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December 2016 Volume 87, No. 12 Whole No. 1038

December’s Featured Article — The 1929 CAM 30 Special Christmas Flight Page 491 Zeppelins & Ask for our Free Price List of Worldwide Flight covers and stamps. The following is a small sampling – full list on Website! Happy Holidays! 20% off all Zeppelin Covers and Stamps through January 31, 2017

United States 1926 (June) Government flight 10S with C3, Boston to Ardmore , PA return flight. VF ...... $200 1928 (December 17) C11 on 25th Anniversary First Flight cover signed by Orville Wright ...... $700 Germany 1929 Netherlands/Silesia flight combo S.41A and S.43A . . . . $1,000 Nicaragua/US 1933 flight with dual franking Scott C18 S.245B . . . . $1,200 Norway 1936 (October 1) 10th North America Flight cover sent to New York. (S. 441) ...... $150 Palestine 1933 3rd South America Flight to Argentina. S.219B ...... $2,000 Peru 1928 (October 22) SCADTA flight cover to Colombia. First flight Peru - Ecuador - Colombia. VF condition...... $450 Senegal 1933 6th South America Flight sent to Brazil S.229Aa ...... $1,850 Somali Coast 1933 8th South America Flight sent to Brazil S.235 ...... $1,850 Henry Gitner Philatelists, Inc. PO Box 3077T, Middletown NY 10940 Email: [email protected] — http://www.hgitner.com

DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 485 In This Issue of the Airpost Journal — ARTICLES — Letters to The 1929 CAM 30 Special Christmas Flight ...... 491 Christine and Eugene Sanders the Editor An Unlisted Air France Cachet: Bahia (Brazil) 1934 ...... 518 Dan Gribbin More on the Pan Am Test Flight FAM 34 First Flight ...... 520 In the October 2016 issue of the is a very nice article by Journal Paul Petrosky Tom Reyman on an attractive 1946 Pan Am Test Flight cover mailed in Greater St. Louis Sets World Record ...... 522 1946 from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Quito, Ecuador. I would like to Tom Cottrell thank Tom for sharing this and its background. To add a bit of informa - tion, this was not a test flight in the sense of Pan Am wanting to do a sur - — NEWS — vey flight or to reestablish airmail service after World War II, but rather a New Publications Available ...... 517 publicity and marketing undertaking by Pan Am to garner increased News of the Shows ...... 516 revenue for themselves by convincing more people to use airmail instead Obituary: Capt. Julius Grigore Jr...... 524 of surface mail for their international mail. Pan Am held the post office — COLUMNS and FEATURES — contracts to carry the mail between the U.S. and the Central American, An Interesting Cover ...... 505 South American and Caribbean countries (FAMs 4 through 10) and so And Now for a Commercial Break ...... 513 any increase in airmail use meant more profits for Pan Am. Canadian Air Mail Notes ...... 496 The month before the cover pictured with the article was sent - Letters to the Editor ...... 487 October, 1946 - the post office reduced the international airmail rates to President’s Message ...... 490 these countries to 10 cents. To further encourage the American public to Treasure Hunting for CAM Covers ...... 508 expand their use of airmail to these countries, Pan Am came up with a marketing idea. They advertised in the newspapers for individuals — DEPARTMENTS – around the country to undertake their own individual and personal test APJ Ads ...... 528 of how much faster airmail was to these countries than surface mail. Pan Membership Report ...... 525 Am made an arrangement with the post office: any letter mailed from any town in the U.S. that was postmarked on November 1, 1946, addressed to "Pan American Airways System, Airmail Test" in any capi - Editor and Advertising tal city of the 28 countries served by Pan Am in Central America, South Vickie Canfield Peters 11911 E Connor Road Valleyford WA 99036 vcanfi[email protected] America and the Caribbean would be gathered and carried by Pan Am Staff Writers and Columnists on their regular airmail-carrying services to that country and delivered Joe Kirker Alan Warren to the local Pan Am office there. Chris Hargreaves Bob Wilcsek Lee Downer That local office would backstamp every cover they received Copyright 2016 The American Air Mail Society . The Airpost Journal (ISSN 0739-0939) is pub - under this promotion and then, at no cost to the sender, affix an appro - lished monthly by the American Air Mail Society, 11911 E. Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036. Periodical postage paid at Spokane WA 99201 and additional post offices. Postmaster: Send priate of that country, cross out the Pan Am address, address changes to American Air Mail Society, 7 First St., Westfield NY 14787. Domestic sub - mark it “return to sender” and put it in the mail. That way, every sender scription rate $30 per year; $5 per copy. Opinions expressed in features and columns in this publication are solely those of the authors and could see the date they mailed it, November 1, 1946, and the date it was do not necessarily represent those of the society. Running an ad does not endorse the advertiser. backstamped in the country to which it was sent. Each person's little per -

