Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1931, Page 24

B—-8 ARMAL CROWTH LAUDED BY BROWN Stable Passenger Business Is | Predicted in Report—$1, 000,000 Unspent. Encouragement of air transport de- velopment by the Post Office Depart- ment under the terms of the Watres airmail act has had “a far-reaching effect on commercial aviation,” Post- master General Walter F. Brown de- clared in his annual report, made pub- lic_today The purely Airmail Service is rapidly disappearing, he said, and today every afrmail route but two in the United States now offers passenger transpor- tation. On the last two remaining air- mail runs passenger service will be made available upon completion of in- termediate landing fields. The Airmail Service has two pur- poses, Mr. Brown stated, transmission of the mails and the encouragement of commercial aviation. The Airmail Service at the close of the fiscal year | was able to turn back more than $1,- | 000,000 into the Treasury, expenditures to $16,995734 out of ap- ions of $18,000,000 Two New Routes Opened. ng 579,422 pounds of and the mail s flew 21.381.852 miles in carry- ing on their service. Two new trans- continental routes were inaugurated during the year and a number of con- solidations and extensions of existing routes were authoriged The year witnessed the death of eight airmail pilots while actually en- gaged in carrying the mail, an average of one death for each 2,672.731 miles fiown In his letter transmitting the report, Mr. Brown termed the growth of the Airmail Service and its beneficial ef- fect on aviation as “especially encour- aging Predicts Stable Business. “The Department belizves confident- ly," he said, “that within the next few years a stable passenger and express business will be developed to such pro- portions as to justify the gradual reduc- tion and the eventual elimination of the aviation subsidy as a factor in airmail pay.” | He recommended legislation which would permit him to contract, without asking for bids, for airmail service in Alaska, payments to be made from ap- | propriations for star route service. Raises International Service. | This country's international airmail Toutes in Central and South America | and the West Indies have functioned during the year with “a regularity and dependability which 1s gratifying,” Mr. Brown said. On many of the routes | service was 100 per cent perfect and on | all together the average percentage of | performance has been 39.45 During the year the Post Office De- partment continued its tests with fire- proof mail sacks for air mail use, de- vices for picking up and dropping mail in flight and other equipment. The year also saw introduction of the land- ing ski for Winter fiying in the North, the adoption of better planes and the enactment of a postal requirement that mail planes adopted be capable of cruis- | ing at 140 miles per hour. i JUDGE GETS PROTESTS 3 Letters Object to Bread and Water Diet for Prisoners. | GERING, Nebr., December 8 (P)— County Judge C. O. Lyda, who has been called the “dieting judge” because of his sentences of bread and water diets | for liquor-law violators, yesterday said he “has been bombarded with letters | from New York City and San Fran- | cisco. | A letter from San Francisco to County Sheriff Vincent S. Ramsey de- clared Ramsey was liable to prosecution | for “forcing an unconstitutional. sen- tence involving cruel and unusual pun- ishment.” A letter from New York City charged | Judge Lyda “considers the enforcement of the prohibition law and the viol of the liquor la KENTUCKY INAUGURATES t NEW GOVERNOR TODAY | | Flem D. Sampson, Republican, Works Late to Clear Way for Ruby Laffoon, Democrat. By the Associated Press. FRANKFORT, Ky., December 8-— Gov. Flem D. Sampson, working far | into the night after a farewell party| at the mansion, cleared his desk for the induction into office today of Ruby Laffoon, his Democratic successor. Sampson is a Republican. | On his last day in office, Gov. Samp- | son commuted six death penalties to life imprisonment, issued 298 commuta- tions reducing the prison terms of pris- oners in the two State penitentiaries, gave 26 respites, equivalent to pardons, and signed eight paroles. These made a total of 338 acts of executive clemency. One of the death penalties commuted was that of a col- ored