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AIRPOST JOURNAL Erie, Penn'a - An Oc:toLer 1s1L Inaugural

Pennsylvania Central Airlines inaugurates AM-46 at Erie, Penn'a. Photo, taken on arrival of northbound trip at 4:15 p. m., shows (L to r.l Miss Adams, Stewardess, L. C. Wisenauer, Erie Station Mgr., Capt. J. B. Franklin, co-pilot, who Oew the trip through Erie, and

W. E. Goodill. Asst. Sup. of Mails, Erie. -Photo by W. J. Conrath

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C:AM's IN THE LIMELIGHT •

News and Inventory on the Advent of the 15th Birthday of U. S.

Contract Air Mail Service

• by WALTER J. CONRATH

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CC ONTRACT AIR MAIL collecting inter€st and activity reached

new highs during October. First of all it was a month of feverish short­notice events, with inaugural flights of new routes and additions popping from almost everv section of the nation. Four AAMS Advance Air Mail Information Bulletins were is­sued· in a oeriod of two weeks. Two of them within two days. Alert CAM collectors who carefully studied their Daily Postal Bulletin found a few more first flights tucked away under new and revised schedules. There were but few official Post Office De­partment cachets, plus a few mis­understandings on the furnishing of cachets for new AM routes. Covers from the 5 October 15 inaugurals, on which but few collectors' items were carried, should prove very desirable. while pieces from the first flights to and from Clarksburg, W. Va .. when that city was added to AM-25 Octo­ber 21, will undoubtedly be even IIJiOre scarce.

Continuing through November. CAM activity is still providing plenty of work for those who prepare their own first flight covers. On or about November first AM routes 48 and 51 are scheduled to be inaugurated. On November 12 thirty-five covers will be necessary to S€cure complete di­rectional coverage of a new Non­stop Pick-Up and Delivery Route (AM-49-B} between Pittsburgh, Pa. and Huntington, via Parkersburg, W. Va. Some readers will undoubtedly still have opportunity to forward their own covers on this new pick­up route and a reprint of the AAMS Bulletin showing covers required will

be found elsewhere in this issue of the Journal.

CAM Following Increases More than ever, this was also a

month of greater interest in Contract Air Mail cover collecting. The gradu­al rise in interest began years ago, on a sound, thoughtful basis, and is still growing. More inquiries are cur­rently being received from collectors and prospective CAM collectors. De­sirable covers of the more rare points are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. There's a greater activity in the buying and selling of domestic first flight covers, which places them on a plane even above the hereto­for more renowned and revered ear­ly postal covers bearing fancy and special cancels. Auction prices of better items have borne out and compared well with CAM cover catalogue quotations.

Why the Popularity ? But, how come this great evidence

of interest in Contract Flights? First. the air mail system has spun a net.­work over the entire nation, and al­most everyone has, at one time or another during the past fourteen years, seen or heard of first flight CAM covers and cachets. Secondly, the covers are official in every sense of the word, being authorized by the Post Office Department and handled with the same care and caution as would be employed to protect any govenmental emission. Third, the covers are history-reveal­ing, they are clean, interesting proo­erty; colorful and appealing, even to the uninitiated. They are also quite readily secured, under the majority of circumstances.

Totaling the reasons for CAM pop­ularity it must also be pointed out that collectors of this group of first flight air mail covers have had an efficient catalogue of listings and valuations of these items for a num­ber of years. There is no debate but that this portion of the American Air Mail Catalogue, ably edited by a large and representative staff of

T~E AIRPOST JOURNAL OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THI: AMERICAN AIR MAil.. SOCIETY

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specialists, has held old and attract­ed many new collectors to Contract flight covers. The CAM Catalogue listings, after successive volumes and years of experience, have been de­veloped by AAMS members into a both efficient and interesting group­ing, without padding of unnecessary items or deletion of important as­sociated facts. It is truly a listing "BY the collector FOR the collector."

At least a portion of the increased interest in CAM cover collecting might be attributed to the recent ap­pearance of the new APJ album page sets for CAM's. These loose-leaf pages, of which a complete collection album is available, make it possible for the average collector to properly mount covers of this type, anct have with his collection attractively writ­ten-up information on the routes. complete route maps showing old, revised and new routes, and illustra­tions of the more attractive cachets used on some of the covers.

And :the Future It is reasonable to assume that

CAM cover collecting popularity has not yet reached its ultimate peak. Many collectors who have sent and saved a few covers in the past year~ are just beginning to realize their importance. A more genuine appreci­ation of these souvenirs which chron­icle the historic development of our national network of airways is in­evitable as the years pass. Then too. those who have indicated or thought that "all the possible new first flights have been flown" will have to revise their premises as evidenced by the numerous inaugurals of the past sev­eral weeks. Though the number may be reduced, there will always be new routes or services to maintain a continued interest in new material.

The day has passed when collec­tors or dealers, who specialize in some other branch of the hobby, refer to CAM coYers as common cabbage and look upon their value as less than postage. Persons might still TRY to BUY them at p0stage figures, but today they practically all look CAM's over and catalogue them quite carefully before SELLING the covers.

Conlrac::t Bir:thday So, as we approach the celebration

of the 15th anniversary of the first Contract Air Mail service in the

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United States, which will be Feb­ruary 15, 1941, it is pleasing to note the progress and the intensified in­terest in CAM aero-philately. Many of us highly prize those first con­tract flights covers of 1926, specially marked with history-telling cachets and cancels. We've gone a long way in our branch of the hobby, and we don't regret it one bit.

• NO CHANGE IN POLICY OF NEW AIR SERVICE RELEASES

We reproduce here a letter from Mr. Roy M. Martin, Supt. of Air Mail, concerning recent Air Mail in­augurals:

October 15, 1940 "My dear Mr. Gatchell,

Receipt is acknowledged of your letter concerning the press release of new air mail services to go into effect October 15. ·

There has been no change in the policy concerning notices of first flights, and the Department will en­deavor to notify all concerned when­ever there is sufficient time for full coverage.

Recently, there have been some cases where the various factors upon which authorizations for new ser­vices are determined, were not in our hands until approximately the time the carrier was ready to start. In these cases, it did not appear war­ranted to delay the start of the ser­vice for the considerable period re­quired for first flight announcements.

A number of notices are being sent out at the present time, which will indicate our intention of following the long-established practice when­ever there is sufficient time for the complete coverage necessary. Those which have come from the printer. at this time are enclosed herewith.

We appreciate the cordial tenor or y-0ur letter.

Sincerely yours, Roy M; Martin, Superintendent."

At a later date Mr. Gatchell, sec­retary of the AAMS Advisory Board, wrote Mr. Martin calling attention to the supplying of additional official cachets for all cities on NEW routes AM-51 and AM-48. It was respect.­fully suggested that the Department provide the usual cachet treatment.

Three Pounds For Erie Inaugural

• FIRST FLIGHT Air Mail changes hands for the October 15th in­augural of AM-46 (Buffalo-Erie-Pittsburgh) at Erie. Photo taken by Editor Conrath on the arrival of the southbound Bight at 12:15 p. m. shows light sack of mail. The sack and lock weighs 2 lbs. Left is Pennsylvania Central Airlines Capt. J. T. Rinker, Pilot and. right, Ralph R. Weigel, Supt. of Mails, Erie. Pa.

BETTER CLASSIFICATION OF -AIR MAIL STAMPS URGED

"A branch in which better classi­fication of material is needed is the air mails. Here various items of private origin have been treated as though they were of governmental origin. I realize that the air special­ist is probably as much interested in the private pioneer flights as in the official flights and desires private as well as governmental material in his collection. But the general col-

lector who desires to collect only official stamps has had stamps of private origin foisted on him as of­fi.cal. And I think even the air specialist is entitled to know which items in his collection are private and which are official issues. I in­sist on recognition of the principal that every collector has the right to collect what he pleases. But also I insist that he should be entitled to know the status of what he is col­lecting."

-From "Principles of Philately" by John N. Myer.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE • ALL MEMBERS

B ELIEVING THAT EVERY REAL AIRPOSTER is deeply interested in the contin~d welfare and progress of our hobby and in the

further expansion of the American Air Mail Society, both in individual memberships and new chapters, your chairman is calling signals for - ACTION.

I earnestly solicit the enthusiastic and continuous support of every member. I am convinced that the majority of our members wish to see our Society and the hobby it so splendidly represents grow and :flourish in great measure and bring to increasing numbers the joys of aero-philately. One of the greatest opportunities for achieving this is through an increased number of live-wire chapters, providing frequent fellowship, exchanges,. inspiring and helpful programs and other mutual benefit enterprises.

Already, since President Alley entrusted this important task to my incapable charge I have received very encouraging assurances of co­operation and have via loyal co-workers, formed several importani con­tacts in a number of cities. Our opportunities are limited only by the amount of work we are willing to do. I am counting on every member to do his or her full share. If your community affords no opportunity for a chapter, at least, overlook no possible new member-far or near, hut seriously consider first-a new chapter. The Society needs and will appreciate your best efforts.

I shall he deeply grateful for you help.

e JOHN B. JACKSON, President of The Motor City Air Mail Society at New Orleans airport.

GLEN W. NAVES, -Chapters Chairman.

MOTOR CITY AIR MAIL SOCIETY IS ACTIVE CHAPTER

The Motor City Air Mail Society, Chapter No. 11, American Air Mail Society, the October 26th special meeting of which will be reported in our next edition, has since its formation been an active and enthusiastic group .

.John B. .Jackson is president, .John .Jungwirth iS vice-president, and the secretary-treasurer is Lester L. Manning. These officers have a record of splendid service to their chapter and The American Air Mail Society.

Meetings are held the second Tuesday in each month at member's homes, and always a delightful aero-phila­telic atmosphere prevails. As a result of member's fre­quent contact with each other and the holding of meet­ings in their homes, a pleasant social background adds to their enjoyment.

The chapter has one honorary member, Karl Koslow­ski, pioneer airposter. Recently for a full week, the chapter had an exhibit in the main Detroit post office building. Speakers on interesting topics, and motion pictures, a la AAMS member, Orian E. Green, are fre­quent program features. Mr. Green, member of the chap­ter, has modern motion picture equipment, and there­fore is able to make this valuable contribution to its entertainment.

Further newsy events on Motor City chapter activities will appear in subsequent editions of The Airpost .Journal. The chapters chairman is to receive complete and timely reports on activities of all chapters and requests they all kindly cooperate.

NOVEMBER, 1940

Ckapters Chatter •

~ OS, all Chapter prexies and sec­~, retaries, send us news concern-ing all your activities ........ In cases where the time element will allow, please rush advance notices of mEetings, special events such as ex­hibits, etc., remembering always the Airpost Journal deadline of the 20th of each month. ........ Photographs of new chapter presidents or exhibits of special merit also are desirable ..... ... We'll appreciate your cooper-ation muchly ........ Remember the ad-dress: Glen W. Naves, P. 0. Box 446, Spartanburg, S. C., and Thanx ....... . P. S. to this item ...... Keep in mind that the Chapters Section is your section and let's work together to make it newsy, interesting and pro­gressive every month.

Calling Manila and Toronto Scheduled for early dispatch from

our cluttered desk is a Clipper let­ter of inquiry to our good pals in Manlia Chapter 13, long one of the live-wire outfits of the AAMS

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We've missed hearing from them in recent months but know there's plenty of old-time aero-philatelic en­thusiasm on deck in their thriving Pacific port ........ And belated but SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS to one of our major assets, Airposter Walter Bruggmann of aforesaid chapter, elected to AAMS life mem­bership at the Toronto aero-philatelic extravaganza ........ about which we're still getting complimentary reports ........ and still eating our ink-saturat-ed heart out over ........ because the fates conspired and kept us away ..... . And to the gang in Chapter 14 ....... . we'd especially appreciate a news­letter ever so often so all your many friends in the states will know how you fellows are getting along ....... . Shoot it along ...... pronto ...... please.

AAMS Future Bright Cheerful note for all of us ........ An-

nounced plans for Scott's 1941 Standard Airpost Catalogue, plus honor and recognition to our Society via selection of AAMS committee to collaborate with those two outstand­ing philatelic authorities, Hugh M. and Theresa M. Clark ........ plus the scheduled 1941 American Air Mail

CHAPTER FIFTEEN EXHIBIT AT COUNTY FAIR

The 32-frames exhibit of the Spartanburg, (S. C.) Stamp and Cover Club, viewed by thousands attending the recent annual Spartanburg County Fair. Top center is the club's charter as Chapter 15 of t.he American Air Mail Society. Air! mail and other stamps and· covers were exhibited, including FAM's, CAM's, National Air Mail Week and other items, and a wide array of stamps on and off cover andi related material. The Airpost Journal and the AAMS booklet "Mail Through th~ Air" were featured. Ali chapter members and officers are "AAMS members and their membership cards were included in frames. Postmaster Helen D. Moseley is president.

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Catalogue supplement ........ another excellent product we can look for­ward to from the plant of our fellow airposter, Walter J. Conrath, A-1 printer and typographical designer ........ and the November AAMS air­post auction with Cleveland Chapter No. 3 is another important wide-interest event ........ wish we could all get there and make it another con-vention! ........ However, we can count on Senors Gatchell, Dickason, Por­ter, Alley, Conrath, et al., to do things up brown ........ and already we've ........ in our usual inimitable suave (?) and subtle (?) manner ....... . hinted to Walter J. that a split on pix of the event is in order ....... . provided we can swipe same (at no

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expense to the department) for the next chapters section.

We Are Grateful AERORCHIDS to Miss Florence

Lamport, Prexy Alley, Secretary Vlasak, Treasurer Angers and Senors Conrath, Gatchell, Singley, Bill Haf­ner, John Jackson, Charles J. Wood, the great philatelist, Eugene Klein ........ and all our other loyal co-work­ers in this important chapters enter-prise ........ plus an extra cutting of the flora for the aforesaid Senor Singley's interesting and informative FAM articles ........ a valuable addit-ion to the Airpost Journal's well­diversified presentation of top-flight airposters matertal ........

(Continued on Page 80l

Report of First AAMS Airpost Auction

• Held at Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 17

• Below is the consolidated balance

sheet of the first Experimental AA­MS Auction:

RECEIPTS Received from buyers, includ­

ing postage and mailing charges .................................... $457 .31

Accounts receivable ................ 2.70

TOTAL RECEIPTS ............ $460.01 EXPENDITURES

Paid to owners, less commis-sions charged ........................ $285.73

Postage, registration, insur-ance, express and supplies .. 25.05

Paid AIRPOST JOURNAL for Catalogue listings ................ 70.00

TOTAL EXPENDITURES .. $380.78 NET PROFIT .................... *$ 79.2~

* NOTE--Of the net profit shown outright donated material amounted to $75.35.

As it will be seen from the above the first experimental Auction can be regarded as satisfactory. While it is true that the net profit, which has been paid into the Catalogue fund, would have been negligible had it not been for the generous donations received, the Auction has brought an additional revenue of $70 to the

AIRPOST JOURNAL and did pro­vide a much needed media for buy­ing and selling among members. The small realization can be directly traced to the hurried and experi­mental grouping of lots which was necessary for this first sale and has taught us the necessity of so group­ing as to permit a realization of not less than $1 per lot. Smalle·r realiza­tions per lot create commissions so low as to not even pay for the listing. The most significant thing learned from the First Auction was the dem­onstrated fact that there is a need for this service. Members participat­ed in goodly numbers on both the buying and selling end and there was no complaint of any kind or char­acter from either buyer or seller. Only one lot was returned, quite properly, because of improper des­cription. Prices were generally good throughout although as always there were several attractive buys and sleepers. Earlies .• Canada, Crash Cov­ers, the later F AM's and Trans­Oceans were strong and popular. The rarer CAM 's brought excellent prices whereas the commoner varie­ties were somewhat weak as is fre­quently the case in these items.

Respectfully submitted, L. B. Gatchell, Manager.

NOVEMBER, 1940

• Coverage on Airposts and Airpost

Collectors as Gleaned Through the Editorial Office

• New U. S. Air Stamp?

HOT TIP of the month comes from Maurice Petty, who while at­tending the Detroit World Wide Con­vention took time off at Bill Wynn's home to report to his Journal ....... . that there's a strong possibility that not only will there be a Post Office Department cachet in connection with the new Washington National Airport dedication in December ........ but possibly a NEW AIR MAIL STAMP also ........ That's welcome news, if it only materializes We were sorta shaken not to find a winged monster on the Defense set, which we claim had a number of items of lesser artistic and utility value ........ However, if this new air-port turns out to be all we've read about and actually will be a most impor'tant factor in protecting all of the nation's swell new people and buildings in D. C ......... we're all for getting out an. Air Mail stamp to tell the balance of the country about it in a more graphic manner.

And while we're tossing about the id~as for new U. S. Air Mail stamps, plea;;e don't let's. forget there's an important anniversary coming up next February 15th ........ the fifteenth birthday of the be­ginning of the first Contract Air Mail Service, which might well be celebrated with an Air stamp, or mark the release date of a new series of better Air Mails comprising all of the necessary values for our current rate structure.

Former AAMS president Herbert H. Griffin back in the sunny South for the winter months ........ Herb will appreciate hearing from old friends his address is 2724 Coffee Pot Drive, 'St. Petersbur~, Florida. . and if we could be m the Sunshme City again we'd like to have a cuppa coffee with Herb and some of the swell gents down there ........ Park Smith the Strand, C. P., South Africa', another fine friend and vet-

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ern collector, sends us an appreci­ation of the August APJ, together with information that all S. African air mail services are now suspended, there is no more Penny Post, and the only new issues appearing are Propaganda Poster Stamps, of which three colorful examples were enclosed ... ... .. We return good cheer to Mr . Smith, with the assurance that this nation is doing everything to assist the Empire, short of actual war, and it might not be too long, in our per­sonal estimation, before we go the balance of the way ........ Twenty-three years ago October 16 Treasurer George W. Angers answered the call to the colors ........ This year George, who's slightly over 36 we understand supervised the conscription registra­tion of younger men in his own dis­trict of Springfield, Mass ........ Sec­retary. Emil Vlasak, George's busi­ness assistant, who recently turned 36, was a registration supervisor in his Springfield district ........ Many AAMS members registered for ser­vice ........ This scrivener being par­. ticularly flattered and feeling· much younger when he was classified as having a ruddy complexion and red HAIR, at least several of them ....... . Charles A. (Chick) Kenny, former editor and published of the National Stamp News, gave up his philatelic newspaper a few months ago to join the publicity and press staff of GOP presidential candidate Wendell Will-kie ........ Now, according to a clipping from Maurice Petty, he's had to make another change ........ the Na-tional Guard called him back for service, and we send best wishes to our former editorial associate, now back in the Army.

