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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
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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.
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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
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Lowers Air Postage
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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
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!' 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.
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BEACONS FOR NIGHT
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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
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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-
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DADDY OF ALL HIBERNATING TOADS
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'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 '
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