Johnson~ USN. of Meeks Field near Reykjavik. This was a two-month 42,000 mile round the world approved by the Iceland Parliament on flight for the study of navigation. .January 25. The U. S. services now Independent from this service the Trans use the Azores Islands as a South Atlantic Canada Airlines are preparing air service base. A big new airport is under con from Canada to New Zealand and Aus struction. Negotiations are reported con tralia to be operated on a similar basis cerning reciprocal landing rights between as the present trans-Atlantic service. Portugal and Brazil in the Canary The U. S. trans-Atlantic air mail and Islands. The largest Spanish airport (for passenger airlines received on December land and seaplanes) has been built at 2, 1944, landing rights at Seville and Gando, on Gran Canaria. On October 8 Madrid, Spain and at Villa Cisneros, Span P. A. A. resumed a twice-monthly 7,269 ish Morocco on route to Marseilles or mile service, Miami-San Juan-Natal, Mon Paris and to Algiers and points beyond. rovia-Congo The first flying boat left Spanish air lines received the same right Monrovia on September 25, for the last of landing in U.S.A. Neither party will leg of the trial flight to Leopoldville. But carry any internal air mail between air on January 8, 1945, the China Clipper ports · of the other country. The first U. which operated on this route, crashed S. air service to Spain is expected to be at Port of Spain Triiiidad after having operated by the A.T.C. flown during the years from 1935 to 1945 the equivalent of 11 trips to . the moon. On October 16 a 120-mile per hour tropi cal hurricane temporarily interrupted all • P.A.A. flights to and from Cuba. An RAF Liberator on October 27-28 made USED AIR MAIL PRICE & CHECK the 5000 mile flight from Natal, Brazil to LIST Montreal in 26 hours. 52 minutes. An For 1946 will be ready for distribution RAF Lancaster in September, 1944, made on Nov. 17-45 listing 5402 used air mails a 15000 mile non-stop flight from Nassau, from 143 countries With supplements to Bahamas, to Montreal in five hours, 35 keep you up to date on new issues and minutes. An RAF round-the-world flight change of prices during 1946. Price 50c air route was opened on October 15, 1944. which can be deducted from your first The planes cross from England to Mont order of $5. Compiled, published and real-Washington-San Francisco-Honolu issued exclusively by lu-Canton Island-Fiji or Samoa-Auck land, N. Z., Sydney, Australia where the first plane arrived on November 4. The GEORG~ ~ HERZOG return flight is made by way of Ceylon Karachi-Cairo. Another RAF Liberator 68 Nassau St. N.Y.C. 7 I , the "Aries" completed on December 14, • ? Selling?••• B uying • ••• If your present interest is NOT buy * Whether you want to call yourself an ing stamps or covers but in selling what aerophilatelist, a philatelist or just a you DO HAVE, there ca.n be no doubt stamp collector, you'll find that Elme~ that it will pay you to get in touch with R. Long takes an interest in being of me at once. real philatelic service to you! Having customers for almost any Yes, you may write and ask for thing philatelic, it is necessary that we "lists" . . . there are always lists of one buy ... buy •.. buy. We appreciate kind or another, ranging from the EVERY portion of your collection and pocket-size 60 page "Collectors Hand will doubtless have prospects in mind book" that so many thousands of col- · for every item you own. That is why we lectors have found invaluable, to vari· can afford to pay you a top price for any ous mimeographed lists of current thing worthwhile that you have to sell. "Cover Specials" and other offers. Collections or accumulations worth at . But, like many other collectors, you'll least $50.00 net are wanted at this time. find the famous "Long Service" is tops You may send your stamps • . . seals when it comes to furnishing your needs ... or covers ... via express or insured "on approval." No, EVERY stamp, parcel post, along with a letter of in seal or cover ever issued is not in stock structions. We will make a prompt every day; we wouldn't want to spoof CASH OFFER subject to your complete * you. Many of your needs probably approval, holding your material intact ARE in stock and all you have to do is until you approve the transaction. give your AAMS number as a refer· Prompt attention will be given your re ence and tell me what you like . • • quest or inquiry; drop me a line today. what you collect .