Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1?Shipyard strikers picketing the plant of the New York Shipbuilding corporation In Camden, N. J. 2?Manuel
Quezon, slated to be the first president of the Independent Philippine commonwealth, photographed as he sailed from
San Francisco for the islands. 3?Russia's great propaganda plane, the "Maxim Gorky," which fell after collision with
a small plane, 49 lives being lost.
Soviets
Undismayed
by Crash
Undaunted by the fate of the huge
propaganda plane, Maxim Gorky,
which recently crashed, killing 49 per
sons. the Soviet government has an
nounced that three more of these giant
planes will be built.
The Maxim Gorky was the largest
plane in the world. While flying near
Moscow it collided with a small escort
plane in which the pilot was stunting
In defiance of orders. Both craft
crashed to the ground.
The big ship had no particular value
except as a means of spreading propa
ganda. However, Soviet authorities
Immediately announced that a trio of
new ships to be named Vladimir Lenin,
Joseph Stalin and Maxim Gorky would r
be placed In construction at once 1
Champion High School Debaters
Herbert Shapiro and Carl Lundqulst of Sioux Falls, S. D.t were the win
lers In the national high school debating tourney recently conducted In Cleve
and, Ohio.
Pilots of International Sky Train
Those are the men who piloted the first International sky train, consisting
of a tow plane and two gliders, from Miami to Havana and hack with com
plete success. Left to right they are Jack O'Meara of New York and E. Paul
Du Pont, Jr? of Wilmington, Del., glider pilots, and Edward Klein, pilot of the
tow plane.
Serves as
President's
Contact Man
Charles West Is President Roose
velt's contact man in his dealings with
congress and travels frequently be
tween the White House and the Capi
tol.
With the difficulties President Roose
velt is experiencing with this session of
congress. West's Job mnst be a busy
one, and cne which observers say will
not be lightened as time goes on.
Feline Mrs. Dionne Didn't Like the "Hospital"
"Mrs. Tallspln," mascot of the Newark airport, was mighty proad of her newly bora qnlntnpleta, bat like Mrs.
Dlonne of Canada, she didn't seem to care for the neat little hospital proTlded for them. In the photograph she la seen
trying to more the little ones to her own hideaway. The kittens are named U.A.L. E.A.L., A.A.L. T.W.A.?after prom
inent airlines?and A.T.D. In honor of Air Transport day. ...
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Hunger Marchers Descend on Ohio Capitol
Relief Charges
Blame Politics
for Plight
Carrying American flags, several
hundred relief persons are pictured
on the outskirts of Columhus, Ohio, J
prior to their march on the state
capitoi. The hunger marchers claim
that they had no money or food for a
week, and all blame politics for their
plight.
Object of the "hunger march" was I
an audience with C C Stillman. Ohio 1
federal relief director, who was recent
ly appointed to the post by Federal Be
lief Administrator Harry Hopkins after
charges of alleged graft were made
against the Ohio relief administration.
The political trouble is said to have ;
originated when Governor Davey re
moved several relief officials in the
Cleveland area in order to appoint bis
supporters.
Will Assist
Work Relief
Program
H. H. Bennett, who ts director of soil
erosion prevention, has been named by
the President to assist in the work re
lief program.
Italy's New Army Tanks Are Hardy
One of the new model tanks In use by the Italian army is here shown
about to take a tumble off the abutment of a bridge during a race near Rome,
it was not damaged by the fall.
Showing the Country to City Children
To create a rural atmosphere Tor the benefit of city children, the New fork park department has built the "travel
ing barnyard" shown above. It is mounted on a truck and visits the various parks and play grounds, attracting crowds
of little ones who never before have heard a chicken cluck or felt the soft nose of a calf.
King Seeks
Statehood
for Hawaii
Samuel Wilder King, delegate In the
United States congress from Hawaii,
has Introduced a bill that would add
another star to the American flag by
making Hawaii the forty-ninth state in
the Union.
King contends that as an Integral
part of the United States, the Islands
cannot be permanently barred from
statehood. Io radio talks and public
speeches Mr. King, a former lieutenant
commander In the United States nary,
asserts Hawaii with its 380,000 people
and commercial importance, has dem
onstrated its qualification to enter the
Union. The movement is said to be
gaining many supporters.
Carres Own Tombstone
Columbus, Ohio. ? Frank Sauter,
seventy-six-year-old stonecutter, carved
his own tombstone, cut his throat and
shot himself through the head fatally
In the little stone yard he bad oper
ated for 40 years.
