Atlanta Housing Project to Replace Slums
$2,700,000
Will Be Spent
on Project
Will Provide
Low Rentals
for Poor
Unsightly slums iu Atlanta are be
ing torn down to make way for struc
tures like this, as the national slum
clearance and low rent housing pro
gram of the Public Works administra
tion progresses.
This photograph shows how a por
tion of the Tech wood housing project
in Atlanta will look when complete.
The PWA has allotted $2,700,000 for
this project that provides housing at
rentals of about the same level as the
slum dwellings they will replace, thus
affording the poor better housing con
ditions at no increase in living costs.
Playgrounds, swimming pools and
other recreational facilities will be
provided as shown in the picture. All
apartments will be well lighted and
equipped with modern4conveniences.
Ail other funds have been tentatively
budgeted for wide-spread projects now
in various stages of development.
POPPY GIRL OF 1935
Ginger Rogers, screen star, was se
lected as the Buddy I'oppy Girl for
21*35, and Is ardently boosting the cam
palgn to sell six million poppies for
the benefit of the welfare and relief
work carried on by the Veterans of I
Foreign Wars.
MAROON TWIRLER
Bill Ilaarlow, who has starred ic
basketball, golf and fencing at the Uni
versity of Chicago, has turned his at
tention to baseball and is the Maroon
team's chief pitcher this season. He
is 6 feet tall and weighs 170 pounds,
and the big league scouts are watch
ing him.
Collier Smokes
Peace Pipe
John Collier, loft, head of the bu
reau of Indinn affair*, smoke* Ids pipe
peacefully while being photographed
with Chief I*aul Red Eagle and his
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squaw at a senate hearing on Indian
welfare. Collier's idea might be offered
to the Kiiropean diplomats whose re
cent peace councils have developed,
into anything but love feasts, and
some of the customs of the "savage"
red man would possibly have a salu
tary effect. Administering the affairs
of the Indian wards of the government
is no small task.
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TO WED A CLERK
jiargaroi v nrisune uooseveii, uaugn
ter of Mr. and Mrs. George * Emlen
Roosevelt of New York, and a relative
of the President, is engaged to marry
Alessandro Pallavincini who clerks in
his father's store in Rome, Italy.
Rent Farm 31 Year*
Stanton, Iowa.?Mr. and Mrs. Olof
Carlson have rented a farm here 31
years without interruption. It consists
of 240 acres ami is considered one of
the best improved tracts in the neigh
borhood.
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r ranee s Latest Kid tor Uceanic 1 rade
An air r!ew of the Normandle. almost completed. a? she Is towed from her berth at St. Nazal re. France. Infested
In thla super hoik la France's challenge to other powers In the race for ocean trade.
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England Plans Jubilee Celebration
IN THE NEWS?1?Latest portraits*
of King George and Queen Mary, spe
cially made for the twenty-fifth anni
versary of their ascension to Gig Brit
ish throne on May C. 2?Palazzo Bor
romeo on Isolo Bella at Stresa, Italy,
where the premier anil foreign minis
ters of Great Britain, France and Italy
met to plan for European peace. 3?
Scene in western Kentucky when, the
Green river'flooded its banks and drove
hundreds of families from their homes.
Planning a Flight Around the World
Clyde Pangborn, left, and James
Mattern are here seen discussing the
flight around the world which they are
planning, hoping to break Wiley Post's
record of seven days. They will use
an Uppercu-Burnelli plane built for
them at Keyport, N. J., which will
require only three, refueling opera
tions. These will be in Moscow, China
and Siberia.
Honor 25th
Anniversary
of Coronation
All Britain is looking forward to the
silver jubilee celebration to be held this
year on May C, commemorating the
i twenty-fifth anniversary of King
George's accession to the crown. Many
splendid fetes have been planned.
One of the most unusual projects to
commemorate the event 1s the acqui
sition of a new forest whicn is to be
known as "The King's Forest." Some
G,000 acres will be named after the
monarch, who recently gave his per
mission. In the forest a three-mile
beech avenue will also be planted. It
will be called "Queen Mary's Avenue."
DIME DIVORCEE
Mrs. Rebecca Lipscome WJiite, pho
tographed at the home of her mother
in Washington, after her return from
Russia, where she divorced her hus
band, Lieut. Thomas D. White, United
States military attache, in the .Soviet
courts at the cost of approximately 10
cents. She is a grand-niece of the late
| James G. Blaine.
Lawmaker Continues His Farming
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Representative Usher L. Burdlck, from the Bad Lands of North Dakota, Is
shown here milking a goat on the 140-acre farm he maintains In Maryland, 17
miles from Washington. There he carries on as a farmer In the Intervals of |
representing his people in the house.
