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Evening star., 1939-12-31
Mason, c. A. A. Member Takes
Flying Course and Passes
He Is Only One on
Board Who Holds
Pilots License

G. Grant Mason, jr., youngest
member of the Civil Aeronautics
Authority, recently subjected him.
self to the C. A. A. tests for student
pilots, it was announced last night,
and came through with an active
pilots ticket"
Spokesman for the c. A. A. re-
ported Mr.. Mason had taken a
course in flying and last Tuesday
went to the College Park field where
he passed the routine flight and
written examinations. Although
some other members of the board
have done some flying, omcials said
he is the only board member hold
ing an active pilots license.
He has purchased q plane of his
own, a standard cabin job, having
all the instruments needed for all
kinds Of flying, and plans to con-
tinue his training until he can
qualify for all pilot ratings, it was
said.
Mr.. Mason, who came to the
authority from the Pan-American
Always, sought to keep his identity
as c. A. A. member unknown
when he started training at the
Hybla Valley flying service. Although
this did not last, because he had to
sign his own name to training
papers, board spokesmen say, he
asked he be given the san treat
ment as the thousands of youths
now training over the country foe
pilot tickets" ...-
And, didn't I sweat ever thoee
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Lost Ring Is Recovered
From Ice Rink Sush

Hunting for the traditional needle
IN the haystack had its seasonal
counterpart yesterday-hunting for
a diamond ring in the slush pile of
an ice rink
Miss Mary Hanson of 824 Con-
necticut avenue NV. went skating
at the Connecticut avenue Ice Palace
and didn't miss her large diamond
ring until she returned home.
A frantic call to palace officials
resulted in systematic checkup.
Miss Hanson said she had prob
ably lost the ring on the ice, but
that didn't help much because TOO
odd persons also had been on the
rink and after they had left the
entire ice surface had been scraped
and the slush dumped five stories
down into a pit at the bottom of the
building.
There was just a chance of finding
1t in the ice shavings and darkness.
Two barefoot porters we're sent
into the slush in the ice pit and
after several hours of arduous tread
ing found the ring.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Frankfurter Gets
Phi Epsilon Pi Award
For Service 10 Race
Fraternity Holds Its
Thirty-fifth Annual
Convention Here

Felix Frankfurter. associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court. was
given the national service award of
the Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity last
night, in absentio, at the 35th an
nual session in the Continental
Room Of the Wardman Park Hotel.
The award is given each year to
the man or woman the fraternity
considers has contributed most to
the Jewish race Previous awards
have gone to Rabbi Jonah B. Wise
of New York. DR.. Cyrus Adler, presi-
dent OF the Jewish Theological
Seminary. Rabbi Stephen Wise, and
Miss Henrietta Zold for her work
in the Palestine resettlement move
ment.
Because Justice Frankfurter was
unable to be present. it was an
nounced that appropriate cere-
monies would be held at another
time; a date to be decided upon by
Mr. Frankfurter.
At the meeting last night it was
announced that some II refugee STU
dents from Europe are now being
cared for by Phi Epsilon Pi in vari-
GUS educational centers throughout
America.
Student and alumni members to
the number of 400 gathered here
from States along the Eastern sea-
board. and as far West as Iowa
Hosts were members of the George
Washington University Chapter, AL
pha Mu
After the formal meeting last
night stag banquet was held at
which awards were made to numer-
Gus chapters throughout the coun-
try for scholarship. athletics. and
social service. Speakers included
Elmer Louis Kayser, dean of stu
dents at George Washington Uni
versity. and Rabbi Norman Ger
stenfeld of the Washington Hebrew
congregation.
Chairman of the convention
which concludes today with busi-
ness meeting and election of off,
GERS. was Coleman Brez Stein
Washington lawyer. Omcers who
attended the sessions were Oliver
Sabin of New York, national presi-
dent; Samuel Sherman of Chicago
vice president; Louis Goldman, Phil
adelphia, treasurer. and Irwin Frei-
berger of Cleveland, secretary.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Maryland Marriage Law Booms
Virqiniu's Trade 800 % in Year