A tin from member Dallas R. Long, (but foo late for use when this is published) indicates that Hickory, in ulace of Asheville, will be inaugu­rated on AM-51 by Pennsylvania Central Airlines November 1 ....... . Dallas, we understand, is employed by PCA .......... Congratulations to George H. Porter III, and Mrs. Por­ter on the arrival of a new son, Gary Lee, October 2 ........ M. 0. Warns of Millwaukee recently visited New York with a call on Bart Gatchell ........ It's anticipated Bart will be in attendance at the Cleveland AAMS Airpost Auction November 23, and we hope to see a large number of our fellow members there.

THE AIRPOST JOURNAL is entered as second-class matter, February 10, 1932, at the post office at Albion, Pa .. under the Act of March 3. 1879. All editorial copy, advertising, new and renewal subscriptions should ~be sent direct to the publication office at

Albion, Penn'a. The AIRPOST JOURNAL is not con­ducted for profit. The managing edi­tor, all department editors, feature writers and contributors serve gratis and without compensation of any kind. All receipts from advertising, subscrip­tions and contributions are applied di­rectly to the betterment of the maga­zine and the promotion of aero-philately.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES United States ...................... $2.00 per year Canada and Foreign ....•... $2.50 per year Single Copies ................................ 20c each Back Numbers ............................ 25c each Second (duplicate) copy sent to

member's same address, 1 yr ..... $1.00 Bound Volumes also available.

ADVERTISING RATES One inch, per issue ............................ 11.00 Quarter Page. per Issue ................ 3.25 Half Page, per issue ........................ 6.00 Full Page, per issue ........................ $10.00 Front Inside or Back Cover .......... $12.00 Composition charge for solid, tabular

or special typographic layouts: lOc to 25c per inch additional. Interested advertisers may apply for

contract rate for space used every issue for a period of 12 months. Ad­vertising and editorial copy MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE 20TH OF EACH MONTH. 10 days before publication.

CLEVELAND AUCTION "1 OUR ATTENTION is directed to ll the second AAMS Airpost Auc­

tion to be held with the Cleveland Air Mail Society at the Hollenden Hotel, Cleveland, Saturday after­noon, November 23, the catalogue or which sale is presented with this is­sue of the J ournaL It is felt these Society Auctions will also serve to provide a meeting place for a large number of members several times each year. All members and collec­tors who are able to attend the Cleve­land Sale should be present, afford­ing an exchange of ideas with Society officers and other members.

Your patronage of the Auction is also solicited on the basis that there is both worthy material for your collection and several worthy causes

Official publication of the American Air Mail Society. Published monthly at Albion, (Erie Co.,) Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

WALTER J. CONRATH. Editor Albion, Penn'a

GRACE CONRATH, Business Manager Albion, Penn'a

ALTON J. BLANK, Assistant Editor 1850 Burnett Ave .. E. Cleveland, 0.

GLEN W. NAVES, Assistant Editor % Herald-Journal Newspapers

Spartanburg, S. C.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS FRANCIS J. FIELD, Sutton Coldfield,

England L. B. GATCHELL, 24 Brook Road,

Bronxville. N. Y. D. E. HELMUTH. 1724 Page Ave., #11,

East Cleveland, Ohio JAMES C. HEARTWELL, 341 Carroll

Park West. Long Beach. Calif. F. W. KESSLER, 551 Fifth Avenue,

New York. N. Y. RICHARD L. SINGLEY. Post Office.

Lancaster, Penn'a

DEPARTMENT EDITORS ALTON J. BLANK Airs of the Month

HAROLD A. JONES Crash Cover News

W.R. PATTON Canada

MAURICE S. PETTY Dedications and Unofficials

CHARLES G. RIESS Contract Air Mail Routes

to be served through your purchases. Three types of donation lots have been listed in the catalogue, while the other material being sold for the account of individual collectors will keep the exchange circulating with­in the hobby and within the Society.

Members have responded with material of a larger volume and a greater value th<tn that which was available for the Convention Auc­tion. Charlie Porter, AAMS manager for this auction, L. B. Gatchell the committee of the Cleveland Cha'pter, and others have worked diligently to present this regional auction and it is hoped that the results will prove successful in every respect.

CHAPTER SECTION This month Vice-President Glen

W. Naves, who has been most active

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in the Society during recent years, is inaugurating a well-planned and newsy section for AAMS Chapters. As Chapter Chairman and editor of this section we congratulate him and extend our wishes for every success. All communications and news con­cerning Chapters should be address­ed directly to Mr. Naves.

CATALOGUE ANNOUNCEMENT Announcement and prices, together

with proposed publication date, of the new 1941 Supplement to the American Air Mail Catalogue ls made in an advertisement appearing in this issue. Members and collectors are urged to place their orders and reserve their copies of the Supple­ment early, giving the committee op­portunity to determine the demand for the binding of this edition.

Attention is also directed to the fact that the 1941 Supplement will only be available through the Soc­iety's Publication Office. Following a careful study of the reports on the first edition the Catalogue Commit­tee has found it necessary to re­strict the sale of the new 1941 Sup­plement Edition to retail orders. No advertising will appear in the Sup­plement, and it was decided to supply the publication to members at as close a margin as possible. Because of this fact the committee found it would be impossible to distribute the Supplement together with the re­maining stock of the 1940 First Ed­ition, through other than Society re­tail channels.

Those who have not yet ordered a catalogue may now do so with as­surance that the volume will be up to date. The 1940 Edition may be secured at once for the regular price of $3.50, plus parcel post charges, and the 1941 Supplement will be sent upon publication with­out extra charge. Individual conies of the Supplement will be priced at

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'"''""'""""""""""""""""""" ..... PresiJent's Message

• To Members of ihe American Air

Mail Society: A IR MAIL marches on and No­

vember promises to be a banner month for our society. It is hearten­ing to read the following report.

On November 9th, the program 01 the National Federation of Stamp Clubs over Station WEAi:!' at 1:15 p. m. will be devoted to Air Mail under auspices of the AAMS. Mr. L. B. Gatchell, Secretary of the Advisory Board, will arrange the presenta­tion.

Our second auction, sponsored by Chapter 3, Cleveland Air Mail Soc­iety, will be held November 23rd. To this splendid Chapter, always will­ing to serve, I express our deep ap­preciation and gratitude. Any thing they do, is done right.

And on the auction, a bouquet to our Sales Manager, Charles P. Por­ter, who gave unselfishly of his time and talent, assisted by "Bart" Gat­chell, to arrange and catalogue the lots and to Editor Conrath for cor­relating all the thousand and one de­tails.

The Editor-in-Chief of the Cata­logue, Mr. George W. Angers. and staff of associates and assistant Edi­tors are hard at work on the Cata­logue Supplement. This valuable labor of love, due to financial lim­itations, must perforce be held with­in reasonable bounds. Please rush your copy to George.

Your committee, co-operating with Scott Publications, in an advisory capacity on the Standard Catalogue of Airpost Stamps, has held several additional meetings and I feel its efforts will be of great value to aerophilately. However, the time, or necessity, has been short and results will be more apparent in 1942.

I was pleased to have a c;oill from member Mr. Charles W. Tiffin, 414 Rairway Road, Ridgewood, N. J .. who collects mint and used Air Mail Stamps. I am sure he would be glad to hear from any member similarly interested.

Wm. R. Alley, President.

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75 cents for the cover paper bound edition and $2.00 for the matching fabricoid and heavy board bound edition, post paid. Collectors who have been clipping supplements from the Journal will immediately wel­come the appearance of the collated and bound 1941 Supplement.

The Catalogue Committee also has remaining a very limited num­ber of the specially prepared and artistically bound De Luxe and Spon­sors' Editions of the large 1940 Ed­ition. Those collectors wishing to contribute to the· Catalogue Fund are invited to subscribe to these special editions, with proper recognition ac­corded in the forthcoming 1941 Sup­plement.

BILL HAFNER'S CAM NEWS Focusing additional interest on

CAM's is Bill Hafner, AAMS mem­ber 777 of Babylon, N. Y., who pub­lished his first copy of "CAM Cover News" during October. This mimeo­graphed folder is sponsored exclus­ively for CAM cover collectors and copies of the first issue have been sent to AAMS and WCAMS members interested in these popular covers. Bill has a fine idea in his little pub­lication for direct contact to the fine

Vou ~om.m.and the finest stocks in the world of Special Postmarks, Air Posts, Avia­tion Documents, Air Raid Leaflets and War Specialties if you ask to see our approval selections.

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Francis J. Field LTD.

SUTTON COLDFIELD, ENGLAND

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fellowship of CAM collectors, and those interested in this sub-division of airposts who haven't received the News should write him, with postage, for a copy. An AAMS Chapter or Unit for CAMers might well be form­ed, according to Mr. Hafner.

BULLETIN SERVICE BUSY October was a busy month for the

sometimes thought dormant AAMS Advance Air Mail Information Bul­letin Service. Five Society Bulletins were published between the 10th and the 25th of October, most of them concerning the short-notice CAM in­augural events. The first Bulletin of the month, however, covered the un­hearlded announcement of the 13th Amendment anniversary stamp, re­leased October 9, the stamp went .on sale October 20. The Bulletin usual­ly covers these new US stamp issues of a short-notic"! nature as many 01 our members also collect first day covers, and would miss them without proper notice.

It should be pointed out that the Bulletin Service is maintained with­out extra expense to the member­ship. This benefit is included in the annual dues. It is only necessary to send the Bulletin manager a supply of self-addressed regulation 1-cent governmental postal cards, which are held until the time of publication. Bulletins are only printed when of­fical news of interest is announced without sufficient time for the mem­ber to have information in time through the Journal or the weeklv philatelic press. Members should tell their collector friends of this valu­able service. Those who took advan­tage of the Bulletin of October will find that this service alone well re­pays their annual cost of member­ship.

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F.A.M. NOTES by RICHARD L. SINGLEY

Lancaster, Penn'a

• Add-FAM-19

• W ITH THE LAST of the New

Zealand covers safely tucked away, F. A. M. collectors are no:v looking to varieties to add to their collections. The Los Angeles covers were scarce enough without having the cachet applied in two colors, which makes them doubly desirable. It was first believed that most of these covers were blue, but since we learn quite a few collectors received all theirs in green. Mr. Hertzberg of Oakland writes: "My covers from Los Angeles all had the green cachet. as did those of my brothers." Sorry Mr. Hertzberg has no duplicates.

Covers dispatched from points off the route too are exceedingly scarce. In addition to the later dispatches from Canada the writer has seen covers from Charelotte Amelia, Vir­gin Islands, San Juan, Porto Rico and Kingston, Jamaica, all dispatch­ed thru San Francisco. The covers dispatched from China to New Zea­land mentioned in last month's J our­nal are possibly the rarest known. These covers, along with one from Manila by Mr. Bruggmann, were dispatched thru Honolulu. Hawaii. None of these covers are· cacheted, as was the usual custom.

The only change that may take place on this route is a possible new

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stop at Suva, in the Fiji Islands. This addition would be on the 1988 mile hop between New Caledonia and Canton Island. It is interesting to note this route extends almost from 40 degrees north to 40 degrees south. This means you go from one climate to another before you can make the requisite changes of clothing. The cost of the trip to New Zealand is $650.00 or $1,170.00 for the round­trip. The journey from San Francisco to Hong Kong is $760.00 or $1,368.00 for the round trip. <A nice place for the 1941 K. L. T. convention).

Future P .A.A Expansion It is possible that some routes to

the south of us may be expanded on January 1, 1941, with the vast pr~­gram laid out by the P.A.A. On this date the Airways will operate 274 regular flights weekly between the United States and Latin America. At present there are 4 Weekly flights over F .A.M. 6 from Miami to San Juan, Porto Rico, and the same num­ber from Brownsville, Texas to Cris­tobal via Mexico City. On January 1, these flights will be a daily ser­vice under the new schedule. Bet­ween Miami and Cuba the flights will be stepped up to ten flights daily. And to three flights daily from Miami to Nassau, Bahamas. On some runs this will more than double the present schedules.

Trans-Atlantic FAM'."18 With steamship schedules greatly

disrupted FAM-18 over the Atlantic has proven to be the only means of REGULAR letter communication. On the three round trip flights the P.A.A. makes between the U.S. and Europe each week, an average of 2,-

FIRST AIR MAIL FRDM

·CANTON ISL.AND

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e PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS cachets of New Caledonia and Canton Island.

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DIRECTIONAL COVERAGE FOR INAUGURAL OF AM 49-B. PITTSBURGH, PENN'A TO HUNTINGTON (Pick-up) VIA PARKERSBURG, W. VA.

SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER 12, 1940

Cannonsburg, Pa. Washington, Pa. Stubenville, Ohio. Wellsburg, W. Va. Wheeling, W. 'la. Moundsville, W. Va. New Martinsville, W. Va. Sistersville, W. Va. St. Marys, W. Va. Marietta, Ohio Parkersburg, W. Va. Ravenswood, W. Va. Pomeroy, Ohio. Gallipolis, Ohio. Wellston, Ohio. Jackson, Ohio. Portsmouth, Oh1o. Greenup, Kentucky Ironton, Ohio. Ashland, Kentucky,

to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh

and and and and and and and and

and

and and and and and and

Huntington Huntington Huntington Huntington Huntington Huntington Huntington Huntington

Huntington

Huntington Huntington Huntington Huntington Huntington Huntington

Covers also from terminals: Pittsburgh, l; Huntington, 2; Parkersburg, 2.

This list prepared from the schedule appearing in the Postal Bulletin Octo-ber 18, 1940, by courtesy of Richard Singley. '

-From AAM'.S BULLETIN published October 25, 1940

500 lbs. of mail is carried per crosR~ ing one-way. The record for pound­age one-way is 7 ,008 lbs. Passengers are always obliged to wait for ac­commodations on the westward flight due to the excess amounts of mail. The week of October 20th complet­ed the 250th crossing. Westbound flights refuel at Bermuda because of the heavy mail loads carried.

SHORT NOTICE CON-TRA.CT ROUTE FLIGHTS

I was fortunate enough in being abte to place covers on the ~ollowing sho_rt notice contract route flights and will have a few sets to sell. Price 30c per cover and as the number of airmail field dispatches that are available are not known at this time, the actual number of covers is in question. Flights took place on October 15, ef­fecting routes 15, 25, 40, 46, 47, and 50. Approximately 30 covers are in-

volved. A deposit of not less than $5 will be accepted and purchaser will be advis­ed of the exact amount necessary to complete the series. All will be mailed

out registered to purchaser. All covers will be on heavy quality white bond paper, will be properly

cacheted and backstamped. In addition a new route will operate from Norfolk, Va. to Knoxville, Tenn., and if desired, orders may be placed at this time for these covers at the

same price. ALBERT N. BROWN

270. Tehama San Francisco

UAM Uover Notes •

by CHAS. G. RIESS Information concerning C.A.M's should be sent direct to the editor of section, P. 0. Box 11, Albany, N. Y.

• ll)) URING THE PAST MONTH a

number of new routes as well as additions and extensions to exist­ing routes have been authorizEd by the Post Office Dept. Many of these were placed in service with very short advance notice. It is also noted that official first· flight cachets were not furnished for some points on new routes. It is hoped that the De­partment will be able to give more advance notice in the future as well as furnishing official cachets for new points, otherwise, many of us will necessarily miss out on some of the flights and have to trust to luck m picking up the missed items. Many of us have found out during the past few weeks that the AAMS Advance Bulletin Service was of real value

NOVEMBER, 1940

and help in getting information out regarding some of these short-notice events.

New Inaugurals The Daily Postal Bulletin of Oc­

tober 14, 1940 listed the following as effective October 15, 1940. AM-46 Pittsburgh, Pa. to Buffalo, N. Y. via Erie, Pa. AM-47 St. Louis, Mo. to Nashville, Tenn. via Evansville, Ind. AM-50 Houston, Tex. to San Antonio, Tex. and Houston, Tex. to Corpus Christi, Tex. AM-40 Extension of this route from the Tri-Cities of Florence, Sheffield, Tuscumbia, Ala. to Nashville, Tenn. Also effective November 1, 1940 extension of AM-15 from Amarillo, Tex. to Oklahoma City, Okla.

Effective November 1, 1940 ser­vice will be inaugurated on AM-51, Norfolk, Va. to Knoxville, Tenn, via Rocky Mount, Raleigh, Greensboro, and Asheville, N. C. Service will not be inaugurated at Asheville Novem­ber first but at a later date, hence, it will be necessary for collectors to set in inbound covers to this point. Of­fical cachets at this writing have been authorized only for Rocky Mount and Asheville.

The Minot, N. D. addition to AM-26 will take place on November 1. 1940 instead of October 25, 1940 as originally scheduled. This point will be serviced by a spur line from Bis­marck-Mandan, N. D.

Effective October 21, 1940 Clarks­burg, W. Va. is embraced as an inter­mediate stop on AM-25. No mention of an official cachet was made in the daily Postal Bulletin notice.

New Pick-Up Effective November 12, 1940 an­

other pick-up route AM-49B is to be placed in service. This route is to be operated between Pittsburgh, Pa. and Huntington, W. Va. and vice versa. No mention is made of the use of any first flight cachets at any point. See listing of this route else­where in this issue.

AM-48, November I Effective on or about November 1,

1940 service was to be inaugurated on new AM-48. This route will op­erate· from Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn. via Rochester, Minn., Mason City, Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa, to Kansas City, Mo. and from Des Moines, Iowa via Ottumwa, Iowa

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SHOR'f NOTICE C.A.M.' s

OCTOBER "15, "1940

• AM#46-Pittsburgh and AMF to Erie, Erie to Pittsburgh and Buffalo, Buf­falo and AMF to Erie, Contractor's

Cachets.

AM#47-St. Louis and AMF to Evans­ville, Evansville to St. Louis and Nash­ville, Nashville AMF to Evansville,

Contractor's Cachets.

AM#5!>-Corpus Christi to Houston, Houston to Corpus Christi and San

Antonio, San Antonio to Houston.

AM#40-Florence, Sheffield, and Tus­cumbia to Nashville, Nashville AMF to Florence, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia.

