\\}S.-Philippines Air Service
Soon To Include Hong Kong
„ ,<.,r January 1 the airmail,
goor. »11'1
nttr and express-carrying serv
{ pan American Airways to
[ lg m me Philippines will in
Hong Kong, and that means
I j, n no longer a myth that
will he able to fly all the
" around the globe on regularly
lednlefi airplanes. Behind these
• Vfme-1936 edition facts is a
I"named Juan Terry Trippe who
j going into his father’s bank
hollfC when he got out of Yale.
[ learned that being a naval pilot
rms the World war had made the
utiat he wanted, and so he left
nkins for the air, and has had
reaf:n thus far to be sorry.
I^d On To London
fxtention of service to Hong
„,g mean that arrangements be
n jn Hong Kong had to be finish
up in T endon, by co-operative ac
. flf imperial Airways officials,
d tup ratification by the British
rjmment of an agreement giving
i, American and China National
rl,gy? a terminal in a Britlsh
Mged renter.
At Yale, they used to grumble at
*n Trippe—failed him "Mummy,"
fact, when he wouldn’t read his
are in the St. Anthony club ritual
l They had to get used to the
>a though, that he just isn’t much
a talker It sems reasonable to
iei him a do-er, though, consid-1
ir; service, the world around.
The first time this correspondent J
trsaw Mr. Trippe was one snowy |
orn ti? when he came striding into
« office of Horatio S. Rubens,
esident of the Consolidated Rail
ads of Cuba.
Said Much In Three Minutes
At that time the proportions of |
r. Rubens’ office bore a resem
suce to the famed wide open,
aces of Mussolini’s office in the
liazzo Venezia, and Mr. Trippe
eared the distance from door to
sk in about six strides. He con
ned himself to a clipped “Do”, ac
lowledging the introduction of a
lird person, and set himself to
tree minutes of machine-gun con
rence with Mr. Rubens.
Mr Tripple sees an airline as like
railroad, in that the basic prob
m of the airline is the basic prob
m of the railroad—to make people
ant to travel, and to ship goods
'er it
Mi Trippe sees an airline as like
afarliig family that settled in
inland in 1664. Hus Spanish in
stance is bay way of his mother,
nd It is in the solidity and gravity
[ his features. He’s a huge block
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of a man, and it’s no good wonder -1
ing, where Pan American Is con-1
corned, whether business men have j
the technical equipment to run a I
flying service, because Mr. Trippri
was a pilot himself long before he
ever even imagined Pan American.!
and before that he was a naval
pilot.
Gave Up Bank For Air
His first civilian air service job'
was in 1923, when he decided banks!
were not for him, and set himself!
up in business as Long Island Air-!
ways, of which he was not only j
president, but chief pilot—and, what!
is more, mechanic too, if the occa
sion demanded.
Long Island Airways had a land
ing field, and it had seven airplanes
which it caused it to be known were
for hire. It was a pale forerunner
indeed, as a service, of the glossy
amplitude of Pan American, but
there was something prophetic about
it for all that, and about its presi
dent. When other people were turn
ing up their noses at the very idea
that having planes to hire out to
people who thought they wanted to
get somewhere in a hurry could
ever be a money-making business. It
was a crude, but. concrete affirma
tive argument. And some working
fame accrued to it because it was
one of the few exhibits of its kind
in the country.
People simply hadn't begun to
comprehend the airplane as a fac
tor in commerce, and there were
those who thought young Mr. Trippe
had better have staved in the less!
experimental pastures of his fath
er's banking house. Moreover, he
didn't do much talking, to persuade
them they were mistaken. He simply
kept his airplanes in good shape,
tcok care of the scant business as
it came along, and looked about for
people who might be venturesome
enough to throw in their lot with
him.
The rest is pretty much business
history. Among others he found,
willing to take a chance, if that was
what.it was, was Cornelius, Vander
bilt Whitney. Yale '22. Mr. Whitney
must not have had any cause to re- ■
gret his action because he and Mrs.!
Whitney were on the trip just com
pleted by Mr. Trippe, and he was
on it as an official of Pan Ameri
can.
