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Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—John L. Lewis, chief of the C. I. O., who attacked William Green, president of the American Federa tion of Labor at the Milwaukee convention of the United Automobile Workers. 2—The American Dol lar liner, S. S. President Hoover, bombed by Chinese planes in the Whangpoo river at Shanghai. 3—The “Sawbwa of Hsipaw” and his sister, Sao Kya Nyun, shown as they sailed from New York for their far eastern kingdom of Burma. HANDY WITH BIKE William C. Bailey, eighty-four, who took up bicycling at seventy nine, shown as he pedaled out of Chicago on a return trip to his farm in Vermont. The octogenarian made the 1,028-mile trip by cycle to Chi cago to visit relatives in 18 days. He planned to make some stops en route home but declared he would pedal the entire distance to the Green Mountain state himself. Challenger’s Right Jolts the Champion I Tommy Farr, British con tender, connects with a right to Joe Louis’ jaw in their re cent New York bout. m Doctor’s Invention Saves Infants A new type respirator device invented by Dr. Joseph Kreiselman of Washington, D. C., has proved itself effective in saving the lives of chil dren dying of pneumonia, and malnutrition. When a baby bom to a Washington couple recently did not breathe at birth the respirator was ♦ applied in the same manner as Dr. Ted Mandy, a Gallinger hospital physician is demonstrating in the above picture and in a few seconds the youngster was crying lustily. LEGLESS SWIMMER Charles Zimmy, famous legless swimmer, shown weighing himself at Harlem hospital in New York city following his six-day swim in which he covered 145 miles between Albany and New York city. Zimmy completed the swim in 147 hours and estimated he had lost 30 pounds during the grind. Work Speeded on $32,400,000 Bonneville Dam Army engineers ar* speeding the construction of the 932.400,000 Bonneville dam in the state of Wash rfcture fa which sky. water and steel meet shows workers erecting piers that will riveiV This PV.'A project is a huge power, navigation and flood-control undertaking. Shanghai in Ruins as Bombs Rain From Planes View of the international section of Shanghai after a bombing from the sky by Chinese planes. Ruins of the Cathay hotel are seen, as fires swept over the bombed area. With bombardments from Japanese war ships in the Whangpoo river, untold damage was caused in the native sections of the city. MARINE COMMANDER Brigadier General John C. Beau mont, commander of the second bri gade fleet marine force, who em barked from San Diego, Calif., for the Sino-Japanese war area in Shanghai to take command of all United States marines in China. He will be responsible for disposing his troops most effectively to protect America’s nationals in the war zone. They Don’t Want to Wait 72 Hours om m City Clerk Michael Cruise of New York shown putting up the sign an nouncing that in the future marriage licenses are not valid for 72 hours after their iskuance. Prospective brides and grooms who sought to beat the law are shown in line as they await their certificates and quick ceremonies. Cat Mothers Orphan Squirrels Linden, pet cat of the street-car shops at Wilmette, 111., shown as she temporarily deserted her own offspring to mother three nine-day-old squir rels rescued from a tree nest by workers when they found the mother snnirrel Hpart. The vnunasters are thriving nicely. COPIES $60,000 STRAD Yehudi Menuhin, famed violinist (above), in co-operation with Emil Francais, master French violin maker, succeeded in making an ex act copy of his $60,000 Stradivarius which had been presented to him on his twelfth birthday. Menuhin holds the original Strad on the right, the copy on the left. I President Roosevelt Visits a County Fair President and Mr*. Franklin D. Roosevelt pictured as they stopped on their drive through the grounde d he annual Rhinebeck-Duebess County fair at Rhine beck. If. Y., to admire a prise-winning cow and her :alf entered in the stock show. PM* JUk Me Jlnoilu • A General Qu 1. What state did the India give outright to one man? 2. What is intercolonial time 3. In the early days of ri building, how much land was nated to the railroad 4. What writer is said to ha aroused the American public the necessity for the Declarati of Independence and the Constii tion? 5. What is the total value of farm machinery manufactured the United States last year? 6. How much did the late sf Thomas Lipton spend on Ame<| ca’s Cup races? 7. How is the word “saith” pi| nounced, in one or two syllable 8. At what age are women mo l successful? Answers 1. Rhode Island to Roger W{ liams. 2. A standard time, an ho^j faster than eastern standard, use in the extreme eastern pro inces of Canada. 3. Approximately 138,000,0' acres of land was donated to tl railroads by the federal gover ment and approximately 40,00( 000 acres by the various states! 4. Thomas Paine’s pamphle “Common Sense,” is said to ha\ had a great influence on the dra\ ing up of these documents. 5. $487,273,000. 6. From 1899 to 1930 the te ' magnate raced five Shamrocks and spent more than $4,000,000. *' 7. “Saith,” the archaic form < the verb “say,” in its preset tense, a singular number, thir person and indicative mood, co: : responds to “says,” and is co: > rectly pronounced “seth,” 1*1 rhyme with “beth.” It is errt neously pronounced in two syUtaj bles, "say-eth.” 8. In the biographies of wel|| known women given in “Amer * can Women,” the majority those listed were born in 189(fr< making them forty-seven. Early State Names If President Thomas Jefferso| had had his say-so, there wo have been more than the presei states comprising the Northwes Territory and most of their name would have been tongue twisters . 'm As you know, the Northwes a Territory consists of Ohio, Illinois^ Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin an * part of Minnesota, but Jefferson' „ suggested names were Sylvanis, Cheronesus, Michigania, Assen sipia, Mesopotamia, Illinoia, Sai| atoga, Washington, Polypotamig and Pelisipia. These names caJ be found on the early maps.-p Cleveland Plain Dealer. = GOOD RELIEF of constipation by a * GOOD LAXATIVE J Many folks get such refreshing * relief by taking Black-Draught foi, ( constipation that they prefer It to other laxatives and urge thelrfriends to try It Black-Draught Is made oi ] the leaves and roots of plants. If , does not disturb digestion bnt stimu lates the lower bowel so that con stipation Is relieved. BLACK-DRAUG purely vsgtlabls laxative WOMEN WHO HOLD s THEIR MEN j NEVER LET THEM KNOW N‘ JO matter how much your back aches and your nerves ssi-sa-n, your husband, because he la only a man, can never under stand why you are so hard to live with one week In every month. Too often the honeymoon “■ preee Is wrecked by the netting tongue of a three-quarter wife. The •wiee woman never lets her husband know by outward sign that ah* is a victim of periodic pain. Pot three generations one woman baa told another how to go “smil ing through” with Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound. It help* Nature tone up the system. ♦h,,. iwamlng the discomforts from o*. functional disorders which women must endure in the three ordeals of life: 1. Turning from girlhood to womanhood. 3. Pre paring for motherhood. 8. Ap proaching “middle age.” IJon’t be a three-quarter wife, - take LYDIA E. PINKHAM 3 VEGETABLE COMPOUND and Go “Smiling Through." >! •i Sentinels of Health 37-3’ WNU—4
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