I have all the above on 100% rag "Per­petual" air mail envelopes, franked with commemoratives, properly back­stamped. No space here to list prices­a penny post card will bring you my list of prices on these and on the

November 1 flights:

(AM 26-Minot to Bismarck and Man­dan and return; AM 15-0klahoma City to Amarillo and return; AM 48- Min­neapolis and St. Paul to Rochester­Des Moines-Kansas City; and Des Moines-ottumwa-St. Louis; AM 51-Norfolk-Rocky Mount-Raleigh-Greens-

boro-Knoxville).

Trade? No-except for Scottsbluff on August 19, Traverse City on October 9, Nashville P. 0. on October 15-I missed those. Have an extensive stock of rarities from 1926 to date. Send your want-Ii.st for price quotations.

• P. C. NAHL

421 W. Fifth St. Stillwater, Okla,

SEND POST CA.RD TODAY FOR PRICE LIST

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OILMAN'S 245th PUBLIC SALE NOV. 12-13 FEATURING

United States & Foreign Alrnaalls Zepps., British, Irish, French, German Cols., Latin Amer., Australia,

Africa, Canada, Switzerland, Trans-Atlantics. Also U. S. & Foreign Postage, Fine Album Pages, Collections, Etc.

CATALOGUE FREE.

M. OHLMAN ll6-J Nassau Street.

and Quincy, Ill. to St. Louis, Mo. It is not expected that service will be inaugurated at Mason City or Quincy when service is first inaugurated on this route but that these points will receive inaugural service at a later date. Official cachets only to be pro­vided for Mason City, Ottumwa and Qunicy. It will be necessary for col­lectors to have inbound covers to those points not embraced on the in. augural service on this route. At this writing no notice of this route has as yet appeared in the daily Postal Bulletin.

New Boston - New Orleans? According to newspaper reports

the Seaboard Airways, Inc. is await­ing confirmation by the Civil Aero­nautics Authority for a new air line between Boston and New Orleans.

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Aerophilatelic Addenda In 1941 Hong Kong will issue a

centenial set and one value will show a Clipper seaplane. The denomina­tion of this stamp will be $1 and the color orange and bright ultramarine.

The Honduran Official series is to be overprinted in honor of the pro­jected Columbus Memorial Light­house. While the stamps are to be available for the general public use the airmail stamp collector who adds airs converted to other uses will find a place for them in his albums .. (James Heartwell has a list of such stamps in his bulletin if you care to check.)

-Alton J. Blank

STATEMENT Of the ownership, management, etc .

of The Airpost Journal, published month· ly at Albion, Penn'a, required by the act of Congress of August 24, 1912.

Editor-Walter J. Conrath, Albion, Pa. Business Manager-Grace Conrath, Al­

bion, Pa. Owner-The American Air Mail Socl­

ty, Wm. R. Alley, President, 261 Broad­way, New York City. Emil J. Vlasak, Secretary, 293 Bridge Street, Springfield, Mass.

Known bondholders, Mortagees and other security holders, holding one per­cent or more of the total amount of bonds. mortages or other securities­None.

Signed Grace. Conrath, Business Manager

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of October, 1940. (Seal) Virginia Ticknor,

Justice of the Peace. (My commission expires January l, 1944)

When answering the advertisements please mention that you saw it in the AIRPOST JOURNAL.

Gfero Pki/atelists

Of cAfote

({))WNER of one of the nation's out-standing collections of pilot

autographs and other signed aero­philatelic material, Miss Florence Lamport, 5364 Sydenham Street, Philadelphia, despite her youth, is a commendable example of the "good soldier" who comes into the Ameri­can Air Mail Society, sticks to col­lecting and, by her enthusiasm, be­comes an inspiration to others. The more recruits of her type in the AA­MS-the better!

Stamp collecting has interested Miss Lamport since grammer school days. Came high school and she be­gan specializing in air mails. The Graf Zeppelin 'round - the - world flight especially attracted her atten­tion and so her first personally dis­patched air cover was . sent on the Graf's memorable globe-circling voy­age.

Her collection grew. Miss Lamport wanted it to be something more than just another accumulation of covers and so she decided to do something about it-she went out after signa­tures of 1pilots and others prominent

• No. 14 In A Series

by GLEN W. NAVES P. O. Box 446

Spartanburg. S. C.

in the field of aeronautics. She work­ed hard. Resourceful, patient, she contacted many famous pilots, ob­tained their autographs on her prized covers, greatly enhancing their value. Clippings, photographs, maps and

. other appropriate material were add­ed, interestingly backgrounds each item. Thus, her collection, with its wealth of signatures, cachets, stamps on covers, photographs and other items tells, to a great extent the story of aviation. '

Orville Wright! Louis Bleroit! Glenn Martin! Charles A. Lindbergh! Douglas Corrigan! All their signa­tures came into her fascinating store. No "easy stages'· operator, Miss Lam­port didn't start with those pilots whose signatures, although valuable and desirable, could be had for a let­ter and perchance a stamped and ad­dressed return envelope; she began with American's No. 1 Pilot, Orville Wright! And she didn't fail-not by a long shot.

Her Lindbergh autograph in on the back of a summons for speeding. An interesting little story explains how she got that one. Her cousin is a member of the Orange, N. J. police department. One day, the famous pilot breezed along a New Jersey thoroughfare, a number of miles in excess of the stipulated legal maxi-

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mum. The law got him. He was re­quested to sign his summons and did so. The cousin saved the document for Miss Lamport.

Douglas Corrigan has signed a photograph ancl air mail cover for Miss Lamport and has written her two letters. In one, he wished her success with her collection.

Miss Lamport has been a member of the American Air Mail Society for 10 years. Her membership number is 896. She has been a member of the Collectors Club for several years.

Often she speaks before stamp clubs and in schools on philatelic subjects. Her collection received a

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bronze award at the 1938 American Air Mail Society exhibition in St. Petersburg, Florida, has been enter­ed in the Philadelphia Evening Stamp Club's annual exhibition, and went from there to the New York World's Fair.

Other interests of Miss Lamport are motion pictures and their history and a collection of dolls from all parts of the world. She is junior motion picture chairman for the Federated Women's Clubs in Phil­adelphia and librarian for the dolls and motion pictures groups. For two years she was treasurer of the Temple Junior Women's Club, a charitable group, working for the university and hospital.

AIRPORT DEDICATION COVERS •

by MAURICE S. PETTY News of future and past events under

this section should be sent direct to

Mr. Petty, 507 Quackenbos St., N. W., Washington, D. C.

• ~UPPLEMENTAL CATALOGUE ~ actively in preparation. If you know of any unlisted dedication covers that should be included, or corrections to printed volume or APJ supplements, you should send them in AT ONCE or it will be too late.

COMING: December 17, 1940. Dedication (second) of Washington National Airport. Cover to writer hereof ......... Fremont, Nebr. set for October 9 and 10, has not occurred at this writing, but expected soon. ........ Hemet, California very soon. ........ Clipping from Emanuel M. Strauss tells of 150 airports planned in New York State, and hundreds elsewher.e. Keep your eyes open for news and send it in for benefit of fellow collectors. .......... James R. Maxwell promises to keep us in­formed on Ft. Wayne, Ind. and others ......... If you had your self ad-dressed postals with the writer, you were able to get in on the sudden dedications at Alamosa, Colo., Te-

cumseh, Nebr., Jacksonville, Fla .• Elizabeth City, N. C., Lawton, Mich., and Sioux City, Iowa, since last is­sue. Your thanks are due to F. A. Benton, C. A. Hunter, G. W. Brands, W. T. Wynn, C. of C's., K. Tallmadge and G. F. Crocker.

PAST DEDICATIONS: On Sep­tember 28th, the first planes landed on the Washington National Airport on signal of Pres. Roosevelt, and an air show overhead was partici­pated in by 420 planes. The Civil Aeronautics Board, Dept. of Com­merce and Board of Trade, etc., had arranged for Pres. Roosevelt to lay the cornerstone of the Terminal Building that day, after two post­ponements. The big air show was a surprise, unannounced and arranged by the President, and White House publicity for the preceding two days heralded the coming "airport dedi­cation." It was a bit confusing, and no cover mailing had been planned. but to be safe, we took all the covers on hand to the event. The President ended his speech with these words: "this civilian aviation center of which we are all so proud, the Wash­ington National Airport, and I here­by dedicate it." Hurried conference between local Washington Air Mail Society members produced a four line stamped cachet in green ink on the 346 covers on hand and they were mailed at the Air Mail Field

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Post Office. The word "Preliminary" in the cachet was wholly our own to allow for the fact that dedication was being planned for December 17th. Nevertheless, the fact remained that the President himself had deliberate­ly and intentionally made this Sep­tember 28th event a dedication, and no one had a better right to do so.

Some collectors, who either ignored or had not read notices in all publi­cations to send their covers to the writer sent them to the Postmaster. We were unable to secure them and they (number unknown) were mail­ed unmarked at the City Post Office. ........ Scottsbluff, Neb. first flight of August 19th reported as dedication, but not confirmed. ........ Kalamazoo. Mich. Sept. 8, mailed 10 with P. M. inscripti-0n and 150 without. . ..... . Plymouth, Mass. !lad nice cachet on 375 covers showing Plymouth Rock <designed by member F. A. Benton, who has certainly been on the job and done fine work in Mass. lately) for seaplane base dedication Sept.

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18 ......... Ticonderoga, N. Y., Sept. 15, mimeo pictorial cachet on 378 covers for airport dedication, and different mimeo cachet on 215 other .covers for seaplane base dedication by C. of C. The two fields some distance apart ......... P. M. Hickory, N. C. re-ports about 50 covers mailed by him Sept. 7 for Municipal Airport dedi­cation ....... Philipsburg, Pa., Sept. 14, also reported without cachet. . ...... . Final report on Lockport, Ill. is 538 (including 100 commercial) pmkd. Chicago A. M. F. September. 2, and 280 (including 100 commerciaD pmkd. Lockport, Sept. 2. Thru <Jn error in the Post Office some of these lat­ter bear postmark of 3rd, but are part of same lot that were all mailed and pmkd. at same time we are as­sured by Theo Light. ........ Grand Rapids, Minn. cachet of Sept. 8, sponsored by Otis Lodge and P.M. on 351 covers ...... Ontario, Calif, reports about 750 for Sept. 14 dedication in green, or red, or purple ......... Sea-plane dock dedication at Decatur, Ill. Sept. 21. Thru cooperation of Past Pres. Paul Robertson, AAMS bulle­tin cards went out on this sudden one and we believe there was no other collector publicity, except that resulting therefrom. Yet 332 collec­tors covers, 10 local 2c, 5 regular 3c, and 5 commercial mailed, total of 352. We appreciate it when a col­lector who does not collect dedica­tions looks out for our interest as did our friend Paul. Another paper credited it to a member of another Society who had nothing to do with it, and sent his covers to the C. of C., although he had received one of our bull!etin cards, but thesei covers were turned over to Paul also.

Hold stamps etc. securely. Mav be removed at will.

100 for 15c and worth it! <blal'k or white background) t Sold by leuding dealers. If yours cannot supply, send 15!l: for 100 and samples. Engel Art Corners Mfg. Co~ bi~:.~o~tifi~n~fs

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........ Hot Springs, Ark. dedicated the . seaplane base on Sept. 22, and the Jr. C. of C. applied a blue printed cachet to 244 covers writes Mr. H. T. Hollenbeck. This was one of the most unique and pleasing cachets re­cently, for we do like something dif-ferent ......... Gloucester, Mass, mailed 400 covers on August 15th with cir­cular border of 1938 N. A. M. W. cachet enclosing typing by C. of C. or writing by P. M. on the center blank. Also a nice printed cachet was applied by F. A. Benton, who was told only the day before that there would be no cachet ......... Heb-ron, Nebr. on Sept. 27 had a nice purple cachet by Civic Club on 267 covers for Municipal Airport dedi­cation. ..... ... Plymouth, Mass., Sept. 18, and Clevelai;d, Ohio, Sept. 1, both reported without cachet also, the latter with city cancel. ....... . Kirkville, N. Y. dedicated Bennett Airport. Sept. 28th, and it was at­tended by member Leland Metzgar. About 52 covers mailed without cachet ......... Cocoa, Fla. Oct. 1, print-ed purplish cachet. by C. of C. for Commissioning (and dedicating) Naval Air Station. ........ Rockland, Maine, dedicated seaplane base Oct. 3. Covers are both with and without large black printed cachet. . ...... . Typographical error last month. Sea­plane base on White Lake, Mich .. was dedicated on August 24th, nm: 27th. Covers were mailed from the two twin towns with typed inscrip­tion signed by Pres. C. of C. and P. M., on Whitehall covers and P. M. and Mayor on Montague covers. Total of 25 from both places mailed by local man ......... At this late date, G. F. Lancaster has uncovered a Manhattan, Kans. cover w1tnout: cachet, but with correct postmark date for the dedication of Sept. 28. 1939, all previously reported having been pmkd. 29th, hence too late. And a second has also shown up. Probably others. ........ Portland, Ore. dedicated Portland-Columbia Air­port, Oct. 13th. Black cachet by Northwest and United Air Lines and A. H. S ......... Jacksonville, Fla. cov-ers of Oct. 15th mailed by C. of C. bear typing "Jacksonville, U. S. Naval Air Station Commissioned. October 15, 1940," though they re­turned some collectors' covers due to having no cachet and thinking the owners did not want them mailed

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without one. Others bear no mark­ings, pmkd. both in City and at Air Mail Field ......... Elizabeth City, N. C. C. of C. had nice purple cachet for dedication of U. S. Coast Guard Air Station, Oct. 17th ......... Oct. 8th Tecumseh, Nebr. cacheted 397 cov­ers (including three flown in by L. E. Tyson, from Lincoln), which have additional inscription, reports Mr. C. A. Hunter ......... The writer would much like to secure Geneva, N. Y. covers with red cachet, Boyne City, Mich., with none, and Ontario Calif. with purple or red. ........ Corinth, Miss. reported pmkd. Oct 1, but C. of C. says there has been no dedi-cation at any time ........ .

OTHER COVERS: Glen Naves sends Evansville, Ind. Sept. 25th with black cachet for Inaugural Flight by Eastern Air Lines. .. ..... . Regarding Westfield, Mass. covers of Sept. 1_5th, mentioned last month. and which anoth~r paper says was an actual airport dedication. Member F. A. Benton, who attended the event ~tates quite definitely that the report is not correct and it was dedication of Administration Building a n d Hanger, but NOT of an airport. 1900 covers mailed from Westfield 50 from Springfield, and 20 from Holy­oke. The Westfield Chamber of Com­merce in a letter confirms Mr. Ben­ton conclusively.

CONGRATULATIONS to C. A. Hunter on completion of his sixth year on the air mail column in Chambers Stamp Journal. He has been very cooperative with us and has our appreciation.

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UUTHEN THE FffiST U. S. airman . VV clipper was about to start from Auckland, New Zealand, returning to the USA. the Tasman flying boat "Awarno" lei'< Rose Bay for Auckland on short notice, .July 17, 1940, carrying only 50 lbs. of mail to be transferred to the Clipper for USA. The airbase situation for this service has been further improv­ed: Canton Island (and Enderbur:v) are under joint control by the USA and Eng­land for 50 years, beginning April 6, 1939. Base facilities in Noumea. New Caledonia, are improving by use of the US yacht "Lyndonia" as a floating hotel for 28 persons. In the Fiji Islands furiher im­provements have to be provided before .a regular stop can be added there. .. ...... On August 31, 1940 the Clipper took a northbound course over Suva, Fiji Is­lands. A mail parcel (with copies of the Auckland Herald and Star) addressed to Sir Henry Luke, Governor of the Fiji Is­lands at Suva, was dropped there by Capt. W. A. Cluth, in charge of the clip- . per, and was acknowledged by radio.

The airmail situation in French Indo China is ·still unclear. On September 3, 1940 an agreement had been ofl'icially an­nounced in Tokio, permitting the landing at Hanoi, Indo China, for the govern­ment supported J"apall' Air Transport Co. on their air service from Japan (via Formosa) to Thailand. Following other reports the Haiphong flying field, on the railway from the Gulf of Tongking, Indo China, to the Chinese border, has al­ready been used by the Nippon Airways in August, 1940 ........ To be indeuenden! from the Indo China Crisis the US Clip­per Service was sending, at the same time, air mails from Hong Kong to Brit­ish India by the Douglas airplanes of the China National Aviation Corp. rCNAC) on a nearly 2,000 miles flight via Chungking (on the Yangtse RivPr) to Kunming (Province of Yunnan, China) end ~long the famous Burma Road to Rangoon. Burma. The corresponding air mail service from China to Indo China w~s suspended on September 23, when fighting began between .Japanese anu French troops end the Eurasia mail plane h~d to turn back without completing 1ts flight to Hanoi. ........ The new .Japanese air service had been suspended on Sep­tember 21, when the Nippon Airways re­moved all its equipment from Indo­China. The British direct air servicE>

from Hong Kong to Inda China has been definitely suspended, September 26, 1940. ........ After some days of fighting the .Japanese army received three air bases in Tanking State, North Indo China, In­cluding Hanoi, began bombing of Kun­ming, air mail center of the CNAC in the Yunnan Province, China, and attacked on October 9, the airliner of the German­Chinese air service Eurasia between Kunming and Chungking. The passenger plane escaped with bullet holes in the wings.

Airmails rrom Palestine arrlvin<" at •Singapore by the British Overseas~ Air­ways (about September I.) to he trans­fered on the U. S. Clipper service have a blue cachet in two lines: "To be for­warded bv - Air from Singapore." ........ The Dutch East Indies Air Services are still '."aiting. for the permission for regu­lar air service to the Philipplne Islanas but a special fligµt of a Douglas DC-3 was earned out on tnis line from BataVia ac_ross the South China Sea (BOO miles): with. a stop at Balik-Papan (Borneo), to Manlla, on September 18, 1940, :ror a group of US newspapermen on an air trip around the Pacific.

