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Evening star., 1932-03-31
WELDON HEPBURN, CIV. GRADUATE.
WEDS GRETA NISSEN, FILM PLAYER
Ceremony Performed in Tia Juana Mexico, After Plane
Trip From Hollywood.

Weldon Hepburn, graduate of
George Washington University and son
of Col. Wyatt Golson Franks. 1888
Connecticut avenue, was married in
Tia Juana. Mexico, yesterday to Miss
Greta Nissen, film player. The couple
had met in Hollywood while members
of the cast of recent picture, The
Silent Witness"
Mr.. Hepburn, who was known by
classmates here as "Spanny" Franks,
played in stock productions after leav-
ing college and last appeared in Wash
ington with Lenore Uric in Pagan
Lady" He went to Hollywood last
August.
Miss Nissen, a native of Oslo, Nor
way, and Mr.. Hepburn flew to Tia
Juana with Col. Franks and a friend
Of the bridegroom, Bully Silver. They
were married by civil court Judge IN
the bridalsuite of a popular hotel with
the chief of police and most of the Tia
Juana officials in attendance.
After wedding dinner they returned
TO Hollywood by airplane.
Evening star., 1932-03-31
SPEAkEASY EXHIBIT
AT PROHIBITION FAIR
Director Conveys information to
Tydings, With Whom Idea
Originated.

The sponsors of the forthcoming
Prohibition Fair" will include
speakeasy among their exhibits
This information today was con-
veyed by the director, William Rufus
Scott, to Senator Tydings of Mary
land. from whom the idea first ema-
mated.
When the Maryland Senator, an
ardent -prohibitionist, first sug-
gested that any perturbation of the
liquor trade, as was and as is. would
not be complete without a speak
easy" the proposal was rejected, as
Mr. Scott writes. because ''it was not
deemed sufficiently novel. inasmuch as
speakeasieS flouriShed before as we'll
as since prohibition"
However, Mr.. Scott continues, Mrs
Henry w. Peabody, head of the Wom-
ans National Committee for Law En-
forcement, sponsoring the fair, thinks
the suggestion, which also has been
advanced by the Crusaders, is a good
one, so, Mr. Scott promises, a graphic"
whiSper-loW will be exhibited at the
Auditorium April 1928.
Furthermore, Senator TydingS is
cordially invited to attend the fair
Evening star., 1932-03-31

Col. Franks. on duty in Washington
with the Army Signal Corps, is a ma
i've OF Alabama, and his son attended
the University of Alabama before en-
tering George Washington University.
Mr.. Hepburn began his dramatic ca
reer with the Black FriarS' Club of the
former university.
Miss Nissen gave her name as
Gretchen Rutz at the marriage license
bureau, and Mr.. Hepburn used his full
name, Weldon Hepburn Franks. Neither
had been previously married.
Miss Nissen, who went to Hollywood
from the New York stage to become a
star in the days of silent pictures, re-
Gently returned to FINLAND to play in
talkies after overcoming her accent
through another trip to the legitimate
stage. She appeared in such pictures
as Transatlantic" and The Silent
Witness"
The bridegroom, who was born In
Selma, Ala, played in Widows Night"
The Gay Caballero"- and others.
Evening star., 1932-03-31
DECORATION PLANS
LAID FOR ARMY DAY
Display of Flags in Downtown Sec.
tion to Feature Peace Events
of Bicentennial.

Plans to have the entire downtown
section decorated with American and
Continental flags on Army day, April
6, and on other peak days of the BIZ
centennial Celebration here. were an
nounced today by the District Bicen-
tennial Commission
DR.. George c. Havenner, executive
vice president, said he had placed an
order for flags which will be put on
every electric light pole on Pennsyl-
vania avenue, between First and Fiji
teenth streets.
In addition, he said, owners and oc-
cupants of buildings on the Avenue, as
well as on contiguous thoroughfares.
will be asked to display flags on Army
day, which is the fifteenth anniversary
of the United States entry into the
World War
The day is being made a part of the
Bicentennial Celebration. to honor
George Washington as the first COM
mander in chief of the Continental
Army. A mammoth parade, under
joint sponsorship of the District and
United States Bicentennial Commissions
and the Military Order of the World
War, will mark the event.
Evening star., 1932-03-31
ORDER D|SM|SS|NG
100 IS RECALLED BY
TRADE COMMISSION
House Leaders Assure Funds
Needed to Retain Special
investigators.
$500, 900 CUT is FACED
FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR
Work Will Be Slowed Up and
Force Reduced Unless Money Is
Voted, Chairman Says.