PAGE 486 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 487 sonal experiment would let them see for themselves how fast airmail was " . . . Her obsession with weight may have been taken to extreme length, and now how inexpensive it was compared to the previous rates. for according to Harry Balfour, radio operator at Lae, survival equip - These are fun covers to collect, though I am not sure anyone ment was also taken off. Balfour claimed that "she unloaded all her sur - could ever create a collection of every town from which they were plus equipment on me including her [Very] pistol and ammunition, mailed since they could have been mailed from any city or town in the books, letters and facility books.” U.S. It is a challenge enough to collect one to each of the 28 destination If she was carrying approximately 6,500 covers, and assuming countries and even more of a challenge to collect one of each from a there were about 60 covers to a pound, they would have weighed about given U.S. city or town. Usually the bigger cities would have had many 108 pounds, which would have been a significant amount of weight. If more people sending these and so may be a bit easier to assemble a col - the covers were unloaded at Lae, Papua New Guinea, then the question lection of all 28 destination countries from one of the bigger cities. is, what happened to them? You might even be lucky enough to chance upon a complete set Ken Sanford of the 28 countries that were prepared and mailed by the same person on * * * some clean and matching covers but such complete sets can be hard to Just a Cover find. More often singles, such as the one illustrated in Mr. Reyman's arti - In the article “Defining ” ( , Nov. 2016, pp. 467- APJ cle, are found, or sometimes partial sets of fewer than the 28 can be 8), Jim Graue gives a valid definition of a postal history exhibit, but miss - encountered. I think the reason complete sets can be a challenge to find is es an important point in the further discussion. Too many people equate that there are non-airmail collectors who collect individual countries and a cover with postal history, where they may say “I collect postal history,” “cherry pick” one or two covers from a set for their particular country meaning “I collect covers.” Unfortunately, that is not correct. What is collection. Complete sets would be less numerous since preparing and essential is the way the cover is used in an exhibit. Outside the exhibit sending 28 letters to all of these countries may have been an effort not it’s, well, just a cover. everyone wanted to try other than some collectors or dealers back then. What do I mean by that? Take for example a cover that has U.S. Jim Hester AAMS #6938 postage, carried on a first flight, signed by Lindbergh and with postage * * * due when forwarded at destination. It could be part of a “traditional” In the October 2016, issue of the , there is an arti - exhibit that concentrates on the U.S. stamps involved. It could be part of Airpost Journal cle on Pam Am test flights. As I recall, there have been a couple of similar a “thematic” exhibit of Lindberghiana. It could be a part of an exhibit articles run in the past. These covers have all been postmarked on that deals with forwarded mail and postage due, which could be a differ - November 1, 1946. This was the first day of the unified worldwide air ent form of postal history. And, yes, it could be a part of an aerophilately mail rates. All the illustrated covers featured the 10¢ rate to Central and exhibit. How it is treated in different hands determines what it is, but South America. (The 15¢ rate covered Europe and the Mediterranean only for that moment. area and 25¢ covered the rest of the world.) These rates were for half- The point to make is that no cover is automatically “postal histo - ounce letters. ry,” simply because it is a cover. Virtually all the covers I have seen have been franked with Bob Odenweller return postage in order to highlight the speed of Pan Am in delivering the mail. Robert Schlesinger * * * My apologies Ctoo Drarvee cBteilolanrt. He is the co-author Writer Believes Earhart Not Carrying Gimbel Covers of November’s featured article, “Amelia Earhart’s Final I believe that Amelia was not carrying the Gimbels covers when she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. The following is a quote from Flight,” but his name was not included in the byline. the book, by Mary Lovell: The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart, PAGE 488 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 489 President’s The 1929 CAM 30 Jim Graue Message Happy Halloween! Oh, er . . . , well, that is today, as I write this Special Christmas Flight for our year-end December 2016 . Our annual AAMS Airpost Journal Christine and Eugene Sanders convention at Chicagopex is 2½ weeks from now, so there is no news on that front as yet. The January issue will be loaded. In August 1928, Interstate Airlines was awarded a contract for The good news: 14 airmail exhibits were entered in Chicago, a CAM 30 to provide mail service between Chicago, , and Atlanta, great showing! Now, unfortunately, we are minus one (see below), but Georgia, with designated points in between. In December, mail service it’s a very strong turnout of airmail exhibits with a wide diversity of sub - between CAM 30 stop Evansville, Indiana, and St. Louis, Missouri, was jects. I am looking forward to seeing some “new” (for me, at least) air - added. mail subjects I have not seen for many years or even ever. The bad news: one of the exhibits I was most eager to see was by Artur Knoth, the Brazil of the 1930 Pan America Flight authority on the subject. We have only very recently been advised that Artur has died, taken all too quickly by rampant cancer. He was bringing his exhibit from his home in Germany and was also slated to present a program about it. Cheryl Ganz has stepped forward to present a substi - tute “Zeppelin subject” program. Thank you, Cheryl. Your programs are always excellent. Artur was a life member of AAMS. As you read this, we will be in middle of the “Holiday Season,” special times for family and friends. Both Vickie and I wish you and yours a very “Merry Christmas” and all best wishes for the new year! As always, our hobby offers relaxation, comfort and enjoyment, even when only a few minutes can be given to it.