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Identical
These children, Cmberto and Ru
dolph Rios of Santa Catalina island, I
are twins, however little they may look
like It Umberto Is n pure albino and
Rudolph resembles his Mexican par
ents; wherefore they arouse the Inter- 1
est of scientists. The only known al
bino In their family tree was their I
grandmother's great-grandmother.
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TRIFLES
86
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
A COSTLY WEEK-END
LORD GEORGE GERMAIN, British
secretary of state for the Ameri
can colonies during the War of the
Revolution, was ready to leave Lon
don for a pleasant week-end at Stone
land in Sussex. The duties ol his office
had tired bim and he looked forward to
the quiet of the English countryside.
On his way from his chambers be
stopped at his office to sign some offi
cial papers. One of them, directed to
Lord William Howe, British comman
der in New York city, ordered him to
co-operate with Gen. John Burgoyne
by moving north up the Hudson to
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start south from Canada Between
them they would smash the rebel army.
But the letter to Howe hadn't been
"fair copied" and wasn't ready for the
signature of the secretary of state.
"So!" exclaimed my Lord Germain.
"My poor horses must wait and I must
lose time because of this!' Then a
clerk named D'Oyly said that he would
make the "fair copy and would write
from himself to Howe, enclosing the
instructions to General Burgoyne which
would tell him all that be would need
with this and made ready to "keep his
time, for he could never bear delay or
disappointment."
So the "poor horses" of Lord Ger
main weren't kept standing in the
street and he was able to hasten to his
country estate for a pleasant week-end.
But the five or ten uunutes that he did
not want to wait were costly ones for
England.
D'Oyly forgot to write the letter to
Howe and when bis Lordship returned
to his office from his week end in Sus
sex, he also forgot to ask about the
matter. Howe stayed In New York in
stead of marching north along the Hud
son. The result was that the unlucky
"Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne blun
dered south through the wilderness to
the inglorious end of bis expedition at
Saratoga. And Saratoga was the turn
ing point of the Bevolution.
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ICE-JAM
OF COURSE, an ice-jam Isn't such
a trifle, but the one which choked
the entrance to Chesapeake bay in the
winter of 1784 was insignificant?if yon
compare its size to the broad expanse
of the blue Atlantic. However, it was
big enough and thick enough so that
a ship from London was held up for
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Baltimore.
One of her passengers was a young
German named Jacob Astor who was
going to make his fortune, beginning by
the sale of seven flutes he was bringing
with him. During the long days the
ship was held In the Ice-jam, young
Jacob Astor had many long talks with
another young fellow, also a German.
He was returning to America to re
sume his fur-trading operations in
which he foresaw possibilities for great
wealth because the Indians, he said,
were only too glad to exchange valu
able furs for the most inexpensive toys
and other baubles. Astor listened but
was not particularly impressed.
At last the ship reached Baltimore
and young Astor nastened on to the
metropolis of New York city. But his
venture in flutes was a failure. Then
he remembered the enthusiasm of his
fellow-German over the fur trade. He
guessed he'd try it
He did. And within a tew years it
had made him a fortune of more than
$2,000,000. Today the name of Astor
is a symbol for great wealth?all be
cause an ice-jam held up the ship
which was bringing a young German
immigrant to the shores of the New
world.
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GLITTER OF GOLD
'T^HIS is a story with some highly
important "ifs" in it '
If James Wilson Marshall had chosen
to build a sawmill on Capt John Sut
ter's lands instead of going to "the
beautiful vale" of Coloma, forty ndles
away to do It . . .
If a mid-January flood hadn't nearly
swept away the mill-frame and brush
dam, making it necessary to wideb aDd
deepen the dry channel he had selected
for his tali-race. . . .
Well, the course of American history
might have been entirely different!
But the fact Is that Marshall did lo
cate the sawmill on a little stream in
the tiny California valley of Cbloma and
there was a downpour of rain in the first
month of the year 1848. At dawn on
Monday, January 24, Marshall went out
to see if the channel was satisfactory.
Glancing idly at some of the earth,
excavated from the channel and now
washed down by the recent downpour*
he noticed some gleaming particles.
He looked at them more closely, then
sent back to camp for a tin plate. Ba
"panned" out some of the dirt in the
plate and soon had about a balf-ouncs
of the yellow flakes.
Eventually those yellow flakes re
duced John Sutter, "king" of New He!*
vetia, and James Marshall to poverty
But before doing that, they set a whole
nation mad with an ancient lust, played
an Important part In the slavery dlt
pute that led to the Civil war and ga*?
to the world the "gold standard" oi
money,
A Wasters Nowapapor Union.