One hundred employees of the Federal
Trade Commission engaged in special
investigation, who have been notified
that they would be furloughed without
pay, effective tonight, due to the re-
lection of request for $40 900 def
cheney appropriation, today were cheered
when the dismissal order was recalled,
following a promise that the funds
would be provided.
Inc commission was given definite
assurance from responsible House lead
ers'' that the money would be made
available, it was announced from the
once OF William E. Humphrey, chair
man OF the commission, and on that
OASIS the employees are being retained.
Used Funds for Other Work.
The deficiency which threatened to
bring about the furlough of the workers
was created when the commission un-
dertook investigation into the building
materials and cement industries, or
oered several months ago by the Senate.
which did not, however, provide funds
Tor them. In accordance with custom.
the commission used money already
available for other work, and then asked
Tor deficiency appropriation This
was refused by the Bureau of the
Budget, whose action was sustained by
the House Appropriations Committee.
Faced with this predicament. the
commission decided to furlough enough
workers from April l at least until
July l to make up the deficit.
$39O,0OO Cut Threatened.
They were to have been withdrawn.
not only from the cement and build
ing materials probe, but also from
the power and gas utilities and chain
stores inquiries.
In addition to the deficiency for the
present fiscal year, the commission
also is threatened with $500 900 re-
duction in funds for the next fiscal
year, should the House sustain its Ap-
preparations Committee, which backed
the Budget Bureau on this cut also.
Whether these funds will be forth
coming eventually is uncertain, but
Chairman Humphrey said if they were
not it will force dismissals and slow up
the commissions work.
Evening star., 1932-03-31
T0MADELLI PAINTING
EXHIBITION is OPENED

The exhibition of 65 paintings by
Juan Tomadelli to be sold for the bene-
mt Of the Junior League Thrift Shop
opened today at the Shoreham Hotel.
Proceeds from the sale of the can
vases will be applied to the children's
welfare charities supported by the
league.
Tomadelli, who painted the entire
group of works within six weeks after
he first held a paint brush and easel
in his hand, gave them to the league
and announced that his meteoric career
as an artist was ended. He is an en-
gineer by profession.
The exhibition will continue through
tomorrow and Saturday, and is open
throughout the day and early evening.
Mrs: John A. Daugherty is in charge
Of the display.
Evening star., 1932-03-31

Fish that fight, y inch man-eaters,
species with head and tail lights and
little fellows that can swim at ease in
grandma's thimble arrived at the Com
merce Department aquarium todsy.
The most interesting of the group are
the Chinese paradise fish. They are
nest builders and fighters. They make
their nest of bubbles blown BY the
males, which also superintend the
Matching and nursing of the young.
Aquarium officials explained that as
the female lays an egg the male catches
and wraps 1t up in a bubble, which
floats to the surface When he has
stacked up hundreds Of bubbles he takes
up his long. Matching watch. Should
the female appear at this stage she is
killed by the male. In captivity they
Evening star., 1932-03-31
AND TAUIIGHT
FISH ARRIVE AT AQUARIUM
Chinese Paradise Group Most Interesting of Newcomers
Commerce Department.

fight among themselves and give a
practical demonstration of the survival
of the fittest.
Six Pterophyllum Scalare also were
placed on exhibition. This species was
discovered by former President Theo-
dore Roosevelt during his exploration OF
the River Of Doubt in South America
Despite the fact that they grow from
only one-half to six inches in length,
they are classed as man-eaters, attack
ing swimmers in schools of thousands.
In an exhibition tank set aside for
tropical fish, several rare specimens were
placed on exhibition, including the head
and tail light fish. One species Of the
sanio malabaricu type of fish is so small
that it is hardly visible in darkened
corners of its tank.
Evening star., 1932-03-31
G0TWALS BACK AT DESK
AFTER 9-MONTH ILLNESS
Engineer Commissioners to Work
Short Periods Daily Until
Recovered.

After an illness Of nine months. En-
gineer Commissioner John C. Gotwals
returned to his desk at the District
Building for short while late yester-
day.
Maj Gotwals said he was feeling
fine" and expected to be back to work
regularly. He has been suffering from
an acute form of neuritis, and still is
compelled to use cane to get about
Although he has diffculty using his
right arm. he said he felt much better
at his desk than idling.
He intends to come to work for a
short while each afternoon, gradually
lengthening the periods until he is back
to full days work. He appeared be-
fore an Army retiring board six weeks
ago. but the decision of the board as
to his retirement has not been an
nounced.
Evening star., 1932-03-31
AID CLUB TO SPONSOR
TESTIMONIAL DINNER
Bruce Barton and Trade Board
National Capital Executive Com
mittee to Be Honored.

