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Events of the Week in Pictures j ti. . i . FILM 'ACTRESS TO V-, n ' . ..V V - u f ' 4 " ' ' I Tin ss , i Fi Hollywood's screen colony will , little Alice White, who used to be a script clerk before a director "discovered" her and made her an actress, and Richard Grace, movie stunt actor. At present, Grace is wearing a steel brace to protect his neck which ho broke while performing a film stunt. Last yeni he made two unsuccessful attempts to fly from California to Hawaii. Rotary' Protege J (Wichita's Marion ' Talley is 1 rotdy for grand opera. She is Iflss Kathleen Kcrntinp, 1!, whose musical career has been financed by the Wichita, Kas., Rotary club. ' fehe has studied abroad for two years under the tutelage of Mme. Emma Calvo and now is ready to give a concert for the homo folk before making hcr , American .opera debut. QUEEN'S VEIL MAY : r- a. rV'i,!f i (I - Wi l' ;y ! Awaits U. S. Bonus " '"f W J ' W4l Her Verdicts Hold Becauso his wlf, the lovely Queen Souriya, has gone about Europe with her face unveiled, King Amnnullah may face insurrec tions when he and tho queen return to Afghanistan. Natives, seeing Jthe unveiled quocn'i picture in papers which have reached them from Xortdon are deeply disturbed at the transgression of their religious 'f ustom. She is credited with sayinj she will not wear the veil when he returns to hcr country. The above photograph of tho royal j;ouplew tken In, London. WED DAREDEVIL i t attend tho elaborate wedding ot She's Smith Rooter Mrs. .Stella Hamlin, of New Or leans, recently elected Democratic cominitteeweman from Louisiana, is known a:i an excellent stump orator. As a delegate at Hous ton, Tex., she expects to "whoop things up" for Al Smith. BRING REVOLT 3 I" f .1, ! Ml , - t I ' ' r3C !r'V Lowers Air Postage ( i 1 m - 1 Representative Clydo Kelly, of Pennsylvania, is the author of a new airmail law which passed the house by a unanimous vote, re ducing postage on airmail from 10 cents per one-half ounce to 5 tents per ounce. W. W. Watton, 80-year-old cap italist of Salina, Kas., has made a wager willi an insurance company that he'll live live years and says he hus a "cinch" bet. Watson paid the company $100,000 in cash and it in turn is to pay him SI, 000 for every month that ho lives. It'll take him five years to get "even." After that the com pany pays htm ?50 u day. Nearly a Tragedy When her husband failed to In vite her to accompany him to a basketball game after she pre pared him a big supper, Mrs. (ieorge Smith', 17, of Indianapolis, 1 lid., took poison. V "I got you a good supper and you didn't take me to the gamo as you did before u were married," she told him when he arrived at tho hospital. He has promised to take her to all future camcs. ' If bills now before the United Stntes senate and house are passed, Sergeant Michael Ponald so, one of the outstanding World war heroes, will receive a $10,000 bonus and a life Income of $200 a month in recognition . of his war ervUcs.j j Lays Wager on Life 43 III tfyy i jig. i s, 8 !' v?oM"MT. DIABLO ' As an aid to aviation and the de rolopment of n;giit frying, tho Stanilard Oil Company of California Is building M-nat will1 ba the two highest powered Incandescent elec tric beacons in the country one to be placed on tho summit of Mt. l)U ablo near San Francisco Bay and tho other in the Merced Hills, Los Angeles. These beacons will de velop ten million' candlepower and the flashing beams from them will be visible to aviators for between 100 and 150 miles. The company has taken this actiou at the sug gestion of the United States De partment of Commerce, the Airways Division ol which Is now engaged In Installing lights to marV the air ways from Los Angelas to San Francisco and from Los Aogcles to Bait Lake City. Tha Department of Commerce is also projecting a se ries of lights northward and east ward from San Francisco, as In dicated in the chart above. These official airway lights are set at frequent Intervals and are of three million candlepower each. The government will give tho light -on .Mt. Diablo the oftfeial des ignation ot "SD," standing for "S'aiHlard.Dlablo." and "SL," sig r.'