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STAMP COLLECTORS
By A E L
a little over two months more 7 dr. 500,000-Pallas Athere
than a thousand million Jubi-holding the reins of a lee postage stamps have been dis-horse. posed of by the Post Office in Great Britain. This total is made up as
follows:
Ind
330.000.000.
Id.
132,000,000
1éd
446,000,000
-244
1.500.000
In 2 books
70,000,000
$6,000,000
In 3s. books
Total
1,035,500,000
10 dr. 500,000-Hermes.
winged
25 dr. 200,000-Ganymede being carried off by Jupiter in the form of an earle.
30 dr. 200,000-Triptolemos driving the Celestial
drawn by four dragons,
Chariot
50 dr. 100,000-Bellerophon -and
Pegasus.
100 dr. 100.000-The Ram of the Golden Fleece with Phryxns and
This enormous sale has exceeded Helle on its back, firing the Helles- the Post Office computation by pant
over 30.000.000. As special All the designs are the work of Jubilee postage stamps were issued the Greek painter Peskinis while in all the Dominions and Colonies the issue will be printed by in addition to Britain stamp | Aspioti-Elka of Corfu. collectors have been given an un- paralleled opportunity.
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Samoan Pictorials
"The demand has been enor- From Western Samoa there is a mous", a representative of the firm new pictorial set. Among the of Stanley Gibbons said recently scenes depicted are several Steven- “We have had thousands of orderssonian associations, including the for complete sets, and, as every house at Vailima, and Stevenson's Dominion and colony has four tomb. stamps, this means that we have had to collect about 250 stamps for
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The Paraguayan Zeppelin stamps
every order. Our task is not made overprinted "1935 were issued on easier by the fact that it takes April 13 and the quantities are as about three months to get sets over follows:- here from places like the Fiji and 4p.50 Falkland Islands.”
25
13p.50
25,000 Spp 12.000 22p.50
15,000
12.000
45p. 7,000
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I now learn officially that the 4 pi Sudan stamp will not be reprinted.
So many of the original General Gordon Statue Air stamps are now obsolete that it is as well to put on record that at the time this is being written only the 2, 34 jand 5 pi⠀ values appear to be cur-
rent.
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Mexican Stamp Not Listed
Collectors who may be offered
No more Jubilee, stamps are be specimens of the 20 c Air stamp
ing printed at Home,
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South African-Jubilees
of the current Mexican issue, overprinted “Amelia Earhart Vuelo De Buena Voluntad Mexico 1935 should note that Gibbons' do Studying the South African not propose to list this stamp. Jubilee stamps the other day I which was made for the benent of noticed that the designs of the
private individuals. the only four valves are not all identical"issue" so far as the Mexican Taking first the stamps with Government is concerned being the "South Africa" at the top, we distribution of 40 copies by ballotį. found that the Id. stamp has "Sil-to philatelists in Mexico. As far ver Jubilee" to the left of the as can be judged from covers King's head and "Silver Jubileum" which I have seen, the "stamp" to the right, whereas the ad 3d did not even pay postage, as the and 6d all have the Afrikaans at covers bore în addition sufficient the right and the English at the ordinary Air stamps to frank left For the stamps with "Suid- them Afrika the opposite applies in all cases.
Also readers might note that the
34 and 1d. stamps are intended for revenue purposes as well as postal and are inscribed to this effect by the addition of the words "Revenue" and "Inkomste" in the
value tablets,
All sheets of all values we have yet seen show two small, constant flaws in the head plate; one on the 5th stamp of the 12th row where there are spots" above and behind His Majesty's head, and a second on the 2nd stamp of the 14th row where there is a scratch across the head from the top to the ear.
Luxembourg Isse
The Grand Duchy of Luxem
THE CHINA HAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1935
These photographs made by I. C. Jensen, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Neb, after long and patient waiting, prove that there is such a thing as ball-lightning, or thunderbolts, a matter about" which there has been controversy for centuries. The photographs" were made in rapid succession in the order shown (top to bottom). The rose-coloured mass. seemed most briliant near the ground, resembling a great fireworks display. Measure- ments showed that one ball was 42 feet in diameter.
ALLEGED TAX EVASION
£16,000 Charge Brought
PUBLICAN'S PROFITS
London
FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE
West-End Actor Remanded
London
BY LIFT TO FIGHT A FIRE
Highest Ever Known In New York
SKYSCRAPER'S TOP STOREY IN FLAMES
-New York
"The "higbest" serious fire New
Tack has ever known raged re- cently on the three top floors of a 50-storey skyscraper known as the General Electric Building, at the [corner of Lexington-avenne and
Forty-first-street.
Two thousand occupants of offices in the building had to flee into the streets.
Mr. Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric Company, whose office is on the 45th foor was among those driven out by the smoke. He remained in the lobby directing the firemen
"Office Boy"
Few of the reporters" recognised Mr. Swope, who, although he cheerfully gave all the information The could, refused to disclose his name, saying, "I am only an office boy here."
