British Airplane Plants Are Very Busy
A scene In one of the British airplane manufacturing plants which are operating at full speed to bring
the first line strength of the R. A. F. up to 2,000 planes by the end of March, 19H7,
Bold Venture Wins Sixty-Second Kentucky Derby
Coconut Carver of Honolulu
M. Monden, a Hawaiian wood carver, shown fashioning novel cigar
boxes at Honolulu from the husks of coconuts. Popularity of the recep
tacles ladicates their manufacture may become another minor American
Industry of the territory.
Long Shot Horse
Triumphs Over
Favorite Brevity
Bold Venture, owned by M. L.
Schwartz, winner of the sixty-sec
ond Kentucky Derby, with Jockey
I. Hanford up. He was n long shot,
paying $43 In the nmtuels. He beat
Brevity, the favorite, by less than a
nose in one of the closest and most
hotly contested races in the history
of the Kentucky Derby.
Don Lash Sets
New U. S. Record
in Half Mile Run
Don Lash of Indiana university
at the Drake relays In Des Moines
setting n new American record of
S) minutes, 10.G seconds for tlie halt
mile run.
Mint in New Brunswick
About six species of wild mint sr«
native to New Brunswick and ail
have purple flowers. Spearmint,
Mentha spicata, is one of the most
common and may be distinguished
hy its slim Interrupted spike of
flowers and its smooth, sessile, nar
rowly ovate leaves.
He Wants America to Be Supreme on the Sea
Paul \V. Chapman, banker and former operator of the United States lines, is pictured with a model of a
super-liner that, he believes, would wrest the speed supremacy of the north Atlantic from the foreign mer
cantile nations which now hold it. The vessel, and a sister-ship, each of 100,000 tons displacement gross,
1,250 feet long, and with a guaranteed speed of 34 knots, would be built within three years by the United
States government, If Chapman were successful In winning the support of congress and the administration.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1—View in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, which was looted and burned by natives after the flight of
Emperor Haile Selassie. 2—Senator J. G. Townsend, Jr., crowning Miss Cornelia Ann Earns queen of the thir
teenth annual Apple Blossom festival at Winchester, Va. It—Alvin Knrpis, In shirtsleeves, "public enemy No.
1,” arriving in St. Paul, Minn., from New Orleans, where he was captured by federal agents.
Lorado Taft Reaches 76th Birthday
The seventy-sixth birthday of Lorado Taft of Chlcugo, the famous
sculptor, was marked by increased activity on his own part as he wns
found busily at work on his new group of figures depicting the Llncoln
Douglas debate of October 13, 1858, which took place at Quincy, 111. The
group, in bronze, will be placed in the city square of Quincy.
Socialist-Labor
Candidate Seeks
Presidency of U. S.
John W. Aiken, forty-year-old
hardwood finisher of Chelsea, Muss.,
who has been nominated for the
Presidency by the Socialist-Labor
party. A convention attended by
representatives of the party Belect
ed Aiken.
Missionary’s W ife
Addis Ababa Victim
Mrs. A. I!. Stailin. American wife
of an Adventist missionary, who was
...g^.. • • • . ..
killed by n stray bullet during the
looting and burning of Addis Ababa,
capital of Ethiopia.
House for the Low Salaried Man
» n iiimninminiMin \
This is nn illustration of one of the house plans developed by the
technical division of the Federal Housing administration, published in u
new bulletin entitled “Principles of Planning Small Houses.” The bulletin
does not contain working drawings or specifications, the Illustrations
shown being used primarily to demonstrate the principles outlined. It Is
estimated that the house shown here can be built on a concrete slab foun
dation at a cost ranging between $1,200 and $l,.r>00.
In an Italian Village for Journalists
88
Here Is one of the modern houses of the Journalists’ Village, now being built near Milan, Italy. The maxi
mum of quiet for the occupants is Insured by a system of ground Insulation, and a roof garden with trees com
pletes the decoration of the exterior.
An “Ant”-I Climax
By MARGARET BLOOMER
<£) McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
□H. KARNOT, the Insurance
agent, laughed as Tony, the
ant-killer, stood up arms akimbo,
spraddle-legged. A cutlass at his
side and bandanna about his sleek
black head would have completed
the plctufe of a swash-buckling pi
rate—whose only victims now were
unts.
"They all die, he keel!" Tony
grinned.
