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Waiting for a New Deal in the War Waiting for something to happen on the Western Front, these German soldiers, according to Nazi cen sor’s caption, while away their time playing cards and listening to the radio. Only in background is there hint of war. There a sentry, beside an anti-aircraft gun, scans the skies with field glasses, and steel helmets are parked handily atop the sodded blockhouse. Somewhere, Over the Rainbow The popular song will come true for passengers on the new Pan American strato-clipper, who will fly “somewhere over the rain bow.” The super-charged air liner, over 30,000 feet up, will wing through clear skies above the tumultous earth-weather level, as shown in the above chart. Ready for service soon, the giant plane has a wing spread of over 107 feet, accommodations for 33 day pas csngers, 25 night ones and a ton of mail or express. - First Aid for Wounded Finn This unusual scene, passed by censors and rushed to United States, shows; Finn army doctors preparing for an emergency operation in first aidl station directly behind battle areas. The soldier was badly wounded ini the Salla fighting, where sub-zero cold has laid a glacial hand op the war. Getting Downt( Fundamentals I l% When Interior Secretary Haro’d Ickes recently was quoted as saying Republican-candidale-for President Tom Dewey y “thrown his diaper in the ring”! a diaper which had to be piny up fore and aft—he earned He scorn of diaper experts. Above Representative Clare E. Hoffman’ of Michigan, demonstrating tie classic three-cornered, one-safety pin diaper technique, ' In Path of Fatal Tornado Force of the tornado which struck Shreveport, La., and swept on into Texas is shown by the way this building was smashed. Storm killed nearly a score of people, injured 37 and left hundreds homeles. when 500 houses were damaged. Property damage in Shreveport alone was estimated at $1,000,000 Doctor Brings in Three Generations i:.... .in ... nHanHOBiHM Living proof of Dr. Hugh Watson Stephenson’s three generations of service to Oakman, Ala., are the Martins, above, father, son and grandson. Dr. Stephenson, sitting, who ushered them all into the world, plans at R5 to continue curing his neighbors’ ails after 60 years as a country doctor. End of a Runaway What goes up must, according to simple physics, come down. This run- I away balloon, being tested before delivery for London balloon barrage, :l broke its moorings at Akron, Ohio, and rode the skies to this hill in Kit- I tanning. Pa., where it came to earth. J _ _ Fashions are not the subject of con versation as Dorothy Ramspeck (right), daughter of Rep. Robert Ramspeck of Georgia gets together for a private chat with Helen Wil liams, daughter of Rep. George" > liams of Delaware, at annual liffi eon of Daughters of Congress®, in Washington. Dorothy, wn: s taking flying lessons, is us.r.g s paper airplane to illustrate some# the finer points of flykfr Where CAA Inspector Died •■William Stanley Rust, an engineering inspector for the Civil Aeronautics Authority, was killed when this experimental plane he was piloting went into a spin at Hicksville, L. I. He had taken off froni Roosevelt Field. Back for Trial Chester B. Duryea ' | Chester B. Duryea, 69, returns to I: face a murder charge in the city he :l left as a madman twenty-six years1 Ij ago, following slaying in New York| I of his father, wealthy Generali S Hiram Duryea. Police said the ji two guns used in the slaying are S missing. Duryea has been held in I Matteawan State Hospital since j the slaying. i Experiment With Cage Rules H l r'rf tp i i..±f 1112 FEET ; 10FFSET ||||||||||j||)(|p|||||)|||ip §igf ms*% ^ m&i&m_sip W Following complaint that 10-foot baskets make it too easv for sky scraper players, 12-foot goals are being tested by National Basket byv,Ynfi feet 5 Lhes anH « Seattle—Bill McDonald, »ght, 6 feet 5„ inche*> Hal Schlicting, 6 feet 4. Coach Hec Edmundson, cenler md^a ed higher goal would reduce chances xor rebound shots for giants. Dress Rehearsal for a Nazi Crack-up BBM88B —MW ll ll "| ll luir |||'~" lllll00,wTJPOTT^^gS:^8888aCT»8g«»»^^8a2afiS88888asggSag«Kv,y--y »NV v Air raid over England! German bomber shot down! Air Raid Pre cautions squads to the rescue!’ This was the highly realistic show put on in recent British civil defense demonstrations. Ih the photo. —- _ ARP workers are carrying out a “casualty.”.. Ratified Red Terms i Vaino Hakkila Vaino Hakkila, speaker of the Fin nish Diet, presided over the ses sion which ratified the treaty of peace signed in Moscow, bringing, ’ to an end Finland’s heroic struggles for existence against an enemy fifty times her size. Hakkila ranks politically behind the president and prinm minister of Finland. Cinderella s Pipe Dream Comes I rue J That wiry steed, being held in check by Millicent Miller, is made of ordinary pipe cleaners, as is the rest of the handsome equipage. It’s called “Cinderella’s Coach” by Dillard E. Long, of New York. His Country Has New Borders -mi—»m minTsTeTtothPlI^W^f^"3 the-Trld over- Hjalmar Procope, Finnish Cd AlM,!rin?rt F te-Is’18 pi£,klng out the new borders of his native d. All during the Finnish war Procope made e<*istant requests to the state, department for aid for the stricken country-_ A Artist to Put War on Canvas First woman artist (,att! British War Office P ;roCt i scenes at the west g Sfc Gwen Le Gallienne. is the daughter of P0jLister» Le Gallienne and a ha-i - ^ of Eva Le Gallienne, American actres*
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