Figure 1

In 1929, Interstate Airlines scheduled a special flight on Christ - mas Day. The cachet for this event consisted of a circular wreath sticker (Figure 1) applied to covers sent to the various CAM 30 cities participat - ing in the event. Covers also received a Christmas Day and many were signed by various individuals involved in the event. Some also sported an that wished “Seasons Greetings Via Air Mail” (Figure 2). An examination of covers found to date for the 1929 Special Christmas Flight reveals that many different pilots were involved in multiple flights. Furthermore, all covers departing from the same loca -

PAGE 490 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 491 travel time for northbound CAM 30 in 1929. This cover left Atlanta some time after 5:30 a.m. eastern time on December 25 and, as noted on the backstamp, arrived in Chicago around 8 a.m. central time the following day. This represents a total elapsed time of more than 27 hours for a jour - ney of less than 700 miles. The problem with CAM 30 in late 1929 was the absence of appropriate lighting along the route that necessitated flying on a day - light schedule. Due to the rough terrain and mountains that were located on the straight-line course of CAM 30, it was necessary to detour some - what to provide the landing fields that might be required in cases of emergency and set up required radio installations. None of this was accomplished until February 1930. From Chicago southward along the CAM 30 route, Special Christmas Flight covers have been found that were postmarked 11:30 a.m. in Terre Haute, Indiana. These were signed by pilots W. L. Jamieson Figure 2 or Joe Hammer (see cover illustration). A cover destined for San Francis - tion carried the same time in their postmark. The earliest postmark co did not arrive until January 6, 1930, as indicated by a backstamp. This found to date was 4 a.m. from Chicago on a cover destined for Min - cover was also signed by James M. Wulpi, the traffic manager for Inter - neapolis, Minnesota, and signed by W. L. Jamieson, Pilot (Figure 1). Cov - state Airlines who lived in Nashville, Tennessee. Covers with his signa - ers found for Atlanta, the other end of CAM 30, were postmarked at 5:30 ture have been found for the majority of stops along CAM 30. This, too, a.m. Three different pilots signed Atlanta covers found: Gene Fricks, U. indicates that covers were signed before Christmas Day 1929. Rousch and W. L. Jamieson. Since Jamieson signed both the 4 a.m. cover From Terre Haute southward along the CAM 30 route, the next from Chicago and the 5:30 a.m. cover from Atlanta, it appears that covers stop was Evansville. This was the “branch” location for Interstate Air - were signed prior to the actual flights in anticipation of the event. lines that in 1929 provided for to continue westward to St. Louis or The cover shown in Figure 3 illustrates the range for end-to-end south to Nashville. Seven Special Christmas Flight covers postmarked in Evansville at 9 a.m. have been found. Signatures for pilots Leland S. Jamieson, U. Rousch or Durward Ledbetter appear on these covers along with James Wulpi. Ledbetter became a Chicago - Atlanta night-run pilot for CAM 30 once it was open to night flying in 1930. Two covers postmarked in Evansville are addressed to Edward Schrader Jr. (see Figure 2) at the Veteran’s Hospital in Livermore, - fornia. However, one of the two (Figure 4) is also postmarked October 27, 1931, and signed by the Evansville postmaster. This cover has an October 30, 1931, Livermore backstamp and was forwarded on to Pasadena, California. Since no additional postage was required beyond that of the original 5¢ Theodore Roosevelt Fourth Bureau stamp, the most likely explanation for the second cover is that it was misplaced in 1929 and did not make the flight. This was not discovered until almost two years later, Figure 3 at which time it was sent to Mr. Schrader with the postmaster’s apolo -

PAGE 492 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 493 The last stop southward on CAM 30 prior to Atlanta was Chat - tanooga, Tennessee. Covers from this location were all postmarked at 10:30 a.m. Some were signed by pilots Durward Ledbetter, U. Rousch or W.L. Jamieson and traffic manager James Wulpi. Among the covers found, some postmarked at different stops along the route of CAM 30 were addressed to the same individual. Cov - ers have been found addressed to W. H. Wolfgang of Toledo, Ohio, post - marked at all stops south of Chicago including St. Louis. Collecting covers for the Special Christmas Flight of 1929 for CAM 30 provides an interesting study of this contract air mail route dur - ing a time in which the route and the CAM system were still evolving. As a post note, several enterprising philatelists with unused stickers for the 1929 Special Christmas Flight modified the year and mailed them from Chicago on Christmas Day in 1930. One of these was sent to Ontario, Canada via Atlanta. Unfortunately, there is no back - Figure 4 gies. By this time, Mr. Schrader was no longer at the hospital and the stamp to indicate when it arrived at its destination. cover had to be forwarded to his current address. Although not on the north-south route of CAM 30, St. Louis also References: participated in the Special Christmas Flight in 1929. All covers found to 1. Early Birds: www.earlyaviators.com. date are postmarked 9:30 a.m. and some are signed by pilots Joe Ham - 2. CAM30: www.aerodacious.com/ccCAM30.HTM. mer or U. Rousch, and traffic manager James Wulpi. 3.CAM30: www.dreamsmithphotos.com/arrow/airmail_routes From Evansville southward, the next stop on CAM 30 was /route_21_30/30/cam_30.html. Nashville. Covers for the 1929 Special Christmas Flight were postmarked in Nashville at 11:30 a.m. (Figure 5). Some were signed by pilots U. Rousch or Durward Ledbetter, and traffic manager James Wulpi. Airpost Journal Advertising Rates Size B&W Rate Color Rate Quarter Page $40 $55 Half Page $65 $100 Full Page $110 $160 Two-page $220 $320 Page 1 $120 $170 Inside cover $120 $170 Outside Cover $140 $190

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Figure 5 PAGE 494 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 495 Canadian Air Mail Notes

Chris Hargreaves #16

Figure 2 da. The island will be known to some readers for the wine it produces and to others for its location on bird migration routes. The shallow water and currents around the island usually pre - vented stable ice forming during the winter. According to a Canadian Post Office report in 1928:

