Doctor Gives Baby Breath of Life
His own mouth pressed against the tiny lips of a new-born baby,
Dr. A. L. Gilbert of Elwood, 111., breathed the breath of life into the tiny
lungs. While the doctor kept the baby alive, an inhalator was rushed
to Elwood from a nearby city. The little life was saved.
WORLD S RECORD CATCH
Bigger than the young angler who
caught it is the 60-pound white sea
bass recently landed by Douglas
Bombard, age eleven, off Santa Cat
alina island, Calif. Douglas made
the catch from a little speed boat
using flying fish for bait, with a light
tackle with a breaking strength of
26 pounds. The young angler’s rec
ord breaks the former record of E.
A. Brewsterm,
Shriners Elect Sugden Imperial Potentate
View of part of the parade of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in Detroit in connection with the recent conven
tion. John W. Ashworth, eighty-seven years old, said to be the oldest noble at the convention is shown riding in
the parade. Right, is Walter S. Sugden of Sisterville, W. Va., elected imperial potentate.
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F. Tafford Taylor
Heads Kiwanians
F. Trafford Taylor of St. Boni
face, Manitoba, Canada, who was
elected president of Kiwanis Interna
tional for 1937-38 at the recent con
vention at Indianapolis. He has
been a member of the club since
1924. Delegates from all parts of
the United States and Canada at
tended the convention.
Youngest Eagle Tries His Wings
Edward Somers, twelve years old, became the country’s youngest
"eagle” when he took off for his solo flight at Floyd Bennett field at
Long Island, N. Y. Instructor Pilot Archie Baxter wishes him luck.
Eddie comes from a flying family. His father, Congressman Andrew L.
Somers of Brooklyn, is a pilot.
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Baseball Men Honor Memory of Frank Chance
Memories of another baseball era—Frank Chance’s day—were revived recently by the Chicago Cubs at a
luncheon given by P. K. Wrigley and later at the ball park where the principal ceremonial was the presenta
tion to the present Cubs of a bronze plaque. Shown in the photograph, left to right, front row John O.
4 Seys, Mordecai Brown, Johnny Evers, Warren Brown; standing, left to right; Joe Tinker, Jimmy Archer, Bill
1 Terry, Charlie Grimm and Jack McCarthy.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1—Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., pictured before the Joint house-senate committee
investigating federal tax evasion. 2—Workers of the Bethlehem Steel company's plant at Cambria, Pa.,
leaving the premises after Governor Earle ordered state martial law during tho steel strike. 3—Premier Paul
Van Zeeland of Belgium, who was a recent visitor to the United States.
Russ Airmen in Epic Flight to LJ. S.
Above, the red-winged single-motored monoplane which brought three
Russian flyers from Moscow to Vancouver, Wash., via the North pole in a
non-stop flight taking 63 hours. Left to right are shown Alexander Belia
kov, navigator, Valeria Chkalov, pilot, and George Baidukov, co-pilot.
LABOR EXPERT
Mrs. Mary Norton, congress
woman from New Jersey who has
become the first woman to hold a
chairmanship of a house committee.
She recently accepted the chairman
ship of the house labor committee.
She was elected to congress in 1924.
Louis Is Crowned Heavyweight Champ of World
Scene at the recent world’s heavyweight championship fight in Chicago, as Champion Jim Braddock sinks
to the canvas under the knockout blows of Challenger Joe Louis in the eighth round. Inset shows the new
champion after his victory. Only twenty-three years old, Louis has been in the professional ring three years.
Col. Sherrill
Named Manager
of Cincinnati
Col. Clarence 0. Sherrill, who re
cently accepted appointment as city
manager of Cincinnati. Colonel
Sherrill was formerly president of
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the American Retail federation. He
will succeed C. A. Dykstra, who re
signed to become president of the
University of Wisconsin.
America’s First Aerial Tramway
A diagram showing one of the cars of the type which will be in use
over the first aerial tramway in North America, which will be con
structed up the side of Cannon mountain, about a mile and a quarter
from the famous “Old Man of the Mountain,” in New Harupjdiire.