From the Airways in Africa In Eastern Africa the British Colonial

Army had to abandon British Somaliland to ~talian forces. This colony, with the capital at ~erbera, has 68,000 square rrnles of territory. It had no air mail ser­y1ces bef~re the winter of 1935-36 and it is not situated on the important air route . from ~gypt to Capetown. On the Egypt:ian-Lyb1an border actual fighting b;>gan September 14, 1940. In South Afnca air mail center for US mail arriving by steamer, is in Capetown; for mail from England, at Durban. British mail can be flown from Durban to Australia at a rate of 7 d for postcards, 1 Sic ;> a . per half ounce for le~ters ......... In Western Africa the International Air Services formerly operated by Air France are Still suspend­ed. According to a communication of the Consulate General of the Republic of Liberia in New York, August 14, 1940, the Republic at that time had no internation­al air connection. It is reported, about September 1, 1940, that the Governors of the French Colonies in Western and Equatorial Africa, also of the Colony of Gabon, had placed themselves under the lead.,rship of the French Genernl de Gavlle ?t London and will Ag•in coon,,rate with the Belgian air services in Belgian Congo and with the B-itish air mail ser­vic;>s in Western and in South Africa. This c0uld be ve~y interesting for fur­ther airmail development, because as e:irly as April, 1932 the late Swiss air

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pioneer, Walter Mittelholzer, referred (in American National Geographic Magazine) to the Sahara as "a thoroughfare for air traffic, thanks to the excelient civilizing work of the French, who !::eve established a network of air<!romes in their widely extended colonial territory, from the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Guinea." During the rainy season. when many airdromes a r e o u t of action, the Chad Lake can offer an important air base. ........ in order to restore also the air-link between these parts of French Africa and England and to South Amer­ica, General de Gaulle arrived with his own and British Naval Forces on the Coast of the air bases of Onakam, Hanne, Thykes and St. Louis near Dakar, Senegal, on September 23, and ordered the French troops in Dakar to join the de Gaulle. forces. But after two days of firing from both sides, he had to withdraw, ........ In the meantime the PAA madi;; an applica­tion for US Air Mail service between New York and Africa. The route follows first the new airway from New York to San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Belem (Brazil). Then it crosses, via Natal (Brazil), to the African continent with an airbase at Bolama (Portuguese Guiana) instead of Dakar. From Bolama air connection can be made northward to Europe. The Afri­can route goes to Monrovi'l (Liberia), Lobito (Angola) and to Port Elizabeth (Union of South Africa), and 10,000 miles from New York.

!louth Eastern Europe When the Rumanian-Russian crisis con­

cerning the occupation of Bessarabia by a :ttussian army had subsided, the air services in the Balkan countries were re­sumed: on July 21, 1940 the Rumanian air services from Bucharest to Constanca to Jassy (on the new Rumanian border to Bessarabia) and to Galatz. On the same day also the air service from Bucharest to Budapest. Hungary, -Vienna-Berlin.

In Jugoslavia a new air mail service was inaugurated on July 18, 1940 between Belgrade, Jugoslavia, and Budapest, Hungary. We hear (from a crash report) that also a service is operated from the Jugoslavian of Spalato to Agram and Belgrade. the new airline con-nects also Budapest with this neutral seaport. Greece maintained daily air m~il dispatches from Athens to Lis­bon (32 drachmes for 5 grams) until the Greek-Itelian crisis, in the middle of August 1940. But it seems from informa­tion of the Greece aerophilatelist, P. J. Drosses, to t11e New York "Stamps," that this air line was suspended on July 24, 1940. . ....... From Turkey the construction of civil air fields in many parts of the country has been reported and new air-ways can be awaited there ......... At the end of August 1£40 a new crisis arose ~n South Eastern Europe between Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania. By the "Vienna Arbitration Award of August 30, 1940"

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Rumania gave to Hungary a large portton of Transylvania with the cities of Oradea (Grosswardein) and Cluj (Klausenburg), the air mail center of Transylvania since July 24, 1929. The city was taken over by Hungary on September 11, 1940. By a Bulgarian-Rumanian agreement of Sep­tember 6. 1940 the Rumanian provmces of Durostar and Caliacra (Southern Dobrudja) have been transferred to l'tul-

and taken over on September 21. center of that region is the city

of Balcic on the Black Sea, since July I, 1933. But in spite of all these difficulties the air service between Bucharest and Rome -Lisbon was still in operation on September 6. 1940. A few days later a nationalist revolution in Rumania forced King Carol II to abdicate and his son, Michael, became King of Rumania with General Jon Antonescu as "Conducator of the State." We have no information about the airmail situation during these troubles. ........ In order to complete our former information, we learn from the Rumanian Pavilion. at the New York World's Fair that the air P.ioneer period of this country started in 1905 (I. air­plane of Traian Vina) and 1907 (Glider of Aurel Vlaicu) and that the first special airdrome was operated at Chilita, near Bucharest, as early as 1910. We would be glad to hear about some aerophilatelic documents from that period. They are not known to our catalogues ......... In the development, German troops entered the Rumanian oil field region on October 7, and the Capital on October 12, 1940.

C 1>ntral Europe The old "Grand Duchy of Luxemburg"

was declared to be a part of Germany on August 14, 1940. Since Luxemburg had no airport, the air mail had to be transferred by railway to the next German airport. Therefore airmail covers from Luxem­burg used to have mixed Luxemburgian and German franking. ........ About the same time German postage stamps were introduced in Alsace and Lo~raine. . ....... On August 25. 1940 the "Fall Fair" began at Leipzig, As always since 1920, special air mail were put in op-eration. One of the special airliners on way from Bucharest to Leipzig crashed on August 22, near Turnu Severin, Ru­mania. As a "foreign feature" British leaflets over the fair announced a visit by British bombers. Dr. Edmund Rumpler died in Germany on September 9, 1940. He was the constructor of the famous "Te.Ube" of the First World War, when in 1914 the German aviator van Hiddesscn (pilot of the "Gelber Hund" of the Darmstadt Airmail, 1912) dropped the first War leaflets on Paris, from his Rum-pler Taube. . ....... For August 25, 1940 a new German direct airmail service was announced from Berlin to Lisbon; daily service has been maugurated by four motored Junkers planes on October 7, 1940, regaining direct air connections to

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The Royal Air Force's heroic resistance against the aerial terror of the German Luftwaffe, coupled with its own cresendo of offensive thrusts against German military objectives can be said to have appreciably abated the immediate threat of invasion. Of late, England has enormously expanded her own production of military aircraft while pursuing a policy of extensive plane purchases in this country. As a result. the gap separating her from parity with Ger- · man air strength is narrowing. An empire-wide program of training pilots is similarly augmenting the manpower of the RAF. Even under the stress of constant German bombings, England continues to turn out her new boys, as, for instance. at this undisclosed pilot training station. Above, RAF fledglings are running to their machines (old

• models for beginning training purposes) before a little exercise in the technique of stradling "eggs" across a target. Below. ' studying the framework of a craft, a "necessary" of pilot training.

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the US Clipper service. ........ Also a Ger-man airmail and air freight service to South America was awaited in August, 1940. to be started soon. by use of the French air base at Dakar, Seneg::>l, and Natal, the Brazilian air base of the Con­dor Line. A similar Italhn air service Is successfully operated once a week, irans­porting airmail and important materials of small weight between Italy and Braz~l.

Two other members of the Balbo Trans­atlantic Air Cruise to Chicago 1933, were killed in aerial battles in September and October, 1940: Tonin Chiodi. over Malta and Air Marshal Walter Nencini, over Sidi Barrani, Egypt. ........ On September 17, 1940, the Council of the Republic of San Marino (on the Italian Peninsula) decided to bring to a close a 25 year-long state of war with Germany and to de­clare war on England. The state is well known to philatelists by a large number of stamps and air stamp issues. But its army hc>s only 950 soldiers. No air mail services are known. The San Marino atr mail has to be transported by rail to Italian airports.

Switzerland

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ary Swiss mail could be transported to Lisbon, for shioment to US I\.. Therefore a special airmail courier had been arrang­ed and officially announced all over Switzerland. For a special fee of 10 cen­times for 20 grams, airmail letter·s have been accepted, collected at Chiasso (until noon July 3, 1940) and flown to Lisbon to be redispatched by the SS Manhattan on July 9, But the courier then had to be sent by SS Exeter and arrived, as the first regular Swiss mail since the Armis­tice. No special cachet has been used for this special courier from Switzerland ........ . Swiss regular flights to Rome and to Barcelona, Spain were not resumed after the trial flights earlier in the year (before October 14, 1940).

France

The first clipper from the unoccupied part of France left that country again on July 5., by "express train," is back­stamped at Lisbon on July 9 and arrived in New York on July 11, 1940. A new French "Civilian Air Service" was de­creed by the Air Ministry at Vichy on September 4, 1940. But Clipper mail ar­rived at New York on September 12, 1940 from the unoccupied France with a

The British flying boat "Clare" takes off from Boucherville. P. 0. for New York. after delivering mail and refueling near Montreal. August • 4. The "Clare" made several north A:l:lan:l:ic crossings this summer. carrying nearly all official mail. --Courtesy "Flash" Hyman

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French air mail cachet already of Sep­tember 1, 1940 (Lyon Gare Avion.) It seems that the French clipper courier can again be flown to Lisbon via a center station at Lyon. But from occup1ea France only printed-formula messages are permitted with the signature of the sender ........... The Aero - Field (August -September, 1940) learns from Brazil that the South Atlantic Air Service of Air France was just performing its 500th crossing when France capitulated. A special cachet was used in Brazil: "Air France-500-Travessia Aero do Atlantico Sul - 3 de .Junho de 1940." The mail did not arrive in England until 2 months later. .......... The former "International City" of Tangier (North Africa) has been occupied by Spanish troops and a special provisional stamp was issued by the Span-ish authorities. ........ By a new British war-time rule all philateUc sendingb from or to the Unlted Kingdom can only be dispatched under supervision of the British Philatelic Association. The Lon­don area has been the place of daily bombing attacks by the German Air Force since August 15, 1940. In the be­ginning especially the historic aJr man center of the Empire at Croyden was often attacked. But the British Air ser­vice from Heston. near London, to Lisbon was still in ooeration twice weekly dur­ing September 1940. Also London news­papers in French language have been published since August 30 for special air mail dispatch by the Lisbon air route and for distribution in Southern Europe .

........ The New York Post Office accepted at the end of August, air mail for Egypt and Palestine via London, but it announc­ed: "It is not known just what service is available for destination." ........ The air service between England and Lundy Isle has been suspended. Cachet: "Air Service to Lundy I. suspended for dur-ation of war." ........ The air services bet-ween England and the British Channel Islands Guernsey and Jersey was resum­ed on .June 4, 1940, on an extended route between the two Islands and Heston Air­port. The service terminated on .July 1 by the German occupation of the islands. Not before the middle of October new communications were ·established bet­ween England and the Islands. Then the Red Cross announced the acceptance of pre-censored letters (2 shillings tax) to be transported through a neutral country. ........ Similar as in World War I, a Nation­al Pigeon Service" with more than 15.000 members and 750,000 homing pigeons, trained for communications work, has been reported from England. Special "Souvenir Pigeongrams" have been fl.own by a propaganda Pigeon Message Service, which was operated for a period of about 2 weeks during the National Wartime Utility Exhibition, 1940, between the Lott­don Zoo and the Pigeon Headquarters at Tottenham. ........ Carrier pigeons in the Low Countries and in occupied France

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are under super'lision of the German Authorities by official announcement of September 21, 1940.

Aroun.d the Baltic Sea Air mail service has been resumed in

occupied Denmark by an airline from Malmo (Sweden) to Kopennagen (Den­mark) and from Kopenhagen to Berlin. It is operated by the Danish DDL to­gether with the Swedish Aerotransport Co. and the Deutsche Luft-Hansa. Also the direct flights from Stockholm to Ber-lin are continued. ........ The air service from Stockholm to Riga (former Lett­land) and to Moscow, which had been suspended when the Russian army began the occupation of Lettland, was again in operation at the end of September. . ..... . The former Lithuanian state has now (following overprints on stamps) the new name: "Lietunos Tarkybu SociaI1stine Respublic" (L. T. S. R.).

Leaflets The "Leaflet War" is spreading all

over the world. British airplanes dropped hundreds of thousands of leaflets over France (occupied and not occupied) and over Rabat, French Marocco (.July 24, 26, 27, 1940), "to give the people of Frence full and effective information."

Near Vichy, France and Rabat, Marocco, French anti-aircraft batteries opened fire on the former allies when they came, dropping leaflets. ........ On August 14 and 25 British RAF bombers made 1,600 mile flights over Europe and

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the Alps and dropped, during the bomo­ing raids on Milan and Turin, leaflets with an appeal to the Italians "to open your eyes well, because war with its terror is now at your gate~." They drop­ped leaflets on Berlin on August 25 and chemical leaflets (self-igniting phosphorus cards) over Germany during August and September. ........ German flyers droppea for the first time during the war, white, green and yellow leaflets over England, headed "A Last Appeal to Reason by Adolf Hitler" (August 2, 4, and 7, 1940) Many leaflets were collected and sold as souvenirs for the benefit of the British Red Cross. ........ On August 14 German flyers dropped empty parachutes (in place of leaflets) over England, In an effort to undermine British morale. . ....... Italian leaflets (in Arabic) have been dropped on Palestine on September 10, with an appeal for an Arabic "Holy War." ........ Hungarian leaflets "hostile to the Rumanian state" were officially reported in Rumania on August 27 - 28, during the Transylvanian crisis. ........ Over South­Arnsterdam, Holland a "mysterious box" has been dropped by parachute. A reward of 5,000 guilders has been offered to the finder by the German and the Local Authorities. (July, 1940) ......... Recruitin)! propaganda leaflets have been dropped by British planes in various parts of the British Empire. Aero Field, July, 1940, reports that such leaflets which remind of the danger of dropped bombs, are named "bombplets" by the population.' ........ The Canadian Air Force dropped leaflets on cities and towns on September 10 as part of the campaign for Canada's second war loan ......... In Mexico, Govern-ment-charted airplanes of Gen. Antonio Guerrero dropped, tn a mountainous reg­ion near Chihuahua City, on September 21, leaflets urging (with some success) the rebel band of Jose to lay down their arms. ........ The airplane propaganda le,,.flets of the U. S. Army Maneuvers were dropped on August 20, 1940 by a "Black" plane over the "Blue Army" during the Army War Exercises near Ogdensburg, N. Y.

Over the Atlantic The PAA Yankee Clipper, Capt. R. 0.

D. Sullivan, performed the 200th Trans­Atlantic Clipper flight on August 4, 1940. During the 200 flights 750,000 miles or 10,000,000 passenger miles have been flown without any serious accident. 180,-000 lbs. of mail have been flown 1'.rom New York to Europe and 126,000 lbs. from Europe to USA. During September alone 23,313 lbs. of mail were dispatched by Clipper from New York. A new rec­ord mail was flown by the Dixie Clipper on September 30, 1940, whe11 It left Lts­bon with about 6,500 lbs. mail. ·But dur­ing a stop at Bermuda British censors took off about 4,000 lbs. mail for con­trol. Since the beginning of the present schedule until the end of August 85 crossings have been made. 29 stoppea

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at Bermuda (8 on way to Europe, Zl on way to USA) and the British censorship controls "all clipper mail for neutral or belligerent nations other than Brit­ish and its allies." Since the German authorities also delay mail passing through occupied territories some gov­ernments began to send their official mail by personal "diplomatic couriers" who cross the Atlantic by the PAA clipper. ........ A special dispatch of ~O letters was flown by autogyro from the Court of Peace at the N. Y. World's Fair to La Guardia Field on August 19, 1940 to be transferred on the Clipper bound for Europe. The letters were addressed to London to be auctioned off for the bene-fit of the Red Cross. ........ Another special dispatch was flown, when 221 lbs. of typhoid serum were sent by the Yankee Clipper from New York (September 2) to the agent of the American Red Cross in Marseilles, France, to fight an outbreak of a typhoid fever epidemic in Southern France. The serum was flown by the PAA at no cost. ........ Since some Euro-pean countries have not yet paid the fees for clipper mail already flown. President Roosevelt signed a special bill (August 28) authorizing the Postmaster General to withhold money for these countries and to apply It to the US clipper service.

On September 3, 1940 President Roosevelt announced by message to Con­gress, that the USA has acquired from England the right to new airbases tn Newfoundland. Bermuda, the Bahamas, St. Lucia, Trinidad. Antigua and in British Guiana. ........ As the first consequence on the development of the trans-Atlannc air mail, the PAA is already contemplat­ing non-stop flights from the new US air­base at Bermuda to Lisbon, Portugal, dropping the stop at Horta Harbor dur­ing bad weather, when dangerous ground swells there delay the regular service of the clippers. ........ On September 9. the Atlantic Clipper [carrying 6 passengers and 671 lbs. of mail) made the first direct flight from Bermuda to Lisbon, arriving there on September 10 returnrng tne same way in a non-stop 3,116-mile flight with 1.500 lbs. of mail on September 13-14, 1940. Also a non-stop trial flight bet­ween New York and Lisbon was arranged when the Atlantic Clipper left New York with 1,500 lbs. mail on September 28, 1940. ........ Spai·n accepted (since Septem~ ber 19) for USA and other American countries airmail only, no ordinay mail.

A second Trans-Atlantic air service has been announced by the American Ex­port Air Lines. Non-stop flights should have been made between Lisbon and New York, beginning in the middle of October 1940. But in spite of the recom­mendation of the Civil Aeronautic Board, the Senate refused (October 3) the funds required by the Post Office Department for this service ......... The British Trans-Atlantic air service had to be organized

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FOLLOWING LOTS SOLD FOR BENEFIT OF CLEVELAND AIR MAIL SOCIETY

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D 648-658 E 730-31

COSTA RICA. Short set of permanent airs thru the l col. XX Blank ......................... ~ .............................................. . ABYSSINIA. First 5 values. 2nd set used. XX Blank ..... .

MEXICO. Statistical Congress Commem. XX Blank ..... , ... . EGYPT. Anglo-Egyptian Treaty plus Philippine Clippers C7-8 plus Spain 491-500 Postal Union Congress. Three very fine sets. XX Grant ......................................................... . TURKEY. The 1927 Smyrna Exhibition Ovpts. XX Grant UNITED STATES. The 2 Chicago sheets of 25 stamps each face $1.00. Superb as issued. XX Geo. Porter ........... .