•. or what you want. Large and fine collections are bring K E.~~~~. !·". !':~~G ing top prices today. If you WANT to You'll he pleased, too. Drop me a H A R R I S :1 U R G , PENN'A sell, we want to hear from you. line today. HISTORY OF THE U. S. GOVERNMENT OPERA TED AIR. MAIL SERVICE 1918-1928 by K AR L B. W E BER CHAPTER ONE the Washington-New York Air Mail Service, reading around the inside of (continued> the circle "Air Mail Service-Wash. N. NEW YORK-BOSTON ROUTE Y. Phila" and in the center·on three lines To extend the air mail service and •June 1, 1918'.'. Some letters bear a to further prove the valuable time sav cachet "First Air Mail" in two lines ing involved in expediting mail by air, applied in violet, beneath the stamp, A. L. Hortung, who had charge of the which marking was privately applied. 1 operation of the Washington-New York As the new extension of the United au mail service, stationed at Belmont States air mail route from New York to Park, N. Y., received instructions from Boston was well advertised, 7 mail Postmaster General Burleson on Satur pouches weighing 272 lbs. and contain day, June 1, to inaugurate a New York ing 4,400 pieces of mail, mostly souvenir Boston air mail service on Monday, letters, were waiting for the inauguration June 3, 1918. trip. It was also the intention of the Post New York-Boston Office Department to have a through The plane which was to carry the Washington-Boston flight, via New fost mail from Metropolitan New York York, starting cin June 1, at Washington to Boston was scheduled to leave Avia· and connecting with the first mail plane tion Field No. l, at Mineola, L. I., at at the aviation field at Mineola, N. Y., 6 o'clock on the morning of June 3, for Boston, Mass. 1918. Lieut. Gustave Vanel, a French Accordingly the air mail from Wash Army Officer and Flying instructor and ington, which amounted to 18 pounds, his mechanic, W. O'Brien, were given was carried by Lieut. Bousal to Phila- , the great honor of flying the inaugura MORE VARIETIES OF photo-micro film process. The latter forms are similar in many respects to AIR LETTER SHEETS those used in Canada but of course do RECORDED not contain the name of that country. • Through the courtesy of Gearhart • Frantz of Drexel Hill, Pa., we are able to illustrate the new style Air Letter· Sheet as used by the Union of South Af rica but overprinted for use in Bechuana land. It will be noted that the miniature . BOUND stamp at top right is overprinted in Eng lish while its counterpart immediately . below is inscribed and overprinted in VOLUME Afrikaans. This sheet also eXists over printed for use in Basutoland and Swazi land. .From the same source we have 17 received samples of the old style South THE AIRPOST JOURNAL African letter sheet of ~e second type inscribed "Air Mail Letter Card" over • printed SWAZILAND, BECHUANA LAND and BASUTOLAND. The first ORDER NOW · TO AVOID two are on forms bearing impressed DISAPPOINTMENT stamps with labels printed in English while the last named is on a form bear • ing the label in Afrikaans, viz "SUID Limited Number lo be Made AFRIKA." Although it is not known for certain it is assumed that all of these ex Available ist in both types. Mr. Frantz also shows us a' copy of the form for Southern • Rhodesia as illustrated on the front cover Delivery in about Six Months of our February, 1945 issue but on a creamy white paper of much better tex • tuie and appreciably thinner. There are ·. Price also changes in the text. Postpaid ...... $3.50 Lt. Gordon H. C. Hanner has kindly sent us specimens of the airgraph, air THE letter and POW forms used in New foundland. None of these bear impress AIRPOST JOURNAL ed stamps. The former is filed without Albion. Penna. folding and obviously must be sent by 46 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL PAA WARTIME JOB CHRONICLE With the easing of security for STANDARD CATALOGUE restrictions and passenger prior of AIR POST STAMPS ities for Clipper passage, Pan as published by American World Airways is Scott Publications, Inc. now able to reveal the war time job done by its Atlantic Division. · •• The departure of the Dixie Clipper for Europe May 15 was the first publicly announced de parture since Pearl Harbor, and VENEZUELA initiated northern route flights to Foynes, Eire, for the fourth successive summer since Pearl Harbor. This over-night route to Europe has been flown throughout the war -b ut with vital war passengers rather than ' •I the growing number of busi Antonio Jose de Sucre ness men now flying to resume AP20 business operations on the Con tinent. Symbolically, the Dixie 1945 Unwmkd. PerJ.12 has resumed its peacetime sil Issued March 3, 1945 to commemorate the 150th ver, the first of the fleet to have anniversary of the birth of Antonio Jose de Sucre, the camouflage removed. G!BD.d Marshal of Ayacucho. With the publication of Clip Engraved. Printed by the ·American Bank Note per arrival and .departure times Co. and the extension of priority passage to certain businesstnen, C.206-AP20 5c orange Pan, American's Atlantic· Div (100,000) s ision also is able to reveal the C207- " lOc Violet war job it has done since Dec. (100,000) 6 7 ~ 1941, when "Plan A" went C208- .. 20c greenish blaci . into operation as a prearranged (100,000) 12 coded message was flashed to all Clippers within hall an hour C209- " 30c bright green of word of the attack on Pearl (100,000) 18 Harbor. This does not include C210- .. 40c olive bistre similar activities by PAA's other (50,000) 24 divisions. C211- " 45c black brown . This war job to date has in (50,000) 27 cluded the following: C212- .. 90c reddish brown I. Clipper transportation for (50,000) 54 approximately 61,000 vital war passengers in flights . of more C218- " lb deep red lilac (50,000) 60 than 7,400,00 miles. In addi- . tion, the Clippers carried 7 ,- C214- .. 1.20b black 000,000 pounds of mail-much (15,000) 72 of it V-mail, and nearly 2,000,- C.215-:- " 2byellow 000 pounds of high-pnority (15,000) 1.20 cargo to Europe and Africa. 2. Flying converted Consol idated Coronado .patrol bomb- NOVEMBER, 1945 47 ers for the Naval Air Transport Service, the transatlantic divis CHRONICLE-Continued ion carried 4,000,000 pounds of Navy and · Army materiel, much of it necessary to the European invasion, bringing · back wounded servicemen on return trips. ( Since the first BRAZIL of this year, a similar transport service for the Army's Air Transport Command has re placed the NATS service, with . a fleet of Douglas Skymasters · ( C-54s) being operated on the Casablanca run. Figures on this .operation are restricted. ) 3. Provided the core of the Navy's Flight Engineer train Dr. L. Zamenhof ing program with a PAA-oper- AP18 ated school at LaGuardia Field which when it closed its doors 1945 Wmk.268 Perf.11 this . August will have trained 1,400 flight. mechanics for duty Lithographed. on the. Navy's Hying boats, in Issued to commemorate the Esperanto Congress cluding ~e giant 70-ton Mars. held in Rio de Janeiro, April 14-.22, 1945. 