The Advertising Club of Washington
Will sponsor a testimonial dinner in
honor of Bruce Barton and the Execu-
tive Committee Of the National Capital
Committee of the Board of Trade at
the Raleigh Hotel tonight at o'clock.
Speakers at the banquet will include
Senator Capper Of Kansas, Commits
sioner Luther Reichelderfer, A. c. Case,
chairman of the Board of Trade COM
mittee; Merle ThorpS, editor of Ma
tion's Business, and Mr. Barton. How
ard Berry, president of the Advertising
Club, will preside. Rev. j. Shera Mont
gomery, chaplain Of the House, will de-
liver the invocation and Bishop James
E. Freeman the benediction The list
OF guests will include Commissioner
Herbert B. Crosby, Acting Engineer
Commissioner D. A. Davidson and Mrs.
Mary T. Norton. chairman of the House
District Committee.
Evening star., 1932-03-31
RECOVER LOST JEWEL

A breastpin set, valued at $400, was
found by third precinct detectives last
night and returned to its owner a
short time after it was lost by Miss
Audrey Campbell 1881 New Hamp-
shire avenue, in the Ambassador
Theater.
Detectives Robert M MaRhan and
T. l.. Dalstrom went to the theater
flashed their lights around tine aisle
and within a few moments had recov-
cred the missing jewel.
Evening star., 1932-03-31
NIGHT MAIL SH|F TED
TO HOOVER AIRPORT
Service to Be Transferred
Tonight After Four Years
at Boiling Field.

After four years of operation at Boil
ing Field under a series of temporary
permits issued by the War Department
the night airmail service is being moved
today to Washington-H Hoover Airport
resulting in the concentration for the
first time of all scheduled air transport
operations at one field.
The first regularly scheduled night
airmail flight from Hoover
Airport will begin at 6 pm. today, when
the northbound shuttle" plane will
take off for New York.
Conditional Use Granted.
When the first contract airmail serv-
ice was established out of the Capital
four years ago, connecting this city and
New York, the War Department, at the
request of the Post Office Department
and local civic organizations, granted
temporary use of Boiling Field on con-
dition that the National Capital would
undertake at the earliest possible mo-
ment to provide its own civil airport
When development Of Washington
Hoover Airport began two years ago
efforts again were made to get the air.
mail service away from the local Army
field, but eviction was postponed be-
cause Of the danger of operating night
mail planes out of the local civil all
terminal while power and light lines
continued to create hazard along the
eastern border of the field
Transfer Decided On.
In view of the abandonment of the
electric railway line along the field and
assurance that the remaining lines will
BE- Put under ground as part of the de-
vol lnTAF1 CF A~l,., ,-;,1
Bridge and Mount Vernon Boulevard
projects, Eastern Air Transport officials
finally decided to make the transfer.
AS an aid to the night mail planes
the Weather Bureau established an air.
ways weather station at Boiling Field
This station, one of the key weather
stations on the Atlantic Coast. was
moved last July to Washington-H Hoover
Airport.
Evening star., 1932-03-31

E T AVING sent E. P. Scarborough
to Occoquan to serve 80 days
on a charge of intoXicatior.
Il IL police planned today to send
some of his belongings there
also-an assortment of rain-Soaked
furniture evicted from 939 D street
three days ago and now piled along the
north sidewalk from Tenth almost to
Ninth street.
The Police Department yesterday
obtained ScarboroughS permission TO
sell the furniture, which he had ac-
quired at various auction sales, but
several secondhand dealers declined to
make a bid, police said, declaring it
wsuld cost more to move the furniture
than could be made from it.
Scarborough, 1t was said, had been
Evening star., 1932-03-31
ELKS' INSTALLATION
SET FOR WEDNESDAY
Arrangements Made for Dinner
Which Will Precede Cere-

w AlCA w LII 1ltCcuC SCIC
monies.
Newly elected officers of Washington
Lodge, No. Is, B. P o. Elks will be in
stalled next Wednesday night. They
are L. M Gawler, exalted ruler; Joseph
j. Hagerty, esteemed leading knight
DR.. John T. Ready, esteemed loyal
Knight; James Murray. esteemed lee
turing knight; Nathen WE'LL, treasurer;
William S. Shelby, secretary; Thomas
King tiler; Harvey o. Belt, trustee for
three years; David Laport, delegate to
the grand lodge, and James E, Coli
flower, alternate dele gate.
Prior to the installation the board
of stewards assisted by the board of
trustees, has arranged to serve a dinner
in the cluo from $50 TO o'clock.
The installation officer. appointed by
the grand lodge. will be its grand tiler,
John z. Lynch.
Evening star., 1932-03-31
F PRISONERS FURNITURE.