2.00 1.85 2.75

2.56 4.64

2.15

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CANADA. Prince Albert-Montreal Lake. Complete set of 6. Very fine. XX Geo. Porter. .............................................. 1.50 CANADA. Semi-official, verv fine. XX Grant ................. ~.. 2.75 Three desirable CAM's. 3N9,-25N2, 30E8. XX Dickason .... 1.40 Three interesting covers. CAM 22SW5a, San Antonio (purple). FAM 4-2, Key West-Havana and Airport Dedi-cation Sturgis, Mich. XX Dickason ............ ............................ 1.45 West Yellowstone, Mont. 26Nl0 and inbound 26N9 mailed Salt Lake City, both fine. XX Dickason ............... ............ ..... .. 3.00 Two covers, one 27NW22. the other 28E3. XX Dickason 1.25 FAM 6-1 and 7-1 Miami-San Juan and Miami-Nassau. XX Grant .......................... .................................... ..................... ... 2.00 Route 14 San Francisco-Macao Fl4-7. v.f. XX Conrath .... 2.50 San Francisco-Hong Kong Fl4-7a. v.f. XX Conrath ............ 2.00 Manila-Macao Fl4-10. v.f. XX Conrath. ................................ 1.25 Macao-Manila Fl4·12. v.f. XX Conrath ................................ 1.25 Airpost Dedications. Two Columbia, Mo. deds. (color varieties) plus Zeppelin Dock, and Minneapolis Philatelic Exhibition sta. cancels. XX Emsley ...................................... ---Refueling endurance flight of July 6, 1929. Signed by Newcomb and Mitchell, pilots. XX Grant. .......................... 3.00 Memorial cover for the Akron disaster autographed by 3 of the survivors. A verry attractive cover. XX Grant. Est. 5.00 First day of issue of Lindbergh booklet pane on nice cov-er. First flight cover from Bay City-Cleveland. Deli of Sunbury airport. 3 covers. XX Grant - Dickason .......... Est 2.00 Five first dav covers of White Plains, Clark, Red Cross, Yorktown and 3c imperf. nat'l park. All first class condi-tion. XX Grant ............................................................................. ---Three cov·e.rs carrying autographs of Frankie Renner, C. E. Webb, Dick Terry, Mary Wiggins, A. J. Edwards and others. XX Dickason. . .... .. .... ..... . ......... ....... ... .... . .. . . ... ... ... est. 2.0U 3 covers with signatures of Edna G. Stevens, A. T. Sewell, W. L. Massie, Jay Matthews, Phoebe Omhe; XX Dick-ason. . .. ... . .. .. . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. ..... ... ................. ... . .. . .. . ..... ...... ... .. ........ est. 2.00 Four pilot autographs on 4 Air Race covers. Milo Burch­am, Annefle Gibson, S. S. Whitlman, Chartes F. Abel. XX Emsley ........................................................................... est. 2.00 Souvenir card of "Gripshomns" Funchal cane. Swedish flight; India flight over Calcuita of DeHaviland moth "G-E. B. M. O." July l, 1927. XX Dickason .......................... ---Miscellaneous lot of 3 foreign cpvers; Havana-Key West;­Edmonton-Athabaska, with Commercial Airways stamp: and a Toronto Convention cancellation. Also photo of Benny Howard and Harold Neumann, autographed by latter. XX Dickason - Porter .................................................... ---

XX Large cover bearing six cancels of USS ships from the Yard at Bremerton, Wash., Patoka, Idaho, Saratoga, Wil-son and Mississippi, Embossed cachet. XX Geo. Porter. Est 1.50

YY Pony Express airmail celebration cover. Akron April 15, 1928. Only ten known. XX Emsley ........................... Est. 5.00

ZZ Lot of 20 different U. S. and foreign airplane baggage labels. Martin's 1937 cat. $9.00. XX Emsley ......................... ---

FOLLOWING LOTS SOLD FOR BENEFIT OF "NATIONAL PHILATELIC AUCTIONS FOR REFUGEE RELIEF"

AA C5-10 MEXICO. Blocks, Carranza issue complete in superb mint plate number blocks. An exceptional item. XX C. D. Gorman .................................................. 8.00

BB (Souv.) 70 Ship-to-Shore flight of Clarence Chamberlain, 1927, from U.S.S. Leviathan. Very fine and rare. All mark-ings. XX Harry Ciiret . ..... ...... .............. ..... . ........................ 20.00

66 AAMS CLEVELAND AUCTION

CC FS-28 FS-33, F6-10a FAMS and 6 Panama-USA, Panama-Venezuela, Miami-Trinidad, plus fine cover from later NYRBA flight. Good lot. XX Harry Citret .. plus 5.25

DD FS-58 FAM 5, Very fine cover Bogota (Barranquilla) - USA. Fully cacheted. XX Citret ..... .. ......... ...... .......... ......... ......... 3.00

EE F9-1A Two Miami dispatches on the first flight to Chili, 1929, one addressed to Molenda and one to Sima. XX Citret . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . 7 .OD

FF FX-la AUCKLAND-HAWAII. A superb cover of this pioneer South Pacific flight. Some dealers consider this dispatch the best of the three. Advertised at double catalogue. XX Gatchell .................. ....... ....................... ................ ... .. ........... 5.00

GG Lind. 182. Panama Lindbergh "outlaw" flight. Very good. XX Citret. First day cover alone worth .................. .................... 2.00

HH SR, 9, 9B MEXICO. Three fine covers of internal routes 6 and 9. Mexico-Tampico, Mexico-Laredo and San Luis-Laredo. XX Harry Citret. . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . .. . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . .. . ... . . . . . . . .. .. ... .. .. 7 .00

II 3D21-Route 3. Chicago Lagoon-Chicago Airfield with printed cachet of pick-up. XX R. K. Meyers ...................................... 3.50

JJ 3R21 Chicago Airfield to Chicago Lagoon. Frequently missing. XX R. K. Meyers . ..... ................... ........ ....................................... 5.00

KK Five miscellaneo11s CAM's. Routes 2, 19, (2J, 33 (2) plus 2 F AM's (Route 1 and Route' 5) and 4 first day covers. XX R. K. Meyers. A good lot, catalogued much higher . .............................................................................. Worth 1.00

LL First Day Covers. Five good covers mailed on first day. Canal Zone C3 &: 4. Panama CS, 10 &: 11 p1tus one cover Mexico Aero week 193.1 franked· with C37. XX Harry Citret. Stamps alone worth over ............................................ I.DO

AIR POST ST AMPS

Listed and priced by Scott's 1941 Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue. Special attention is directed to the fact that Scott's 1941 prices have been reduced to a ,point close to the usual selling level, and are often equal and in many cases less than the 1940 Sanabria Catalogue prices.

1 * 2 * 3 * 5 *

6 * 7 * 8 0 9 *

10 * 11 * (San.)

llA *

771

Cl-10 Cl-10

C5-12;

Cl-14 C15-21

22-25 29-35 Cl-9

301-06

C25-28

12 * Cl-5· 13 * 01; 02-coi

14 *O San. 01

15 * Cl-3

16 * C4-11 17 0 C12-22 18 0 C23-30 19 * C31

UNITED STATES Imperf. vertical line block of Blue Air Mail. Special Delivery ............................ $ ABYSSINIA. Complete set. Very fine ............... . ABYSSINIA. A similar set ..................................... . 17; 18; 21 ALAOUITES. 13 very fine mint stamps <l.22), * Cl-8 ALEXANDRETTA. Com-plete country mint (1.62) The lot ......................... . ALBANIA. 2 very fine mint sets complete ........... . ALBANIA. Complete set, scarce, very fine ....... . ALBANIA. Rare used values of scarce set ....... . ALBANIA. Very fine set of mint stamps ........... . ANGOLA. Complete set of 9. Very fine ............. . ~GERIA_-Tui;ii~. Including Tunis-Algeria. 12 mint sem1-off1cials ................................................... . ARGENTINE. The green overprint Zepp issue 20c-1P ........................................................................... . 111-112 AUSTRALIA. Complete country, mint ... . AUSTRALIA. 2 mint and 1 used of the three air officials. 01 sl. damaged. . ........................................ . AUSTRALIA. One mint and one used of the 0. S. perf .......................................................................... . AUSTRIA. Monarchy set of 3 airs - 2 on granite paper ........................................................................... . AUSTRIA. 6 mint and 2 used of this rare set ..... . AUSTRIA. 11 fine copies of the pilot's head ....... . AUSTRIA. The storks, used ................................... . AUSTRIA. The large 10 Schilling ......................... .

4.00 3.20 3.20

2.84 2.10 8.00 6.00 2.45 3.09

1.60

5.00 2.lU

4.35

7.00

2.50 3.55 2.10 7.60 5.00

NOVEMBER 23, 1940

20 0 21 0

22 * 23 * 24 * 1:8'.l 25 0 26 0

C32-46 AUSTRIA. Complete set of last airs issued ......... . Cl-7; 251-53; B209-13 BELGIUM. All the airs of this

country complete ....................................................... . Cl-7 BOLIVIA. The very fine first set now rare ......... .

Cll-12; · Cl4-16; C18 BOLIVIA 1930 Zepps. 6 v.f .......... . C52-63 BOLIVIA. Comp. ovpt. set on 2 fine covers ....... .

Cl-11 BULGARIA. First 2 sets complete used ............ . Cl2-14 BULGARIA. Very scarce set used ....................... .

27 • San. 307B CANADA. East Winnipeg $1.00 black on

67

9.16

4.86 6.45

17.50 2.78 3.49 4.50

red. Imperf. Inscription reversed. Ex­tremely rare semi-official. Only 12 known 75.00

28 * 29 * 30 0

31 0 32 0

33 * San. 34 0 35 0

.36 * .37 0

Cl-10 Cl-9 Cl-5

C6-20 C17-20

110-112 Cl-16

Cl-3

C4-6

CAPE JUBY. Complete set of 11 ov.pts. v.f ...... . CAPE VERDE. Complete set of 9 v.f .................. . CHINA. The scarce striped tail. Very rare used. These are very fine. . ................................................ . CHINA. Balance of China. v.f. Worth full cat .. . COLOMBIA. The Cartagena overprints. Used, scarce thus ................................................................. . COLOMBIA. Simon Bolivar issue complete ..... . CONGO. The entire country complete used. v.f. CZECHOSLOVAKIA. The first 3 stamps. Im-

perf. Scarce used. Very fine ................................... . CZECHOSLOVAKIA. The perforated stamps very rare ...................................................................... .

C7-17 CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Last 2 sets. No longer available in used condition. Very fine ............... ..

38 * Cl-30; C36-41 DANZIG. Almost complete country. Very fine.

39 0 41 * 83

FE:w used ..................................................................... . C31-35 DANZIG. Airpost Exhibition issue. v.f., used ... .

147 COSTA RICA. The Lindbergh overprint in 'a very fine block of four ............................................ .

42 " Cl-5; C6-10 O DENMARK. 1st set mint; 2nd used. Complete

43 0 44 0

45 0 46 * 47 * 48 0 49 *

country ......................................................................... . Cl-12 DUTCH INDIES. Very fine used sets .................. ..

C13 DUTCH INDIES. Special cancellation on the

C14-18 Cl-4

172-176 C5-25

Cl-8

Australian flight. Rare used, worth cat .............. . (with CBl-2) DUTCH INDLES. 2 fine sets ....... . EGYPT. Zepps and first stamps v.f. C2 used ... . EGYPT. The Aviation Congress issue. v.f .......... . EGYPT. 'The pyramid set. Few are mint ........... . ECUADOR. The first issue including the rare 10 Sol .......................................................................... .

50 * Cl-3; 9-18 ESTONIA. 2 very fine si::ts ................... ,. ............... . 51 0 C4-6 ESTONIA The overprints used. Scarce used v.f .. . 52 * Cl FINLAND. Very fine Zepps .................................... . 53 0 Cl-2; C5-17; 308; 325-26 FRANCE. Entire country except

54 * 55 0

56 * 57 *

58 0 59 0 60 * 61 *

3-4. First 2 mint balance used ............................... . Cl-2 FRANCE 1927 Overprints; C38-40 HONDURAS

1930 overprints. 2 fine sets ................................... .. Cl-19 FRANCE-MOROCCO OFFICES; Cl FRANCE

Oceania. 21 very fine used stamps ........................... . CB1-CB23 FRANCE. The semi postals airs mint .................. ..

Cl-8 FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA; Cl-8

C20-26 C27-37 C35-36

FRENCH GUIANA, 2 v.f. complete sets .......... .. GERMANY. The gold mark. Rare and v.f ............ . GERMANY. Eagle and 3 Zepps complete v.f. sets GERMANY Single 1 mark and pair of 2 marks. Very slightly thin on 35 ....................................... .

C37 GERMANY. Pair of the 4 marks, one shows variety line thru "Luftpost." v.f ....................... ..

C38-39 GERMANY. The South American Zepps. v.f ...... .

2.90 3.09

8.35 2.62

3.20 2.50 4.68

12.00

16.50

3.43

4.37 3.95

5.00

8.o7 2.80

2.00 3.00 5.30 3.25 4.53

25.54. 2.61 3.75 3.00

10.20

3.60

3.30 6.59

5.00 8.55 4.44

2.60

4.00 11.50

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63 0 C38-39 GERMANY. 'Ihe South American Zepps. Very fine used ................................... ......................... .......... 7 .25

64 0 C43-45 GERMANY. '!he· 3 Chicago Flight Zepps. v.f. .... 7.00 65 0 C40; C46-60; 481-83 GERMANY. 20 fine used stamps in-

cluding 1 Mark. Polar flight .......... .... ............ .......... 7 .49 66 * San. 301-4; 310-315 GREAT BRITAIN. The Semi-Officials

of Britain and Lundy Islands. Now rare .......... 4.85 67 * Cl-14 GREECE. 3 very fine mint sets ............................ 2.80 68 0 C5-7 GREECE. '!he· 3 Zepps on first day of issue

card-not fiown. .......................................................... 1.35 69 0 C5-7 GREECE. Full Zep set on fl.own Zepp cover with

all cachets. A very rare item. .................................. 10.00 70 0 C8-14 GREECE. Fine rare flown first day cover. At-

hens to Patras with full set. Est. ............................ 3.00 71 0 C15-21 GREECE. Fine rare full set fiown first day cover.

Est. ......................................................... :....................... 3.50 72 0 C21B GREECE. 50dr. with "wire tail" on flown cover

to U.S.A. San. mint. .................................................. 7 .50 73 * C21B GREECE. 50dr. with "wire tail." v.f. San. ............ 7.50 74 0 C15-30 GREECE. 21 v. f. used stamps. 2 compl. sets ...... 9.08 75 0 San. 35a GREECE. Error on basic stamp on flnwn cover

to U.S. with air stamps. ............................................ 2.20 76 * San. 35A GREECE. Error on basic stamp in strip of 10

normal. Very fine. ...................................................... 2.45 77 * Cl-9 GUINEA. 9 very fine stamps ................................ 3.09 77A * San. 16-20 HONDURAS. Garay issue complete. v.f. ............ 4.50 78 O Cl-25 HUNGARY. 6 sets complete. v.f. few mint .......... 7 .74 79 O C26-44 HUNGARY. Last 2 sets complete. v.f. ................ 5.11 80 * Cl-11; C15-20; COl ICELAND. Complete country except Bal-

bo's. 3 mint .. ................................ ................ .............. 5.50 81 0 Cl-18 INDO CHINA; Cl-6 INDIA. 2 complete coun-

tries. Very fine. (San. cat. $10.70) ....................... : 2.92 82 * 0 Cl-11; C12-24 ITALY. First 11 mint balance used. 24

very fine stamps .......... .......................... ..................... 3.58 83 0 C28-33; C35-47; CEl-2 ITALY. Scarce. v.f. used sets.... 4.45 84 * C42-47; 50-55 ITALY. 3 very fine sets ............................................ 4.70 85 0 C56-65; CE3; CE5-7 ITALY. Rarer used than mint ................ 5.82 86 * C66-78; CBl; CE4; CE8-9 ITALY. Very fine mint sets.......... 4.82 87 0 C79-105; 345-348 ITALY. 6 complete sets of this country.

Very fine. .................................................................... 6.35 88 * Cl-C7 ITALY-Aegean Islands. C4-C7 TRIPOLITANIA.

C20-23 CYRENAICA. 4 v.f. mint sets .................. 4.04 89 0 Cl-7; Bl-3 JAPAN. Country complete including rare first

2 stamps ...................................................................... 6.50 90 * Cl-14; B62-65 JUGOSLAVIA. Complete country mint.

Very fine. .................................................................... 5.76 91 * Cl-11 LATAKIA. Complete country -now gone. v.f. .... 5.36 92 0 Cl-8; Cl-C2B LATVIA. The triangle stamps. ................................ 3.00 93 0 Cl-8 LEBANON. 3 very fine used sets. .......................... 3.80 940C17-27;33-34; 37-44 LEBANON. 21 v.f. stamps ........................ 2.97 95 * C44-45; 47-48 LEBANON. C49-50; 52; 54; 56 SYRIA. 9 Very

fine stamps .. ......... .... ... ......... ... ............. ... . ................... 4.43 96 * C45-56 LEBANON. 12 very fine stamps ............................ 4.28 97 0 C57-71 LEBANON. Complete 1937-38 ................................ 2.82 98 * C4-15; 242-247 LIBERIA. Pictorial sets. v.f. .................................. 4.82 99 * Cl-6; 9-13 LIECHTENSTEIN. 2 beautiful sets ...................... 3.62

100 * C7-8; 15-16 LIECHTENSTEIN. The 4 popular Zepp stamps. Very .fine. .................................................................... 5.75

101 0 Cl4; Cl7-23 LIECHTENSTEIN. Scarce overprint and 1939 · set, very fine ........................................ ,....................... 2.93

102 *Cl-20; C28; C31 LITHUANIA. 22 fine stamps. ............................ 4.75 103 * C34-35; C37-55; CBl-4 LITHUANIA. 5 v.f. sets. .......... 5.24

NOVEMBER 23, 1940

104 * C45a LITHUANIA. Vytautas issue 60c horiz. pr. imperf. between. .......................... ...................... Est.

105 * C44a LITHUANIA. Vytautas issue 40c light blue and violet. Double impression of violet. Est ............. .

106 * Cl-15 107 O Cl-5; 7-10; 108 * C2-17; C19-29 110 0 165-174;

MACAO. Complete country, v.f. (San. 5.45) ....... . 11-14 MADAGASCAR. Fine set, few mint ME MEL. All but 2 of this country ....................... . * Cl-15 MOZAMBIQUE CO. The country

111 * 112 0 113 *

Cl-9 Cl-11

182-207

complete ..................................................................... . MOZAMBIQUE. The 9 Port. Col. airs ............... . NETHERLANDS. The country complete,. used ... NEW CALEDONIA. The Paris-Noumea Flight Commemoratives. Very fine, complete ................ .

