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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1937)
Britain Launches New Aircraft Carrier Great Britain’s new 3,000,000-pound aircraft carrier. Ark Royal, whicl. Sir Samuel Hoare, first lord of the admiralty, declared was the “most up-to-date in the world” floats on the Mersey after being launched at Birkenhead recently. She has a displacement of 22,000 tons, and will carry 70 planes. She is the first ship of the British navy designed is an aircraft carrier. Priceless Madonna Gift to Toledo The Adoration of the Child, regarded as one of the finest Italian paintings in America, recently acquired by the Toledo Museum of Art, is pictured above. It came as a gift of the museum’s founder, Edward Drummond Libbey. This famous masterpiece, the work of Piero de Cosimo, a Fifteenth-century artist, is supposed to have been painted for Lorenzo de Medici, patron of the arts in the Renaissance. Bonus for Babies Provided by New York State Emerson D. Fite, New York state assemblyman who is author of bill recently passed providing a cash bo nus of $75 to all mothers and fa thers, regardless of their needs. The >mSr 'Mv-tm V xhnb&w t.* money awarded to the parents is for the care of every child born in the state and unless rejected by the parents is to be used for pre-natal, hospital and general medical ex penses. Assemblyman Fite is also a professor at Vassar. BLOSSOM QUEEN Miss Alice Merson of South Ha ven, who was selected as Michigan Blossom Queen for the annual Blos som festival in Benton Harbor and St. Joseph. She was picked from a group of 21 contestants represent ing as many cities in the fruit belt. Smithsonian Gets First Adding Machine An old macaroni box filled with an arrangement of wheels, rubber bands, meat skewers and staples, the grand-daddy of the present day calculating machine, which was designed and constructed 52 years ago by Dorr E. Felt, was presented to the Smithsonian institution by the family of the inventor. Photograph shows Dr. Charles G. Abbot (left), secretary of the institution, receiving the cherished relic. Jersey Quadruplets Have a Christening • Jersey’s famous foursome, the Kasper quadruplets, l1 ranees, Frank, Felix and Ferdinand, born to Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kasper of Passaic, are shown following their christening recently. Their busin°ss manager. Mayor Benjamin F. Turner of Passaic, is shown on the extreme right. Governor Hoffman became the god father of the “quads” and was present at the ceremony. I Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—Papal attache bearing symbol of the Order of the Golden Rose conferred on Queen Elena of Italy by the pope recently. 2—Mrs. J. Borden Harriman appointed minister to Norway by the President. 3 -Masanki Iinuma (left) and Kenji Tsukagoshi, Japanese flyers welcomed at Croydon airport after flight from Tokyo to London. The Nipponese flyers received an ovation from crowds gathered to see them land. RAIL PRESIDENT I William M. Jeffers, who will be come president of the Union Pacific railroad on October 1, with the re tirement of Carl R. Gray, three days after his seventieth birthday and retirement age upon his own insistence that the company rules apply to him. Mr. Gray will con tinue his services with the railroad as vice chairman of the board of di rectors. Indians Honor Champ Jim Braddock ' Heavyweight Champion Jim Braddock was recently inducted into the tribe of the Lac Courte Orreille Indians near Stone Lake, Wis., where he lid his preliminary training for the coming fight with Joe Louis. The champion was named "Che-Me-Ga-Ze-We-Ne-Ne,” meaning chief fighting man. Next to him is Alex Martin, head man of the tribe. Milestone in Transcontinental Air Service With inauguration of 15%-hour service from coast to coast by the United Air Lines, the evolution of trans continental air service in the past decade is pictured above. 1—Pioneer, single-engined mail plane, carry ing two passengers, which started first schedule i.i 1927. 2—Modern air-conditioned mainliner, equipped with two 14-cylinder engines with a top speed of 212 miles an hour. Invents “Anti-Jitter” Keyhole Ralph Ring of San Francisco, shown with his most recent invention, an “anti-jitter” keyhole. A funnel arrangement on keyholes is aimed to guide the key in unsteady hands into the lock without too many pre liminary attempts. Coming anywhere near the mark the key strikes on the periphery, and there you have it! “GET A JOB, GIRLS” Every woman should nave a pro fession whether she intends to marry or not, in the opinion of Mrs. Mary Roebling, herself a successful bank president in Trenton, N. J. She believes that women are be coming increasingly important in business, in fact, she predicts that “within the next