An air mail service was in effect between Leamington, Ontario, and Pelee Island during the past winter season. The operation of conveying mail between Figure 1 the mainland and Pelee Island during the winter months has always been Backstamped Leamington Jan 4 1932. Endorsed: Pelee Isl. to extremely difficult in the past. The practice has been to convey the mail by a boat Leamington The shortest regular route in the world. equipped with runners, over hard ice, through soft ice and through open water. The contractor was always accompanied by two or three helpers and very often it Was this the World’s Shortest Air Mail was necessary for them to climb out of the boat onto the ice, pull the boat up on the ice, over the ice and into the water again. This was a dangerous proceeding Route in the 1930s? even under the best conditions. The distance between Pelee Island and the near - est point on the mainland is only a matter of eight miles but notwithstanding What was the World’s Shortest Air this fact it usually took the mail contractor and his assistants about half a day to Mail Route Ever? accomplish a trip. In view of the difficulty in performing this work, all parcel The air mail service to Pelee Island was one of the first air mail post service with the Island was suspended during the winter months and this services financed by the Canadian Post Office. It was inaugurated in resulted in considerable inconveniences to the inhabitants, inasmuch as it was December 1927, and was operated as an air stage service that carried necessary for them to proceed to Leamington in order to secure whatever parcel mail at regular postage rates to places that would otherwise be cut off. post mail was intended for them. The frequency of the air mail service which is The cover in Figure 1 was correctly franked at the three-cents-per-ounce performed by the London Air Transport Limited with Waco model 9 planes is rate for surface mail to the U.S.A. that applied in 1932. four round trips per week. This air mail service is, of course, only operated dur - Pelee Island is situated in Lake Erie, some 20 miles south of ing the season of closed navigation. During the past season about sixty-three [1] Leamington (Figure 2). It is the most southerly populated point in Cana - trips were made and approximately eight tons of mail carried.

PAGE 496 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 497 The air mail service was resumed in December 1928. Frequency was increased to a daily basis except Sunday, “weather permitting,” and the service operated until April 13, 1929. It started again on December 12, 1929, and continued every winter during the 1930s, though with several different operators using a variety of aircraft. According to the inscription on Figure 1, Pelee Island to Leam - ington was “THE SHORTEST REGULAR ROUTE IN THE WORLD.” However, there are several competitors for this title. Some readers will recall an article by Steve Swain in the Decem - ber 2015 regarding the cover shown in Figure 3, which Airpost Journal has a typed endorsement “BY WAY OF WORLD’S SHORTEST AIR - MAIL FLIGHT.”

Figure 4 Postmarked: San Jose, Oct 15 6 PM 1929. Cachet inscribed: FIRST ANNIVERSARY FLIGHT OCTOBER 15, 1929 SHORTEST AIR MAIL ROUTE IN THE WORLD SAN JOSE - OAKLAND WORLD” is made on the cover in Figure 4. The air mail route from San Jose to Oakland was a spur service, connecting San Jose to the main Con - tract Air Mail Route 8, which operated along the west coast of the U.S.A. from Seattle via Portland, San Francisco (Oakland), Fresno and Los Angeles to San Diego. Oakland Airport was built in 1927. It is situated south of the city and was the starting point for the Dole prize for a flight from California to Hawaii. The airport was built with a 7,020-foot-long runway, the Figure 3 longest in the world at the time. [2] : Postmarked Culver City, Calif. May 18, 1938. Cachet reads The air distance from San Jose to Oakland Airport is about 30 WORLD’S SHORTEST MAIL HOP – MAY 18th, 1938 – FROM CLOVER FIELD TO LOS ANGELES miles, so that air mail route was longer than that between Pelee Island and Leamington. However, the San Jose - Oakland service did operate The cover was thoroughly researched and described by Steve, year round, whereas the Pelee Island Air Mail was a seasonal service. who commented that Clover Field is now the Santa Monica airport, and An internet search for “World’s shortest air mail route” found that “the driving distance from Santa Monica (Clover Field) to Los Ange - another candidate from the 1920s. According to the November 1929 issue les is 16.5 miles. The flying distance – without the twists and turns of a of : highway - would more than likely be somewhat less, possibly 13 miles, Popular Science Monthly What is said to be the world’s shortest air mail give or take.” Although that distance makes the flight shorter than the route, traversed by amphibian planes in six minutes, recently opened in Chica - Pelee Island flight, it was made some years after the cover in Figure 1. It go. The novel line forwards mail from the municipal air field, where air mail was also a special flight as part of National Air Mail Week rather than a planes alight, to the Chicago waterfront, four minutes from the post office. Mail regular route. is delivered at an estimated saving of two hours. Before the start of the “air Another claim to be the “SHORTEST AIR MAIL ROUTE IN THE ferry” service, motor trucks made the delivery.

PAGE 498 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 499 This route was officially Contract Air Mail Route 31 and, accord - ing the , it was 9.2 miles long. Unfortunately, American Air Mail Catalogue the estimated time saving of two hours was overly optimistic. According to a post office announcement: CAM 31 was established June 15, 1929, on an experimental basis, and continued to operate for approximately ninety days as [3] the time-saving was not sufficient to justify the permanency of the service.