114 * 182-207 115 * Cl-9; C28-29 116 * C14-24

NEW CALEDONIA. A similar set ....................... . NEW GUINEA. 2 sets thru the s)lilling ............... . NEW GUINEA. The 1931 anniversary set thru

117 * 0 118 *

119 * 120 *

121 *

121A

122 * 123 0 124 0 125 0 126 * 127 0

128 * 129 0

the 2 shilling ............................................................. . Cl-4*· C5-8 0 NEW ZEALAND. complete country ..... . C41-~ NICARAGUA. 0.16 surcharge inverted. Scott

listed, unpriced . . . .. . .. ... .. .... .. .. . ..... .. . ... .. . .. ... . .. . .. . San. C42a NICARAGUA. 0.24 surcharge inverted. Scott

listed, unpriced ............. ................................... San. C43a NICARAGUA. 0.08 surcharge inverted. Scott

listed, unpriced ........... ..................................... San. C46b NICARAGUA. 40c value inverted surcharged

Scott listed, unpriced .................. .................... San. 104-lHi; Cl & 2 NORWAY. The polar bears and 2 airs

Cl-9 Cl-C13 C22-33 C34-48 C51-64

361-367

(4 used) ...................................................................... .. PAPUA. Very fine sets .......................................... .. PERSIA. Rare first overprints. Few mint ......... . PERSIA. Very rare used. Very fine ................... . PERSIA. 15 colorful stamps ................................... . PERSIA. The Iran set thru the 5 Kran ............ .. PHILIPPINES. Von Gronau issue. Complete 365-6-7- with straight edge .................................... .

370-79 PHILIPPINES. Rein set complete, v.f. scarce ... . 405-07; 447-48; Cl-8 PHILIPPINES. 12 fine stamps.

448 with. straight edge ............................................. .. 130 * Cl-12; 306-7 POLAND. The air stamps of this lost country

complete ..................................................................... . 131 * 0 299-14; Cl-6 PORTUGAL. Complete country, first set

mint; second used .................................................... . 132 * Cl-8 PORTUGUESE INDIA. Set of 8 v.f. stamps ....... . 133 0 ~ C2-5 REUNION. Complete set on flown cover St.

Denis to New York ............................................ plus 134 * 0 Cl-9; C13-21; and 13 Aviation Fund Stamps. ROU-

135 0 136 * 137 * 138 * 139 * 140 * 141 * 142 0

C6-9; C12-13 441-45 441-45

449a

Cl0-13 C26-29 C26-29

C37-39;

MANIA. Cl-9 are mint, balance used. v.f. lot ..... . 446-50 RCSSIA. 3 v.f. used sets ........................ . RUSSIA. 1931 Russian Zepps, imperf. v.f ........ .

RUSSIA. A similar imperf. set ........................... . RUSSIA. The rare blue gray error on the 50 kr. Zepp stamp ................................................................ . RUSSIA. Two very fine mint sets ....................... . RUSSIA. 1931 North Pole Zepps. Imperf. v.f ...... . RUSSIA. A similar imperf. set. . .......................... . C5:.l-37 RUSSIA. Stratosphere and Zepps. 2 fine sets ....................................................................... .

143 O C40-49 RUSSIA. The jubilee sets complete. v.f .............. . 144 O C58-67 RUSSIA. The Chelyuskin issue complete. v.f .... . 145 o C69-75; 625-28; 636-42; 678-86 RUSSIA. Four very fine sets.

A good lot ................................................................... . 146 * Cl-8 SAAR. Complete air stamps of this country.

Now becoming rare .................................................. ..

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10.00

5.00 2.44 5.24 4.10

4.40 3.09 2.85

8.18 8.18 3.79

3.16 2.74

12.00

12.00

12.00

50.00

2.58 2.15 4.29

.. 11.12 3.41 2.03

7.05 6.00

3.74

3.73

2.48 2.76

1.98

2.85 3.36 3.55 3.55

4.00 3.05 3.35 3.35

2.95 6.75 2.84

2.04

7.55

70 AAMS CLEVELAND AUCTION

147 * Cl-9 ST. THOMAS AND PRINCE ISLANDS. Com-plete set of 9 very fine stamps .............................. 3.09

148 * C20-23 SALVADOR. Very fine mint set ............................ 2.00 149 * Cl-8; Cll-18 SAN MARINO. Zepp overprints com-

plete and regular air mails. v.f. ............................ 11.51 150 * Cl-11 SENEGAL. Very fine set of 11 stamps ................ 2.70 151 * Cl-8 SO. WEST AFRICA. The complete airs of this

country. A very fine lot .......................................... 3.11 152 * Cl-30 SPAIN. The first 4 sets of this monarchy com-

plete. 2 thin ................................................................ 5.15 153 * C31-57; C62-67 SPAIN. 3 very fine sets. Few used .................. 2.70 154 * San.718a; 720a; 722a; 726a; 728a SPAIN. 5 fine Goya imperfs.

2 with wide margins ........................... .... .. ............. 25.00 155 O C73-87; C90; COl-06 SPAIN. 2 fine sets. The official airs

mint. very fine. ........................................................ 2.59 156 * Cl-ClO SPANISH MOROCCO. The beautiful permanent

set. Very fine. ......... .... .. .......................... ................... 1.92 157 0 Cl-11; C13-15 SUDAN. 14 Very fine stamps of this popular

country, few mint .................................................... 4.35 158 * C16-C20 SUDAN. 5 very fine mint overprinted stamps .... 3.20 159 * Cl 7-22 SUDAN. Complete set of rare overprints. v.f. .... 4.45 160 0 Cl-3; 6-7; 263 SWEDEN. 3 overprints and the permanent

airs. ·Very fine. ............................................................ 2.18 161 0 C2-26 SWITZERLAND. A very fine lot of this country.

Few mint. .................................................................... 5.17 162 0 C4-6 SYRIA. Rare 1921 early overprints. v.f. ............ 12.00 163 0 C-7-9 SYRIA. The 1921 Avian set. Very fine ................ 3.75 164 * C19-25; C30-44; B13-16 SYRIA. 26 different airs of this coun-

try, few used. ............................................................ 5.20 165 0 C46-53; 57-63; 72-79 SYRIA. 28 different airs. v.f. .................... 5.78 166 * Cl-9 TIMOR. Complete set of 9 v.f. ........................ .... 2.69 167 * Cl-12 TUNIS. The complete country, few used ............ 1.85 168 Cl-C5 used; C6-8 mint. TURKEY. The entire country ........ 3.07 169 * Cl-3; C5-6 UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. 5 very fine

stamps. C5 used ........................................................ 3.16 170 0 Cl-8 VATICAN CITY. Complete issue of 8 v.f. ........ 2.04 171 * San. 305; 307-8; 310 URUGUAY. 4 of the official stamps Perf.

2 stars. .......................................................................... 55.00 175 * 649-50 UNITED STATES. Aero Conference 2c R. side

margin Pl. # 19663 block of 6 and 5c R. side marg. # 19659 block of 6 very fine. ........................ 3.25

1.76 * 649-50 UNITED STATES. 2c bottom margin Pl. 19665 block 6 and 5c marg. # 19659 block of 6. 3.25

177 * 683 UNITED STATES. Carolina-Charleston 2c. Set of 4 diff. plate # blocks of 6 tops #20061-2-3-4 4.00

178 * 724 UNITED STATES. 3c William Penn. Set of 4 top Pl. blocks of 6 #F 21064-5-6-7. AAMS * Wal-ter J. Conrath ............................................................ 2.40

179 * UNITED STATES. 10 Plate number blocks G. R. Clark; Von Steuben; Red Cross; Yorktown (2J Lake Placid; Arbor Day (2); Webster; Ogle-thorpe. Centering good. ............................................ 5.45

PIONEER- GOVERNMENTAL - SOUVENIR COVERS 200 Govt. 16 Oct. 23, 1919, Portland to Augusta. Fine example

of this scarce early governmental. All cachets and postmarks. Reserved at $9.00 .................................... 35.00

201 Govt. 46 San Francisco to New York, Aug. 21, 1923. The forerunner of present trans-continental service .... 5.00

202 Pion. 54 McLeansboro, Ill. souvenir card. Postmarked, however, Sept. 30, 1912 at Harrison, Ill. and with-out cachet. Probably not flown ................................. ---

NOVEMBER, 1940

203 Souv. 70 Clarence Chamberlin first ship-to-shore flight. Carried from U.S.S. Leviathan off Fire Island to

71

shore. v.f. cover. ............................................................ 20.00 204 Souv.104 Unsuccessful attempt Adams Pick-Up Service from

SS "Leviathan," accompanied by letter from radio operator telling of failure. Unique and rare. Wiley Post attempted non-stop stratosphere 205 Souv. 180 flights, fully cacheted and superb ............................ 15.00

206 Trans-Oc. 194 First hour US naval mass flight Jan. 28, 1937.

207 Souv.

San Diego-Pearl Harbor. Pilot and co-pilot signed Superb, rare and very desirable even :though cat-logue is in error in stating only 10 were carried. Guaranteed and ** by Lt. Comdr. J. G. Johnson.--· -Good Will tour of U.S. Army flying Fortresses, flown from Langley Field, Va. to Bogota, Colum-bia and return, Aug. 13, 1938. Postmarked Langley Field, Va. no backstamp but authenticated by F. E. Glantzberg, Navigator of flagship. Similar cover recently· brought $12.25 at auction. Very fine and desirable. Reserve 6.00 ............................................ ---

U. S. FOREIGN CONTRACT AIR MAIL 208 F5-3; F5-63 F6-1; F6-10A; F6-14 Miami to Managua, Pt Bar­

rios, Porto Rico, Paramaribo, and St. Thomas to Pt. of Spain. 6 interesting covers. ................................ 6.00

. 209 F5-25; F8-7 Miami to Bogota via Cristobal and Barranquilla on direct express .service, cacheted. Plus Browns-ville San Salva,dor. Plus ............................................ 1.75

210 F5-28; F5-33 Two Panama covers· one to U.S.A. and one to Cara-cas. 2 fine covers ..................... ;......................... .............. 3.00

211 F5-58 Fine first flight from Bogota via Barranquilla to U. S. A. ............................................................................ 3.50

212 F6-10a; F6-10a; F6-13a; F6-13a Four fine covers Miami to Port of Spain and Georgetown. San Juan to Paramaribo and Guadeloupe. ............................................................ 4.50

213 F6-10a; F8-7 Two covers, Miami-Georgetown and Miami-Port of Spain (both magenta) plus Brownsville- San Lorenzo and thence to Montevideo, worth well over 3.25

214 F7-2 Nassau to Miami Jan. 2, 1929. Fine first flight ...... 1.50 215 F9-la; F9-la Miami to Molenda and Miami to Lima. Properly

cacheted. ............................... .... ........ ..................... .......... 7 .00 216 F9-3a; F9-25; & 26 Three desirable covers plus govt. flight #59

Seattle-Vancouver. The Miami-Montevideo cover is registered and bears cachet in red. The Cristo-bal-Montevideo has the purple cachet. .................... 7.35

217 F9-7a Guayquil-Miami. v.f. cover franked with Cl-3, 6. .... 4.00 218 F9-10a; F9-18 Lima, Peru to USA and Santiago to USA. Large

good covers. ...................................................................... 8.00

219 Fl4-l thru Fl4-6 Route 14. A beautiful set of the 1935 Pioneer flights. Twelve valuable covers. The San Fran­cisco and Honolulu dispatches are REGISTERED. Firs:!: complete set offered in years, conservatively reserved a:I: $25. A real chance. Cat. ...... . .. .. . . .. ... ............. ... ... .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. . . .. . 36.00

220 F14-1 Two large size covers San Francisco-Honolulu bearing green cachet; however one addressed to Postmaster, Midway and one to the P.M. at Wake. Each carries $1 postage. Nothing to indicate covers actually got beyond Honolulu as there were no offices at addressed points. Nice, however ............ 2.50

221 FAM 14 Shanghai-Guam, with China National Airway large green cachet for Hong Kong connection. Worth ...... 3.50

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222 FAM-7 to Fl4-13c The Trans-Pacific Extension to China, April 21, 1937. A complete and beautiful set of 17. All points. Superb franking, perfect and neat in every respect. Regulation size permanized rag bond envelopes. A most difficul:t set to obtain in this condition. A bargain at full catalogue ... ... ... ............. ... . ...... ..... ...... .......... ..... ... .. ... . ... .. . .. ... .......... 40.00

tion. A bargain at full catalogue. ................................ 40.00 F14-7 USA-Macao to Canton. Very nice cover .................... 2.50 Fl4-7 The San Francisco-Macao. Superb- 20c and 50c

clipper stamps ................................................................ 2.50 F14-7a USA to Hong Kong to Sweden <backstamped Swe-

den May 31) .................................................................... 2.00 F14-7a USA to Hong Kong with uncancelled Chinese air

F14-8 F14-8 F14-8a F14-8a

stamps for return. Return postmark May 24 .... plus Honolulu to Macao. A fine point. ............................... . Honolulu-Macao. Superb. A rare point ................... . Honolulu-Hong Kong. v.f. rag bond cover ........... . Two very fine covers Honolulu to Hong Kong and

2.00 3.00 3.00 2.50

Honolulu to Canton. Plus ............................................ 5.00 F14-8a Honolulu to Hong Kong to Canton with unused

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Fl4-9a F14-9a Fl4-9a

Chinese air stamps for return ............................... . Guam to Macao. Superb and rare ........................... .. Guam to Macao. A missed point .............................. . Guam-Macao. Very fine ............................................ . Guam-Hong Kong. Rare and v.f. "'* W. J. Conrath.

Guam to Hong Kong to Canton. An added trip. plus Guam to Hong Kong to Manila. An interesting

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cover. Plus. .................................................................... 3.50 F14-9a Guam to Hong Kong and uncancelled Chinese

stamp for return flight to Guam. ..................... ..... ...... 3.50 F14-10 Manila to Hong Kong to Manila. Nice cover. ............ 1.25

F14-10a Manila to Hong Kong to Canton and same cover mailed from Canton with Chinese Air postage. Plus. .................................................................................. 1.25

F14-10a Manila-Hong Kong-Manila. Flown to Hong Kong and Hong Kong stamps cancelled for return. In-teresting item. Plus. ...................................................... 1.25

242 F14-10 & 12 Manila-Macao and Macao-Manila. Two very fine covers. Undercatalogued at ........................................ 2.50

243 F14-10; F14-12 .. Manila-Macao and Macao-Manila. Both superb and undercatalogued. ** Bruggmann. ...................... 2.50

244 F14-10; Fl4-13 Manila-Macao and Hong Kong-Manila. Two superb covers. "'* Bruggmann. .................................... 3.25

245 F14-11 Macao to Canton via Hong Kong and Macao to Hong Kong. 2 very fine covers. .................................. 2.50

246 F14-12; F14-13 Macao to Manila and Hong Kong to Manila. 2 beautiful covers. .. ........................................................ ..

247 F14-12a Macao to Guam. A very good point .......................... . 3.25 3.01:1 3.00 248 F14-12b Macao to Honolulu. A very fine cover .................... .

249 F14-12c; F14-13c Macao to USA and Hong Kong to USA. Two

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very fine covers. ............................................................ 4.00 Fl4-13 Hong Kong-Manila. Superb. Reserve $1. Brugg-

mann. ................................................................................ 2.00 F14-13 Canton to Manila via Hong Kong with additional

China Nat. Airways cachet and Chinese Air stamps --­Fl4-13a Hong Kong to Guam. An often missing point. v.f... 3.00 F14-13a Canton to Guam via Hong Kong with additional

Ohina Airways cachet and Chinese airpost stamps. Plus. .................................................................................. 3.00

F14-13b Hong Kong to Honolulu. Very beautiful cover ..... 3.00

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255 Fl4-13b Canton to Honolulu via Hong Kong with Chinese air stamps and China Airways cachet. Plus ............ 3.00

256 Fl4-13c Canton to USA via Hong Kong with 4 different Chinese air stamps and China Natl-Airway cachet Plus. .................................................................................. 2.00

257 Fl4 Guam to Manila (April 27) and Manila to USA April 28. A different item ............................................ ---

258 Fx-1, a (2) The New Zealand route pioneers. Set of 3 match-ed covers flown in the ill-fated "Samoa Clipper," 1937; includes Auckland to Pago Pago, Hawaii and USA. When available bringing close to full cat. ...... 17 .50

259 Fx-1 New Zealand Route. Pioneer 1937 via Samoa Clip-per. Auckland-Pago Pago. Superb card. .................... 7.50

260 Fl8-l thru Fl8-6 Route 18. Southern Trans-Atlantic, 1939, Superb set of 12 covers complete except provisional variety Fl8-2x. Reserved at $15. Conservatively catalogu-ed at .............................................................................................. 30.75

261 Fl8-l; la & lb Southern Trans-Atlantic route; N. Y. to Horta, Lisbon and Marseilles. Three very fine matched covers each franked with a 30c trans-Atlantic stamp ................................................................................ 5.25

262 Fl8-2 Horta-Lisbon. Square black cachet ............................ 3.25 263 Fl8-2a Horta-Marseilles. The oblong blue cachet .............. 3.25 264 Fl8-4 Lisbon-Marseilles. Oblong blue cachet .................... 3.50 265 Fl8-5 Lisbon-Horta Oblong blue cachet .............................. 3.00 266 Fl8-6 Marseilles-Lisbon. The black cachet ........................ 3.00 267 Fl8-6a Marseilles-Horta. Black Cachet ................................ 3.00 268 Fl8-6b' Marseilles-N.Y. Black cachet. Also first English

dispatch by southern route May 30, 1939. Two very fine covers. About ................................................ 4.75

269 Fl8-10 to Fl8-16b Northern Route Trans-Atlantics. A complete superb set of 18. Matched except for one Eng­lish cover. All dispatches. Permanized rag bond envelopes prepared by specialists. A perfection set like this/ worth full catalogue ................................................................................ 22.75

270 Fl8-10; IOa; 11 Two N.Y. dispatches and one Shediac-Botwood. Fine neat covers. .......................................................... 3.00

271 Fl8-10; Fl8-10a Northern Trans-Atlantic New York to Shediac and Botwood. Superb pair. .......................................... 3.00

272 Fl8-1lb; 12; 15a; Shediac-England; Shediac-N.Y.; Foynes-Shediac 3 very fine covers. ........................................................ 3.75

273 Fl8-11; Fl8-12 Shediac to Botwood and Shediac to New York. Superb. . .......................................................................... .

274 Fl8-14; Fl8-14a Botwood to Shediac and USA .. Two v.f. covers ... . 275 Fl8-15 Ireland-Botwood. Very fine ....................................... . 276 Fl8-16b (2) Two covers England-USA, mailed at Oxford, Eng.

