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T Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—Mrs. Elizabeth Walker Harrison appears before the senate claims committee to ask a pension for her mother, Mary Lord Harrison, widow of the late President Benjamin Harrison. 2—Severe fighting between Chinese and Japanese troops around Peiping presaged a major war in the Orient. Photograph shows a de tachment of Japanese troops arriving at Tientsiq. a—Lieut. Gen. Sir Arthur Wauchope, high commissioner for Palestine, under whose direction British troop reinforcements continue to enter the Holy Land in view of possible trouble between the Arabs and the Jews. Chicago Cadet Is West Point’s First Arthur W. Overbeck, who was cited by Gen. Malin Craig as the Mo. 1 man of the 1937 graduating class of the West Point Military academy. He led 298 future gen erals in his class with a general average for four years of 94.6. He is the first cadet from Illinois to graduate with top honors. Nation Honors Memory of Sen. Robinson - -—• • • • Honoring the memory of Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who died sud denly in Washington at the age of sixty-four, President Roosevelt, cabi net officers and members of congress attended the state funeral in the senate chamber. Funeral services were held later at Little Rock, Ark., where the body was interred. . . f It’s Good-by to Wash Day “Blues” Arlene Causey shows how easy it is to hang up clothes with the aid of a new canvas clothes basket suspended on the clothes line wound an • new automatic sell-tightening reel. The devices were on display at the recent Summer International Homefumishing Markets at the Mer chandise Mart in Chicago. Hot summer days cause no dis comfort or worry to seventeen month-old Mike of St, Vincent’s or phanage, Chicago. In fact. Mike appears neither hurried or worried. He actually seems to enjoy hot weather and the bath spray. War Clouds Threaten Peace of Holy Land An impressive array of British military might, pictured with an old fortress for a background outside ol Jerusalem. Outbreak of fighting between the Jews and Arab population was feared as a result of the recom mendations of the British royal commission that Palestine be divided into separate Jewish and Arab sections with a British neutral zone between them. Neither Jews nor Arabs desire such a partition. ' . ' - .. . •■■■ - --- ■ . ....... Russian Flyers Feted After Record Breaking Hop Jubilant after their record-breaking non-stop flight of 6,262 miles from Moscow to a cow pasture near San Jacinto, Calif., three Soviet flyers were feted and congratulated on their remarkable feat. Photograph shows, left to right. Pilot Michael Gromov, Co-Pilot Andrei Yumachev and Navigator Sergei Lanlin. The flyers, who were in the air 62 hours and 17 minutes, exceeded the record of the Soviet trans-polar expedition of three weeks previous by nearly 1,000 miles. BRITISH GOLF ACE m teat*!:...*853 Henry Cotton, who was ac claimed as the new British Open champion at Carnoustie, Scotland, recently, after defeating leading am ateurs and professionals from all parts of the world. Swedish Prince and Commoner Bride Prince Charles, nephew of King Gustaf of Sweden, with his bride, the former Countess Elsa von Rosen, pictured soon after their recent wedding I in Stockholm. By marrying a commoner. Prince Charles lost his title and | prerogatives as a member of the royal family, Families Pick New Homes as Town Starts Moving Mayor Fred Howell of Shawneetown, 111, right, help* Clifford Durham and his family select their new home on the model of the new town. Fourteen hundred citizens are goipg to move to a new site three miles to the west and 400 feet above sea level. The re-location project,' expected to take two years, was undertaken as a result of last winter’s floods that completely inundated the community. Air, Not Water, Is His Province Be looks like a deep-sea diver about to go down, but instead, he’s in aviator about to go up. This is Flight Lieut. M. J. Adam at the British royal dying corps, being fitted with a special high altitude pressure suit before bis recent attempt at a high altitude record. Lieut Adam reached V height of 63,937 feet setting a new high altitude record. AIRPLANE BICYCLE The addition of a propeller which con troll the speed of his stream lined “aerocycle” makes it possible for Dominick Devincenzi of Chicago to drive bis bicycle at the rate oi 45 miles per hour. enougn 10 cover up blemishes, thebulges Irvin 8. Cobb and the bloats that come with ma turity? Sun baths should be takei on a doctor’s prescription, not a the corner of First and Main. Wohnen old enough to know bet ter are the worst offenders, seem like. If only they’d stop to can sider that the snail, which is nakel would lose in any beauty contes against the butterfly, which wear all the regalia the traffic will stand But even though it’s for their owi good, you can't tell ’em. If some body started the fad of going a the game while practically nude inside of two weeks mumblepe, would be the national pastime—un til somebody else thought up a gam: to be played by folks without < stitch on. Or anyhow, just a stitcl here and there. • • • Doctoring Movie Scripts. USUALLY they lay these yam on Mr. Sam Goldwyn, whi thrives upon them and goes righ on turning out successes, his mott being. "What’s grammar as be tween triends so long as the bo: office shows results?” But, for i change, this one is ascribed to an other producer, who proudly de scribes himself as a self-made mar which, according to his critics, i relieving the Creator of a consider able responsibility and putting th blame where the blame belongs They also say no self-made ma: should stop with the job only parti finished. But then Hollywood is hi of parties trying to push Humpt; Dumpty off the wall. As the tale runs, this gentlemai entered the conference chamber a his studio and as, with a kingl; gesture, he laid down a fat shea of typewritten pages, said to th assembled intellects of his staff: “Jumpmen, in all my experienc in the picture business this is wha you might call unique. Here is afa solutely, posstiffiy the only poifec script I have ever read in my ontir life. I tell you that before we star altering it" m e • Strikes Versus Wars. DID you ever notice how like i war is a strike? The operator and his operative are the shock troops that suffer th heaviest casualties. The owner risk his profits and perhaps his marke and sometimes his plant The work er gives up his wages, frequentl his job, occasionally his life. Stockholders see dividends var Ishing and investments shrinkinc Citizens see their communities dis rupted. Women and children go o short rations, many a time go a< tually hungry. For, as in a war the innocent non-combatants bea most grievous burdens. Those who really gamer in th spoils—professional agitators; flnar cial buzzards eager to seize o bankrupted industries; lawyers wit their writs and their injunctions imported thugs masquerading, fo one side or the other as honei mechanics—these might be likenei to stay-at-home diplomats and profit eers and hired mercenaries wh induce friendly nation** to- turn ei emtes so they may gain their ow selfish ends. After it’s over, we realize tha almost any strike might have bed averted had common sense an common justice ruled, rather tha greed and entrenched stubboranes and fomented hate. And the same i true of almost any war. For ever real benefit to humanity came oi cf peace and arbitration, not out < battle and destruction. And here's the final parallel; U timately, the supposed victor find himself the actual loser. Tell m which army won any great strike or an> great war—and I'll tell 70 who won the San Francisco fire an tha Galveston flood. IRVIN S. COBB. WNU Service. # Crocodiles, Alligators Crocodiles and alligators are closely allied zoologically that i laymen cannot distinguish bet them. Hence alligators are quently accused of attacking , killing men when, in reality,1 killers are crocodiles. Nat who have spent their lives study of these reptiles, tier’s Weekly, state that never heard of an authentic < • human death caused ligator. ^JhJmhd abcnxL Semi-Nude Fashions. SANTA MONICA, CAUB —Clothes may not mak the man, but leaving then off certainly makes him fqo] ish. And that goes double fo the women. Whence arises the present-day d< lusion that going about dressed s hail-mast enchances the attractiveness of the average adult? Our forbears of the Victorian era wore too much for health or happiness o r cleanliness. But isn’t It worse to offend the eye all through the lingering sum mer by not wearing
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