ton certificates before obtaining
marriage licenses. But the bill
which was defeated, was designed
solely as a health measure.
Precisely what effect Marylands
hasty marriage ban had on we'd
dings in Northern Virginia is shown
by comparison of figures of this
year to those of 1888. In 1888 at
Winchester, the county and city
clerks issued a total of 589 licenses
Last week the 1899 figure was be-
yond 1850 and officials expected it
to go beyond the 1000 mark.
At Warrenton. capital of the Vir-
ginia horse country. double we'd
ding was announced for the 3,999th
and 4.00Oth license issued this year.
The total for all of 1888 was 235
Incomplete returns from Freder-
icksburg showed LIT for 1899
against 298 for last year.
ROCKVILLE. Md. Dec. 30-Only
888 marriage licenses. 1076 fewer
than in 1898. the record year. were
issued by the clerk of the Circuit
Court here during 1899, it was an
nounced at close of business yes
terday. The slump was due to the
law. which became effective in De-
cember, 1898. requiring a wait of
48 hours between application for
and issuance of a license.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Postal. Receipts
Hit New Peak,
Farley Says
$745,955,075 Figure
Released Showing
$4,547,795 Surplus

Record postal revenues of S745,-
955 ,075.24 for the fiscal wear 1899
were announced last night bv Post
master General James A. Farley
in the annual report of the Post
Office Department. which showed
also met postal surplus" of sl4,-
547, ,795 80.
This last figure. which puts the
department in the black" for the
fifth time in seven wears, was ar
rived at by writing off s53, ,239 ,658 20
for the so-called non-postal items
which includes the handling of the
penalty and franked mail from the
departments and Congress.
The report put audited expendi-
lures at $784 GAG, ,938l4, which meant
gross postal deficit of $38,69l,-
1862 80 when compared to the audited
revenue. The charge off of the non-
postal items against this deficit
figure produced the net postal sur
plus.
Expenses Were Less.
The Postmaster. General COM
mented, however. that the true
measure of postal progress" was
shown by the fact that while rev.
enues we're at an all-time high,
expenses were $l9,0OO,O00 under the
previous high mark.
Departments and establishments,
he said, mailed out 93.474,96 pounds
of matter, which at regular rates
would have produced more than
$38 900, 900. Congress was respons-
ible for dispatch of 5,856,742 pounds,
for which the Government would
have collected a little more than
81 1000 if the material had come
from private senders.
In connection with the financial
aspects of the department. the Post
master General answered the recur-
rent argument in favor of a return
to the 2-cent rate for first-class
postage by declaring the reduction
from cents in the past year would
have cut revenues by s96.0O0,00
The postage rate of cents an
ounce on non-local letters and other
irst-class matter is not scheduled to
expire until July l, l941.
Mr.. Farley's comment was taken
to mean that he would recommend
next year continuance - probably
permanently-of the 3-cent rate.
Inspection Service Busy.
The postal inspection service had
busy year, the report showing
5.492 arrests; 4.726 indictments and
1854 convictions. Mail frauds and
burglary of post Offices topped the
number of criminal cases, while ar
rests for mailing obscene matter
also were high on the list. Quack
remedies caused the usual amount
of trouble, these being responsible
for the majority of several hundred
actions in which the mails were
closed to individuals and concerns
by fraud order procedure.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Bv the Associated Press.

RICHMOND. Va. Dec. 30-The
Yankees are marching into Northern
Virginia from beyond the Potomac
again but this time the musical ac-
compartment is Mendelssohn in
stead of military and all is in the
spirit of love.
They are marching down to get
married.
Since the Maryland legislature
took the crimp out of cupid's bow
by passing law requiring watt
ing period between the application
for license and the wedding bells,
the ring and bell business has
doomed in the Old Dominion-by
more than 600 per cent in some
communities only a scant motor
dash from Washington.
From the elopers' standpoint the
glory that was Elkton and the
grandeur that was Rockville in
Maryland have not been visited up
on Warrenton, Fredericksburg and
Winchester as we'll as other seats
of government in the upper reaches
of the State.
Thus far. the smaller towns seem
to welcome the influx of would-be
weds.
The Virginia legislature at its 1888
session considered a bill to require
couples to show physical examina-
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Nine D. c. Methodist
Churches Are Honored

Recognition of their having
achieved quotas in the Million Unit
Fellowship Movement has been ac-
corded nine Washington Metho-
dist churches in the form of GER
tificates of honor.
The churches are Dodge Park,
Brookland. Calvary, Hamline, Pet
worth. Union, Asbury, Randle Me-
mortal and Simpson Memorial.
Approximately 1.50O churches. or
rs per cent of the Methodist con-
gregations in the United States,
have reached their goal in the
campaign to obtain agreements from
members of the denomination to
subscribe 81 per month and as
sumo spiritual obligations of tho
fellowship.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Petworth Citizens Award
YuIe Decoration Prizes