Technically, the flight was the
final check-up flight of the presi
dent of the line before the opening
of regular commercial air passen
ger service between San Francisco
and Manila, now an accomplished
fact. But he was already at work on
the details of extending the service
into China, without which link he
has never believed the service would
be complete.
More baby chicks die of bacterial
diseases than from any other cause,
says Dr. L. D. Bushnell, Kansas
State college bacteriologist.
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- South Side Court Square —
Only Marsupial
In America Is
Bre’r ‘'Possum
By LARRY BALER
When frost has changed the
mouth-puckering persimmon into ai
•weet and gooey tidbit it’s time for!
'possum hunting.
Bagging the animals is not great
shakes as a sporting proposition j
but it is lots of fun, especially if;
you hanker for rich, red meat with I
yams and don't mind tramping'
around at night.
Preparations for a hunt are sim
ple. Just call the dogs and fetch a
gunny sack. Down in our neck of
the woods it is easy to round up a
pack by whooping across a couple!
of hollers to the neighbors.
Now men, boys and dogs are 1
high-tailing for the brush where'1
wild grapes, black haws and 'sim-1
mons grow. A big, yellow moon
eases up over the hill as they reach
the old stake-and-rider fence.
Soon there's a chorus of barks
and baying as the nack of assorted
sizes and breeds gets the scent of ■ •
something. Maybe a rabbit or'
skunk? All the riAgs are giving j
tongue in one spot.
Everybody starts scrambling in j
the direction of the noise. It won't j
be long now. Yep, there's bre’r 'pos
sum up a small, vine-tangled tree,
looking sort of woeful. Shake him <
out and put him in the bag, but |
keep your hands away from his:
month
Despite the fact a ’possum has,
fifty teeth, there's not much fight,
in him. America's only marsupial]
doesn't expend a deal of energy in
tl*e chase and when the jig's up he
feigns death—hence the expression
“playing ’possum.”
The best way to clean a 'possum
for baking is to scrape it like a
shoat—not skin it. In the cold
months when the fur is prime the
pelt has some commercial value;
A mysterious dirrase cycle has
struck the snowshoe rabbit, also,
known as the varying hare, over a
wide territory in northern Minne
sota. Deer hunters told of traveling
for three days without seeing a
snowshoe where formerly it was
numerous. The jackrabbit, origin
ally a prairie dweller, is now com
mon over all except northeastern
Minnesota, and the cottontail pop
ulation is reported from fair to
good over most of the state.
The muskrat supplies the market
with more skins than any other
animal except the rabbit. Like the
latter, muskrats are prolific. About
three litters of from three to seven
each are said to be produced each
year.
The^ build dome-like houses of j
aquatic plants that extend two or,
three feet above the water surface ]
Old-timers predict floods when the:
houses are unusually high. I
“If every duck hunter would let
aji the cripples go and pick up only
the dead birds, the season would be
closed in a short time,” says the
Iowa Conservation Bulletin. “Re
member the actual kill is almost
twice the bag limit and rules and
regulations are based on this fact.
To retrieve the cripples* and count
them in the bag is one step toward
less drastic regulations in the fu
ture.”
Girls Entertain
Junior College Boys
BOILING SPRINGS, Dec. 14. —
The girls of the college entertain
ed the boys of the college with a
Christmas party on Friday evening
from 8 until 10:30 o’clock.
The reception hall was beautiful
ly decorated with a trimmed tVee,
abundant greens and other Christ
mas decorations, made by Miss
Katherine Hamrick and commit
tee. Christmas games and contests
were directed by Miss Nellena
Jones.
Miss Aileen Seism, dressed as
Santa Claus, was a main feature of
entertainment. Miss Adelaide P.
Bostick |oid cr intd-esting Christ
mas story. Miss Margaret L. Liles
played Christmas carols on the pia
no.
Refreshments and punch were!
served by Misses Edith Greene, j
Madge Hardin and Annie L. Rob-J
erts.
BLACK AND WHITE
LOOK GOOD FOR SPRING '
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NEW YORK,— </P) —Unless Mrs.