Figure 6 First flight Peace River to Fort Vermilion 1931. To commemorate the inauguration, the post office prepared com - memorative cachets for first flight covers from Peace River to Carcajou, Fort Vermilion and North Vermilion and for covers from these points to Peace River on the return flight. A pair of covers from the inauguration Figure 5 are shown in Figures 6 and 7. Although this was an air stage service, cov - Even shorter than these services which claimed to be the ers had to be franked at the five-cent air mail rate if the sender wanted a “world’s shortest air mail route,” was the service between Fort Vermilion first flight cachet. and North Vermilion in Northern Alberta. Their location is shown on Figure 5. According to Denny May in his book Air Mail in Alberta 1918 - : 2006 North Vermillion and Fort Vermillion are half a mile apart across the Peace River. There is a bridge across now, but even in the mid 1960's during early winter and spring break up one had to fly between the two communities. [4] Fort Vermilion was established in 1788, upstream of the impassi - ble Vermilion Rapids. European settlers traded furs with trappers from the local Dunneza, Dene and Cree first nations. It became the site of a major Hudson’s Bay Company post and a regional center. The surround - ing area is some of northernmost land in Canada suitable for agriculture. In October 1930, the Canadian Post Office announced that air mail service between Peace River and North Vermilion, via Carcajou and Figure 7 Fort Vermilion, would be inaugurated early in December 1930. The inau - First flight Peace River to North Vermilion. The cachet shows a guration was later postponed and actually took place on January 31, steamboat that operated along the Peace River at the time.

PAGE 500 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 501 there as the shortest scheduled flight in the world. Some covers were posted at Westray before the flight and carried as Post Office mail, others were posted at Papa Westray after the flight in [BN] Islander G-AWNR piloted by Captain Alsop.' Since the 1.7 miles from Westray to Papa Westray is the airport- to-airport distance, a comparison with the distance flown between Fort Vermilion and North Vermilion becomes very difficult. I asked Denny May if he had any additional information and he replied:

Figure 8 Covers were also carried between the intermediate points. Fig - ure 8 was flown the “half mile” between Fort Vermilion and North Ver - milion. Since this cover could only reach North Vermilion by air, and no cachet was offered for dispatches from Fort Vermilion, the cover was franked at the regular surface postage rate of two cents. I believe this ser - vice between Fort Vermilion and North Vermilion was the world’s short - est air mail route in the 1930s. Was it also the world’s shortest air mail route ever? Maybe, maybe not! The February 2016 included a letter from Ken Airpost Journal Sanford regarding the Westray – Papa Westray air mail service, which operates between two islands in Northern Scotland, as shown in Figure 9. The distance between the airports on Westray and Papa Westray is 1.7 miles! The flight is scheduled to take two minutes, including taxi- ing, but the actual duration depends on wind conditions. The fastest flight took 47 seconds! According to Richard Beith’s , the Scottish Air Mails 1919–1979 Westray - Papa Westray service was inaugurated on November 24, 1970. [7] A small number of souvenir covers were carried by the operator, Loganair. The handbook later lists:

E 1.14 31 October 1974: Westray and Papa Westray Special Flight by Loganair: 'Special souvenir covers were flown over this route to coincide with the publica - tion of the 21st edition of the Guinness Book of Records, this service being listed Figure 9 [5]

PAGE 502 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 503 [3] , page 181. American Air Mail Catalogue, 7th Edition, Volume One [4] Denny May’s concentrates on covers from Alberta, Air Mail in Alberta but also provides a great introduction to Canadian airmail services in general. It is 55 pages with lots of illustrations and is also available on a CD, which minimizes postage charges. For more information contact Denny May at [email protected] [5] Map reproduced from the Westray and Papa Westray Tourist Associ - ation website http://westraypapawestray.co.uk/ [6] Cover illustrated is from the collection of John Seymour. [7] Richard Beith’s handbook was privately published in 1981. 750 copies were printed, but it sold out some years ago. An Interesting Cover

Figure 10 [6] This advertising cover serves a dual purpose. It touts the Shrin- The only time I flew that route was May 5, 1966, with Lloyd Northey er’s Mecca Convention scheduled for May 1907 in Los Angeles and the of Fort Vermilion Air Service. The ice on the Peace River was in the process of Thomas Dirigible Balloon Flight from New York to LA. breaking up, which it did that afternoon - the effect was spectacular and noisy. I think the actual flight from the time of engine start, take-off, 1 minute across the River, landing and shut down was probably 10 minutes maximum, but the take-off to landing flight would have been less than 5 minutes. I am unable to determine where the airstrips on each side of the river were in those days, certainly not where the Fort Vermilion airport is today. Although the comparative distance covered by the two air mail services is uncertain, I think the 47 seconds between airports definitely makes the Westray - Papa Westray service the “World’s Shortest Regular Air Mail Service Ever” by duration of flight.

Acknowledgements Many thanks to Denny May, John Symons, Richard Beith and After several attempts, the flight was canceled, but this cover re- Steve Swain, with whom I corresponded regarding “World’s Shortest Air mains. Thanks to Tom Cottrell for sharing. Mail Flight” covers. If you have a cover you find interesting but maybe not worthy of an article, send it along and we’ll feature it in this space. Notes [1] From “Air mail Service in Canada,” an article in the official program for the inauguration of the New York - Montreal Air Mail Service, Octo - ber 1, 1928,reproduced in December 1998. The Canadian Aerophilatelist, Wanted: Articles for APJ — [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_International_Airport NOW!

