Cloisters to Be Built With Rockefeller Gift
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Going Exploring on Old Rum Ship
Here are John Hays Hammond, Jr., and the Dinmantina, converted rum
runner which he has refitted and on which lie proposes to sail around the world.
Hammond will try to discover the locality and cause of certain dead spots at
sea where radio waves are Inactive, and also will promote the development
of faster and more efficient sailing craft to compete with power vessels.
Building
Will House
Art Objects
A gift of $2,500,000 by John D. '
Rockefeller. Jr., to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art has made possible the ]
building of the structure pictured here.
"The Cloisters" and surrounding
grounds will occupy four acres in Fort
Tryon park overlooking the Hudson.
The site was reserved for the building
anil gardens when Mr. Rockefeller
presented the park to New York city
in 1930. It is hoped the new buildings
will be ready for public Inspection in
1938.
The project will supplant the pres
ent Cloisters built by George Grey
Barnard, noted sculptor, to house the
statuary and art objects he has ac
quired. He sold his art collection to
the Metropolitan museum in 1925, and
lent Its trustees the property and
building that the collection might not
be moved. With the construction of
the Rockefeller building, the original
building will revert to Mr. Barnard.
The building pictured above will be
one of the most beautiful in America,
and will rank favorably with notable
European museums.
Huey Stages
Style Show
Here is Senator Huey P. Long: of
Louisiana as he appeared in Washing
ton in all the glory of his new spring
garb. The Kingtish said: "I had to
come back to show these people how
to dress.'* His costume consisted of
a straw hat with gay band, a tan trop
ical auit, lavender shirt with checks,
red and green tie and tan and white
sports shoes.
Good Military Students Get Medals
Secretary of War Dern presented Pershing gold medals to eighteen young
men from the C. M. T. (\ and It. O. T. C. of the nine corps areas for excellence
of attainment in military education. In the photograph Mr. Dern is seen giving
his medal to Alexander E. I.awson of Mt. Olive, 111.
Stalin
Addresses
Session
When I. V. Stalin, Soviet dictator,
speaks, Russians listen. He is shown
in a characteristic pose as he nd-^^
dressed the session of the commission^^^
for studying the project of the model
constitution for agricultural artels dur
ing the second all-union congress of
collective farm shock-workers.
Stalin's original program, which
called for complete control of all agri
cultural activities on a communistic
basis, is reported to have undergone
drastic revision. It was first intended
to do away entirely with individual
units. Stalin recently is said to have
moditled this order.
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Father Neptune Opens est Coast Bathing Season
When the weather seemed propitious and the water warm enough at Santa Crua, Calif, Father Neptune came
ashore to open the bathing season for that region. Including San Francisco, and was greeted by a bevy of lovely swim
mlng girls.
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Scenes and Persons in the Current News
IN THE NEWS: 1?Mrs. Fletcher^
M. Johnsoil of Irvlngton-on-Hudson,
NT. Y., who was selected as the "Typi
cal Mother of 1935" for the nation-wide
celebration of Golden Rule Mother's
clay. May 12, with one of her grand
children. 2?Strikers picketing the
plant of the Chevrolet Motor company
in Toledo which was closed because
of the strike. 3?Some of the large
party of Minnesota farmers who have
left to make new homes in Alaska un
der the auspices of the FERA, board
ing a train at St. Paul for San Fran
cisco.
BOSS OF THE CREW
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Pretty Caroline Nelll of Manchester,
Conn., who is this year's captain of
Wellesley college varsity crew.
1,400 Leave
for Alaska
Hoping to And new opportunities,
two groups of American farm people
ate leaving for Alaska as a part of a
FERA colonization project About 200
families will make the journey, to
gether with approximately 400 CCC
workers who have volunteered for this
project.
One group left May 1, and another
is scheduled to start about May 15
on the journey. These modern pioneers
will make the Journey from San Fran
cisco by government transport. In
Alaska they will build new homes, and
attempt to start life over again.
BIRDS' FRIEND IS 70
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Jack Miner, whose huge bird sanc
tuary near Kingston, Ont., is Interna
tionally known, has just celebrated his
seventieth birthday. He is here seen
placing a splint on the injured leg of
one of the thousands of wild geese that
stop at his sanctuary each year.
Here's an Odd Way to Make a Living
When yachtsmen at Santa Monica, Calif., want their anchors laid at the
bottom of the harbor tlie.v enttage the services of Dave Foster and Frank Quinn,
young college students, who have thought up this odd way to pay their expenses
In school. Their catamaran anchor puller is 18 feet long and is propelled by an
outboard motor. It has a lifting capacity of one-half ton.
FARM ECONOMIST
Howard R. Tolley, who has been ap
pointed chief economist of the De
partment of Agriculture, in his most
' recent photograph.
