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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1937)
Italians Captured in Battle of Guadalajara Officers and men, members of one of the crack divisions sent by Mussolini to aid General Franco’s rebel forces, who were taken prisoner by Madrid government troops in the bloody battle for Guadalajara mountain passes. The loyalist forces, seasoned and toughened by the long seige of this bitter war, routed the Italians completely, driving one division 30 miles back in a wild retreat. “Big Three” of Cards’ Hurling Staff > Three star pitchers of the St. Louis Cardinals upon whom Manager Frankie Frisch is basing his hopes in the National league pennant drive this year. Left to right: Paul Dean, Lon Warneke, formerly of the Chicago Cubs and Dizzy Dean, star of the league. PARISIAN QUEEN Mile. Jacqueline Jacolew, who has been named “Miss Exposition,” to rule as queen of the Paris Interna tional exposition which is to open in May. She was chosen from a num ber of beauties in a contest spon sored by the exposition. ACADIAN PIONEER Mrs. Mary Desire Verett, one hundred and two, of Baldwin, La., who was born and has lived all her life in her beloved Acadian country or Land of Evangeline in south cen tral Louisiana. Four of her seven children are living. She has 152 grand, great-grand and great-great grandchildren. She has never worn glasses and can still thread a nee ^ die and do a little sewing. Device Makes Mental Diagnoses Miss Veronica Lavigne, nurse at the Worcester, Mass., State hos pital, is shown with the delicate apparatus now being used in making diagnoses of mental cases. The machine, it is said, records changes in the patient’s mental status and shows when improvement is being made. Psychiatrists say that development of the machine may mark the turning point in the fight against dementia praecox. Collegians Sound Eloquent Thumb’s Death Knell Gone are the days when a flick of the thumb in the desired direction was the logical way to beg a lift. Here you see charter members of the National Collegiate Hitch Hikers association demonstrating the method that ousted thumbing from the repertoire of the well-bred hitch hiker. The organization started among the stu Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—Col. Charles A Lindbergh pictured In Bombay during his recent flying visit to India with Mrs. Lind bergh. 2—The ‘ big three” in the drive to unionize the textile industry; left to right. John Brophy, director of the C. I. O., Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America and Sidney Hill man, president of the Ama’gamated Clothing Workers. 3—Scene in Ponce. Puerto Rico, where 12 persons died in a nationalist uprising demanding independence for the territory. Open Air Art Mart Heralds Spring You know it’s spring when the open air art show gets under way in Washington square, New York. Martin Delaney, twelve, one of the ex hibitors at the Children’s Open Air show Is shown trying to "sell” a prospective customer. Miss Arloie Conaway. MAN-O’-WAR IS 20 Man-o'-War, about whom turfmen never tire of reminiscing, shown at his stable in Lexington, Ky., on his twentieth birthday, recently. He was foaled in 1917, won *250.000 in 17 months and was beaten only once in his career, strangely enough by a horse named Upset. He has been at stud for the last 17 years. Reno Girl Will Wed Raskob's Son Miss Dolores Horter of Reno, Nev., whose engagement to Robert P. Raskob, son of John J. Raskob, financier and former national Dem ocratic committee chairman, was announced recently. The bride-to be is a native of Reno and a gradu ate of the University of Nevada. Mr. Raskob has been in Reho for a year and a half looking after mining in terests of his father. The marriage will take place in June. Oldest U. S. Grocer Found in Maine Albert A Cole of Portland, Maine, who has been found to be the oldest active grocer in the United States in continuous service. He is eighty-four and tljg record shows he has served 73 years and 8 months in the retail grocery business. The disclosure of Mr. Cole as the patri arch of the trade followed a search carried on since the first of the year ! by the Natioral Association of Retail Grocers. Vanderbilt’s Yacht “Ranger” Near Completion Scene in a shipbuilding plant at Bath, Maine, showing the new American racing yacht, Ranger, rapidly taking shape under expert shipbuilding hands. The possible America’s cup defender is being built for Com modore Vanderbilt to participate in trials to be held off Newport this summer. ■yyyyaauamailiauUBm Ask Me Another 0 A General Quiz 9 Bell Syndicate.—WNLi Service. inaffrTaBaoiMTTrrfrr—’rwii 1. Why does a cat always fall on its feet,? 2. Who was Seneca? 3. Would the water which was used tc make a piece of ice oc cupy the same space as the frozen block? 4. What are the largest tribes of Indians? 5. What is meant by “dog Lat in”? 8. For whom was the state of Georgia named? 7. What quality does "sacchar ine” mean? 8. What rity is called the City of Five Flags? 9. What country has neither army nor navy? 10. What is the greatest height of a wave at sea during a storm that has been reported? Answers 1. A cat has an acute balancing sense and very flexible muscles. Instinct teaches it to twist itself sr that its feet will reach the ground before its body. 2. Roman philosopher, born 4 B. C. 3. Scientific investigation tells us that the size of the block of ice is actually greater than the actual dimension of the water, be cause water expands as it is frozen to form ice. 4. The largest tribes are the Na vajo, the Sioux and the Chippe was, with respective counts of 44,078, 35,412 and 26,127. 5. Barbarous or mongrel Latin. 6. 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