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Out to Equal Last Year’s Mark
The Posse School swimming team, of Kendall Green, Mass., relaxes
aboard the Amphitrite after a training session at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,
in preparation for the indoor season. Undefeated last season and ranked
aa one of the leading school teams of the country, the girls hope to re
peat in 1939. t Central Pres*}
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London dispatches report that Henry P. G. Hope, Earl of Lincoln, is
suing for divorce. The countess, with whom he is pictured, was the
former Mrs. Jean Gimbernat of New York, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
David Banks of New York and New London, Conn. They were married
in New York seven years ago. The earl’s family for several generations
owned the ill-fated Hope Diamond. (Central Press}
Byfns Reads the N6w Record
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| Representative Joseph W. Byrns, Jr., son of the late speaker of the
House, reads a copy of the new Congressional Record. The Record car
ries the United States seal on it for first time. Byrns, who Hails from
Tennessee, is a newcomer to Congress.
Sheet Gives Clue in Murder
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[Mrs. Josephine Haffscke, who runs the Providence, R. 1., boarding house
where 72-year-old Anna Baker was murdered, shows Detective Lieut,
j William J. Murray a blood-stained sheet which police consider an impor
tant clue* Mrs. Baker waa beaten to death, with a milkjiottle.
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1939
New Justice and Wife
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Felix Frankfurter, noted liberal and constitutional authority, named to
Supreme Court bench, and his wife at their Cambridge, Mass., home,
shortly after he received news of his appointment to the high court. He
succeeds Associate Justice Cardozo.
Morning After on Broadway
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The debris of part of New York City’s $15,000,000 New Year celebration
is being swept up in one of the Rialto’s gay spots after the last of tho
whoopee makers had gone home. New York’s greeting to 1939 was the
noisiest and most expensive in years.
... ' (Central Press)
Off to Play War
The light cruiser Cincinnati leaves
Brooklyn Navy Yard for Winter
fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean.
The ship is seen as it slowly passed
under the Brooklyn Bridge.
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To Lead Refugees
Dr. Heinrich Weiss, Ph.D., and
Chief Rabbi of South Austria, is
pictured on his arrival in New
York, a victim of anti-Semitism.
He will assume leadership of refu
gee Jews from Germany. “They
know not whac they are doing,” he
said of the Nazis.
Invent Super X-Ray
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L. E. Dempster (left) and W. P.
Westendorp are shown at Schenec
tady, N. Y., with the new 1,000,000-
volt X-ray tube which they in
vented. It is the equivalent of
$90,000,000 worth of radium in the
treatment of cancer. The machine
will be installed in the cancer in
stitute of New York’s Memorial
Hospital. %
(Central Press)
This Machine Even Talks to Itself
The first machine in the world to create speech is operated at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute by Miss
Helen Harper, of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, where the robot was invented. In tests it pronounced
tongue-twisters better than those who suggested them. It also imitates buds and animals. Watching
Miss Harper are (left to right): S. S. Watkins, H. W. Dudley, R. R. Ries*, all of New York Bell laboratories.
{Central Press)
A Senator Shines
Senator H. Styles Bridges of New
Hampshire gives his shoes a last
minute shine before entering the
senate chamber. He was on way to
hear President Roosevelt deliver
message to joint session of the
House and Seriate.
Spy Toll
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Yoshimiko Kawashima, known as
the “Mata Hari of Japan,” who was
imported shot and killed at TientsinJ
China. According to officials, she;
directed activities of a Japanese spy
ring in Hong Kong, and was sup-j
posed to have been in Tientsin irfj
connection with the new projected
Central Government of China.
Wife Preservers
One housewife finds it a help to take
n?L bath to 'y. els . off clothes line before
they are quite dry. She then folds them
and runs them through the electric wring-
S d ? f r ingthem ' Thus they
retain their fresh, outdoor smelL
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E. W. Baker, a Federal Reserve employe, displays his mother's framed
picture in Washington. She was siain in Providence, R. 1., her slashed
and beaten body found beneath a pile of clothing on her bedroom floor. A
former roomer was booked on suspicion. ;
Mrs. Coster’s "Ex” on WPA
Edward Hubbard, first husband of Mrs. Philip Musiea (F. Donald
Coster), working on a WPA project at Breinigsville, Pa., was ordered'-to
appear before federal grand jury in New York to tell what he knew about
the master swindler. He replied he couldn’t afford the trip. He once was a
Wall Street power, but now supports his second wife and seven children
on his WPA pay. (Central Pre»t>
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