Simpson’s favorite green inter-]
venes, black and white promise to ,
oe the most popular spring colors.1
Already a number of black and |
white prints have been Introduced. <
<ew materials include dimities of j j
:he finest quality, printed linens1 ]
ind smooth wool fabrics.
Rerem Double In Brass i
PARIS.—(/P)—Revers lead double ,
ives on many of th* new coats ’i
ind jackets which boast two revers1<
o a side. On a black wool coat col- «
>red velvet ribbon borders the rev-' j
■rs. with green velvet being used I
or the upt&r pair and red for the |
utter. A black tailored suit has two ,
■evers accented with a double fold i
if white pique.
Vice president John N. Garner <
tk.es to take a turn at cooking on I
tun ting trips. 1
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TALK!
TO
PARENTS
First Flights /
By BROOKE PETERS CHURCH
To his parents. Sam seemed i
rather shy and awkward boy a
the hobbledehoy stage. The firs'
■ime his mother had a glimpse ol
Tim in his relationship to the work
mtslde his home, she was surpris
?d—even a little sockedi
To her it seemed thai Sam lack
ed respect for his elders. He spokf
,o older men and women as thougl
re and they were of one age. Hi;
nanners amazed her. They wen
'asy. even a trifle too easy, and here
ind there perhaps overdone and af
:ected. He was smoking, and un
ioubtedly smoking too much.
She could scnrCely tell him al
;his in public, but as soon as sh<
tot the boy home she gave him f
detailed catalog of his faults, s<
spoiling an evening which Sam hac
found delightful.
It is hard for mothers to se<
-heir little boys as grown men
Dften a boy is actually held baci
ind kept awkward and shy by hi;
mother's attitude. If this sam<
mother could see her son amoni
)thcr boys and in other houses, sh<
vould scarcely recognize him as hei
Sam's mother would have beei
wiser had she made no commen
)n his behavior. Away from his pa
rents, Sam felt free. He could tr;
>ut his manners,, was proud of belni
iccepted as a man among men ant
olossomcd out accordingly. The old
;r men to whom he spoke will
such assurance, far from feellni
iffronted by his attitude, wen
probably flattered by it, or else, re
membering their own youth, touch
;d and sympathetic.
Of course the boy smoked mon
than was good for him. Under
aeath all this swagger was still thi
little boy, frightened at his owi
temerity and bolstering up hi
nerve and occupying his over-con
spicuous hands with cigarettes.
Sam was emerging from his co
:oon. His mother didn’t know it.
WWSi/awi
HEALTH
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Acaionr * MWiwm
Conquering Cholera
Several medical authorities hav
written the ‘‘dog books" of thei
scientific explorations lately, and i
number of medical classics hav
been reprinted.
Recently the Commonwealtl
Fund republished the medical clas
sic "Snow on Cholera.” Cholera 1
now practically unknown in th
United States, but at one time 1
was a widely prevalent and ex
tremely destructive disease. In Nei
York City, for example, betweei
1840 and 1849 Asiatic cholera caus
ed 5,100 de'aths.
The ger |i ciu ling cholera was no
discovered until 1883. But the con
trol of cholera was achieved ii
1854, 29 years before its specif!
germ cause was discovered. Thi
attainment stands to the credit c
Dr. John Snow of London who b;
keen analysis arrived at the con
viction that c/olera was caused b:
some agent transmissible throug
contaminated drinking water.
In the latter part of August, 185'
a terrific outbreak of cholera devel
oped in and about the neighborhood
of Broad street and Golden squari
London. Within 10 days there wer
upwards of 500 fatal attacks. Oi
the evening of September 7, whil
the vestrymen of St. James wer
sitting in solemn consultation oi
the causes of the visitation,
stranger appeared and asked for
hearing. This stranger was Di
Snow'. He made a simple sugges
tlon. He urged the vestrymen t
order the removal of the pump han
die of the Broad street pump
from which many in the neighbor
hood drew their drinking watei
rhe vestry was incredulous but i
oad the eood sense to carrv out thi
idvice. The pump handle was re
noved and the plague was stayed.
