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Oratory, Modern Jazz Bombard China's Air Lanes - ? With the radio industry on the verge of a boom in China, young talent is being trained to occupy an im portant position in the Chinese entertainment world. Left: A Chinese student orator broadcasts from one of the small stations in Shanghai. His speech is non-political due to censorship. Center: Darling of listen ers is this oriental imitation of Shirley Temple. She's singing "My Own" in Chinese. Right: Two most popular torch singers are Yo Li, in the flowered dress, and Mei Ping. Both come from well-to-do middle class families. Jass?something startlingly new in China?has swept the county by storm. The beginning of the Sino-Japanese war ended the first radio boom in that country. 'Psychiana' Founder Meets Presidential Aspirant ?' ? 1 Votes?at least a million of them?can be thrown to the presidential candidate through his "Psychiana," according to Dr. Frank B. Robinson of Moscow, Idaho, founder of the religions organization which numbers hundred* of thousands of followers. Robinson, right, met presidential aspirant Thomas E. Dewey in Boise, while the latter was on a campaign tour. Pictured at center is Irrtng W. Hart, Boise newsman. jjM ; ; g^Swedish Volunteers Aid Finland's Cause Well-protected Swedish volunteers man u anti-aircraft can in north - arm Finland, somewhere near the Petsamo area, where Ifhtin* was re eeatly resumed. A recent bllzsard that swept down from the Arctic brenfht a tempera tare of more than 34 decrees below aero to north I Ready for Work Beanie McCoy, the H5.M seeood baseman, doits of his spikes after arriving at Anaheim, Calif., with Connie Mack and his Philadelphia Athletics. McCoy has a contract which tnarantees him flf.Mt a year for two years. The Athletics are traininc at La Pahna park. Off to Bomb the Reich?With Leaflets V f a'-- * # BrttUh reyal air force members load ? flant bombtaf plane with Slealeta Mere the (tart of a ?i?ht ever Germany. On thia ' wrnt ** f?r Vlel^ -????. br"*dc,lt^yi ?' *" ? * - New Dictator i >i ?iii ? i 'JHMMMMMMmwnr'** -m Virtual dictator of Parafaay U Pros Ideal Gob. Jose Fell* Estif ar riba, who decreed that he was aa ~-i-| .a political power for each It's Air Travel for Australia's 'Flying Caseys' \ t> iimnwn?iwnnnnm iwm ?i?iii iiiiiiihr ?um iwn iniiiiiniimiimsime??i?i mi i m hi i ?-> ? First Australian to hold a full diplomatic status in the capital of a foreign country is Ma], Richard Gardiner Casey, inset, whose appointment to the post of minister to the United States was announced recently. Mrs. Caoey is pictured spinning the propeller of the Casey family plane in Sydney, Australia. She, like her husband, is a licensed pilot. The children are Jane, 11, and Don, 8. With them is a young friend. Reconnaissance Flights Probe Enemy Territory Aerial reconnaissance flights over enemy territory are one of the most common of today's war maneuvers. Pictured here is the headquarters of a British royal air force unit in France. Left: Airmen who made the reconnaissance flight return with scores of aerial photographs of German positions, ammunition dumps and other strategic points. Right: At headquarters the developed pictures are placed in appropriate positions on a map of the Beich, and are examined under microscopes to find hidden details such as plane hangars, gun positions, etc. Rescue! Feline Survivors Reach Safety Rescued from electrocution were ? mother cat nod two of foor kittens who lest themselves in the control room of the perisphere at the 1M* Worlds fair la New York city. After a search of several days the feline family was rescued from am oaf the high tension wires. Two kittens were dead. The mother eat promptly was named "Pnrrisphere." G. O. P. Leaders Discuss Convention Plans Making big mIWm far tka Bcpablieaa partya MM npinllea to PkbMpkia are Ma D. M. IlamHtoa. enter, ekaimaa af Ik* ?l>aH eaa mtl?al committee; HaraM W. Kim of Vena Ml, toft, secretary, fletehcr^BKtote UUa^gapcral ewnl^Be Ma Ml to 9 . V- _ |j ?? -v Saposs Testifies Admitting one-time membership la the Socialist party, David J. Bap ess, eUef economist far the National Labor Relations board, testifies in Washington, D. C., before the house committee investigating the labor relations board. War-Time Gibe From Germany comes this ear tooa fibe at EiftiHl. Chamberlain > aays "God la oar witness that we did net want this war." Winstea Church ill glumly replies, as ha views sink i fag ships: "It's sure we dU ast want-It Oka this." At the Barber Shop By LILA MONTROSE (McClare Syndicate?WNU Service.) "DON, dear," said