Five awards for the best decorated
and lighted homes in the Petworth
section during the Christmas holi-
days were announced yesterday by
Raymond E. Gable, secretary of the
PetWorth Citizens Association.
First prize was awarded J. w.
Mullins, 522 Shepherd street NV:
second prize, Claude A. Myers, 1880
Seventh street NV: third prize,
George A. Young. 5201 Illinois av-
enue NV; fourth prize, A. F.
Shambaugh, 5129 Illinois avenue
NV, and fifth prize. Samuel Mar
low 80 Hamilton street NV.
Judges for the contest were Earl
w. Cooper. chairman: Mrs. j. E.
Davis, Mrs. Carl w. Gardner and
James A. DeForce. N. l.. Perry was
Judge advocate.
Evening star., 1939-12-31

born April 20, 1887, and the baby
of the family, Anton Gottfried, last
July "a.
Their father filed a petition for
naturalization in District Court on
September 49, He previously had
filed his declaration of intention to
become an American citizen in June.
1896, about three and a half years
after he came to Washington from
Germany.
Even then DR.. Lang was thorough
ly acquainted with America and
American ways as he had been
graduated earlier from Holy Cross
College in Worceter, Mass. He has
lectured frequently in this country
on the Passion Play in which, as q
youth, he had a minor part. His
father, who had played the role of
the Christus more than any other
man and was known to thousands
of Americans. died about two years
ago.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Mrs. Anton Lang, Jr., to Seek
American Citizenship
1884 Passion Plays
Mary MogdoIene to
Follow Husband

Following the course taken by her
husband, Mrs. Anton j. Lang, jr.,
the former Klara Mayr of Oberam-
mergau, Germany, who played the
role of Mary Magdalene in the 1884
Passion Play, will take the initial
steps this week in seeking American
citizenship in the land where their
four small children were born.
DR.. Lang, who is a member of the
faculty of Georgetown University
and son of the late Anton Lang, the
most famous Christus Of the Ober-
ammergau drama, is going into Dis
trict Court Tuesday to take the oath
Of allegiance to the United States,
having previously gone through the
necessary preliminaries. After he
has become a full fedged American
citizen, he said yesterday with a
touch of pride, his wife can apply
for her second papers. "As the wife
of an American citizen. understand
she would not have to declare her
intentions" he said.
Married After Play Ended.
Mrs. Lang was married to DR..
Lang in their native Oberammer-
gau shortly after her final perform
ance in the 1894 Passion Play. It
was necessary for them to postpone
their wedding until then for custom
fOrbidS a married woman from plav.
ing the role of Mary Magdalene.
Since then she has made her home
in Washington. The couple now live
at 2027 Huidekoper place NV.
In their Washington home, DR..
and Mrs. Lang observe the quaint
Christmas and New Year customs
of their native village. Their two
oldest children, Elizabeth Mathilda
and Annermarie Monika, are twins,
born In Georgetown Hospital May
30. 1885. Roswitha Gertrude was
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Bridges Plans to Seek
Naturalization at Once

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 80 tp).-
Harry Bridges, California c. I. o.
leader. said today, Now that obsta-
cles have been cleared away b.
Dean James NJ. Lands report Oh
deportation charges against him u
shall seek naturalization 1T the
earliest possible moment"
Bridges has tiled notice Of his in
tention to become naturalized three
times since he came to this country
from Australia in 1920. The first
two he allowed to lapse and the
third was filed in recent months.
He declared there was nothing
personal in the proceedings which
the Harvard law school dean con-
Quoted during II weeks here this
| summer as special examiner into
Labor Department charges that Mr..
Bridges belonged to the Communist
party.
Il was on trial, but labor was the
defendant" Mr.. Bridges said. La
Dor fought the case and Won"
Mr.. Bridges hoped it would be pos
Slble now Tor employers Ito sit down
with unions and work out their
problems in sensible fashion.
In regard to our local water front
situation it would seem that the
time is ripe for the employers to
forget their slogan that their boy
colt of the Port of San Francisco
was necessary to save ships and
management from seizure by
Bridges and Communists.
Water front employers have
said that the 50-day ship clerks
association strike now on at San
Francisco was inspired by action
of Bridges - which Bridges and
the union denied and other
employer organizations charged that
Communists dominated longshore
unions.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
SoIesmun's Death Due
To Natural Causes