Subsequently lt(was found that i
:hlld had been sick with choleri
ind that its excretions had beet
loured into a drain located withir
i few feet of the Broad streei
jump. The bricks of the cesspoo
nto which the wastes were pour
■d were loose. As a result its con
ents seeped through and flowed dl
ectly Into the well.
A strange piece of corroborate
vidence was revealed. A womar
vho lived a distance away had tht
lelusion that no drinking water ir
11 England could equal that whlch
ame from the Broad street pump
ihe therefore had a bottle of thi*
luid brought to her daily. She and
ler servant drank this water ant!
iromptly developed cholera. No out
lae in that neighborhood ssuttered
he disease.
This demonstration led to world
ride reforms in the safeguarding ol
Irinking water, and millions owed
heir spared live?; to the genius nl
)r. Snow.
I
Hollywood
Sights And Sounds
By ROBIN COONS
HOLLYWOOD.-— The men who
went down to the sea In ships for
•‘Captains Courageous" Included
three small boys.
Freddie Bartholomew. Mickey
Rooney and Ray Sperry, the lat
ter Bartholomew’s stand-in, went
along as Director Victor Fleming
led his troupe to location midway
between Long Beach and Catalina
j Island In the two-masted. 110-foot
schooner, the Spinney, which was
rechristened the “We're Here" for
Kipling's story.
Where there are school age
] youngsters, there is a school. Tutor
Harold Minnlear held classes In a
reserved part of the fo’c'sle.
Tracy Learns Portuguese
Spencer Tracy had his tutors too
- Arthur Rosenstein, voice coach,
i and Rodrigo De Medlcls, PoHu
I gese actor and technical expert.
. Tracy, his hair curled lor the role
of the Portuguese sailor, Manuel,
, had to sing and spea kin dialect.
1 j Tracy submitted with mild pro
1 tests to the hatr-curling, but balked
| at the singing, ventually. however,
1 he sang—and fairly enough at
,| that. Moreover, he learned In three
, weeks to play the veille, 16th cen
1 j tury musical Instrument and to do
, a complete scene In Portuguese,
i "Captains Courageous” has Lionel
Barrymore, Harry Carey. Charley
Grapewin, John Carradlne and
Christian Rub In other Important
j roles. There are no women In the |
cast—but produucera no longer fear
tha absence of feminity.
Freddie Bartholomew plays the
spoiled son of Melvyn Douglas, re
scued at sea by the fishing vessel
and there regenerated Into a likely
lad. And for this drama of regen
eration two other actora—both vet
erans—came thousands of miles to
Hollywood. They were the Spinney
and a slster-shlp, the Mariner,
which once belonged to John Bar
rymore.
A year ago, while John Lee Ma- [
hln was preparing his script. Metro
sent marine technician Jim Havens,
and marine cameraman Harold j
Marsoratl to Massachusetts to buy
the Spinney and sail her to New-1
foundland Banks for shots of the1
fishing fleet. The Spinney sailed to j
the Banks, to Nova Scotia, back to j
Boston. Charleston. Norfolk, the]
Cuba Keys, through the Panama;
I Canal to Los Angeles harbor.
The Spinney and the Mariner
went up the western coast for fur
ther background shots, with weath
er always a problem. Fog dellber
tlmes. Finally, for the racing se
ately sought proved elusive at
qucnce betwee nthe two schooners.
! they sailed north of Santa Barbara
j where the Spinney was wrecked for
story purposes.
Meanwhile, on a Metro sound
stage, the odor of codfish persisted
for days after the sequences re
quiring the presence of thousand;,
of them were completed. The ac
tors smelled of llsh. their clothes
smelled of fish, even after baths
and changes. I
"Captains Courageous" there
fore ha* been called the "smelliest"
of picture*, but not In n derogatory
sense. Clnematically. It may rate
the overworker description "epic."
Explorer* have found to ancient
hineral tower* on mountain «um
mlts m Nakhichevan. autonomous
repubMc of the Soviet Union. Hir
ancient Iranian* left their (toad On
the towers for consumption by oag
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