prisoner sentenced to hang after conviction for criminal assault. The other five were to have died in the electric chair Gov. Sampson appointed 45 colonels during his last day in office, and re- stored citizenship to seven former con- | victs. He also drew his last pay check, covering the first eight days of De- cember. - WILL HONOR HURLEY Officers of 306th Cavalry, D. C. and Maryland Guard, to Dine. Officers of the 306th Cavalry, District | and Maryland Reserve Unit, will give a dinner at the Racquet Club in honor of Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley and | prominent Army officers tomorrow night. Other guests honored at the banquet will be Maj. Gen. Guy V. Henry, chief | of cavalry; Col. Maurice Fitz Maurice Day, M. C. British military attache Col. Harry N. Cootes, 3d Cavalry; Col. | Osmun Latrobe, executive officer in the office of the chief of cavalry, and Repre- sentative Edward Wheeler Goss of Con- necticut. Col. John Philip Hall, com- | manding officer of the 306th, will act as toastmaster. | To meet a deficlenicy of $40,000 the! Isle of Man proposes to increase its in- come, tobacco, beer and gasoline taxes VALUABLE Household Adornments Diamond Jewelry, Etc. Embracing Original Chest John Goddard, Large Seventeenth Century Flemish Tapestry, Sword Presented by Congress to John Perci- |9, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, SENTENCE WIRE TAPPERS| Los Angeles Architect Listened In on Wife in Divorce Row. LOS ANGELES, December 8 (#).—A fine of $200 with the alternative of one day in jail for each $2 was imposed on Luther T. Mayo, wealthy architect, after he pleaded guilty yesterday to tapping his wife's telephone wires. Mayo pleaded guilty as preparations were under way to place him on trial. Superior Judge T. P. White granted the stay of execution until January 7 to pay the amount. Mayo's attorney said the architect’s entire fortune was tied up in divorce litigation under way nine weeks. Both Mayo and his wife, Mrs. Mar- guerite Maloney Mayo, have sought di- vorce before. The telephone wires tapped were in Mayo's own home. which, under a court order, Mrs. Mays was occupying. PORRSERRINRNT C Drapery Shoppe Breorate Your Home for Christmas b2 N R 2 T Fine French Maraui- Jette in mew erisp tal. ored ~ curtains in 4 iro%’ colors. PAF IR | | S-S SR Tailored 1 .00 & <o Hem et of Drawers Attributed to val, Commander of the Peacock, War of 1812; Early American Silver Porringer and Spoons, Odd Venetian Glass, Spanish Furniture and Rugs, Old Sheffield Plate, Bronzes, Paintings, Rare Old Eastern Rugs, Diamond Jewelry, etc., China, Glassware, Chinese and Japanese Art Objects, etc. To Be Sold at Public Auction WITHIN AQUR GALLERIES 715 13th Street Today, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, December 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th, 1931, At 2 P. M. Each Day By order of the Washington Loan & Trust Company, Executor of the Percival Gassett Estate; the American Security & Trust Company, Administrator of a prominent local estate (name withheld by request); Ralph D. Quinter, Attorney for the Heany Estate. Three Prominent Local Families and Others. Catalogues on Application to C. G. SLOAN & CO., Inc., Auctioneers. Compliment HER Cood Taste —and Prove Your Own—by Giving Her Marshall Field's /o NEee. Silk Hose! ifts for with Dollie Dressed to Match—all for $1.50 It's’ quite the vogue this season for little girls and their dollies to be dressed alike! So if you want to im- press your daughter or some one else’s daughter, give her this adorable set! These polka dot dresses are smartly flared and finished with touches of embroidery. The doll, 117 inches high and with movable arms and legs. Blue, green and maize; sizes 2 to 6. Warm Robes for Little Tots All wool striped flannel robes, warm beacon robes, rayon quilted robes in bright colors and quilted robes in bright $1.95 colored patterns. Sizes 2 to 6. Sweaters and Sweater Sets The sweaters, slipover and coat styles with crew or vee necklines. The sweater 1 95 sets with cunning berets. Red, navy, . green, tan and copen. TOTS' WEAR—FOURTH FLOOR. Come Often’ and Early Use Washington Rapid Transit Company Christmas Shoppers Weekly Bus Pass Sold This Week for Only 50c INFORMATION DESK—STREET FLOOR. D. 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