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FAM 19 New Zealand Route-1940. A very fine complete set of 26 covers of this interesting route, including the added Los Angeles dispatches. Reserved at $25. Not catalogued at yet ................................................. ---

FAM 19 South Pacific flight San Francisco-Canton Island; Los Angeles-Hawaii; L. A.-Canton Island. Three stages on rag bond envelopes. Should be catalogu-ed about ......................................................................... . 8.00

279 FAM 19 South Pacific (July 1940) San Francisco-Canton Is-land and S. F.-Noumea. Two matched covers. Should be catalogued at about .................................. 6.00

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280 FAM 19 South Pacific flight. Honolulu-Canton Is. and Hono-lulu-Noumea. Two matched covers of these stages which will probably be scarce after quantities car-ried are announced. Est. cat. ........................................ 4.50

281 FAM 19 The 1940 New Zealand Flight. Los Angeles-Hono-lulu and Honolulu-L. A. Two v.f. covers ................ ---

282 FAM 20 Route 20. Alaska Route, Ketchikan and Seattle dispatches. Two good covers ....................................... ---

283 FAM 20 Route 20 Alaska Route Ketchikan-South. Three copies of this dispatch ................................................. ---

284 First acceptance British mail for Southern Route. May 31, 1939. Considered scarce in Eng. Est. ........ 4.00

285 England-Horta; England-N.Y. Tw-0 covers from the first English dispatch via the Southern Route. Well thought of in England. About .................................... 5.00

286 NYRBA NY-6e First flight B. A. to Miami. Very fine with pilots signature. Plus interesting cover from Bra-zil on later flight. Plus. ................................................ 1.50

287 Trans-Oc. 141 Pond-Sabelli trans-Atlantic cover. No. 10 envelope as usual, superb condition all cancels and signed by pilot Sabelli. ** Klemann .. ... ...... .. . ... ......... ... ... ............... ... 35.00

288 Trans-Oc. 158 Feb. 26, 1935. Actually March 8. First flight Wake Island. Catalogue data wrong on this and will be revised to 432 carried and posted various dates Manila, Guam. etc. Beautiful No. 10 envelope flown a± Wake bears cachet, postmarked USS Nitro "En­route to Pearl Harbor" Signed by Lt. Pilot J. G. Johnson. • • Johnson. . ................................................. ---

289 Hop off cover of Clyde Lee trans-Atlantic attempt 1932. Posted Oshkosh, Wisc. bears pictorial cachet and signature of Lee, later lost at sea. Accom­panied by 7x9 photo of flyers. Not flown, of course but interesting ................................................................. ---

290 Trans-Oc. Nov. I, 1935. First flight Palmyra Island to Kingman Reef and return. Pilot Jack Wilson, now deceas-ed. A heretofore unrecorded cover, bears pictorial cachet in blue and cancelled USS Wright, Nov. l, 1935. Palmyra Island. Very fine and one of but 100 carried.** Johnson .... ---

291 DO-X Flight S. A., June 5, 1931. Cover bearing stamps, postmarks and cachets of 12 different countries. Slit sides to show all cancellations. Scarce and unique. Est. over ...... 50.00

292 Lindb'gh 182 Flown cover on the famous "outlaw" flight. plus .... 2.00

293 Crash 4.28 Philadelphia, Pa. crash. May 1, 1928, Very fine card, mailed at Boston ................................................ 2.50

294 Crash Data on crash 2.28. Letters from postmaster and contractor giving full details of crash of Pilot Edgar Leedy. Historical data necessary to a crash collection. . ...................................................................... .

ZEPPELIN COVERS 295 26 Tokio to Los Angeles on 1929 World Flight. Red cachet

and properly backstamped. This rare point on fine # 10 commercial cover. ........................................................ 15.00

296 104 Hindenburg-USA fligM Friedrichshafen dispatch. Fine cover .. . .. ... . .. .. . . .. . ... . . .. . ..... .. . .. ... .. . . .. ... ... ... .. .. . ... .. . ... ... ....... 2.50

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297 104, 104a Hindenburg-USA flight Germany U.S. flight German and U.S. dispatches. 2 v.f. covers .................................... 4.50

298 US-8 The Los Angeles flight to Porto Rico. Dispatched from N.Y. to Mayaguez Harbor. ................................................ 1.50

299 US-10 Zepp USS Akron Lakehurst to San Diego plus cover from visit of Amelia Earhart to March Field, 8/6/32 Autographed by Amelia Earhart and Major H. H. Arnold now Major Gen. Commander US Air Force. Autographs alone make this lot worth well over ........ 3.00

'300 Ringlaying of ZR 3, Nov. 7, 1929, Akron, Ohio. Cachet-ed. Listed by Brennecke at ................................................ 5.00

301 N.Y. to Ireland, Jan. 24. <FAM-18) Irish cachet on re­verse. Face cachet obliterated by being imposed on embossed cover. Plus 3 Zepp cachets. USS Macon leaves hangar at Lakehurst; USS Akron coast to coast and Dr. Eckner visits Zepp dock at Akron .................... 1.00

CANADA 30:~ 144-144a; 177-177a; 182-182c Oskelaneo-Chibougamau and re­

turn Dec. 14, 1929. Amos-Siscoe and return, Oct. 28, 1930. Calgary-Lethbridge-Medicine Hat Jan. 15, 1931. 8 very fine covers ................................................................ 2.00

303 177-177a; 182-182c; 196-196a Amos-Siscoe and return, Oct. 28, 1930. Calgary-Lethbridge-Medicine Hat, Jan. 15, 1931. Vancouver-Victoria and return, Aug. 1, 1931 ................ 2.00

304 179 (supp.) Canada- North Sydney, N.S.-Stephensville Cross­ing, Nfld. Nov. 12, 1930. Franked with both Canadian and Nfld. stamps, postmarked Nfld. P. 0. No. Sydney, Nov. 11 and Stephenville Crossing Nov. 12. Signed by by pilot A. D. Sullivan. Fine and very scarce. ............ 10.00

305 202-204c; 224-224a Ft. McMurray-Embarras Portage 12/17/31 set of 4. Siscoe-Pacalis and return Sept. 15, 1932. ........ 1.50

!106 388-388e Prince Albert-Fond du. Lac July 12-13, 1937. Complete set of 6 matched covers. ** Naves .................................... 1.50

307 888a Commercial Airways, Ltd, Grand Prairie, Edmonton, with scarce "Via Air" stamp. Fully cacheted ................ 2.00

308 Mexico 6R, 9, 9b Three fine Mexican firsts. Mexico-Tampico; Mexico-Laredo; San Luis-Laredo .................................. .. 7.00

FOREIGN PIONEERS 309 17a Australian Commonwealth P.O. Dept. flight inaugural

from Broken Hill to Mildura, June 21, 1925 .................. .. 10.00 310 First flight Copenhagen to Amsterdam April 23, 1924. An

interesting historic item. Listed Champ. .. ......................... . 6.00 311 Ecuador First flight Latacunga-Otavalo Jan. 1, 1932. Has

official cachet. v.f. In 1933 Berkshire at ............................... . 5.00 '312 9g Great Britain Coronation. Aerial Post. Sept. 13, 1911.

Green special cover addressed to G. H. Worthington, Cleveland. .................................................................................... 4.00

312a 25 Great Britain Motor Glider Flight at Lympne to Hasting-

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leigh. Oct. 13, 1923. Fine cover. ............................................ 4.00

312b 28 Great Britain. Experimental flight Newquay-Tor­quay. Very rare, only 26 carried. Fine card shows picture of pilot and plane ...................................................................... 75.00

313 C2 Guatemala. First flight Guatemala to Balboa, Feb. 18, 1924. No. 10 envelope with no backstamp as usual .... 35.00

Guatemala. First flight Guatemala City-Relahulen June 5, 1930. Official cachet, nicely franked ................................ ---

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India. May 20, 1929 First Flight Calcutta-Darjling. Inter-esting item .................................................................................. -·--India. 2 covers flown on RAF demonstration flight Nov. 19, 1930. Allahabad-Delhi and Delhi-Calcutta .................... ---India. First flight Madras-London. Oct. 17, 1932 via Im-perial Airways. v.f. decorated cover with cachet ............ ---India. Jan. 17. 1933 Santa Cruz-Calcutta flight with Prince Ali Khan label ....................................... , ...................... ---India. First flight Oct. 1, 1933. Extension of air route Akjob-Rangoon plus first Karachi-Calcutta flight ............. ---India. Earthquake emergency flight. Dum Dum to Dar-bhangah. 30J an34. Earthquake cachet ................................ ---

NEWFOUNDLAND St. Johns-St. Anthony Jan. 29, 1931. All postmarks and cachets, franked 15c air mail and signed by Pilot A. D. Sullivan. Very fine .................................................................... 3.50

Newfoundland. St. Anthony-St. Johns, Jan. 30, 1931. Very fine cover franked with C6. Plus ............................................ 2.00 A similar lot except large size # 10 envelope but reg-ister at St. Johns. ........................................................................ 5.0() St. Johns-No. Sydney, N. S. Aug. 23, 1931. Franked 50c air mail, bears printed official cachet and signature of Pilot Sullivan. v.f. and priced low at .................................... 5.00 Round trip cover of special Labrador Gold Concessions Flights. All cachets and postmarks. Large #10 envelope, franked 60c air mail Cl6. Highly desirable significant flight, catalogued as round trip plus value of stamp at .... 8.75

326 124 (P.l.) Neiherland Royal Air Force Flighi Manila-Pueria Princesa. Fine cover. Reserve $1. •• Neizorg .................... 4.00

327 Two fine commercial covers one flown by German South Atlantic Air Service to Valparaiso, posted in London but with German cachet and one also to Chili but by Atlan­tic Clipper service. First item postmarked one week be-fore war. Fine and very desirable. . ................................... ---

DEDICATIONS 328 A221 Ottumwa, Iowa. Nov. 11, 1928. ............................................ 7.00 329 K55a Brooklyn, N. Y. June 17, 1938. Coast Guard Air Station

dedication flown to and postmarked Washington, D. C. only 72 thus ................................................................................ 6.75

330 K70 Gladwin, Mich. July 14, 1938. very fine ................................ 7.00 331 K79 Plymouth, Mich. August 7, 1938. Flown in Glider to Pon-

tiac, Mich. Very fine. ................................................................ 6.25 332 G1B5 Downtown lakefront A.P. Dedication. Cancelled at amf.

at Cleveland ................................................................................ 8.50 333 G244 Moultrie, Ga. Nov. 10, 1934. v.f. .............................................. 4.50 334 M4 Si. Peiersburg, Fla. dedicaiion of Alberi Whiiied sea-

plane base. Superb and scarce. • • Kesier . .............. .. ........... 4.2S 335 Dewey Eldred Seaplane base dedication cover Sept. 1,

1940 postmarked Cleveland Air Mail Field Lost Nation A.P. dedication Willoughby, Ohio. Sunday postmarked Aug 25, 1940. Both covers flown and signed by Dewey Eldred. Not yet catalogued .................................................... ---

336 Five covers commemorating 20th anniversary of US air mail and flights mailed at Sacramento, McLeansboro, St. Louis, Ocean City and Boston. Several pilot signed and accompanied with newspaper clippings. Interesting lot .... ---

ROCKETS 337 German rocket flight with 1 mark special stamp and regular Ger­

man postage used on June 11, 1933. 1 First American rocket card dated Hewitt, N. J. Feb. 23, 1936 ......................................................... ---

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338 2 flown Indian rocket covers Feb. 27, 1935 and March 23, 1935 each with special rocket stamp and cachet plus regular postage .... ---

339 Roberti Rocket Experiment. Calais, France, has special private label and cachet, signed by inventor ..................................................... ---

340 2 unused Austrian rocket flight letters with government issued imprinted stamps. 1 Bavaria air post card unused, of government issue, good lot. . ....................................................................................... ---

341 Catapult. Ile de France, ship to shore, eastward. Very fine. Berk-shire 1933 catalogue. ................................................................................ 6.00

MISCELLANEOUS 342 Lustig Glider Train Flight. Stated to be carried by return flight

Philadelphia-Brooklyn and so attested by R. E. Franklin pilot, third glider. Owner values at ............................................................ 15.00

343 Same as before but attested by Stan Smith, pilot second glider. Owner also believes worth ..... ............................................................... 15.00

344 Special Pony Express Airmail celebration April 15, 1938. Cover carried Pony Express Akron to Cleveland and then flown to New York. Pouch carried covers and invitations to Mayors of Eastern cities to attend celebration. Signed by Pony Express rider ........ ---

345 Special Air Mail pick-up cover from Cleveland Sept. 6, 1937 sign­ed by pilot Norman Rentoul and 2 pick-up covers route 1001 Nat­rona, Pa. First day light pick-up 7 /2/40 and first night 11/15/40. One large envelope ................................................................................ ---

346 1929 Air Race Cover. Postmarked Cleveland AMF on Sept. 2 -Akron Day. Signed by Dr. Hugo Eckener. Cost owner. .................... 5.50

347 8 National Air Race covers signed by Tony Levier, St. Vasquez, Annette Gipson, E. L. Preston (2) D. Elmendorf, Earl Ortman and Gerd Achellis ............................................................................................ ---

348 8 National Air Race covers signed by Lee Miles (2), Milo Bucham, E. L. Preston (2), Tod Dryer, John Livingston and S. J. Wittman .. ---

349 Registered cover of first day of the 20 and 50c trans-Pacific plus 25c postmarked Washington, D. C. Feb. 16 to Sweden via Clipper to Manila. Backstamped Manila and Sweden, March 21. v.f. item ---

350 Cover mailed at special P.O. Mid-Western Philatelic Station franked with Lindbergh booklet pane, first day use May 26, 1928. Cover slated for Round the World but returned by New York P.O. with interesting "Unmailable" label .................................................... ---

351 First day of rate change to 16c Washington postmark July 13, 1918. Carried and backstamped July 15, very fine copy 16c airmail---

352 First day of issue. 6 covers with air stamps on first day of issue. Canal Zone C3 & 4; Panama C5; 10; 11 Mexico C37 Plus ............ 1.00

353 Special souvenir booklet issued in honor of the AAMS conven-tion in Toronto bv Canadian P. M. General. Contains 17 different mint stamps of Canada. Face ................................................................ 2.49

354 Facsimili of Sat. Eve. Post cover of Sept. 4/37 by Clayton Knight issued for 1937 Air Races. Signed by 15 pilots, four of whom are now dead .................................................................................................... ---

355 10 attractive first day covers with special printed envelope: An­thony, Alaska, Constitution, Virgin Islands, Idaho (2), Const. Sesqui. (2), Golden Gate, Panama Canal. .................................... ----

356 First day covers. Fine lot of 12 1st day covers 1928-1939. Includes 3 Hawaiian overprints 1928 franked with both 2c & Sc each cover: Maryland, Mother's Day, Tipex, SPA sheet, etc. Nice lot. •• Gor-man. Worih Over .................................................................................... 1.00

CONTRACT AIR MAIL ROUTES 450 lNl; 1N22; 1S22; 1S25; 1S26 New York-Hartford with 8c #C4

(cat. 60c) superb plus New Haven-Springfield and Boston dispatches. Five neat covers .............................. 4.15

451 1N25 Springfield north. A scarce item, very fine. •• W. J. Conrath .......................................................................... 3.00

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452 1S28 Bar Harbor, south, very fine ............................................ 2.00 453 1N34-1S37 Complete set of 6 covers of Bangor-Caribou exten-

sion. Every one superb on rag bond envelopes. 1 pilot signed ...... ................ .................................................. 4.00

454 2N4; 2N5; 2S6 Route 2 dispatches from St. Louis and Springfield (1926-1927) Very fine ........................................................ 3.00

455 3Sl: 3S3: 3S4: 3N5 Route 3. Four very fine 1926 covers. ** W. J. Conrath .......................................................................... 3.50

456 3S3a St. Joseph-south with northbound cachet in error. Superb .................................................................................. .

457 9W38 Detroit-Milwaukee. March 2, 1938. v.f ........................ . 458 R12S23; Rl2N25 New Route 29, two very fine covers dispatched

via first flight into Roswell and Hobbs respectively. Bear unofficial cachets. Latter has Albuquerque Air-field cancel. Worth over ................................................... .

459 13N2 Washington-Philadelphia. Franked with 1-2-5c Wal-loons and Sesqui (cat. $1.77). b.s. Phila. Expo. Model P.O. Very fine ............................................................. plus

460 13S4 N.Y.-Philadelphia. Franked with plate block of 4 Sesquis. b.s. at Phila. Expo. Model P.O. Plus cover.

461 13N3b Rare Philadelphia black cachet in combination with Springfield, Ill. Fair Flight cachet (2N2). Franked with pair 6c orange airs. Very fine ................................ .

462 19S51 (sup.) LaGuardia Field dispatch to New Route 5, addressed New Orleans, 4/2/40. Superb and very desirable .....

463 19S53 (sup.) Same but dispatched to New Route 6, addressed Miami 4/2/40. Superb and rare .................................... .

464 20W51 LaGuardia Field first dispatch to New Route 7. 12/2/39. Mailed to Buffalo. Superb ............................ .

465 24E4 Charleston-East ······························'··································· 466 26S10; 26N9; 26Sll West Yellowstone-Salt Lake City plus 2 in-

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bound Helena thru Butte (26S1D and Salt Lake Air-field thru Idaho Falls (26N9) v .f. small covers ........... .

30W8 Evansville-St. Louis but mailed at Champaign ........... . 33E36 Augusta-East. . .................................................................... .

34N19 Fresno-North ....................................................................... . X33El-4 New Route 33. Superb set of 4 Hawaii service ........... .

New Route 34.Superb matched set. except no "Fields" and missing 34N2. 7 covers. * * Glen

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Naves. .................................................................................... 2.95 472 Route 49-A Pick-Up Service, Aug. 12. Pittsburgh

AMF - Huntington. Superb. . ........................................... ---473 Route 49-D. Pick-Up Service, Aug. 12. Pittsburgh

AMF - Jamestown. Not listed as yet ............................. ---474 Route 49-F. Pick-Up Service, Aug. 12. Philadelphia

AMF - Pittsburgh. Nice cover ......................................... ---475 Route 49-F. Same but dispatched Pittsburgh AMF -

Philadelphia. Very fine .................................................... ---

COMBINATION CAM LOTS 476 Route 1. Group of 9 attractive Route 1 covers from

New England extensions, 1934. lSlO, 1Sl2, 1N14, 1S15, 1S16, lSl 7, lSlb, 1S19, 1S20. . ............................ . 4.10

477 1N36, R12S21 Presque Isle - north and to Lewistown, Mont.