PAGE 504 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 505 PAGE 506 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 507 My interest in CAM covers began in the mid-1970s when I decid - Treasure Hunting for ed to turn my boyhood interest into an adult hobby. After trying several CAM Covers other collecting areas (classic US stamps, plate blocks and First Day Cov - ers), I began to look at airmail covers, a natural extension of my career as a pilot. The clincher for CAMs came at NAPEX in 1978 when I discov - ered the cover illustrated as Figure 1. It was attractive to the eye, had a pilot signature in a beautiful hand, there was a definable history and, Lee Downer amazingly, it was affordable. I still love it and won’t ever part with my “mile marker #1” cover. If I use my own experience as a guide for other potential CAM CAM Collecting in 2016 collectors, those same criteria might sway a few modern hobbyists to Why would anyone want to collect classic CAM covers? Those dive into these mostly plentiful artifacts of the early days of our nation’s early first flights all look pretty much the same: a domain for specialists airmail system. Today there are a lot of choices to attract potential collec - reveling in minor color variations, misapplied cachets or misdirected tors. A CAM focus requires some thought, beyond just acquiring a hoard mail. of covers to complete routes or years or contractors. So, using my four A few months ago, I gave an informal presentation to the Metro - criteria as a guide, I will provide some examples of how to make CAMs politan Air Post Society about collecting domestic airmail covers, Con - fit a range of budgets. tract Air Mail (CAM) covers and related material. The topic, “CAM Col - First is affordability. CAM inaugural flight covers are still pretty lecting in 2016,” might be of interest to a wider audience, perhaps includ - cheap, especially on the internet, at sites like eBay and other on-line auc - ing some philatelic window shoppers, so I will take the liberty of sum - tions. A budding collector can find enough material to quickly build marizing the presentation in several episodes of Treasure Hunter in almost complete collections for reasonable prices. Of course, there are a hopes that a few budding hobbyists, searching for an area to collect or few exceptions to excite the more adventurous. As I’ve said in these specialize, will stumble onto this often overlooked area. columns, the avid CAM treasure hunter can still find scarce, even rare, items if diligent. Once infected by the bug, price becomes no object, but

Figure 1 Figure 2 CAM 12S3a signed by pilot Cordner CAM 17E3Df plain

PAGE 508 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 509 However, if you look a little deeper for any given catalogue list - ed item, hiding somewhere in the piles will be a few that are different. Figure 2 and 3 illustrate what I mean. Figure 2 is proper in every way, but there is little there to excite one’s interest. Figure 3, also identically proper, has color and style beyond the basics. My wife thinks CAM first flight covers are boring, but when I show her a few with colorful frank - ing, vignettes, snappy hand-stamping and interesting markings, she gets it. For little, or no, extra money, why not find those covers with pizzazz? Another way to put more life into a CAM collection, in addition to “prettier” stamps, is to find covers that were preprinted with elegant,

Figure 3 CAM 17E3Df embellished nice, interesting collections, displays and exhibits can be put together on a modest budget. Second is attractiveness. In my mind, collecting should stimulate a person’s artistic and historic interests. It goes beyond just ticking off the numbers in a catalogue. For CAM first flight cover collecting, I wouldn’t be the first to observe that huge numbers of classic covers, in the period between 1926 and 1934, are really tedious: white envelope, typed address, franked with a blue 10-cent map stamp canceled with a large black cachet. Dealer boxes at stamp shows have numbers of them.

Figure 4 Figure 5 Preprinted envelope example Printed cachet examples

PAGE 510 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 511 artful or humorous designs. Put sparkle into a CAM collection by seek - ing covers that have style, many by well-known philatelic cover design - ers like Ioor, Gorham, Dinnebier, Worden, Mauck and, yes, even And Now for a Roessler. Figures 4 and 5 illustrate a few of many possibilities. I assure you, as you flip through your collection with your spouse, polite friends or even other collectors, they will be more attracted to covers with color - Commercial Break ful cachets, designs and logos; appropriate labels of various types, with including Christmas seals and commercials add visual interest. Of course, I would hope the label would be appropriately seasonal or have a Steve Turechek relationship to the inaugural flight, but hey, it’s your collection! Collecting C56 Commercial Covers Roots of the 1959 can be quickly traced to the 1932 Olympics held in Los Angeles. There, National Olympic Com - mittees of the Americas discussed the future staging of an Olympic-style regional athletic competition for the athletes of the Americas. In 1937 a limited sports program was staged during the Pan American Exposition in Dallas. The first Pan American games were scheduled to be held in 1942 in , Argentina, but were delayed by the war and neces - sary preparation until 1951. The second Pan Am Games were held four years later in . Chicago was selected late to host the third Pan American games in 1959, after Cleveland withdrew, unable or unwilling to commit the necessary funds. The Post Office Department issued a 10¢

Figure 6 Not a first flight cover, but commercial usage over U.S. govern - ment and CAM routes. Finally, keeping to the subject of visual attractiveness, try finding covers which have had special services or additional fees for registration or special delivery as illustrated in Figure 6. Only a minute fraction of the covers prepared for any given inaugural flight were given special ser - vices. Make your collection unique with those “back-of-the-book” stamps and markings. In my next few columns, I will continue with the presentation, hoping to help someone find an airmail collecting niche that matches their interests and wallet. Meanwhile, I will continue to look for those CAM treasures that I know are out there. How about CAM first flights with international destinations other than Canada and Mexico? I don’t have, or even see, many. Good hunting! Figure 1

PAGE 512 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 513 North, Central and South America did not change until July 1, 1961.) Figure 1 shows C56 paying the basic half-ounce rate to Haiti. This cover was sent from Houston, Texas, on September 14, 1960. Figure 2 shows a pair of the Pan Am Games stamps plus a socked-on-the-nose 5¢ C50 combining to pay the 25¢ rate to Australia, posted September 27, 1960.