In spite of the mess and confu- sion, he evidently enjoyed this little joke. Mr. Owen D. Young. chairman of the General Electric Company, had gone home before the fire started.
Firemen's Long Chmb
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The damage was almost entirely confined to the top floor, where the lift machinery is housed, the 49th Boor, occupied by a large dining room, and the 48th floor. where there are private dining rooms.
The blaze started in the lift shaft, when a short circuit set fire to an express lift. The firemen after taking local lifts to the 22nd floor, had to climb the remaining flights of stairs to the top.."
Glass from windows on the top floors crashed into the street 370ft. below, where police struggled to keep sightseers at a safe distance. Traffic was dislocated for hours.
Mr. L. Maurice, the manager of ja restaurant on the 49th floor, was trapped by the smoke and tele- phoned for help. Firemen rescued him in an exhausted condition.
EXPLORING BY SCHOOLBOYS
Trips Planned For Next Year
An actor, giving the name of Warwick de Frece, of Denbigh- The fourth expedition of the place, SW, was remanded at Public Schools Exploring Society Bow-street Police Court recently left Euston on Angust 2 for New- via Liverpool. Ad- on a summons of foundland
bourg has taken an interesting step The profits of a publican who when accused in favour of the International had two houses at Willesden and obtaining £13 by false pretences miral Sir Lionel Halsey saw the Committee for the Assistance of Wembley and who was alleged to from Mr. Zygityd Motylinski, a party off-
It has is-have evaded payment of tax to the Professional Workers,
violinist. sued a series of postage stamps extent of £16,000 were discussed which stamp collectors are urged at the Old Bailey recently to buy for their intrinsic valué,
Mr. J. B. Colchester, prosecut- Thomas George Cason, 57, licen-ing, said that De Frece told Mr. and professional men and women see of the Spotted Dog. High-road. Motylinski that he was Lady de
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The 47 members of the expedi- tion, who are public school boys from 17 to 19 years of age, are in the charge of Surgeon Comman- der Murray Levick, RN, the hon. leader and founder of the society. The boys will map unexplored country under scientific leader- ship.
Plans are being made for "ex- peditions in 1936, and it is pro- posed that two expeditions shall be sent out, a junior expedition, for boys aged 15% to 17, into Nor- thern Finland, and one for senio
are asked to acquire to show their Willesden Green, pleaded not Frece's nephew; that he had a solidarity with their fellow-intel- guilty before Judge Dodson to contract to put on a revue at a
and a in in theatre,
contract for making false statements lectuals.
week. come-tax returns and in accounts cabaret show at £230 a relating to the profits of his busin- These statements were untrue. Mr. ess. The indictment contained 24 Motylinski believed that he was a man of substance and lent him countsa dig
False Accounts
sums amounting to £13.
Detective-sergeant West... said Mr. G. D. Boberts, prosecuting, said that the charges against that De Frece's real name was The Barrios issue, which will
Cason were that from 1918 until Henry Lawrence Warwick. He erpear in Guatemala this month,
1932, with intent to defraud the had acted in the West End and had, aged 17 to 19, who, will go to other regions not yet decided has been lithographed in two
upon. -color for each valne by Enschede One of the stamps has a picture revenue, he put in false accounts tried to run theatrical companies. and Sone Details of the designs of a professor addressing his understating his profits and false class; another a journalist poring are to hand as follows:-
New Guatemala Isme
Postage Stamps-
income-tax returns.
He alleged that from 1918 to
over his papers; a third a lawyer; 1931 Cason made profits of about "CINEMA AS BAIT 32 C. the house where Barrios a fourth a sculptor and a painter £70,000, but the profits he return- was born. 1 c., the village of San a fifth an architect directing buiked and paid tax upon were £33,000. 12 Months' Sentence Lorenzo. 2. c., a bust of Generaling operations; a sixth a savant The profits he did not state and
For Fraud Barrios. 3, the National Arms with microscope and test-tubes. on which, be had paid no tax, and a locomotive. 4 the This series of eight costs 1.30 General Post Office. 5 the Swiss francs. There are other were about £27,000. Chief Telegraph Office. -10°C. the series, one of 12 stamps Polytechnic School 15 c, the costs 3.60 Swiss francs, and an- Chief Police Building 25 c.. Bar-other of 15 stamps which costs rios: General Jorge Ubico and the 13.80 Swiss francs. These prices National Arms.
Air Mail Stamps 10 c Fort Barrios 15 c, the tomb of Barrios, 30 c., Equestrian statue of Barrios.
Greek Air Mail
A new gener-1 Greek Air set
being
in preparation, details follows:-
£,000,000-
which
are double the face value, the postage value going to the Govern- ment, the surpins tax to the Inter- national Committee.
It is said that this is the first time "that a series of stampe a specifically internation ter is offered to the pa jease constitutes a
Shilately."
A HORRID WASTE
70,000 Barrels Of Whisky Ablaze
Peoria (linois)- A fire fed by 70,000 barrels whisky caused big damage.
Hiftom Walker dist Three men were trappe
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