in arrears with the rent on several
third floor rooms where he had accu-
mulated the furniture for the past year
or so.
The pile represents a miscellaneous
assortment-ofice fixtures, household
goods, crockery, side saddle, bamboo
vaulting pole and other odds and ends.
The police sought today to donate
the collection to the Salvation Army,
with the stiplation that it be removed
from the sidewalk Immediately. Failing
that. they will send it, at the expense
of the department, to Occoquan for
such disposal as can be made of it "a
the workhouSe.
The owner was sent to the work
house two days ago
Evening star., 1932-03-31
Transfer Decided On.
THOMPSON JOINS FIGHT

Chicagoan Opposes Abolishing
Great Lakes Naval Station.
William Hale Thompson, former
mayor of Chicago. and Representative
Brltten, Republican, of Illinois, agreed
today to oppose any attempt to abolish
the Great Lakes Naval Training Sta
ton
In telegram to Britten, Thompson
promised to aid in any way possible To
prevent elimination of funds for the
station from the naval appropriation
bill
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-16
So.

as a guide. With such tremendously rapid
accomplishment fell into the realms Of the com
monplace No more precautions were taken for
preparing that fish for a 2,500-mile ride across
the continent than would be taken by a con
fectloner preparing icing to be delivered to a
suburban customer 90 miles away. The fish was
packed in bit of dry Ice placed in the com
partment of arplane and about As hours
later was served in the course of Christmas
dinner for a group of New Workers.
A young woman living in Los Angeles sent as
Christmas gift to friend living on the snow
swept prairies of Illinois a bouquet of orchids
Santa Claus with his very swift reindeer couldn't
have done much better in delivering perishable
gift such long distance.
Many shipments of toys, such as little sets of
tin soldiers, dolls and mechanical gadgets form
a part of the cargo of a mail plane. An ex-
qusite, beautifully set pearl bracelet, whose
value was almost that of the ship which carried
it, was once part of the cargo in a shipment
of air express.
What about the mail pilots on Christmas day
Do they share in the festivities is it just an
other work day for them? In the isolated dis
trcts in. the Far West and Northwest it is GUS
tomary for the people to come from miles around
and gather at the airport to see the ship come
in, just as it used to be customary in small
communities to go down to the depot and see
the train come in.
AT many airports on Christmas day the at
tendants there prepare a Christmas dinner for
the incoming pilot who will descend from bit
terly cold sky, throw off his fur-lined flying
suit and join with ravenous appetite in as fes-
tive Christmas dinner as will be served in the
land.
The story of the development of the air mail
service in this country is an interesting one. On
the tenth anniversary of its establishment Har-
ry S. New, then United States postmaster-gen-
eral prepared an article on the early develop
ment of the service from which the following
excerpts are taken:
at was May Is. 1918 that the department
over which l preside took the initiative
and with planes and pilots borrowed from the
War department essayed a regular service by
air between Washington and New York.
Ion that eventful day the stage was set, and
rightfully so. as in celebration of major event.
The President of the United States and other
high officials were present to witness the in
auguration of the first air mail route. They were
kept waiting a quarter of an hour when it was
discovered that the plane. ready to start other
wise was without gas This inauspicous begin
ming was by no means redeemed when the in
experienced pilot landed near Waldorf Md, to
discover that he had been travelling almost in
the opposite direction from Philadelphia, which
had been his goal.
Subsequent efforts at flying the mail proved
more efficient, however and, three months later,
the Post Office department took over operation
of the route furnishing its equipment and
personnel. Before the end of year it had been
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-16
OnlH a SIN all Part Of tt