The death of a 46-year-old sales
man. whose body was found in a
sparsely settled Northeast section
yesterday, was attributed to natural
causes after an autopsy at the Dis
trict Morgue.
He was identified as Clark O.
Woodhouse, who lived in the 110O
block of Fifteenth street NV, police
said. His body was found beside
unpaved Banks street NE, about 200
feet east of Division avenue.
No marks of violence were found
on the body.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
'13' Club Elects
Robert Cheuthum

Robert J. Cheatham, principal
cotton technologist at the Agricul1 !
ture Department, has been elected
president of the Washington chap
ter of the "l3" Club, it was an
nounced yesterday.
Other officers chosen at 4 recent
meeting at the Willard Hotel were
Martin H. Ristig, vice president;
Bradley Edelblut, secretary: willard
E. Brown, treasurer; Joseph E. Kel-
Ter, parliamentarian; Leonard S.
May, marshal. and T. Kelley Back
and Charles w. Proctor, members
Of the Board Of Governors.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Honored by AIumnue

The washington Chapter Of the
Mount de Chantel Alumnae Associ-
alton had Lady Broderick, widow of
Sir John Broderick, consul at the
British Embassy, and her daughter,
Miss Shelia Broderick, as honor
guests at the chapters midwinter
luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel
yesterday. Lady Broderick described
her alma snater In Dublin.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Bridges Report
May Bring Sir
In Congress
Reaction Among
EorIy Arrivals
Is Varied
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The door to possible deportation
Of Harry Bridges, Australian-bo
West Coast c. I. o. leader, appeared
last night to have been closed by a
trial examiners finding that he is
not a Communist, but there were
indicati tions that the decision might
have repercussions in Congress.
The reaction of legislators already
here for the session beginning next
week was varied, but some were
frankly incredulous that Dean James
M. Lands of Harvard Law School,
who sat as a special Labor Depart
ment examiner in the Bridges case,
could have cleared him of any af.
filiation with the Communist party.
Opinion Is Varied.
Representative Dempsey, Demo-
crat. of New Mexico commented that
the House Committee on Un-Ameri-
can Activities had rather conclu-
sive" testimony that Mr. Bridges
had been a communist and should
be deported.
But Senator Burke, Democrat, Of
Nebraska, one of the group of law
makers who have urged that Mr..
Bridges be deported, said he was
rather surprised, but I must as
sumo that Dean Lands examined
the evidence very carefully in
every way
Senator Capper, Republican. Of
Kansas, member of the Senate
immigration Committee, said he
would be "a little doubtful of the
Lands conclusion, but that he did
not know whether it was of sufficient
Importance for Congress to dig
into it,"
Rejection Of Report Unseen.
1t was accepted at the Capitol as
foregone conclusion that Secretary
Perkins would not reject the findings
of Dean Landis-in the absence of
some development indicating he had
been misled during the lengthy
hearings he conducted on the West
Coast.
If Miss Perkins accepts the report.
the deportation warrant issued
against him in March, 1893. will be
| cancelled. The warrant was based
on the allegation that Bridges was
communist.
In an 80,0Oo-word report, Dean
Lands summed up his estimate of
the political beliefs and disbeliefs'
of the West Coast labor leader in
these words: That Mr.. Bridges
aims are energetically radical may
be admitted but the proof fails to
establish that the methods he seeks
to employ to realize them are other
than those that the framework of
democratic and constitutional gov
ernment permits"
Evening star., 1939-12-31

c. A. A. rules!" he told officials at
the board.
Apparently it was labor of love,
however, for the story goes that he
did his training on his own time
and got out of bed before daybreak
so as to get from his Georgetown
residence, 1924 Thirtieth street NV.
to Hybla Valley do get in some
training before going to work.
He has had 80 hours and 10
minutes solo flying and eight hours
Of dual flying, more than the rules
require.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Cox to Honor Guard

Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox COM
mander of the District National
Guard, will hold his annual recep-
ton for officers of the District
Guard and their wives at noon to-
morrow In the drill hall Of the
Guard armory.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Woman at Prayer Robbed

Theft of purse containing $40
while she was praying in a down.
town church yesterday afternoon
was reported to police last night by
Miss Bertha Beland, stenographer
ut the French Embassy. Miss Be-
land lives at 1919 Biltmore street
NV.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-09
CHARLES LAUGHT0h STARS AT COLISEUM
 IN "BEACHC0MBER'

