:JAe Juhl, 1940 AIRPOST JOURNAL Official Pu6licatl.on of tke ofme'li.can ofVt. ..Jlail S ociet9 VENEZUELA'S PAN AMERICAN UNION STAMP Firs± Day of Issue (June 13, 1940) Cover of ±he New lSc Pan Ameri­ can Union Commemorative. -Courtesy C. A. Phillips PROPAGANDA OFFERS TO ENCOURAGE COLLECTING OF FIRST AIR MAILS AJ. 1 TWENTY SUPERB FIRST AIR MAILS Guaranteed Normal Selling Price at Least $8.00. Pure Prop- aganda! .......................................................................................... $ 2 AJ. 2 100 SUPERB FIRST AIR MAILS Guaranteed Normal Selling Price at Least $60. Finely De­ scribed and Mounted in our Famous Victor Rex Loose-Leaf Album ............................................................................................$ 20 AJ. 3 100 SUPERB FIRST AIR MAILS Tracin g a Flight Round the World. Armchair Travel! De- scribed and Mounted in a Victor-Rex Alum ........................ $ 40 AJ. 4 DITTO, Including Rarities ...................................................... $600 AJ. 5 100 SUPERB FIRST AIR MAILS Historical Collection from the Paris Siege Balloon Post of 1870 to the Trans-Atlantics of 1939 .................................... $ 60 AJ. 6 DITTO. Including Rarities .................................................... $800 AJ. 7 100 SUPERB FIRST AIR MAILS Showing the Various Means of Transportation - Balloon, Dirigible, Catapult, Glider, Rocket, etc. Described and Mounted ...................................................................................... $ 60 AJ. 8 DITTO, Including Rarities ............................................ ..... $800 AJ. 9 SPECIMEN COPIES AIR MAIL MAGAZINE POST FREE AJ. 10 FINELY BOUND VOLUMES 1939 AIR MAIL MAGAZINE (Sold at Actual Cost of Quantity Binding) (Mint Stamps Accepted) SOc ALL ABOVE POST FREE, ORDER BY NUMBER Orders can be placed with Complete Confidence as we Guarantee Satisfaction or Refund of Payment. USA & Canadian Collectors now buy at $4 to the £ instead of the Pre-War Rate of $5 to the £ - A Substantial Reduction. EST. 1896 EST . 1896 A. P~ I LLI PS AIR MAIL SPE:CIALIST NE:WPORT MON E:NGLAND :J.,ow.nto Ylo.r.uidi Up. 'P~ &o-4 llTH ANNUAL CONVENTION Society trophy, will also be available • for competition. The regulations Features Will Include governing the exhibition are very AIRPOST EXHIBITION liberal and all airpost collectors AIRPOST AUCTION should participate, making every ef­ ANNUAL AAMS DINNER fort to exhibit their choice material at this show, which promises to be SIGHTSEEING TOUR the best of its nature ever under­ CATALOGUE FORUM taken in the Dominion. SPECIAL PARTIES No Duty on Stamps • It should also be pointed out, for T'S "THUMBS UP !" and "On to the benefit of those who have not n Toronto" for AAMS members and been informed, that stamps and cov­ airposters on the occasion of the ers are not listed in any way in the Eleventh Annual Convention of the Canadian tariff regulations and are American Air Mail Society being therefore free of complications and held at the Canadian metropolis delays in this respect. Mr. T. H. August 16-17, 1940. Headquarters for R-McNally, Manager of the Toronto the gathering of air mail collectors Convention and Tourist Association, will be the beautiful Royal York advises us there will be no duty on Hotel, largest edifice of its kind in the stamps or covers brought in for the British Empire. exhibit, sale or exchange. Packages Word has just been received from sent should be marked as per the President J. M. Stephen of the Tor­ specific instructions related in our onto Air Mail Club, Chapter No. 14, last issue, which will insure their that in spite of ·the fact that some entry and handling without delay or of the members are now in the bother. According to Mr. R-McNally, Army, Navy and Air Force, the or­ anyone carrying stamps to the con­ ganization is carrying on and eagerly vention need only explain to the looks forward to entertaining the customs people that he is taking AAMS Convention. The burden of these stamps to a philatelic conven­ the local air mail collectors has been tion in Toronto and he wil have no lightened by the close cooperation trouble whatever. of five other Toronto stamp clubs, together with the Canadian Philate­ The Airp')st Auction lic Society and the nearby Stamp In connection with the Convention Club of Hamilton. the AAMS is also sponsoring the first Airpost Auction, consisting of The Exhibition a selected group of air mail stamps A most representative exhibition and covers and other philatelic of Airpost Stamps, Covers and As­ material. It is antichlated the sale sociated Material is well under way will be held in one of the assembly and will be thrown open to the pub­ rooms of the headquarters hotel lic on the afternoon of Friday, Aug­ Saturday afternoon, August 17. A ust 16. Complete details of the exhi­ listing of the lots to be offered at this bition, together with information and. sale will appear in connection with entry blank appear in the June APJ. the Convention Issue of the APJ, to In addition to the awards listed last be published during the last week of month, the Cincinnati Air Mail July. Entries of material to be in- OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE Tl-IE: AIRPOST JOURNAL AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY JULY. 1940 Vol. XI, No. 10 Issue. 