4. Provided training courses C61-AP18. l.20cr dull brown 15 in a hitherto secret weapon in the "War of the Atlantic,,- identification of Nazi subma- rines, ships and planes. This Recognition School trained pil ots of unarmed commercial ships to detect, report and thus destroy the enemy. Details of the usefulness of the training and number of enemy ships or planes sent to. their doom have Baron of not been revealed. Rio Branco -AP20 5. Probably of most direct importance to the war were the 99 Special Missions which the Clippers conducted far from their accustomed routes for the armed services. In two years 1945 Wmk.268 Perf. ll the Clippers flew 2,200,00 miles Lithographed. on such missions. The Dixie Issued Apn1 · 20, 1945 to commemorate tho itseH carried out one of the centenary of the birth of Jose Maria da Silva most important missions by Hy Paranbos, Baron of Rio Branco. ing President Roosevelt to and C6.2-AP19 l.20cr gray brown 15 from the historic Casablanca C63-AP20 5cr rose lilac 60 Conference in January, 1943. Another epic was the' 36,700- mile, round-the-world Hight of (Continued on next page) 48 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL CHRONICLE-Continued P.A.A. WARTIME JOB us~ Ruins of Humaiti Marshal Francisco Church Lopez APSO AP52 APJ ALBUM PAGES so THE AIRPOST JOURN·AL NEW ISSUES OF GUATEMALA AN.D THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Letters to the Editor • The public response to the philatelic services rendered by the Pan American • Union continues to demonstrate a grow August 13, 1945 ing interest in Latin America. After flve years of activity, the monthly volume of Mr. L.B. Gatchell, orders exceeds the total volume of the 24 Brook Road, first two years. Bronxville 8, N. Y. During the course of the past several Dear Sir: years the stocks of a number of issues have · been exhausted and others are Looking through the. Sanabria Cata rapidly dwindling. In 1940 fourteen logue there is something that has puzzled Member Governments of the Pan Ameri me for some time. It is the cataloguing can Union issued stamps to commemorate of the 1938 issue of Venezuela. I sup the .50th year of its founding. Of this pose you know the as well as I series, the stamps of but five countries do, but for your convenience they are are now available. The attractive five given herewith: value air mail set of the Columbus San. # No. Issued 1945 1940 Memorial series of the Dominicau Re Price Price public will soon be withdrawn from sale. 107 15,000 $2.00' $ .25 Giving continued prominence to the 108 30,000 2.00 1.50 splendid new National Palace, completed 109 10,000 1.00 .60 late in 1943, Guatemala has released a llO 10,000 1.00 .75 new 5 centavo red air mail stamp, now 111 25,000 .35 .75 available at face through the Union's 112 10,000 3.25 1.50 Philatelic Section. The stamps were re 113 10,000 .20 1.75 leased in sheets of 30 subjects without 114 8,000 3.00 2.00 plate numbers or marginal inscriptions. Don't you think there is need for Sr. Manuel E. Nanita, the Director some correction in the new Airmail Cat General de Communicaciones of the alogue? Dominican Republic designed the new emblem adopted by his Department Yours very truly, which is featured on a series of regular Wm. von Tongeln issue stamps for ordinary, air mail and special delivery use. Eight new stamps (Editor;s Note:-We confess our un have just been released; three for ordin familiarity with this subject. No doubt ary mail having a total face value of 73c, there is a valid reason to support the and four for air mail having a total face present pricing and the changes made value of 57c and also a lOc Special De- since 1940. We will be glad to print .· livery. It is understood that, as required, same for the benefit of all concerned . additional denominations will be added. jf someone will advise us of it. A substantial allotment of the new LBG). issues of the Dominican Republic were · received at the Philatelic Section in Washington immediately on their release, • where they are available at face, along "with more than 200 other Latin Ameri SUBSCRIBE TO THE can stamps and a number of philatelic booklets. A full list will be transmitted AIRPOST IOURNAL on request accompanied with return post age, to Philatelic Section, Washington, NOW 6, D. C., Pan American "Onion. NOVEMBER, 1945 51 KEHR REVEALS "Our initial year's