Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1935, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1935 PICTURES a5 new as the news x stories they illustrated! Scanning far horizons to bring news- paper photographs side by side with the stories of events. Inaugurated January 1, 1935, Wirephoto cut the transmission time of news photo- graphs from weeks and days to hours and minutes. Wherever important events took place, Wirephoto cameras recorded the scene for those who read The Evening and Sunday Star. ]—When Wiley Post and Will Rogers crashed on top of the world, The Associated Press rushed photo- ig!':aphs from Point Barrow, Alaska, to San Francisco, a forty-eight-hour flight. Sixty-three hours after the flash that the famous pair had crashed, The Star had the first picture, —When the Duke of Gloucester married in London, Wirephoto papers on the Pacific Coast, 7,000 miles away, had a picture of the bride and groom three hours and forty-seven minutes after it was taken. 3—When a hurricane swept the Florida Keys, bring- ing death to hundreds, Wirephoto flashed pic- torial coverage countrywide while pictures which had to be carried out of the storm area by plane and train Bnd automobile were delayed for days. '4—When the stratosphere balloon rose from Rapid . City, Wirephoto papers printed pictures side by gide with the news accounts. —Just ten days after Ras Gugsa entered Makale, Ethiopia, with the invading Italian troops, Wire- photo papers half a world away had the picture. —When Detroit and Chicago clashed in the World Series, the first Wirephoto of the teams in action was moving to Wirephoto newspapers twenty-one minutes after the umpire called, “Play ball!” for use side by side with the story of the game. 7—When Louis fought Baer, Wirephoto papers printed a pictorial record of the battle with the round-by-round description. 8—When earthquakes shook Montana, Wirephoto papers had more than an account of the disaster ~—they had exclusive photographs, made on the scene, telling the story far more vividly than words.