123 20 Per Copy 216 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL eluded in the auction for donation, concludes the activities of the two­ or sale, should reach the Auction day session Saturday evening. An Manager, Mr. L. B. Gatchell, 24 enjoyable air mail program is being Brook Road, Bronxville, N. Y., not arranged by the local committee and later than July 8. Further details prominent speakers, including repre­ concerning this auction may also sentatives of both the Canadian and be found in the June issue . .of .this .. the .. United . States .Post .Office .De­ magazine. partments will be featured. The an­ Program Plans nouncement rnd prrnent"tion of the The Toronto Convention program Airpost Exhibition· awards will also has already taken shape, and com­ be made as a climaxing feature of plete details of the various meet­ the dinner. ings and entertainments which are to be featured will appear next Plan Attendance month. A prevue of the arrange­ The majority of the officers of the ments being made indicates AAMS AAMS, editors and writers of the business sessions will be scheduled Catalogue and the AIRPOST JOUR­ for Friday and Saturday mornings. NAL and many of the membership Friday afternoon will see the open­ have already announced their in­ ing of the airpost show, together tention of attending the Toronto with a sightseeing tour of Toronto in Convention. A cordial invitation is modern, streamlined street cars, re­ extended to all members and every­ quiring two hours. Friday evening one interested in airposts to be pre­ there will be a Stag Party for the sent for this enjoyable and beneficial gentlemen, including moving pic­ gathering of air mail collectors. Pre­ tures and entertainment, sandwiches liminary registratibn will be under and refreshments. At the same time way Thursday evening, August 15 there will also be a cocktail party with the general program opening for the ladies in attendance, includ­ Friday morning, August 16. Join in ing the serving of sandwiches and with your fellow airpost collector at some very attractive entertainment. Toronto .... and "THUMBS UP!" Catalogue Forum One of the features of this year's Convention will be the holding of a Catalogue Forum, which is tentative­ ly scheduled for Saturday afternoon, following the Auction. The editor­ in-chief and the two assistant edi­ tors of the 1940 Edition of the American Air Mail Catalogue will be in attendance, together with the majority of the individual Section Chairmen and their associates, pre­ senting what will undoubtedly be the largest single gathering of the authorities who produced this recog­ nized volume, and all of whom are recognized airpost specialists in their particular fields. An open discussion of listings, with questions and an­ ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY! swers, will be available to all who would like to attend, with a cordial An absolute necessity for the in­ invitation for those who are not telligent collecting of Airposts. The clear on the current listings, or who recognized guide for buy- $3 SQ would like to present suggestions ing or selling. Postage ex- • for possible future editions. The tra. (Wt. 3 lbsJ. plan should prove popular, and will undoubtedly be presented in the THE future as an annual feature. AMERICAN AIR MAIL Annual AA.MS Dinner CATALOGUE Highlight of the Convention will Albion Penn'a be the annual AAMS dinner, which ·•·v~•tvtiJ•·....-~-~. BULLETIN Date Set For Inaugural of New Zealand Route SOUTH PACIFIC INAUGURAL FLIGHT AUTHORIZED; LOS ANGELES NEW STOP Below is official data on U. S. - N. Z. inaugural flight released at Washington, June 26: The first flight on this new route from San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand, by way of Los Angeles, (new stop) Honolulu, Canton Island (South Pacific) and Noumea (New Caledonia) is scheduled to leave San Francisco July 12, 1940. and arrive at Auckland, July 17. Returning, the first flight will leave Auckland, July 20, arriVing at San Francisco, July 24. Covers for mailing should be sent in time to reach San Francisco ·or LOS ANGELES, respectively, not later than July 10, Honolulu not later than. July 11. The last steamship connection for Honolulu leaves San Francisco, July 6. There is no steamship connection for points beyond Honolulu. Fully prepaid covers sent to the postmaster at Los Angeles with indications thereon to be carried to Hono­ lulu, Canton Island, Noumea, or Auckland, will be given a special cachet. All covers to and from Canton Island will be carried in the mails, and not outside the mails as previously announced. Those to be dispatched from Can­ ton Island will be postmarked and those received will be backstamped at that office. The postage rates for the entire route and intermediate points are as follows: From Los Angele~ to Honolulu, 20 cents; San Francisco or Los Angeles to Canton Island, 30 cents; to Noumea, 40 cents, and to Auckland, 50 cents per h<>lf ounce.