demonstrated that, with the solving of various
problems, flights on regular schedule and in
all kinds of weather could be made with cred
liable degree of performance
1T was exactly one year following the inaug-
uration of the New Washington route that
service was begun between Cleveland and Chi
cago, designed the first leg of a prospective
transcontinental system. The second leg New
York to Cleveland, was established less than two
months later-July !, 1919 1t was September s..
1920, before landing fields had been laid out and
other necessary work completed to permit of
operation from one coast TO the other.
THE transcontinental operation was not a
through service. Planes flew in the daytime car
rying only such mail as could be advanced in
delivery speeded on its way at saving of
from u to "a hours. 1t was called an "advanc-
ing'' service. 1t resulted in clipping something
like "a hours from the best possible transcon-
tinental train time of 81 hours.
"In August, 1923, the first continuous flights
from coast to coast made. AS they blaZed
the way for a new worlds record in aviation.
the pilots guided by the newly installed
land lighthouses. For days and nights
gallant group of air pioneers spanned the con-
tinent with air mail times in each direction.
At the end of the days they quit with a record
of 100 per cent perfect.
1.-The next important steps in the progress and
growth of the air mail came with the Inaugural
tion of the contract service and the reliquish-
ment by the government to private initiative of
the operation of the transcontinental route.
"The first Of the contract routes was placed
in operation February Is, 1926 between Detroit
and Cleveland and Detroit and Chicago. Other
contracts were awarded from time to time and
the service expanded rapidly many of the con-
tract routes operating as feeders to the trans
continental and the overnight New York-Chicago
lines.
"The gOvernment-Operated route between Chi
cago and San Francisco went into private opera
the doubled daily service between New York and
Chicago"
Since that government-operated route went in
to private operation many more advances in air
mail transportation have been made. No longer
is the danger imminent of a pilot landing some
place only to discover that he has been flying
for hours in the opposite direction from his
destination as happened on that first air mail
fight in 1918.
Now besides the magnetic compass the earth
inductOr compass and numerous other naviga-
tional aids, the pilot is aided by the use of the
directonal radio BEAM Stations which trans
NIT this beam located along the flight route
and each station emits radio beam towards
the other that the two beams converge and
form a direct line for the airplane in flight
to follow. The beam, of coLrse, is not visible
to the human eye but receiving apparatus in
the cockpit of the airplane is sensitive to the
beam and indicates by radio dash-dOt system
whether the ship is on its course, off it's
course, either to the left or the right.
&c by Western Newspaper Union.)
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-16

Roared airplanes and pilots, new Santa Claus
BAND
might be aptly used to describe the situation of
air mail and air express this Christmas.
Truly, airplane pilots will be roaring through
the skies carrying Christmas gifts and greetings
from one end of the United States to the other.
And quite fitting 1t is too, that gifts should ar
rive in this manner, for isn't it true that those
reindeer steeds of Santa's always had a pro-
pensty for air travel? Always the pictures we
have seen of them show them coming down the
sky about to settle on the snowy roofs of houses
below them
But now. instead of Dasher and Dancer Pran-
Ger and Vixen. Donder and Bitten. the six fast
animals who for long have pulled Santas
sleigh loaded with gifts to our chimney tops
1t is Pratt and Whitney, Curtiss and Fokker.
Boeing and Corsair airpanes and engines, that
Zoom through the skies carrying the great load
of Christmas mail.
And that rotund figure with white beard and
Jolly face who dressed in a bright red costume
trimmed with Arctic fur has been supplanted by
a different breed of man, one who is leaner of
figure and sterner of face He is no less jolly
by nature, perhaps. but he is serious with the
new intelligence of air navigation. He and his
fellow pilots are men who have been selected
10 fly the mail because of their superior qualities
as aviatOrs.
The wel-paced faith which the public has
In the accuracy and speed of air mail dispatch
is more than usually evident at Christmas time
Beginning about the first of December air line
employees start preparation for the rush of air
mail and express that will begin about that
time and by three days before Christmas will
have reached almost cyclonic pitch. AS the
influx of mail increases extra planes and pilots
will be called into service and in some instances
ii will be necessary to cancel passenger reserva-
tons so that the space a passenger would oc-
cupy in a ship can be utilized for carrying more
mail.
Ii is common sight around an airport al
Christmas time to see people who have delayed
their Christmas mailing until the very last min
ute come hurrying in their cars on foot and
on street cars to get their packages in plane
which will get them to their destination in time.
Practically all types of merchandise is ac-
cepted by air lines for transport and a variety
of gifts find their way into the cockpit
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-16
(map and Pictures. Courtesy United Air Lines.)
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

PARAPHRASE such as this
of a famous poem:
Twas the night before
Christmas and all through
the house
Not a creature was stirring,
not even a mouse;
But up in the sky over all of
the land
The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-16

A Chinese fisherman who lived on the coast
of Alaska last year sent 40 pound Alaska
salmon to his sportsman friend in New York
for whom he worked during the fishing season