efforts have· proved that stamp collectors can and will con OUTSTANDING WORK OF tribute worthwhile assistance to the men STAMPS FOR WOUNDED who have given so much towards our victory. \Ve now are prepared to con COMMITTEE I tinue as a permanent organization as long as individuals and firms who have • material will contribute it to our regional More than 10,000 servicemen in 71 committees. or our national headquarters Anny and Navy hospitals throughout the at 230 W. 41 St., New York 18, N. Y." United States now are collecting post age stamps as a recreational therapy project under the auspices of the Amer ican Red Cross, according to Ernest A. • Kehr, national chairman of STAMPS FOR Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue THE WOUNDED, who addressed dele gates and members of the five Ameri Supplement Will List Axis Issues can philatelic societies at the Essex The wartime stamp issues of the Axis House, Newark, N. J., on the first an· and Axis-Occupied Countries will be niversary of the founding of this volun• Jisted, without prices, in a booklet of teer stamps collectors' service commit• perhaps 200 pages, which Scott Publi tee. cations, Inc., plans to publish as a supple "When our committee was formed at ment to the Standard Postage Stamp ow Milwaukee convention last year, Catalogue. only three hospitals were using stamp The firm hopes to release this booklet collecting as a small part of their re in January, according to Hugh M. Clark, habilitation programs. Within twelve the Catalogue editor. It may be later, months the benefits of · this hobby had but it cannot be sooner, because there is been so well demonstrated that we have not yet enough type, labor and paper been invited to introduce it to six dozen available. hospitals so far," Kehr stated. The booklet. will be put out as near Postage stamps are solicited from col cost as possible. lectors, dealers and business firms. These No "enemy issues" were listed in the are made into packets, and with albums, 1946 Catalogue, as some collectors ex catalogs and other accessories, are dis pected, because when it went to the tributed to bed-ridden patients to either printer dealing in these stamps was still renew a boyhood hobby or to introduce illegal. them to it. Medical officers of the Ann ed Forces have reported that this avoca tion is so absorbing that it has succeeded • where many other forms of recreational therapy failed in taldng the minds of hospitalized servicemen from white ceil Try Our ings and black futures. WORLD-WIDE Kehr reported that his committee had AIRMAIL SELECTIONS collected and distributed without charge to the men over 40,000,000 domestic and 25 different 50e ."10 different $1.00 foreign stamps through regional com 75 different $1.50 100 different $3.00 mittees of Stamps for the W oonded in ALL FOUR FOR $5.50 New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Den Cat. Value $15.00 ver, San Francisco, Detroit, Cleveland, Cash with order. We fill want lists, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, buy collections and duplicates. Miami, Sarasota, Atlanta, St. Louis, Bos TONGELN ton, Hartford, Buffalo, Trenton, Spring field, Minneapolis, El Paso, Honolulu, 2528 Abaco Ave. Miami 33, Fla. and Portland. Mr. Kehr concludes: PRESIDENT GEORGE D. KINGDOM Conneaut, Ohio ADVISORY BOARD (Fonner Presidents) HARRY A. TRUllY FRANCIS B. LEECH GEORGE W. ANGERS PAUL F. ROBERTSON HERBERT H. GRIFFIN WILLIAM R. ALLEY L. B. GATCHELL RicHARD L. SINGLEY VICE ·PRESIDENTS GRACE CONRATH GLEN w. NAVES COMDR. JESSE G. JoHNsON RAFAEL OmoL A Non-Profit Corporation DIRECTORS ATTORNEY Under the Laws of Ohio J. P. v. HEINMULLER GEORGE D. KINGDOM Organized 1923 New York Conneaut, Ohio Incorporated 1944 J. J. KLEMANN, JR. SECRETARY Geo.rgia CHAPTER CHAIRMAN CLAUDE w. DEGLER DR. MAX ICRONSTEIN GLEN w. NAVES 2114 North 49th Street New York (On Military Leave) Milwaukee 8, Wisc. G. F. LANCASTER New York TREASURER HISTORIAN-RECORDER M. 0. WARNS CoL. CHARLES P. PORTER 4639 North Woodburn Ave.. California KARL B. WEBER Milwaukee 11, Wisc. w. R. WARE PUBLICITY DIRECTOR SALES MANAGER Arkansas ERNEST A. KEHR PHELPS CREE EARL H. WELLMAN P. 0. 