Mr. Karnot almost expected to
see Tony lift Ids great boot, pirate
wise, to crush the little mounded
ant city. Just so Tony’s forebears
had probably ground the conquer-*
lng heel Into the torsos of fallen
foes. Tony's eyes were mere slits
as he watched the mound where an
Ihdustrlous army of ants carried
the poison away.
‘‘They all feed the ba-bee." ha
grinned broadly "get-a-da beeg
stomach ache.”
"Aren’t you ashamed, going ‘round
giving ants ptomnlne?" asked Mr.
Karnot.
“I llke-a my Job, Mr. Karnot,"
laughed Tony, carelessly tossing
cans onto the seat of Ills car, as he
prepared to leave.
Two days later the Insurance
agent telephoned Tony’s boss. Mr.
Faunce was angry. Tony hadn’t
been to work for two days. As
Mr. Karnot still sat at Ids desk
the telephone rang. “Where the)
devil have you been. Tony?" he
asked.
“I been taking care. Mr. Karnot,”
Tony answered.
“Taking care of what, your ant
hills?" Mr. Karnot was decidedly
exasperated.
“Oh, no," answered Tony with
complete lack of concern for the
ant business. “About my Insur
ance. you know. I have to take
care!”
"Well, If you don’t ‘take care’ of
It before midnight tonight It’ll
Inpse,” said Mr. Karnot caustically.
“No use pay now," sighed Tony,
"my wife she died, no need Insur
ance."
“When did that happen, Tony?
I’m sorry! Why didn’t you tell me
she was sick?”
“It’s no happen yet,” answered
Tony.
"Say. what do you mean? Is your
wife 111?”
"No sick1 but no use pay now,’
replied Tony. "My wife she die to
morrow, no need Insurance."
Visions of Tony distributing dead
ly nnt food flashed across Mr. Kar
not’s mind and he started across
town with record speed. Then he
remembered Tony's childlike grin
and slowed down. Hut If Tony's
wife wasn’t even sick, why did he
think she was going to die tomor
row? he cogitated, and stepped on
the accelerator again.
As he walked up the steps Mr.
Karnot saw a slip from one of his
choicest rosebushes. "Aw, Tony’s
all right, the guy loves flowers.” Ilia
heart jumped with relief as a hand
some Portuguese girl came to tho
doer. Her cheerful smile showed
that she was In complete and happy
Ignorance of her impending demise.
"Er-ls Tony home?" Mr. Knrnot
stammered. Her earrings danced
ns she shook her head.
“Do you feel all right?" he asked
solicitously.
Tony’s wife looked surprised.
"Sure I’m tine!’’
The telephone was ringing as Mr.
Knrnot entered his office. It was
Tony. They duplicated the conver
sation of the morning. But before
Tony could hang up Mr. Karnot de
manded, “Tony, does your wife
know she’s going to die?"
Tony lowered his voice. “Mr.
Kaynot, you think I’m crazy that 1
tell my wife?" That was too much
for public spirited Mr. Knrnot. He
called the police, ne hated doing It
but Tony had left him no choice.
The desk sergeant took down
Tony’s name, address and occupa
tion. "Ant killer—handled poisons,
huh? Might bear watching—might
bring him In on some technical
charge," the sergeant thought. Mr.
Knrnot was glad he had passed the
Information on. At least It was olf
his conscience. That was Saturday.
On Monday the sergeant asked
Mr. Knrnot to stop In nt the sta
tion. Tony was sealed In the mid
dle of nn Iron contraption that
looked like a huge bird cage. Ha
was a deplorable sight. Vacancy
overspread hts usually grinning
countenance.
“A hard case, said the sergeant.
“Admits his wife is marked foe
death; that’s all we have been aide
to get out of him.’’
Relief leaped into Tony’s eyes a.1
sight of Mr. Karnot The sergear.i
repeated the questions he had bee#
asking Tony at Intervals for twen
ty-four hours. Between them they
goaded and prodded and probed till
at last Tony broke.
“Mr. Karnot can tell. What’s use
pay insurance then call police?”
Tony grabll'd a worn piece of pa
per from his shirt pocket. “Damn
insurance company!’’ he yelled.
“See. they say my wife, she die!”
As Tony waved it under the ser
geant’s nose, Mr. Karnot recog
nized the final notice from the home
office. Not until then did Mr. Kar
not remember that Tony’s wife, the
beneficiary to his policy, was called
Grace. The notice read, “Grace ex
pires June 23.”
