British Plane Blazes Trail for Overseas Line
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Pictured at the airways base at Port Washington. L. I., is the British l>-passenger flying boat “Cavalier”
after completing the first east-west survey flight from Bermuda. These survey flights are in preparation for
the eventual trans-Atlantic passenger service which will be jointly operated by the Imperial Airways and Pan
American Airways. Simultaneously with the Cavalier's flight, a Pan-American Sikorsky clipper made the
west-east flight to Bermuda.
Ohio Will Have a “Little Ruhr*’
A new "little Ruhr” is rising seven miles up the Cuyahoga river
from Cleveland, Ohio, which will mark it as America’s meeting grounds
V for iron ore and coal. The development is part of the Republic Steel
f corporation’s program of expansion. A $15,000,000 plant, shown above, is
under construction, which, when completed, will be the world's most
continuous strip mill.
BREAKS NARCOTIC RING
Miss Joyce McAllister, twenty
seven-year-old former Santa Bar
bara, Calif., college student, whose
under-cover detective work is cred
ited with leading to the* arrest of
seven Chinese and a veteran federal
agent in raids on night clubs in the
Chinese quarter of Reno, Nev. The
sheriff’s office and the federal nar
cotics bureau provided her with
$1,000 with which she bought nar
cotics, thus obtaining information
leading to the arrests.
BLIND LECTURER
Miss Hazel Hurst, blind lecturer,
shown being led up the gangplank
of an Atlantic liner by her “seeing
eye” companion, “Babe.” Miss
Hurst, with the aid of "Babe,” was
^ en route to France.
Mariner Plans Sea Cruise in Tub
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Ernest Biegajski of Buffalo, N. Y., evidently believes in safety first,
for he has put on a life preserver before hoisting sail and moving out
into Lake Erie in his remodeled pickle barrel schooner in which he plans
to go to Europe this summer if present experiments prove successful.
This is the second such boat he has built with his soldier’s bonus money.
The 1936 model leaked so badly that only the timely arrival of the coast
guard prevented its maiden voyage from turning into a tragedy.
Sons of Diamond Daddies Good at Baseball
(These four stalwarts of the University of Florida baseball team ought to be pretty good at the national
pastime—if there is anything in the theory of heredity. All are sons of famous major league fathers, whose
names were household words a few years ago. Left to right are Ed Manning, twenty, son of Ed Manning,
former pitcher for the St. Louis Browns; Lee Meadows, Jr., nineteen, son of Lee Meadows, old Pittsburgh Pi
rates mound ace; Jimmy Shotton, seventeen, son of Bert Shotton, a former St. Louis Cardinal, and Wilbur
White, nineteen, whose father once played third for the Chicago White Sox.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
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1—Scene in the Queen Anne room of St. James palace. London, as premiers of the various dominions and
other delegates attending the Imperial conference following the coronation conferred on problems of the
British empire. 2—Employees of the Jones & Laughlin Steel corporation, whose vote adopted a C. I. O. union
for representation in collective bargaining. 3—President Roosevelt, who has asked congress to enact legis
lation establishing wage and hour standards for labor.
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Sir Harrv Lauder on World Tour
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Famed Scotch singer, Sir Harry Lauder is pictured as he arrived in
Los Angeles from Australia aboard the liner Monterey, accompanied by
his niece, Miss Greta Lauder. Sir Harry, who has retired from concert
work, plans no stage appearances on this round-the-world trip.
STICKS TO HIS LAST
Bubbling over with joy, Salvatore
Branchiclla is pictured in his shop
at Mamaroneck, N. Y., ns he soles
a pair of shoes for a oustomer. Sal
vatore's joy comes from his receipt
of the news that President Roosevelt
had just signed a special bill grant
ing him the right to live in the United
States. He was to have been de
ported on a charge of allegedly
stealing $15 from an employer in
Italy 10 years ago. The charges
were proved false and Branchiella
was exonerated.
LOYALIST STRONG MAN
Indalecio Prieto, dynamo of the
loyalist cause who has become key
man of the civil war in the new
Spanish republican cabinet organ
ized by Premier J ian Negrin. He
plans to revamp the fighting forces.
Dr. Wang New Chinese Envoy to U. S.
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Dr. C. T. Wang, newly appointed Chinese ambassador to the United
States, shown soon after hi3 arrival in this country. With him are his
daughters, Yeeh on the left and An-Fu on the right.
Ranger Is Crippled on First Test Cruise
Soon after being launched at Bath, Me., the Ranger, Commodore Harold S. Vanderbilt’s America’s cup con
tender met with disaster on her first test run and lost her mast. Towed to port it had to undergo repairs to
fit it for competition with other American ships for the honor of meeting the British challenger, Endeavor II.