'Box B, Illinois Ocean Grove, N. J. ADVANCE BULLETIN SUPT. EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT Each member is entitled to two 25- GRACE CONRATH word Exchan~e Notices per year in the Official Publication, without charge. Th'e Airpost Journal, Albion, rPenn'a. Address direct to the publication office The Advance Bulletin is sent reg at Albion, Penn'a. ularly by the manager only to those OFFICIAL PUBLICATION members who are in good standing and THE AmPosT JOURNAL provide a supply of self-addressetl Published monthly and sent to all regulation Government Postal c;:ards. members in good standing. ¥?;;;vuAAA;;;;;u;...... -;;;;u...-.+~4¥f:Y ..... U44¥¥ ..... ¥¥ SECRETARY'S REPORT • NEW MEMBERS 2930 Killinger, E. W., 3 N. Hanover St., Carlisle, Pa. 2931 Ehrenhaft, Bruno B., 61 Broadway, R. 2110, New York 6, N. Y. 2932 Ebrecht, George M. C., 3104 Jennings St., Sioux City 18, Iowa. 2933 Hendrickson, Alfred A., 110 E. 22nd St., Erie, Pa. 2934 Breithaupt, A. W., 1210 Jackson St., Denver 6, Colo. 2935 Miller, Ben, 256-01 4lst Drive, Little Neck, L. I. N. Y. 2936 Cress, Ward E.,, 1209 Blaine Ave., Janesville, Wis. 2937 Maldaner, Henry, 826 Washington St., Evanston, Ill. 2938 Chapman, Robert L., 312-3rd St., N. W., Canton 2, Ohio. 2939 Owen, Paul K., 24 Commerce St., Newark 2, N. J. NOVEMBER, 1945 sa NEW APPLICATIONS Smith, Evans K., 45 East Banks, Chicago, Ill. Age 41. Editor. AM U20 UC PA EL CAM FAM lD By E. H. Wellman Reichenthal, H .. , P. 0. Box 5173, Cleveland l, Ohio. Age 39.. Dealer, By C. W. Degler Scott, Miriam, 220 Radcliffe St., Bristol, Pa. Age 38. AM UC By Florence Lamport Hayes, William J., 3045 Huntington Ave., Omaha 11, Nebr. Age 57. Insurance .. AM AU U20 UC EX By Stanley R. Madill Coffin, Joseph W., 943 Linden Ave., York, Pa. Age 58. Retired. AM AU UC FAM ·Canal Zone Covers EX By R. L. Singley Field, Merton W., 1021-16th Ave., No. St. Petersburg 6, Fla. Age 39, Accountant, AM AU ZEX By C. W. Degler Fink, Bernard, 1528 Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn; N. Y. Age 37. Attorney. AU Z EX By George Herzog Herget, Frank, 2644 Bailey Ave., Buffalo 15, N. Y. Age 39. D.ealer. By R. L. Singley Adinolfi, Anthony De Majo, 26 Bvd. Fouad bt, Port Said, Egypt. Age 23. Philatelist. AM AU EL PIX Airmail Literature Ex By C. W. Degler De Ganck, Jean, Bd de Smet de Naeyer, 39 Jette, (Bruxelles) Belgium. Age 50. AM AU AS SC PA HC PC EL FF GF CAM FAM RP CC OF DC Z CF EX By R. L. Singley Zamen, David, 7740 Ogden Ave., Lyons, Ill. Age 62. Pharmacist. By George Herzog Walker, Mrs. Marion B., Box 365, Lancaster, Pa. Age 32. Musician. U20 UC FF lD By R. L. Singley Oswald, 3.5451372, Sgt. Harold F., 2500 AAF Base Unit (Hq. AAFCFTC) Randolph Field, Tex. Age 27. Soldier. UC PC HC PA GF CAM FAM CC OF DC ID EX By Grace Conrath Wohler, Alfredo J., Apartado 48, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Age 57. Merchant. AM AU-all America only SC EX By George Herzog NEW LIFE MEMBER 55-2819 Oscar Weinreb, P. 0. Box "B 182" Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, W. Indies. RESIGNATIONS 2248 Orban, George V., 1961 6lst St., Brooklyn 4, N. Y. 2521 Lovejoy, H. Bill., 1912 Bolsover, Houston 5, Texas. 2699 Ray, LE., 8217 Euclid Ave., Cleveland 3, Ohio. DEATHS REPORTED 990 Petty, Maurice S., 507 Quackenbos St. N. W., Washington 11, D. C. 2839 Morris, Ben L., Box 179, Bellaire, Ohio. 1715 Thias, Fred D. W., Barron, Wis. CHANGES IN ADDRESS Brus, M.Mlc William J., Box 37, P. 0. N.A,S., Jacksonville, Fla. Creighton, Charles N., 1020 3rd St., Hermosa Beach, Calif. Powell, Lt. L. Dean, 10 E. 21st St., Baltimore 18, Md. Eissen, Alfred, 1409 Great Plain Ave., Needham 92, Mass. Hafner, William, 252 Locust Ave., Babylon, L. I., N. Y. Houser, S/Sgt. Roy F., 214 Bowe St., Tamaqua, Pa. Kessler, Don R., 