Don's sisW as Don appeared home from the office early one Saturday after noon, "I'm so glad you came home. I've been delayed so, and Jerry's hair is disgracefully long. Grandpa Baxter is coming tomorrow?it would never do. Be a dear and' take Jerry down to the barber's and have his hair cut. And don't let them shave it up the back. You have to be very firm or they will. "Oh, aU right," said Don. "I'd planned to play golf?but an right.' There was nothing very amiable in Don's voice, nor did he look more amiable when his married sister called him "a sweet angel of a brother." The barber shop at Ventrey's chil dren's store was crowded as usual on Saturday afternoon, ' and Don found that he would have to take a number at the desk.and remain in the waiting room adjoining the bar ber shop. Presently a portly, gray-haired woman bustled into the room, a slen der young girl of eighteen or so in her wake. , "I simply can't wait," she said, looking appealing around the room for sympathy. "My theater tickets. I've ordered them for tonight, and they'll only hold them at the box office until four. I can't wait?and yet"?here she looked with a sigh at her young charge?"Maybelle needs a bob frightfully." Maybelle apparently was protesting that she could remain alone perfectly well. "I'm not a child, auntie," Don over heard. Thd aunt's eyes had been wander ing about the waiting room. She caught sight of Don Baxter, eyed him briefly through her lorgnette and then sailed over to him. "I'm going to ask a favor of you," she began. "I simply can't wait with my niece, and you look as if you could be trusted. After you have your little boy's hair cut, will you see that they do Maybelle prop erly? Don't let them use those aw ful clippers at the back of her neck." She sailed out toward the elevator. Maybelle took a seat rather shyly beside her newly appointed guard ian. "Aunt Bernice is very nearsight ed," she said. "She seemed to think you were as old as she is." Then there was a pause. "Isn't your little boy cunning?" They waited fifteen minutes for Jerry's turn, and then Maybelle followed him into the barber shop and sat beside Don while he gave the barber directions concerning Jerry's haircut. Then they returned to the waiting room and waited fifteen minutes more for Maybelle's turn and then Jerry and Don went into the shop with her to wait until she was prop erly bobbed and singed and waved I according to instructions. "Doesn't your wife wear bobbed hair, Mr. " "Baxter?Don Baxter," supplied Don. And then: "My wife? Why, I haven't any wife." "But Jerry's mother?is she dead?" Don laughed. "His mother is my sister. Why, I'm just a youngster; only been out of college a year." They were back in the waiting room and had taken their seats to await the return of the nearsighted aunt, Mrs. Talbot. In ten minutes came ? telephone message, by means of paging, saying that Mrs. Talbot had had to go to her dress maker's. She had forgotten that she had an appointment, and would the gentleman be so good as to take a taxi and bring her niece down to the Washington hotel, where the aunt would meet her niece?for tea. Then Don remembered that he had arranged with his sister to meet her at the Biltmore at tea time. She was to be downtown and would take Jerry off her brother's hands then. So Don managed to telephone to his sister asking her to change the rendezvous from the Biltmore to the Washington. Don and Maybelle felt like old friends when they entered the palm room at the Washington where they were to meet their respective rela tives. To their surprise they found Mrs. Talbot and Don's sister already seated. "Don, it's perfectly thrilling. Here's mother's old friend, Mrs. Tal bot. You've heard her speak of Helen Talbot? I didn't even know she was in town, and here I happen to run into her while I'm waiting for you." Introductions that followed were rather confusing, and it was not un til tea was nearly over that the near sighted Mrs. Talbot became quite clear in her mind that Don Baxter was actually the son of her old friend. Six weeks later, after their first meeting at the barber shop, May belle and Don announced their en gagement. Mrs. Talbot beamed with self-satisfaction. "I was at tracted to Den from the first. I rather flatter myself that if it hadn't been for me this affair would never have come off." And Don's sister smiled to herself apd her friends when she spoke of the match. "Maybelle is just the sort of girl I always wanted Don to marry. I am so piesasd to that it was I who really brought I them together."
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