In the short course or five years, Charles Laughton has risen to a position of eminence as screen actor unsurpassed in the history of the cinema. His characterizations in Henry the VIII, "Barretts of Vim pole Street, n"Les Miserables, Rug gles of Red Gap "Mutiny on the Bounty" have marked him as the outstanding screen actor of our gen. eration. In his new picture, The Eeachcomber." which had it's local premiere last night at the Coliseum Theatre, Laughton rose to greater heights than he reached in any of his previous efforts. as Ginger Ted, Y English beachcomber and remittance man. indolently wasting his life on a small island in the Dutch Indies.
 Sullen, drunken, un kem D t , equipped with quick and flashing tongue, Ginger Ted" is character from the pen of W. Somerset Vaughan, distinguished English author. The combination of Laugh ton and Vaughan is quite palpably a natural, the genius of the author combining fittlngly with the tre- mendous talent of the actor,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-09
INSURANCE FIRM
 IS TO BE FORMED
 BY BROTHERHOOD
ANB Corporation 10 Write Marine Insurance tor
 Members Boats

A resolution setting up an AL aska Native Brotherhood insurance company to write marine insur- ance on the boats of members was passed Tuesday at the ANB con- vention at Sitka by a vote of 49 to 21.
 The resolution terms the pres ent cost of such insurance, eight percent, prohibitive and suggests a rate of four percent.
 The ANB Executive Committee is authorized by the resolution to form a corporation under the AL aska Indian Reorganization Act and apply for a s1O0,00o loan from the credit fund fo- capital. Only members of the Brotherhood would be eligible to obtain insurance from the corporation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-09
HIGH SEAS E @Fs SETTING FOR
 CAPITOL HIT
Pacific Liner Will Have Final Showing Here
 This Evening

Crammed from the opening to the
 inal fade-out with two-fisted ac- ton, high adventure and warm TO- nance. RKO Radios Pacific Liner, ending tonight at the Capitol Thea tre as one of the finest vehicles Vic tor McLaglen has had in some time Tn it he is co-starred with Chester Morris.
 The doctor nurse theme is given a novel twist in this entertaining story )y the unique background. The en- tire action transpires on board an ocean liner bound for San Francisco from Shanghai, with Morris playing a ships doctor and Wendy Barrie his assisting nurse. McLaglen is cast as a hard-boiled chief engineer whose tyrannical rule over the en- zine room has won him a wide repu- tation as a belligerent bully, but ot inestimable value to any steamship line.
 The romantic triangle involving the doctor, his nurse and the en- gineer; the conflict between the two strong -willed men, an epidemic that takes a terrific toll in the grimy stoke-hold, and the efforts of the engineer to bring the stricken vessel into port on schedule, represent the foundation of the story's sweeping drama.
 McLaglens performance as the bullying officer ranks as one of his best eharacterizations. His role is un- usually difficult because of the nec- essity of injecting sympathy into his portrayal of a dictatorial, almost brutal engineer. Morris, as the easy going but determined doctor, and Miss Barrie, as the cool, efficient nurse, make a noteworthy romantic team, and their roles require delft, dramatic delineations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-09

from Oregon. Washington, Idaho, Utah and Montana and possibly the A from California, together with others from the grain states of the trans Mississippi west. It would be a staunch trading bloc to swing a farm program plank into position.
 What might happen if McNary sought to lead his followers in sup port of an isolationist foreign pol icy plank could be something else again. There is substantial isola- tionist sentiment in the Far West but the big force of it is in the states on moth sides of the upper Mississippi.
 McNary has been considerably more than a ag-along in the pres ent senatorial fight over the Neu- rality bill. AS minority leader he has maintained working arrange ments with the White House, but there has been no doubt as to bis position on the bill. The opponents of repeal of the embargo feature have accepted his guidance. It is just possible they have showed him farther forward in the matter than he really wished to go. But certain it is that they are looking to him to lead the fight in the party for an isolationist foreign policy in contrast to those factions within the party wishing to take more aggressive world position.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-09
PERMIT SYSTEM OF LIQUOR SALE
 ASKED BY ANB
Conditions Are Deplorable in Villages, Indian
 Resolution Says
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unfortunately is corroborated by the large increase of criminal cases among Indians, have consistently affirmed and we do now affirm that prohibition in spite of all it's de- fects (due we believe, to the fact that the enforcement thereof was politicaD was and is better than the legalized sale thereof.
 However, the interests who make money out of the misfortunes that are created by intoxications and who care nothing for the fact that in- toxication has contributed so largely to the poverty and miseries of the Indians and other natives of Alaska, have been able to defeat all our eff