823 Girod, New Orleans, La. Manning, H.B., 3026 Bagley Ave., Los Angeles 34, Calif. (Continued on next page) 54 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Handsome Booklet. ''Your Airlines." Available From Brooklvn "Ea~de" SenJ for a c~plf - • APJ Route maps of all the airlines that come into New York, together with the ALBUM PAGES dramatic story of their growth and fu ture plans, are available in a new book • The at:traciive and economical let, "Your Airlines." way :to moun:t your Airpos:t "Your Airlines" is a collection of 'Air and o:ther covers. line Profiles' which ran in the Brooklyn Eagle over a period of four months. , • They were written by Daniel Lionel, LISTING MORE THAN TWO Brooklyn Eagle Air Transportation Di DOZEN STYLES OF COVER rector and there is an· introduction by MOUNTING PAGES John F. Budd, Publisher of Air Transpor • tation Magazine and Chairman of the Aviation Section of the New York Board ALBUM PAGE SETS APJ ALBUMS of Trade. DUSTPROOF SLIP CASES The booklet may be obtained by writ MOUNTING CORNERS ing to the Brooklyn Eagle Resort and and Travel Bureau and enclosing ten cents APJ PERMANIZED in stamps to cover handling costs. AIR MAIL ENVELOPES. • • Send for your Price List Today Remember Specify type of covers you collect, or wish to mount, and we will include several actual the pages as free samples. AAMS VICTORY • APJ ALBUM DEPT. AUCTION Albion, Penn'a SECRETARY'S REPORT (Continued from preceding page) Meyer, H. C., 62 Collins St., Hamden 14, Conn. Moffett, Ralph E., 808 Creed Road, Oakland 10, Calif. Montgomery, A. W., 5A Beech St., Baldwin, N. Y. Nay, Ensign Ward H., 73 W. Bidwell St., Apt. #2, Battle Creek Mich. Obrig, Capt. Jas. H., E.A.A.F., Enid, Okla. Paul, A. J., 1601 East Ave., Austin 22, Texas. Schoenfeld, Herbert A., 170.0 17th Ave., No. Seattle, Wash. Spencer, Otis, 912 Valencia Ave., Coral Gables 34, Fla. Whitbread, Thos. 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Ex-185-lt 185-8t ITALY AND ITALIAN COLONIES NEW AIR MAIL FIELDS. 31 DIFFERENT AMF and used air singles and sets exchanged postmarks on air mail covers from 31 for other airs. Lt. T . F. Kent, 446 Cherokee cities. '5.00. Page with illustrations and Ave., Atlanta, Ga. Ex-185·lt classification of cancellation types in cluded. Perha m C. Nahl, 4004H "8th St., SWAP EARLY U .S. ON COVER AND NW, Washington 16, D. C. 185-4t• h igh cat Br. Cal. for used airs. Elkin M. Adelson, 4349 Sheridan Ave., Miami Beach ZEPPELIN FLIGHTS - WILL ACCEPT 40. ex 187-lt best offer for any one or all of following covers: 1925 New York-Bermuda; 1925 New York-Porto Rico; 1928 Germany to U. S.; COLLECTOR WANTS IN VERY FINE U. S. to Germany; 1929 Round-World 0 . G . Airmails. Switzerland C27-34, Swed_ Flight; 1931 Germany-Brazil-U.S.; 1931 en C4, Senegal Cl7-25, Portugal C4, CB, Brazil to Germany. Also 1931 First Flight ClO, Memel Cl8, Madasgar C22, C26, C27, Newfoundland-Nova Scotia by Gypsy Moth Cameron Bl0-15. Max Shrage, 300 Central Plane. Frank Walend, 236 Cambridge ct., Park W ., N . Y. ex 187-lt Elyria , Ohio. 185-lt• WILL EXCHANGE NEW ISSUE AIR m ails for used airs. Also new issue ser HAVE EARLY CAMs TO EXCHANGE vice. Geo M. Hartmann, 845 Hueston St., for US covers 1847-1890. Henry Lacks, Eliz. 3, N . J . ex 187_2t 1081 Midland, St. Louis, Mo. 187-5t• URUGUAY C 9 ON COVER COSTA RICA COl-12-used and other used airs to ex A CHOICE ITEM FOR AUTOGRAPH COL iector-To the Highest Bidder-Airmail change for used airmails. G . H. Corbet, cover and letter postmarked Los Angeles 5211 N. Talman Ave., Cicago 45, Ill. California January 12, 1929 from U. S. ex 186-lt Army Air Service Refuelling Mission (cover not carried on flight) Letter from Am LETTER FORMS AND OTHER AIR CTlfW of QUESTION MARK expressing >tationery wanted Offer same and Trans th :j.nks for interest in flight and SIGNED oceanic and other Fams. Richard Parke, BY-Carl Spatz- then Major of U.S.A.A.C. North Conway, N . 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