ten or twenty years women will be doing the deciding.” Martha’s Plain Face By SUSIE POTTElt HESSE © McClure Newspaper Syndlca.e. WNU Service. THEY were ready at last. Glenna Downing gave a final dab at her cheeks and smiled into her mirror, satisfied. Glenna was adorable. Ev eryone conceded it. Martha Den nis watched her soberly. Martha did not smile into her own mirror. She was not adorable and everyone knew that—or she thought they did. She was plain even to her name, and when you are young and plain —well, nothing much comes your way, at least not the things that youth most wants. Today the two girls were leaving the hot, hurrying office for a whole month’s vacation in the cool, green country. ”A good time to forgef my grievance,” Martha.said to her self sturdily, “and perhaps, just perhaps, the folks there will like plain faces.” At last the journey ended. The. two girls arrived in the little townj of Bannerly, and with the arrival came at once to Martha the over throw of all her castles. When she looked into the steady, shining eyes of Herman Morris she knew that to stand aside for Glenna would cost more than she had ever paid be fore. Ordinarily, she could look on’ at Glenna's love affairs unmoved, save for the. inevitable sense of defeat and loneliness, but not this time! At his mother’s bountiful spread supper table, Herman greeted the “summer boarders” heartily. Mar tha watched him as he gallantly assisted old Mrs. Brodwel to her place and dexterously seated her in her chair. When the introductions to herself and Glenna came, she felt him sweep her with a quick, unseeing glance, while Glenna caught and ’held him as was her wont with men. After that, as the time sped by, it seemed to Martha that he came from business a bit earlier each day, always ready for some pastime with the two girls. At first she went along with a sort of desperate de termination. She would make him notice her—and he did. With his accustomed courtesy he saw to it that she was properly escorted. “But I know the difference be between politeness and devotion,” Martha said to herself, brokenly. Then, finally, with an heroic re solve: "I’ll leave them to their own happiness.” So the next afternoon she pleaded illness and watched them hurry away, teasing and ban tering each other. “And so pleased I’m sick,” thought Martha. She did not catch the queer, indefinable look on Herman's face. Glenna did not see it, either. The dreary afternoon to which Martha had condemned herself was abruptly interrupted. Sadie, the maid, in deep despair, came calling for Mr. Morris. His mother had gone to her room too ill to talk and what should she do about supper? The cooking had never been dele-, gated to anyone. Martha’s eyes gleamed. She might be unattrac tive but she was not helpless! “Tell Mrs. Morris not to worry. I will manage supper." And she did. “The nicest biscuits Mrs. Morris ev er made,” unanimously agreed the boarders, “and the very best cro quettes.” Martha did not know of the con ference between mother and son in Mrs. Morris’ room that evening, nor did she see a certain peculiar ex pression rest again on Herman’s face. Several times during the next few days, when she could escape Glen na, she slipped away into the kit chen to lend a helping hand, though the mistress was again in charge. “The finest little lady I know,” Mrs. Morris confided to her son, and failed to note the acquiescence in his eyes. Then Herman decided to appeal to Glenna. She was a good pal andj would not fail him. So he began one, afternoon on the lake, when Martha had again declined to accompany them. “There’s something of great, importance to me, Glenna, that I1 want to ask you.” Glenna’s heart turned completely over once and she knew she was going to say “yes” much more promptly than she had ever intend ed to say it to any man. Then he went on and she heard as though from a great distance: "If Miss Denqis has not taken an incurable dislike to me, I wish you’d help me find the way to her heart." Glenna gave one quick look into his troubled eyes, swallowed hard and thought fast. After a consid erable pause, “I think I know the route,” she answered steadily. To herself she said, “People who don’t happen to be handsome shall have no monopoly on sacrifice. I’ll show them." The next afternoon she waved a smiling good-by to the two from her seat on the veranda. When they had gone a little distance the smile vanished and she watched them with tight-closed lips 'until they were beyond sight. "I’m glad. I will be glad!” she breathed. “Martha needs him and I—well, I can’t have him, that’s all.” Some time later, Martha, still half afraid, said shyly, “Are you su»e you don’t mind that I’m home ly, Herman?” “Homely? Are you?” and he laughed. "I didn’t know—I didn’t notice. I just saw YOU.”
