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A SUBURBANITES DREAM COMES TRUE
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With this contraption, Alvin Lodge, unemployed mechanical engineer o^MI "
without moving from his chair in the shade. Lodge built the remote-control machine because he is unable
to walk about freely on account of lameness. He added two electric motors, an old P a ‘nt can sundry
gears and a wooden mixing bowl from the kitchen to a regulation lawn mower and it worked peifectly
The mower can travel 100 feet from the stationary control box. (Centi al l ress)
2 Die in Pittsburgh Crash
Richard Coulter, 32, flight director of the Pittsburgh School of Aero*
nautics, and Elmer Kerti, 23, of Etna, Pa., were killed when their plane,
pictured above, crashed near Bettis Field, Pittsburgh. Kerti was getting
instruction when the accident occurred. (Central Press)
Says Mill Police Shot Her
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Mrs. Mary Reed, of Canton, Ohio, a housewife, is shown as she testified
.before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee at Washington during the
investigation of the “Little Steel” strike. She said that she was walking
• a half mile from the Berger Manufacturing Company plant when com
'pany guards fired at her from a passing car, wounding her legs and
i feet with buckshot. (Central Press)
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HIGHWAY HAZARDS DEPICTED IN MODEL VILLAGE
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Teachers in the State College summer session constructed this model village to demonstrate to other teachers in
North Carolina one method of arousing the interest of younger children in the simple rudiments of safety or
highways and streets. The village is part of a teaching program containing scores of suggestions for safety in
struction, especially in kindergartens and the lower grades.
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH TUESDAY - , JULY 26, 1938
Troopers on Hand to Stop Prison Escapes
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National guardsman pitch tent near prison walls
In an effort to quell an epidemic of escapes from
the Arizona state prison at Florence, national
guardsmen were called out to police the prison. In
the photo, guardsmen pitch their tent near the
A. Crow Registers a Protest
Poe’s raven might have been content to sit over a door and caw “never
more,” but Jim, pet of Jack Wilson, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has more definite
ideas about registering a protest. Jack didn’t handle Jim to please the
latter, so Jim takes a nip of Jack’s finger. You can see Jack protesting, too.
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Philip Murray (left), chairman of the Steel Workers’ Organizing Com
mittee is* pictured at Washington with L. Metcalfe Walling adminis
trator’ of the Walsh-Healy Public Contracts Act, Just before steel
management and labor leaders got together with government men in an
attempt to fix a wage scale by -JJ*. «
Wife Preservers
For spots on trays, tables and any sort
of polished wood, Mrs G. Smith makes a
paste of salt and salad oil. This die ap
plies on the damaged-spots and leaves it
on for an hour. If the stain isn t toobad
it will come off, she says, after rubbing
with a soft cloth
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cleaning brushes by attaching screw eyes
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prison walls. Orders of “shoot to kill” were given
the troopers. Prison warden’s explanation of the
escapes was that the prison is overcrowded and the
number of guards is small.
Beetle Plague
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Gardeners throughout the United
States anxiously await the result
of experiments being conducted in
New York on various means of
killing off the Japanese beetle, a
pest which this year has caused
widespread destruction. Here; is
one of the 40 traps set up at
Bronx botanical gardens in New
York to catch the beetle. About
20,000 of the pests are caught
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Enrico Caruso, Jr.
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Not on the Metropolitan Opera
stage or in concert halls, Enrico Cairn- I
so, Jr., son of the late Enrico Cariiso,:
most" famous opera singer of the s.ge,
sings in a New York night spot. The
son is a success in his own sphere.
Gets Cross of HonoT~
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Howard Hughes (left) is shown in New York, receiving the Cross, of
Honor of the United States Flag Association from Col. James A. Moss,
president-general of that body. The award was made in recognition of
Hughes’s record-breaking flight around the world.
(Central Press)
Wife Hears Ex-TVA Chief
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Mrs. Arthur E. Morgan, wife of the deposed head of the Tennessee Valley
Authority, is pictured with him in the Federal courtroom at Knoxville,
Tenn., where her husband completed four days of testimony before the
joint Congressional committee investigating the TV A.
(Central Press)
Landing Device Wins Honors
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The War Department has announced that Capt. George V. Holloman
:<left) and Capt. Carl J. Crane (right) have been named to receive the
Mackay trophy for their development of an automatic landing system to
airplanes. The device, perfected with the aid of Raymond IC. Stout,
civilian engineer, was successfully used in August, 1937, when it landed
a plane safely without the aid of human hands.
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Howard Hughes, millionaire sportsman and aviator who broke the r‘" ( '? ld
r n w a J OUn , d the world . is pictured above at Washington with Majo
« ft Smjth(left), who commanded the United States Army round
d in 1924. The early flight required 14 days, 15 hours
al flying time. Hughes made his hop in the complete elapsed time >.
3 days, 19 hours, (Central Press j