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PAGE TWO Atlanta Housing Project to Replace Slums ui-■ 4 .\ , J| POPPY GIRL OF 1935 Ginger Roger, screen star, was selected the Buddy Poppy Girl for 1935, and is ardently boosting the campaign to sell six million pop ples for the benefit of the welfare and relief work carried on by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. BL j|r ; Collier Smokes Peace Pipe John Collier, left, head of the bureau of Indian affairs, smokes his pipe peacefully while being pho tographed with Chief Paul Red Eagle and hia squaw at a senate France's Latest Bid for Oceanic Trade •--•• 'l| llj An air view of the Normandle, almost completed, as she Is towed from her berth at St. Nazaire, Franci Invested in this super-hulk is France's challenge to other powers in the race for ocean trade. $2,700,000 to Be Spent on Project Will Provide Low Rentals for Poor Unsightly slums In Atlanta are being torn down to make room for structures like this, as the na tional slum clearance and low rent housing program of the Public Works administration progresses. This photograph shows how a portion of the Techwood housing project 'ln Atlanta will look when complete. The PWA has allotted $2,700,000 foi this project that pro vides housing at rentals of about the same level as the slum dwell ings they will replace, thus afford ing the poor better housing condi tions at no increase In living cost. Playgrounds, swimming pools and other recreational facilities will be provided as shown in the picture. All apartments will be well lighted and equipped with modern conveniences. hearing on Indian affairs. Collier's idea might be offered to the Eu ropean diplomats whose recent 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 af fairs of the Indian wards of the government is» no small task. ' THE ROCKY MOUNT HERALD, ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA MAROON TWIRLER - : WKMSM «|Pf Bill Haarlow, who' has starred «n basketball, golf and fencing at the University of Chicago, has turned his attention 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 watching him. TO WED A CLERK wtKKSmS&iP l Margaret Christine Roosevelt, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Emlen Roosevelt of New York, and a relative of the President, is en gaged to marry Alessandro Palla vincini who clerks in his father's store in Rome, Italy. Dog Adopts Orphan Kitten Gillette, Wis.—Peggy, a dog owned by Joseph Seppel here, adopted Felix, a six-months-old kitten, and suckled it daily after her litter of puppies died. England Plans Jubilee Celebration 111 IN THE NEWS— l—Latest por traits of King George and Queen Mary, specially made for the twen ty-fifth anniversary of their ascen sion to the British throne on May C, 2 —Palazzo Borromeo on Isolo Bella at Stresa, Italy, where the premier and foreign ministers of Great Britain, France and Italy met to plan for European peace. 3 Scene In western Kentucky when the Green river flooded its banks. Honor 25th Anniversary of Coronation All Britain Is looking forward to the silver jubilee celebration to be held this year on May 6, com memorating the twenty-fifth anni versary of King George's acces sion to the crown. One of the most unusual projects to commemorate the event Is the acquisition of a new forest which Is to be known as "The King's For est." Some 6,000 acres will be named after the monarch, who re cently gave hla permission. In the forest a three-mile beech avenue will also be planted. It will be called "Queen Mary's Avenue." DIME DIVORCEE Mrs. Rebecca Llpscome White, photographed at the home of her mother In Washington, after her return from Russia, where she di vorced her husband, Lieut Thomas D. White, United States military attache, In the Soviet courts at the cost of Unique Hospital Ship Takes Plunge VflHB SSm?Kr HHShP ,• * • t *"+' ' ' •" ~/^f *v/ T - ..w.> _>«*aißabNK^-»^ee^.~ss«iß2sesia**ii^^aEsr>i>a.*.v v Planning a Flight Around the World M 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. I They will use aa Uppercu-Burnelll plane built for them at Keyport, N. J., which will require only three refueling operations. These will be in Moscow, China and Siberia. Lawmaker Continues His Farming - w" Rei .esentatlve 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. Builders Launch Unusual Vessel at Camden "The St. John's Guild," hospital ship, left, Is seen sliding down the ways into the water at Camden, N. J. An elaborate arrangement of 25 water-tight compartments makes this craft the true "nonsink able" type. She Is 181 feet, 4 inches in length, and has a beam of 49 feet. Accommodations are pro vided for 1,500 persons, and there are special arrangements for chil dren. 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. FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1935 Honor "The Pied Piper" Hauieln, Germany, Is certain some Important event Is responsible for its legend of "The Pled Piper," who supposedly freed the town of rats and, In revenge for not being paid, kidnaped 130 of Its children on June 20, 1284. Not only are there numer ous records from that year and sev eral monuments and a building to commemorate the episode, writes T. W. Macdonald, Washington, in Col lier's Weekly, but the town has held annual memorial celebrations for the past 650 years and still main tains mechanical figures on the city hail which enact the story every $Wr. Ohio Grew Own Tobacco Nearly every pioneer farmer In Ohio raised tobacco on his farm, not for market but for his own pipe. One exception to this was Ashta bula county, where surplus tobacco was made Into cigars by the women In their homes, and exchanged at the store for groceries. Later on when Buckeye tobacco was pro duced for market, It was packed Into hogsheads and hauled over the national road to eastern points, and some of It found Its way to Europe. Not Second Oldest Capital Lima has no clear claim to the title of second oldest capital in the western hemisphere, says a, writer in the Detroit News. It's the rem nant of the ancient Spanish city of Panama which was completely razed by Sir Henry MorgaA. The modern Panama city was built on a more ad vantageous site several miles far ther north. The Dormoute A dormouse Is a small Old world rodent somewhat resembling a small squirrel, although the tail is not par ticularly bushy. It lives In trees and feeds on nuts and acorns. The name, which means "sleeping mouse," alludes to the fact that the dormouse becomes torpid In cold weather In Its natural habitat. First Microbe Hunter Antony Van Leeuwenhoek, who lived from 1(132 to 1723, discovered the minute capillary circulation of the blood In various animals, ac cording to Adolph Bellln, In Hyglea, the health magazine. Leeuwenhoek, called the first microbe hunter, opened new fields In the study of Auman diseases. "One Man'* Meat," Etc. "One man's meat Is another man's poison" Is p.n adaptation of a line from "Lucretius," which is literally translated, "What Is food for one may be fierce poison to others." Beaumont and Fletcher used It In "Love's Cure," as follows: "What's one man's poison, signor, is another's meat or drink." Phone 265 PEERLESS CLEANERS Dry Cleaners, Dyers, Tailors, Hatters 127 Rose Street Rocky Mount, YOUR EYES —— Are your bread winners, don't neglect them, have them exam ined occasionally. DR. L G. SHAFFER OPTOMETRIST Offic* In IPSTEIN BUILDING Phone 662 for an ______ appointment BATTLE & BARNES General Machinery and Automobile Repairs. Electric and Acetylene Welding. Lawn Mower Repairs. Portable Equipment for Outside Work. PHONE 270 235-239 S. Washington St. * FOR MEAL Ground on old fashiond water mill rocks from home grown corn CALL THE ROCKY MOUNT MILLING COMPANY J H. TAYLOR. Millet 1223 Branch Street. Phone 834 DRY CLEANING If It's Dry Cleaning Call CASEY'S CLOTHES MADE TO MEASURE i Phone 685 906 Falls Road
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