Figure 2 , Scott C56, on the opening day of the games, forever memorializing the torch bearer. In retrospect it would prove a somewhat doubtful honor, all things considered. The torch began its journey to Chicago carried by Mexican Boy Scouts from Mexico City to Laredo, Texas. It was transferred without a Figure 3 hitch at the border. All went well as the northward journey continued In Figure 3, the airmail postage (7¢ treaty rate to Canada) is paid into Oklahoma. But in McAlister, Oklahoma, while the scout bearing the by definitives, while a trio of C56 stamps pay the 30 ȼ special delivery fee. torch napped, the flame holder was stolen. Though later recovered, the The legal-size cover in Figure 4 is from a sender in Holyoke, Massachu - base fell victim to gravity when an automobile serving as a temporary setts. In Brooklyn, it was weighed, canceled on September 19, 1959, then storage container rolled unattended into the Mississippi River. One can marked with the ubiquitous purple “Returned to sender for additional only imagine the chuckles accompanying that first day ceremony. postage due 15¢. Rate 15¢ per ½ oz. Weight of this letter 1 oz.” The Why a 10¢ airmail stamp? In 1959 the international airmail rates sender added the required postage, partially paid by a single C56, and to North, Central and South America were 10¢ per half ounce, a rate the letter was resent the next day for delivery in Lancshire (sic), England. established in 1946. Prior to 1959, the only airmail stamp available to pay the rate was C42, the violet UPU issue of 1949, a stamp well past its prime. A Pan American Games stamp paying the 10¢ airmail letter rate into those countries participating in the games was an ideal match of stamp subject with intended use. Other usages are less common: domes - tic airmail and treaty rates to Canada were lower, whereas rates to Europe, Asia and Australia were higher. Even so, Pan American Games stamps appear on covers paying partial rates or fees for other postal ser - vices. The most relevant period of usage for the Pan American Games stamp is from its first day, August 27, 1959 until June 10, 1960, when the 10¢ Liberty Bell stamp, C57, was issued. (The 1946 airmail letter rates to Figure 4

PAGE 514 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 515 The 1959 Pan American Games were dominated by the United Vermeil States. The events included track and field (known as “athletics” back Steve B. Davis U.S. 1941 Six Cent Transport Airmail Issue: Usages then), , , , cycling, equestrian sports, fencing, and Rates soccer, , shooting, even yachting. Of 23 men’s track and field events, the US won 18 gold, 16 silver and nine bronze medals, in some One Frame Silver cases sweeping whole events, including hurdles, shot put, discus, ham - Joseph Bock Usages of the U.S. Five Cent Large Skymaster Stamp mer throw and javelin. The US women did equally well, winning gold in eight of 10 track and field events. The women added seven silver and four bronze medals, completely sweeping broad jump, discus and shot put. Omaha Stamp Show September 10-11, 2016 Omaha, Nebraska One Frame Gold Gary G. Hendren News of the Shows St. Louis Pioneer Airmail, October 4-8, 1911

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PAGE 516 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 517 Figure 2 Reverse of 10A cover, received December 12, with unlisted cachet applied at Bahia. reads: “Transportada inteiramente / por via aerea – Air France.” It should be noted that, at the end of 1934, Air France had not yet achieved its goal of weekly all-airmail service between Europe and South America. But their nearly bi-weekly, full-air service must have been deemed worth touting, as the cachet indicates. The letter reached its destination in Brazil five days after being mailed in a rural town in England, nothing to Figure 1 be sneezed at, indeed. Flight 10A cover, Buckinghamshire—Bahia, posted December 7, 1934. Examples of these full-air cachets, applied both on outgoing and incoming mail to signify the expedited service, are reproduced in An Unlisted Air France Cachet: Labrousse, as well as in Collot and Cornu (2), with the latter source pro - viding somewhat more extensive coverage. None of the cachets included Bahia (Brazil) 1934 in Labrousse’s catalog were applied at Bahia. Collot and Cornu do show

Dan Gribbin On December 11, 1934, the Air France flying boat , Santos-Dumont a four-engine Blériot 5190, lifted off from St. Louis (Dakar) Senegal with a load of mail for South America. This was the second westerly crossing by this aircraft, with Lucien Bossoutrot as chef de bord, a flight designat - ed 10A in the Labrousse catalog (1). Included in that mail was a private letter mailed to a recipient in the Barra neighborhood of Salvador, the capital city in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The letter was posted on December 7 in the English town of Princes Risborough. The postmark includes the name of the “county town” (Aylesbury) in Buckinghamshire (Figure 1). Arriving in Natal on the evening of December 11, the cover received a backstamp in Bahia at 9 a.m. on December 12 (Figure 2). Of particular interest here, on the reverse side of the cover, is the purple, boxed cachet indicating full airmail service: a speedy mail flight across the Atlantic rather than a four-day boat trip. The two-line cachet Figure 3 Flight 7R cover, posted Bahia, September 16, 1934, with listed cachet. PAGE 518 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 519 a cachet applied in Bahia on outgoing mail in 1934-35, an example of the United States a “Foreign Air Mail” route. The Foreign Air Mail routes which can be seen on the 7R cover (flown on the third round trip of the became known as FAMs. in Figure 3. But neither catalog shows a receiving cachet for In 1928, financier Thomas E. Braniff, with his brother, World Croix du Sud) mail processed at Bahia. Thus, the purple cachet depicted in Figure 2 War I pilot Paul Revere Braniff, founded Paul R. Braniff, Inc., a combina - might be considered worthy of note, an unlisted variety. tion flying school, aircraft parts supplier and airline. On the other hand, we may have, among our readers, collectors who have encountered other sources that list Air France cachets. If they would contact the editor with that information, or with other examples of unlisted cachets from Bahia or elsewhere, we will gladly publicize the information.