Scene above shows the Ranger at the time of her launching.
Talking Skeleton
By NANCY RHODES
© McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
FOUL, bloody murder had been
done, for there on the boards
lay a skeleton, bone-white and grin
ning horribly. The Great Detective
gazed on it reflectively, picking
burrs off his trousers meanwhile.
"For sale," said an oily voice at
his elbow.
The Great Detective’s meditative
eye traveled up the bulging form
of old Lewis, who owned the pawn
shop.
"For sale,” repeated the old man,
"and you’ll go a long ways before
you’ll find a niftier skeleton for
seven dollars and ninety-five cents.”
He rubbed his hands and cackled.
Reggie McWhortlo sighed, and the
murder he was about to reconstruct
for his own pleasure dissolved in
the mellow October Sunshine.
Dragged back to reality and Lewis’
little pawn shop on Main street, he
continued to speculate idly about the
skeleton in the window. It was not
the first time that it had sprawled
there, mute testimonial that Doc
Ellis was broke; but never before
had it lain in the window for so
long a period. Usually Doc re
deemed it before old Lewis had
held it a week.
Reggie decided to grow up to be a
rich relative like Aunt Hortense.
But he wouldn’t sit in a dark room
like she did with her bony lingers
on a table top calling: "Henry,
Henry, where are you? Are you
happy? Can’t you answer me, Hen
ry?"
That was surely a dumb thing to
do with Uncle Henry dead more
than a year. Papa thought it was
dumb, too. He had told mamma
that if Henry had jumped from the
frying pan to the fire he wasn’t very
anxious to get in touch with the pan
again.
The skeleton was still on the Great)
Detective’s mind as he sat at the
dinner table eating his crackers and
milk. Across from him Aunt Hor
tense munched heavily and played
her toady eyes around the table.
It was too bad to waste good skele
ton money buying presents for peo
ple like Aunt Hortense.
"Shall we try to get in touch with
Henry tonight?” asked Aunt Hor
tense with her hand on the switch.
Papa made a little moaning noise
in his throat as the lights went out.
and Jane grabbed her coat and
started downtown. The Great De
tective left the three grown-ups in
the darkened sitting room and went
upstairs to his bedroom. 1
He counted the money in his bank
again. Eight dollars. Doc Ellis
would buy the skeleton back any
time. Surely Doc Ellis would get
eight dollars together before Christ
mas. Mamma need never know
there was a skeleton in the house.
No one would ever know. He would
be careful. A fellow wasn’t a detec
tive for nothing. He crept downstairs
and made a dash for the street
with the eight dollars clutched in
his hand.
The house was still in darkness,
except for the faint light in the
upstairs hall, when the Great De
tective crept stealthily up the garden
path an hour later with something
white and faintly gleaming under
his arm. Old Lewis had wrapped
the skeleton in brown paper, having
first tried unsuccessfully to do it
up in a suit box. As he neared
home, Reggie unwrapped h i s
treasure gloatingly. There was a
spring in the middle that made it
bend and unbend frightfully.
On the piazza he held it at arm’s
length, admiring its horrible gleam
ing length against the blackness of
the house. What couldn’t a fellow do
with a classy skeleton like this?
Why ... A scream cut thinly
through the night. Then he heard
Aunt Hortense’ voice calling, “Hen
ry! Henry!”
"He’s on the piazza,” she moaned.
‘‘I see him! I see him! Oh, Henry,
speak to me! Is it you? Are you
all right?”
Henry wavered. Then: "It’s me,”
he said faintly. "I ain’t complain
in’.”
“Have you any -message for me,
Henry?” came Aunt Hortense' voice
through the half-opened living room
window.
This apparently gave Henry time
to think. He moved nervously back
and forth in the darkness.
"You better go home,” he said at
last. “Go home and stay home.”
Then he bent sharply double and
disappeared.
A jumble of things happened the
next morning. Aunt Hortense left on
the 7 o’clock train. Mamma went
to bed with a nervous headache.
Papa sat scratching his chin in a
puzzled way. Just before school
time, Doc Ellis appeared on the
piazza.
Reggie rushed out, but Papa got
there at the same time.
“Well Doc,” he said cordially,
“how are you?”
“I’m lookin’ ^or my skeleton,”
said Doc. “Old Lewis told me he
sold it to Reggie last night. I’ll
buy it back from him for $10. That’ll
pay him for his bother of lugging
it up here, won't it?”
The Great Detective brightened,
then wilted. Ten dollars was not
to be sniffed at, but to part with a
classy skeleton after he had just
bought it . . . But Papa was look
ing queerly at him.
“Go get Henry,” he said mean
ingly. “And here's another dollar
for dragging him across the piazza
last night”