Slated for
High Post
This is Gen. Joachim von Ribbentrop
who has been promoted by Chancellor
Hitler of Germany to a high command
in the Nazi Guard troops and, accord
log to rumor, will be'jlveq tie rank
of ambajsador-aHarge. Later, he may
be made secretary of state.
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Something New for the Bay State
William E. Chamberlain, left, secretary of the Eastern Horse club, receiv
ing from Charles F. Connors, chairman of the state racing commission, the
first horse race license ever issued by the state of Massachusetts. It was to
be used at the Raceland track at Framlngham.
Tony
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By SCOTT W. RYALL
?. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
TONY BECCHIO came home in
June, home to a dim flat Id a Grimm
street tenement where the smells of
cooking, stained walls and people were
more pungent than Its neighbors.
Tony, like every other boy. had much
of good and much of bad in him. At
eighteen, he was caught in a robbery
and sent to the reform school. Three
years later he came out to find his
family moved from the river-side
shanty to the big, Ninth ward tenement
on Grimm street.
The family prepared a welcome home
dinner for him. They did not refer to
where he had been. There were his
mother and father, the twins and little
Gluletta. They tried so hard not to
refer to the school that Tony knew it
set on them as a sort of shame.
For a time after the return, he was
an outcast. Everyone was kind to him.
Even Officer Casey who had Instruc
tions to watch him, talked cheerfully
enough whenever they met
He was an outcast by reason of his
own thoughts, and although the tene
ment was a far cry from the other
place, he felt a depressing Influence
from Its stains, Its smells, its throng
of inhabitants.
"He'll come out of it," said Pete, his
father, one night when the mother was
worried and Tony was np alone on the
roof, brooding. "Give him time."
"All right for you to say, Pete," she
replied, "but he think-a things. Not-a
nice things, Pete."
Maria Becchlo managed their adopt
ed language less perfectly than her
husband or Tony. But she did realize
more keenly than Pete that Tony was
"thinking things; not nice things."
Tony was sitting against a chimney
on the roof, his mouth pulled down bit
terly and he dwelled on the Inequali
ties of life for he had learned some
thing at the reform school besides a
trade.
They taught him shoemaking and
there was no job among the shoemak
ers. Even if there had been, they
would find his record. He was a bit
ter, disillusioned outcast who could do
nothing useful and at that moment the
vague class of humanity known as
"Rich people" were dining In hotels,
each one spending more money in one
night than he needed for a month.
His breath caught in a sob. It wasn't
sorrow or self-pity. It was anger; an
ger at his situation, at his failure to
get a job but more than all else, ho
was angry at the weakness which
seemed keeping him from taking what
was his right.
He rose suddenly, decisively; climbed
over the roof parapet onto the fire
escape and descended to the alley. It
was dark down there. A damp wind
swept against his face.
One of the boys at the prison school
?a thick-headed, lewd young thief?
told him how he had robbed a man by
holding his hand in his coat. The man
thought he had a gun and trembled so
his teeth, which were false, rattled.
It was funny. And he had over forty
dollars on him.
Forty dollars! The big fellow had
got forty dollars with nothing more
than a harmless threat. Forty dollars!
And some men had as many hundreds,
even thousands.
The young man was fanning the
flame of determination. His hand
pressed tightly in his coat pocket. He
walked aimlessly until he found him
self in the warehouse district, then pur
pose took form and he saw his victim.
The man turned slowly, then came
toward him, the metal point of the
cane tapping more briskly as he neared.
Tony's lip quivered. He waited for
him to pass then stepped softly after.
He was trembling all over.
Suddenly the man whirled. Tony
gasped. He tried to snarl, "Put up
your hands!" but no sound would come.
The man's eyes seemed fastened on
him like gimlets.
"Who is there?" he asked sharply.
Again Tony tried his threat and
failed. In that instant the man turned
his face to the blank building wall.
"Who Is there?" he repeated and the
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tense listening of a blind man.
His breath caught in a gasp of ter
ror.
"Gotta match, mister?" he asked
hoarsely.
The man faced him again. Then he
laughed softly, musically.
"Certainly. And could you tell me
where I am? I've been walking far
ther than I thought and my sight is?
bad."
The hesitation before the last word
was so habitual, Tony knew It only
represented an old pain. The boy's
eyes protruded as he stared at those
sightless ones. His hand mechanically
reached for the offered match and was
caught in a hard grip.
He writhed quickly, futllely. The
man's free hand traveled searchlngly
over his face, feeling the lines of bit
terness, the pinched cheeks and tense
Jaw. Then came that soft laugh and
he released him.
Tony felt a nauseating weakness.
How could the man laugh like that
In the dark?
"Boy," he said kindly and the would
be assailant knew that sightless as be
was, nothing had been hidden from
blm, "you must yet learn to suffet.
Lead me to a restaurant and well have
dinner together."
Again he laughed softly as If secret
ly amused, and Tony, feeling a light
ness of mind, unknown since his ar
rest three years ago, leaned weakly on
tbs blind man's proffered arm. | \