References (1) Pierre Labrousse, Répertoire des Traversées Aériennes de l’Atlantique Sud . Libourne: the author, 1974, 10- par l’Aéropostale et Air-France, 1930-1940 11. (2) Gérard Collot and Alain Cornu. Ligne Mermoz: Histoire aérophilatélique, . Paris: Editions Bertrand Latécoère, Aéropostale, Air France, 1918-1940 Sinais, 1990, 204-5.

On June 20, 1928, passenger service began on a 116-mile route between Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In April 1929 Braniff was FAM 34 First Flight sold to Universal Aviation Corporation, a conglomerate cross-country air-rail network. A new independent Braniff airline operation was incor - Paul Petrosky porated on November 3, 1930, under the name Braniff Airways with The United States Post Office Department designated any con - Tom as president and Paul as secretary-treasurer. Throughout the 1930s tract air mail flown by an airline to or from a foreign country to or from Braniff Airways expanded its route system and in early 1947 changed its name to Braniff International Airways. The FAM 34 contract was awarded to Braniff International Air - ways and on June 4, 1948, flying a Douglas DC-6 piloted by Don L. Hurst, it inaugurated flight service from Houston, Texas, to , Peru. Its first stop was , Cuba.

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PAGE 520 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 521 Greater St. Louis Sets World Record Obituary Tom Cottrell Capt. Julius Grigore Jr. In 1929, Dale Jackson and Forrest O’Brine captured the world airplane endurance record by staying aloft 420 hours. Brothers John and Captain Julius Grig1or9e 2Jr2. r-et i2re0d1 f6rom the US Navy. He was a Kenneth Hunter of Chicago established a new record in July 1930 with veteran of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, as well 553 hours and 43 minutes in the air. Not to be outdone, Jackson and as a recognized authority of the submarine disaster. He was Surcouf O’Brine took to the skies again that same month, reclaiming the honor buried at Sarasota National Cemetery with full military honors. with 562 hours. The following item was written by Louie Celerier and published They didn’t stop there. The fliers said they did not know when in : Panama Canal Spillway they would come down, according to an Associated Press article. * * * “Maybe tomorrow, next month or next year,” adding they thought they “GOD SPEED, CAPTAIN GRIGORE! I dedicate this issue to could “stay up until next August.” The pair finally landed at Lambert-St. Captain Julius Grigore, Jr., USN-Retired, who died on August 1, 2016. Louis Field on August 18, clocking 647 hours, 28 minutes and 30 seconds Captain Grigore was 94 years old and living in Venice, Florida, at the in their monoplane. It was reported that a crack in the crank case forced time of his death. I met Julius through the internet when I was looking the end of the flight. for more information about the French submarine . This unusual Surcouf submarine, built in the late 1920s, was the largest submarine built until the post-WWII nuclear submarines came into being. It carried an air - plane in a pressurized hangar and sported two eight-inch guns on an armored pressurized turret. Julius was very generous with this informa - tion and provided me with his first publication about the Later I Surcouf. acquired several of his other books pertaining to Panama and the Canal which proved very useful to me. He was a most willing provider of information and photos for other writing projects I undertook. I can truly call him a good friend and will miss his help and commentaries. “Capt. Grigore was a 1946 graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, but sailed as a midshipman in the Pacific war zone aboard a transport ship during his junior year, helping in the evacuation of wounded from New Guinea and the Salomon Islands to Australia. It was during this duty that his ship stopped at Cristobal and Panama captured his heart. Promising himself to return This cover, signed by both pilots, commemorates the World’s someday, he accomplished his goal in 1964 when he went to work for the Endurance Refueling Flight, started July 21 and concluded nearly a Industrial Division of the Panama Canal Company as Assistant Chief of month later. During the flight, approximately 5,120 gallons of fuel and the Division, a position he held until his retirement. 125 gallons of oil were transferred from the refueling plane to Greater St. “Julius was a member of the American Air Mail Society for 30 Louis. years. He collected material from Pan American World Airways, SCAD - TA and affiliated airlines. He published these aerophilatelic books, Looking for something? Check out the classified ads! The , Air Mail History of the Canal Zone and Panama, 1918-1941 The Aerophilately PAGE 522 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2016 PAGE 523 of the U.S. Army's First Pan American Good Will Flight, NYRBA's (New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Airlines) Triple Crash and Outlaw Flight Covers and and its Postal Markings; First Airplane Flight Over Panama Canal Zone 1913 AAMS Membership Report a number of non-philatelic books and numerous articles.” October 2016 * * * Submitted by Judith Washington, Membership Secretary I met Julius a couple of times and he was a knowledgeable and enthusiastic aerophilatelist. He was always willing to help other collec - Deceased tors. He is survived by his daughter Wren, who was a great support to 06783 Ralph L. Sloat him for many years. 09471 Julius Grigore Jr. Ken Sanford 10530 Daniel Gornjak 10611 Dr. Artur Knoth

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