.fylng "Stnndnrd-Los Angeles," for ttie light in the Merced Mills. Tho light for this typo of beacon, built by the Spcrry Cyroscopo Co., la turnlsheu by large 1500-wutt in Lindy's New Route Here is the latest route selected by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh in his tour of Central Amer.fan countries and Cuba by airplane, lie changed his trail to lead from Tanama to Venezuela, Porto Rico, and Haiti to, Havana, 'Cuba, in stead of across the Caribbean di rect from Panama to Havana. Georgia P. Hillock, above, of Los Angeles, California's only woman judge, has lecn appointed to the superior bench for three months at, Los Angeles. . i ATI A ki-w i y ii I CARIBBEAN S EAt I.k'U SlJ' - - -WMwmmxm . Her Verdicts Hold i H RVif . sm v 1-K.i tM'rUt. "V BEACONS FOR NIGHT "Sfl)'l MERCED HILLS . .: f ... .. . V ,' J?Y IK OVAl ASSeMQLINCS C.TANOARD OIL AVIATION BEACON, WORKMAN IS HOLD ING 1SOO WATT LAMP WHICH DEVELOPS TeN MILLION CANDLE POWER. 56-INCH ' REFLCCTOtt AT LEFT AND 36-INCH LENS AT ttKSHT candescent lamps especially manu factured for the purpose. The re flector and lens of the beacon are 36 Inches In diameter. Tho light is equipped with aa ingenious device holding two of the Incandescent lamps one directly In front ot the tocal point of the reflector. In the event of this lamp burning out the second lamp is automatically thrown over to take the place of lsting system ot daylight airway the one that has gone out. This is signs which the Standard Oil Corn done almost instantly so that there j paay maintains at some 500 points Is no interruption In tho operation on the Pacific Coast. These signs ot the beacon. Tho beacon itse'.t are painted on the roofs of Its ware makes Bix complete revolutions per j housos and give the name ot the minute.- An automatic astronomical town in which located. They caa be clock turns the beacon on at sun- j read by aviators at a height ot sev set and off at sunrise. This clock ; eral thousand feet. EXPERIMENTING Mis. ,?3,,.lil-JZ Working on the theory that fivo to six million volts of electricity drawn from the sky will disrupt an atom, three young German sci entists are experimenting at Mount Gcncroso, near Lugano, Switzer land, to measure the accuracy of their calculations. Their work is dangerous, since they do not know, what may happen if they succeed in releasing the energy and find themselves unable to control it Above, the conductor lending to earth, which can be adjusted to control theength of the spark gap. Inset, the huge apparatus at the terminal of the 660-meter Iron cable, from which the sparks Jump U the variable conductor. FLYERS automatically compensates for the constantly changing hours of sun set and sunrise. The beacons will be mounted on 75-foot steel towers. The symbols SD and SL will be hung on the side ot the towers as a mark of Identi fication in letters twelve feet high outlined In neon lights. These lights complement the ex- WITH UNKNOWN i-v .A Jf . . '4S -i DADDY OF ALL HIBERNATING TOADS ' f 'liter having been shut away from the world in a rock ball, be lieved by scientists to be at least three-fourths of a million years old. this tiny toad hopped about the table of the Denver city park mu seum recently, apparently none the worse for his experience. The Smithsonian Institution's authority on pleistocene paleontology will endeavor to find out whether the creature actually passed 7G0.00J years hibernating or whether some hoax has been perpetrated. SCREEN COUPLE Mary Astor, screen actress, and Kenneth Hawkcs, film director, whose wedding was one of the most rotable functions of the winter in Hollywood, Cal., have been passing their honeymoon in Cuba and Panama. Above, they arc posing aboard ship. A GAS ATTACK FOR SEASICKNESS An arratus Invented by a doctor in Munich, Germany, by vjhic't it is claimed the worst effects of seasickness can be overconAc is beine exncrnnented with hv nnrn.nn l:CI IT ' . nT u i a .r to three ...halations e sa,d to frrr V.t i J. ON HONEYMOON f 'viiiompvumpanies. rroilnone bring instant relief and comfort to jne apparatus in usc
