Show Lindbergh's Plane On New Air Stamp ri 5 S A t i sn t M s 6 Pictures of or Charlie piano have been printed around the world but none other has been Teen hj- hj as 1 many persons as aI this one will Mill be Taken by bv by Photographer M M. J J. Ackerman of The Standard Examiner and EA Service it is being reproduced on millions of Lindbergh air mall stamps To M M. J. J Ackerman New York I photographer for The Standard Standard- Examiner and NEA Service Ser goes the th honor of or having taken the picture of of Captain Charles A A. Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic trans air air- airplane airplane airplane plane Spirit of St St. Louis which was used by the U. U S S. S Post Of Of- Office face fice Department nt in designing the new he in I Ll n d- d bersh bergh memorial airmail stamp tamp 5 The picture ti was made by Ackerman at atC atCur C Cur Curtiss u r 1 1 s s flying r field Long Is Island Is- Is Island land Ackerman snapped I nap p e d the c 1 Spirit of ot St St. StLouis StLouis I Louis Louts as IlS Lind LInd- Lindbergh I y bergh bersh started on ona ona ona a short tort test flight This wasa was as I a tw two o or three days dais before bet 0 r e Ackerman Lindbergh took JM Ili II f off ort across the Atlantic to unprecedented fame In the tho following story Rodney Dutcher Washington writer for forThe The The Standard Examiner and NEA NE Service tells teUs how Ackermans Ackerman's pic- pic picure pIcture picture ture ure came came to be chosen for tor the memorial stamp and how the stamps sti tamps were turned out in rec rec record breaking ord-breaking ord time BY EY BUTCHER NHA srA NE Service Writer WASHINGTON w June Juno 17 17 The The Post Office OHice Department Dt has per per- performed performed performed formed one of ot the fastest rush jobs jobs in its history In printing and the new Lindbergh cent 10 air all mall mail stamp By By the time it has finished pro pro- production production production ot of the contemplated 10 or 15 copies of issue it will 11 have given a Standard-Examiner Standard NEV NE Service of or Lindbergh's hs h's plane th h widest circulation ever at- at by such a newspaper n pic pic- picure picture ture ure outside of the newspapers themselves Ordinarily it takes from three to six weeks for a stamp to be issued from the time the Post PostOffice Postoffice Office starts work on It But Post Post- Postmaster PostmaSter Postmaster master General New decided to tomake tomake tomake make this a a. day 10 Job in order to 10 o have hae the ti first stamps on sale by jy the time of ot Lindbergh's re- re turn urn Suggestions for the stamp by man mail and telegraph had bad come from drom all over o the country Officials das eias were confronted by the law forbidding the portrait of any Ih h hangman angman ng man to be used on stamps or currency Irr ncy But it was decided that the he laws law's spirit would not be vi violated vi- vi violated Mail Air If U Lindbergh were ere to be printed on the stamp U if f the plane Spirit of St. St Louis were ere to be shown with the Ameri Ameri- American can coast on the right and the European coast on on the left and if 1 New ew York Tork and ad Paris Pari were to be specifically cally designated with a dot dot- dotted dotted dotted ted line lino between showing showing- the course course of or flight light t I NEA E PHOTO CHOSEN After New had bad decided all this and it U had been determined to tomake tomake tomake make a a. rectangular stamp in which the plane would measure about one inch by half an Inch the he important question qu sUon arose as to where to find he the e best model for forthe forthe the he Bureau of ot Printing and and andEn En En- Engraving Engraving graving work to copy COpy All available pictures of of of- the Spirit of St St. Louts Louis in flight were tere scrutinized Finally officIals officiate selected elected an NEA photo of ot the Lindbergh plane as 33 tb the best bet Artists promptly got to work They hey worked Saturday night all aU allday aUday day Sunday and on into the new week fashioning the necessary models The models then were engraved engrav d. d After being being- printed the stamps were ere dried gummed dried again then hen perforated then cut Into blocks locks ot of 50 each then packed in n packages of each to be shipped out on Post Office orders AT ROUTE CITIES Promise was as that the first for for- formal formal formal mal Post Office issue would be at St. St Louis on the occasion of Lind- Lind Lindbergh's berghs bergh's homecoming celebration Meanwhile Mean however it was plan plan- planned planned planned ned to have the stamps ready for Lindbergh on his arrival al here bere They will be issued to all air airman airmail man mall route loute cities and it was teas ex ex- expected ex peeled that about would be ready within two weeks Incidentally Incidental Post p st Office oW- oW officials officials pointed out that St. St Louis would be pe swamped by eager stamp collectors who specialize on first covers covers and first cancellations cancella cancella- cancellations cancellations The entire rush on the stamps was as aa by New v and M r L L. Eidsness Jr superintend superintend- superintendent ent of ot the division of ot stamps |