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by NB plane dispatched from Billings. Two very fine covers .................................................................................. . Eight miscellaneous CAM's from Routes 1, 8, 20, 25, 27, New 33 and old 33 including 1N4f desirable New-

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ark Airfield dispatch. Worth ............................................ 2.00

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479 2S7 Chicago dispatch to St. Louis, Feb. 21, 1928 plus cover on Alaska flight postmarked Barrow, July 14, 1929. Cover bearing Air Mail Service cachet­first day of use July 19, 1919 postmark not legible -

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481 6El; 11N4;

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483 8N15; 16N2;

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486 22N6; 2286;

Route 5, 9, 12. Group of 7 covers, all 1934. Includes 5SE6, 9E52, 9E54, 12N14, 12S15, 12S16, 12S17. Superb condition ................................................................ 5.95 15N3a; 20W2c. Detroit, Cleveland, Norfolk and Buf-

falo covers. .......................................................................... 6.75 One Rou:te 8 and five Roule 9 covers all 1926. Good lol. • • Cilrel 8c Duncan. ...................... .......................... 6.50 18N38; 20W7; 23N4; 30N4. San Diego, Akron, Coffey-ville, Albany, New Orleans and Evansville. 6 fine covers .................................................................................... 3.70 Six Route 10 8c 11 covers. lOSS (2). US l, 1152, 11N3, 11N4. •• Duncan ................................................................ 4.00 Route 18, 20 29, 33. Six covers from the post Army flight period. Has 18SE31, 18SE32, 20W28, 20E30, 29E6, 331E7. All very fine. ................................................ 3.10 25Ell; 25Sl; 2584. Laredo, St. PetErsburg, Atlanta, Macon. 5 fine covers, 2 pilot signed ................................ 3.55

487 West Yellowstone, Mont, pre-regular flight, June 22, 1935. One each direction and an additional dispatch north. 3 attractive covers ................................................ ---

488 Army EmErgency Flight, 1934 from Akron-Cleve-land. Very scarce ............................................................. ---

489 Demonstration flights, Washington, D. C. May 27-28. Performed by contract carriers but not strictly CAM-Pick-Up and Autogyro. Two v.f. covers ..................... ---

490 Two nice covers, last day lOc rate July 31, 1928 from Cedar Rapids to Cheyenne, Wyo. beautifully franked with strip of 5 from White Plains ExhibitiDn sheet. For franking alone worth ................................................ 2.00

PHILADELPHIA AIRFIELD CHANGE June 20. 1940

All of the following lots arise from the change of Airfield at Philadelphia, Pa. from Camden, N. J. Airport tD Philadelphia Municipal Airport. None of these covers have been listed or catalogued as yet. None bear cachets. All Philadelphia Field dispatches are cancelled AMF July 20 in ERROR and corrected to June 20. All inbound covers to Philadelphia are backstamped PHILADELPHIA GENERAL DELIVERY. All are small superb covers. 491 New Route 2001. Autogyro Service. Philadelphia

Rooftop to Phila. Municipal Airfield ........................... .. 492 Same. Phila. Airfield - Phila. Rooftop. .. .................... .. 493 New Route 23. Philadelphia Airfield, 7 A.M. Wash-

ingtDn .................................................................................... ---494 Inbound-Washington Airfield 8 A.M. - Phila ............... ---495 Philadelphia Airfield, 8 A.M. - New York .................... ---496 Inbound, New York Airfield 5:30 A.M. Phila ......... ---497 New Route 5. Phila. Airfield, 9 A.M. - Washington .... ---498 Inbound, Washington Airfield, 9:30 P.M. June 19 -

Philadelphia. . .................................................................... . 499 Phila. Airfield, 10:30 P.M. June 19 - New York ..... . 500 Inbound, New York Airfield, 7:30 A.M. - Phila ....... .. 501 New Route 6. Philadelphia Airfield, 9:30 A.M. -

Washington. . ....................................................................... ---502 Inbound, Washington Airfield, 2:30 P.M. - Phila ....... ---503 Philadelphia Airfield, 3:30 P.M. - New York ............ ---504 Inbound, New York Airfield, 8:30 A.M. Phila ......... ---

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ATTENTION PHILADELPHIA An earnest effort is being made

to place this important chapter back on the active list. The Soc­iety needs it. All airpost collectors in this area, whether AAMS mem­bers or not, are URGED to RALLY and COOPERATE. One meeting has been held. Another is scheduled the evening of Novem­ber 25 (Monday) at the home of Miss Florence Lamport, 5364 Sydenham Street, Philadelphia. Attend! Cooperate! The Society officers and directors join me in this request. Thank you.

Glen W. Naves, Chairman.

CHAPTERS CHATTER (Continued from page 44)

In Spartanburg ye chapters sec­tion ed ........ after writing thousano.s of words urging other 21 to 36 lad­dies to heed the call .. .... .. got himself a nice new registration card ........ 'round 4 p. m ......... and has been as- · signed Serial No. 3742 ........ out of 16,901 local numbers ........ which he prizes 'long with his AAMS-Chapter 15 membership ........ while back to Springfield ........ Lee "Skippy" Scher-merhorn, George Robinson, Hollis Root and Frank Hayes were register­ed in that metropolis and o'er in West Springfield Ambrose! Johnson also gladly did his patriotic duty ......... . We're glad to report that Miss Jean­ne Angers, daughter of good pal. George, and a student at Notre Dame Academy, Washmgton, is improving nicely after an appendicitis operation in Providence hospital ........ Our list of "die hards" includes two additions ........ Bart Gatchell and the aforesaid George ........ who like a couple of kids just had to take another gander at the Noo Yawk Fair before the curtain went down ........ and ........ so we hear ........ even tested the 'chute jump ........ which ye ed has also tried out ........ and wants absopostive!y nuthin' more to do with ...... and con­gratualtions to Fred Benton ........ re­cently elected prexy of the Airport Historical Society ........ See you gals and guys Christmas month ........ unt!l then ........ 301

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The second Fall meeting of the Springfield Air Mail Society was held at the Angers' downtown office, in the Stearns building, Springfield, Mass., Wednesday evening, October 23.

Owing to the inability of Dr. Thomas J. Abernethy, former A. E. F. World War ace to be present, President Watt called upon those who had attended the Toronto con­vention to relate some of their ex­periences. Mr. Angers, Mr. Vlasak and Mr. Schermerhorn responded with brief resumes of their trip.

The feature of the evening was the 3-minute speech in which each mem­ber was called upon to exhibit what he considered a most unusual cover or stamp in his collection pertaining to air mail and relate its history, not using over three minutes for his talk. Many interesting items were displayed and many unusual stories were heard as to how the items were obtained or in connection with the cover or stamp.

Air mail bingo was enjoyed toward the end of the evening with George Angers officiating as the official an­nouncer. Prizes for the bingo games are mostly donations of stamps and covers, received from members or friends of the chapter. Many unusual and rare items have been awarded to Springfield chapter members in this manner. On exceptional! items, a small charge of five or ten cents is made for that particular game and the money turned over to the treas­urer for chapter expenses.

The November meeting will be held at the home of Arthur Cayer. Mr. Cayer has recently completed his large ping pong room and will inaugurate the winter season by opening up to the members of the Springfield chapter.

-Emil J. Vlasak.

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AIRMAIL AND THE WAR VII (Continued from Page 62)

• anew, since leading members of the 1939 service are now preparing for trans­A tlantic flying of military airplanes bet­ween Canada and England. Therefore the old airbase at Botwood, Newfoundland will be strengthened by the Canadian Government. ........ It has been reported that the US seaplane "Guba" (which is known to aerophilatelists by the Aus­tralian special air mail for East Africa during the 1938-39 "Guba" flight from USA to New Guinea, Australia and Africa) will be used in a British Trans­Atlantic Air Service ......... The new civilian trans-Atlantic flights are organized · by the "Airways Atlantic Ltd., London" holder of the U. S. air transportation license of the former Imperial Airways since September 1940. The flights are carried out by the flying boat "Clare" (with camouflage) on an irregular sched­ule between Poole (England), Foynes (Ir­eland), Botwood (Newfoundland) Bouch­ersville( near Montreal, Canada) and New York. On July 28 it was announced by some New York Broadcasting Stations that the first British flying boat was on the way from London to New York, but the first flight of the four motored "Clare" (Captain Kelly Rogers, former captain of the war-time air service London-Lis­bon) was not affected before August 3-4, 1940.

The first war-time flights of the "Clare:" Aug. From To Mail 3- 4 England-New York Diplomatic mail

and London newspapers for Canada and (112 lbs. for) New York.

8-10 New York-England 15 lbs. diplo­matic mail from New York.

13-15 England-New York 115 lbs. diplo­matic mail and newspapers. for New York ((Aug. 16.: Accidental fire on board of the Yankee Clipper 4 yards from the "Clare" in New York ex­tinguished at last moment).

18-20 New York-England 50 lbs. diplo­matic mail from New York (Just before arrival of the "Clare" in Ir­eland a German warplane crashed at Faha Mountains, Ireland).

26-31 England-New York (delayed by

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motor troubles 2t Foynes) 200 lbs. dipl. mail for New York.

4- 6 New York-England No mail an­nounced at New York.

15-16 England-New York 2 "pouches" of diplomatic mail and 3 "large pouch­es" of ordlnary mail and news­papers (Eire Post Department had announced acceptance of airmail on August 8).

21-23 New York-England 173 lbs. diplo­matic mail from New York.

On the Western Hemisphere It was officially announced in New

York on July 12, 1940 that the Dutch KLM air services have been suspended between Port of Spain. Trmidad and Barbados, also between Port or Spain and Ciudad, Bolivar, Venezuela. Other Dutch KLM services in South America and the West Indies are still operating ......... From an important conference of all the American Republics, held at Havana, Cuba, at the end of July, 1940, and of the acquirement of the new air bases in the Caribbean Sea, further improvements of the an­connections between the Americas might arise. For faster air links between USA and South America the PAA four-engined Stratoclipper "Comet" made an experi­mental flight over a new 4,430-mile route from Miami, Fla. to Rio de Janeiro, Bra­zil. in 3 days (August 19-21, 1940) instead of the 5,717 miles and the 5 days of me old route. Regular service on the new route was inaugurated on September 1, 1940, when the "Clipper Comet" left Miami with 1,000 lbs. of mail and a special letter from Presi~ent Roosevelt to Presi­dent Vargas of Brazil (Earlier Presiden­tial First Flight Messages: Sept 12, 1929 President Coolidge to the Argentine Government by first flight USA-Argen­tine: 9 days. September 12, 1939 President Roosevelt to President Roberto M. Ortiz of Argentina on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the air mail service: 4'(,, days.) ...... Another acceleration of the fly­ing time to Brazil to 2 days and 7 hrs. has already been announced, beginning October 2, 1940 ......... Beginning January, 1941 the PAA plans to increase its weekly schedules into and out of Latin America from 212 to 274 a week and to begin night flying between Miami and Para, Brazil. The first one-day round trip between Miami and the Panama Canal Zone was flown by the Clipper "Rainbow" on August 26. to make connections at Cris­tobal with planes for different South American countries ......... Also the Central American Airlines of the Transnortes Aereos Centros Americanns ITACA), operating since 1931 over a bout 125 air­fields in British Honduras, Honduras, Guatemala, Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, will be further devel­oned by the American Export Airlines. The TACA transported (in 1939) 3.500,000 lbs. of mail, besides 22,000,000 lbs. of air freight.

American Air Mail Society Organized 1923 as the Aero Philatelic Society of America

PRESIDENT W1LLIAM R. ALLEY, 261 Broadway,

New York City.

ADVISORY BOARD (Former Presidents)

L. B. GATCHELL, Recording Secretary 24 Brook Road, Bronxville, N. Y.

GEORGE W. ANGERS WALTER J. CONRATH HERBERT H. GRIFFIN

FRANCES B. LEECH PAUL F. ROBERTSON

HARRY A. TRUBY

VICE - PRESIDENTS GLEN W. NAVES, P. 0. Box 446,

Spartanburg, South .Carolina. RICHARD L. SINGLEY; Post Office

Dept., Lancaster, Penn'a. MRS.. ETHEL B. STEW ART, Hotel

Warwick, 65 West 54th Street, New York City.

WILLIAM R. WARE, 404 East loth & Leslie Sts., Stuttgart, Ark.

DIRECTORS PAUL F. BERDANIER, Jr., 44 Brad­

ford Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. MISS ALICE B. CILLEY, 119 Ninth

St., N. E., Washington, D. C. LT. CMDR. JESSE G. JOHNSON,

Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va. HAROLD A. JONES, 607 Shelby St.,

Detroit, Mich. PERHAM C. NAHL, School of Com­

merce. Oklahoma A. & M. College, Stillwater, Okla.

CLAUDE P. NEET, Sta. A., P. 0. Box 1, St. Petersburg, Florida.

GEORGE H. PORTER, 1557 Chester­land Ave., Lakewood, Ohio.

SECRETARY EMIL VLASAK

293 Bridge St. Springfield, Mass.

TREASURER GEORGE W. ANGERS

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SALES MANAGER CHARLES P. PORTER

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The Airpost Journal, Albion, Pa. The Advance Bulletin is sent regular­ly by the manager only to those mem­bers who are in good standing and provide a supply of self addressed regu_ lation Government Postal Cards.

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2381 Herron, Jno. L. 2713 East Central Street, Wichita, Kansas. 2382 Bellamy, Raymond F., Florida State College for Women, Tallahassee, Fla. 2383 Smith, Dr. Kenneth A .• 623 Ridge Road, Lackawanna, New York. 2384 Maxwell, James R., St. Joe, Indiana. 2385 Glaser, Glenn W., 5601 West End Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

APPLICATIONS POSTED Kovarik, Frank J., 2502 So. Kedzie Ave., Chicago, Ill. Age 44. P. 0. Clerk. GF, CAM,

FAM. By Walter J. Conrath. Ramey, Hardin s .. Yukon, Okla. Age 38. Asst. Mgr. Drygood Store. AM, FF, GF,, CAM,

FAM, ID, CMC, EX. By Walter J. Conrath. Bimmerman, William, 525 Reynolds St., Easton, Pa. Age 45. Shipping Clerk. By Walter

J. Conrath. Adams, Lt. James G., 1142 E. 40th Street. Brooklyn, N. Y. Age 48. Aviator. PC, HC, FF.

By Walter J. Conrath. Konwiser, Harry M., 181 Claremont Ave., New York City. Age legal. Advertising. By

Walter J. Conrath. Lee, Ralph L., 621 North 7oth St., Wauwatosa, Wis. Age 48. Treasurer. AM, PC, HC, FF.

By George W. Angers. Gisiger, Walter, 200 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Age 43. Dealer. By Simon B. Nicholsky. Staffen, Edward J. 9007 W. Roger, West Allis, Wis. Age 33. AM, AU, EX. By M. O.

Warns. Christensen, Emil, 2214 E. Vollmer Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. Age 43. Scandinavian Covers.

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RE-INSTATED 358 Tucker, David J., 7 Acorn Road, Brookline, Mass. Age 30. Stamp Dealer. By

Walter J. Conrath.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS Bengtson, W. E., 115 E. Ehn Street, Greenwich, Conn. Billig, Fritz F., 151 - 14, ll5th Avenue, Jamaica, N. Y. Harps, C. Berwind, 3301 Granada Blvd., Coral Gables, Florida. Hill, H. Stanton, 136 So. Cloverly Avenue, Temple City, Calif. Lincoln, L. B., 377 Woodbine Street, Teaneck, N. J. Morin, Arthur B., 1570 Main St., Springfield, Mass. Pollock, E. V., North Court Road, Ottumwa, Iowa. Salva, William J., P. 0. Box 128, San Juan, Porto Rico.

CHANGE OF NAME 1906 From Walter Wisnowski to Walter West, 161 Eckford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

DECEASED 33 John C. Morgan, 621 Fifth Avenue, New Kensington, Pa.

1533 Anson R. Thompson, 403 River Street, Troy, New York.

RESIGNATIONS Carter, Glenn E., Forest Hills ,East Rochester, New York. Stevens, Thomas R., 15 Rush Street, Springfield, Massachusetts.

Respectfully submitted, EMIL J. VLASAK, Secretary.

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NOTE: Mail bids, to reach destination before November 19, to Chas. P. Porter, Auction manager, 143 Beechmont Drive, New Rochelle, N. Y. Mail all la:te bids :to American Air Mail Society, Donald E. Dickason, % Hollenden Ho:tel, Cleveland, Ohio.

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WANTED BY COLLECTOR- SUPERB ''Newfoundland-Columbia" flown cover with surcharged stamp issued for the oc­casion. Send for inspection and quote price. R. G. Dawson, P. O. Box 55, War­ren, Pa. AAMS #1590. 12'7·3tc

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WANT RECENT COMMEMORATIVE stamps in used condition. Will trade Dedi­cation covers for them. Lots of 100 or more needed. Write G. Lancaster, 3049 Fulton Street. Brooklyn, N. Y.

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WILLING T 0 EXCHANGE FIRST flight covers. Routes: All emanaUng from Hong Kong, FAM-Brazil, Zeppelin, Varig, Vasp. J. F . Ridgway, 7, Rua Paraguay -Sao Paulo, Brazil. ex-127-lt

WILL SWAP BRAND NEW NOVELTY stamp album, (made for type collections as maps, beasts, etc.) Exchange for un­used U. S. Daniel Newman, 1616 Walton, N. Y. C. ex-127-lt

LA GUARDIA FIELD DEDICATION covers carried by United Air Lines. Send me a block of 3c commems mint. Bach­arach, 3420 83rd street, Jackson Heights, N. Y. ex-127-lt

PAUL KALNOZOLS, PASTA KASTE 184, Riga, Latvia (AAMS 2348) accepts Clipper covers, Foreign FC against duplicates from Europe. Exchanges stamps.

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WILL EXCHANGE CAM. FAM. OR dedication covers for unused 6 3/4 air mall envelopes with printed return ad­dress of a hotel, business, or individuaL Offer 20c catalogue value (my choice) tor each one sent. Will accept up to twenty of one finn, forty from one city. Specify type of cover desired. Perham C. Nahl. Stillwater, Oklahoma. ex-127-lt

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lST FLIGHT COVERS ARE MY IN­terest. Will be glad to arrange exchange with members. W. Isensee, Koskastr. 4, Magdeburg, Germany. ex-127-lt

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