Unique Hospital Ship Takes Plunge
Builders Launch
Unusual Vessel
at Camden
"The St. John's Guild," hospital ship,
left, is seen sliding down the ways Into
the wate at Camden, N. J. An elab
. orate arrangement of 25 water-tight ,
compartments makes this ship the true '
"nonsinkable" craft She is 181 feet
4 Inches in length, and has a beam of
49 feet. Accommodations are provided
for 1,500 persons, and there are special
arrangements for children. The upper
terraced deck can be converted into
either a dance floor or a theater, and
there is a 10-foot promenade all around
her deck that is glass enclosed forward
to provide a sun deck In cold weather, j
She is said to be the only vessel of her
kind In existence.
TREMENDOUS
TRIFLES
SB
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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON J
CEORGE WASHINGTON.
ASSASSIN
? i/^EORGE WASHINGTON, uo a*.
vJ sassin . . . Impossible'
exclaim. But It's true, If we can l?.
Ueve a document that Washington him
self signed.
On May 28. 1754, Ills Virginia mi
litia made a surprise attack on a party
of Frenchmen at Great Meadows In
western Pennsylvania. They killed ten,
including the leader, Coulon de Jnmon
ville. and took twenty-one prisoners
who claimed that Jumonville was an
envoy sent to warn the English oft
the Frencli lands. Since England and
France were not at war, they said the
attack was a viniauon or inreriinnonal
law. Papers found at the time proved
that they were also scouts for a French
force sent to drive the English out of
that country.
Five weeks later, that force, com
manded by Jumonville's brother, (Jou
lon de Villiers, besieged Washington's
little army at Fort Necessity. Reject
ing two demands for a surrender,
Washington held out until they put
Into writing the articles of capitulation.
It was a soggy, rainy day and the
French note was "written in a bad
hand on wet and blotted paper." In
it Villiers twice stated that the French
were not attacking the English, with
whom they were at peace, but were
only punishing "L'assassinat du Sieur
de Jumonville." This was read to
Washington by the light ot a candle,
which was blown out again and again
by the rainy gale. The man who read
It was Jacob Van Braam, a Dutchman,
whose knowledge of French was mea
ger. The word "l'assassinat" he trans
lated simply as "death or loss." So
Washington signed the articles, not
realizing that he was thus confessing
to an "assassination."
It was a trifling error ot interpreta
tion but the French, who welcomed an
excuse for war with "perfidious Al
bion," seized upon the young colonial
officer's "confession." It played no
small part in bringing on the conflict
which raged in both Europe and Amer
ipn fnr spvon rpnrs And rpciilrpil in
France's losing all of her territory ia
North America to England.
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'polka dot
DO YOU like to wear polka dot
dresses, or, if you're a man, Is a
polka dot scarf your favorite necktie?
If so, you can thank two men. One
of them was a Huugarian dancing mas
ter and the other was the first "dark
horse" In American political history.
In 1830 that dancing master?history
has not preserved his name?was on a
walking tour in Poland. In a small
village he saw a peasant girl doing a
folk dance which pleased him. He
brought the new steps back to Prague,
where it immediately won great popu
larity, and gave it the name "Polka"
for the land of its origin.
Fourteen years later over in Amer
ica, the Democratic party was trying
to nominate a candidate for President
at Baltimore. There was a deadlock.
Suddenly 44 votes were announced
for James Knox Polk of Tennessee,
who had served as speaker of the
house of representatives but otherwise
had a colorless political career.
This started a stampede which re
sulted in the first selection of a "dark
horse" in convention history. When
the news of his nomination was flashed
from Baltimore to Washington over
that new-fangled Instrument, the tele
graph, amazed citizens In the Capital
exclaimed, "Who is Polk?"
As it turned out, he was the next
President. For he defeated Henry Clay,
the Whig nominee. During the cam
paign, the Hungarian dancing roasters
new dance came Into this country. Be
cause of tUe similarity of its name to
that of the Democratic nominee, it be
came the official campaign amusement.
Articles of various kinds were named
for it and for him . . . and that's
why we wear polka dot designs today.
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A CIGARETTE
LOOK over a cigarette the next time
you smoke one. It's not so very
long, nor very thick. Probably the
fraction of a cent that it costs you will
never be missed. But such a trifle as
a smouldering cigarette costs the Unit
ed States three billion dollars in tire
losses every year! Experts estimate
that the average smoker throws away
at least a third of the cigarette, and
if the little trifle Is not put out . . ? *
In 1G29 the Puritans trie! to pass a
law against the nlarting of tobao '
This decree was the forerunner of the
whole code of prohibitive :aws. It was
a losing fight, however. So Massachu
setts set a tax on its use.
"Any persons or person who shall he
found smoking tobacco on the Lords
day, going to or coming from the meet
ings, or within two n.iles of the meet
ing house, shall pay 12 pence for every
such default." As nJmost the whole
community lived within the two miles
limit, this caught them all.
Even today there are still some
states in the Union that forbid the sale
of tobacco on Sunday. W711 It all de
pends on what you like. And If you
; like to smoke, remember the three bil
! lion dollars and put out your stubs.
C. Western Newspaper Union.