First Baptismal Ceremony Held at Night
“I baptize thee, my brother ...” and a moment later Howard McGee became the first man ever to
be baptized in open air exercisers held under floodlights. The novel baptism climaxed a revival conducted
near Gainesville, Ga., under the direction of thirty-three-year-old Reverend C. E. Vaughn, who is said to
have given up a prospering furniture business six years ago to convert souls. A crowd of 500 persons watched
the ceremonies. >
WORLD CROSSROADS
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Here is the international sign post
erected on Treasure island in San
Francisco bay, site of the 1939 Gold
en Gate exposition, showing dis
tances from the world’s far cor
ners. Gaila McEntee acts as inter
national “traffic cop.”
Start Moving $1,290,000,000 in Silver
In one of the biggest trucking jobs ever undertaken, $1,290,000,000
worth of bar silver is being moved from Manhattan to the government’s
new storage vault at West Point. One truck will move out of Manhattan
each day, five days a week, for about ten months before all of the silver is
moved to the big reinforced vault. A company of 55 coast guardsmen are
assigned to serve as a protective convoy on the 50-mile trips. Photograph
shows one of the trucks being loaded with 350 bars of silver.
A Gas-Masked Holiday in Switzerland
The Swiss public is becoming so air-raid “precautionized” that
strange sights are often to be seen these days at this “home” of the
League of Nations. Two gas-masked holiday makers were photographed
»s they enjoyed a row on Lake Geneva.
ADMITS MOSCOW LINK
The Communist party in the Unit
ed States is ‘‘part and parcel” of
the Communist International, Earl
Browder, party secretary, admitted
during his testimony before a legis
lative committee inquiry into law
observance. Browder is pictured as
he testified during the hearing, held
in New York.
Girl Sailors Do Everything but Cook
The gaff-rigged schooner Yankee, manned by 14 Girl Scout mariners supervised by four experienced
seamen, prepares to sail from New York on the first of eight one-week cruises. Here are six members of
the group raising the anchor. The 102-ton schooner will be almost entirely In the hands of the Scouts, all of
whom are in their teens, throughout the trip. The girl crew will stand watches, swab decks and assume all
(be shipboard duties except the preparation of meals.
In the World’s News: War, Business, Sports
1—Soldiers of the “lost” division of the Loyalist army, who escaped into France when driven out of the
Pyrenees passes they had held for months, are shown being inspected by Alvarez Del Vayo (saluting), Span
ish foreign minister, following their return to Catalonia. 2—William McChesney Martin Jr., thirty-one years
old, elected permanent president of the New York stock exchange with a yearly salary of $48,000. 3—Capt.
George E. T. Eyston at the wheel of "The Thunderbolt” in which he broke the world’s land speed record on
the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The car has Just been remodeled for Eyston’s forthcoming attempt to
better his own record. ■ * 1
GOLF CHAMP WEDS
National Amateur Golf Champion
Johnny Goodman and his schoolboy
sweetheart-bride, the former Miss
Josephine Kersigo, as they posed
for photographers during the wed
ding reception which followed their
marriage in Omaha.
Motherhood at Ripe Age of 16
Here is Lizzie, a sixteen-year-old Spitz dog:, with her newborn male
pup, both of whom are doing: well. Dog: breeders in Detroit, where Lizzie
lives, had never heard of a dog so old having a pup. A humane society
officer said that a sixteen-year-old dog is about the equivalent of an
eighty-year-old human. Mike Vella, Lizzie’s owner, named the pup F. D.,
because it was born when President Roosevelt was making a radio
speech.
Evangelist, 78, Weds Pupil, 26
A “December and May’’ romance resulted in the Hollywood mar
riage of Gipsy Smith, seventy-eight-year-old internationally known British
Romany evangelist, and Miss Alice Shaw, twenty-six, of London and Los
Angeles. The evangelist met his bride when she attended music and
evangelist studies in England while a child of twelve.
HE’S ‘MIBS’ KING
Frank Santo, thirteen years old,
of Throop, Pa., who was crowned
the marbles' king of the United
States at the conclusion of the na
tional marbles tournament at Wild
wood, N. J. As a result of his vie*
tory Frank received a $150 radio
set and a wrist watch. His father
is an unemployed miner.
Mysterious Case of the Stolen Run
This third inning mystery was solved by the base ball Sherlocks daring a Boston Red Sox—Athletics game
in Philadelphia. Villain of the piece is Billy Werber, third baseman for the Mackmen, who is covering up
his run-filching machinations behind a dust screen. Victim is Gene Desautels, backstop for the Vermilion
Hose. At left, as though groping for a clue, is Inspec tor—beg pardon, Umpire Moriarity. If you look close
enough you can spy the outline of Gene’s shoes in front of the approaching batter. Moriarity is calling Billy
"safe!” P. S.—The Bed Sox won 6 to 5.
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Women in Baseball
One of the few women holding
an executive position in major
league baseball is Mrs. Barney
Dreyfuss, chairman of the board
of the Pittsburgh Pirates. She
was married to the late Barney
Dreyfuss in 1894 and has been
connected with the game for more
than 40 years. Miss Dorothy Hum
mel, assistant to Will Harridge,
president of the American league,
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