Nyra’s Tambourine
Dy CLARA C. HOLMES
© McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
*«npRULY, I don’t know where it
can be, Rosabel,” Dolly de
clared, casting a puzzled look
around the neat attic. ‘‘Maybe
Aunt's catalogue will tell; see, ev
erything that’s put away in trunks
is set down in this book. T-t-tam
bourine; it isn’t here, is it? And
Aunt Ada’s at the missionary meet
ing.”
"I can use a tin pan at today’s
rehearsal,” Rosabel answered.
‘‘Are you sure Aunt Ada has s
tambourine?”
“Yes, at least Nyra Leonard
thinks she has. Nyra says that be
cause there was a ‘bizarre’ incident
connected with her once using the
tambourine, she doesn’t like to ask
for it again. I wonder what that
‘bizarre’ incident can be, Dolly?”
Dolly led the way downstairs. "I
never heard Aunt mention anything
extraordinary,” she replied.
"Since I may not see your Aunt
tonight, I will leave her a note,”
Rosabel concluded, seating hersell
at Ada's desk.
"Aunt Ada is making me a rain
bow voile dress,” Dolly chatted, dis
playing a novelty. "Put your note on
her sewing table.”
Whereupon the girls went out,
leaving the house alone.
Ada returned ns her parlor clock
was chiming five. She began to pre
pare the supper for herself and her
niece; then, having to wait, she went
to the sewing table. Discovering
Rosabel’s note, she read:
"Dear Miss Ada—Nyra Leonard is
to be a Sicilian dancer at the garden
party. I can assist in the dance if I
can get a tambourine. If you have
one, please may I take it?
"Sincerely yours,
"Rosabel Lamb.”
"She wants Nyra’s tambourine,”
Ada reflected. "Good land, I thought
I had that bygone atlair buried for
ever!”
In spite of an effort to think of tho
supper of sliced hamburg loaf,
homemade bread, pancakes, and
iced tea, and of the beautifully tint
ed rainbow dress which she was
sewing, Ada now only could hear
Nyra’s tambourine jingling persist
ently in her ears. Years ago Ada's
Uncle Joe, a sea-captain, had
brought the wonderful tambourine,
with its silvery bells, from Italy.
Because Nyra had had the instru
ment so much in her possession,
Ada associated the dancer’s name
with it. Again Ada vividly saw the
tambourine in the pretty hands of
the rav’en-haired, dazzling Nyra
King, who always, since girlhood,
had been a beautiful, wild butterfly.
"She was only a flapper who
learned the use of her wings 10
years ahead of the times," Ada
observed, trying to be considerate.
"And maybe Dolly’ll learn to be a
flapper, too, in this gay-colored
gown. I don’t want Dolly to be the
plain, old-fashioned girl I was; I
want her cute and lively and able
to hold her own with any of ’em;
but I want her good, too.
"Maybe I've set too high an ideal
for Dolly, expecting her to have
the strong points Nyra and I both
had, and be beautiful both within
and without.”
But Ada’s practical contemplation
came to a shadowy end; in medita
tion. her thoughts were lured back
ward, backward by the silvery jin
gle of Nyra’s tambourine. Again it
was Field Day; Ada was roving the
encampment with John Leonard,
her fiance. They came at last to
the brightly decorated fortune tell
ers’ booth, where Nyra King, in an
j Italian peasant costume, sang and
danced as she skillfully droned in a
beribboned tambourine.
"Isn’t she cute?" John comment
ed, watching the movements of the
winsome entertainer. Although Ada
declared that they had best move
on, John lingered and lingered.
Ada smiled as she remembered
how willing John was to see her
home early in order that he might
return to the field and seek Nyra.
No one might have known of this
clandestine meeting had not John’s
car turned turtle late that night.
Because the car was wrecked, al
though its occupants, John and
Nyra, were picked up unhurt, but
sadly stupefied, folks shook their
heads suspiciously. '
Nyra courteously returned tha
tambourine and Ada graciously re
ceived it; but Nyra never borrowed
it again. The episode ended when
Ada returned John his ring.
Nyra became the butterfly wife of
John. She frisked the years away,
her cottage always being in a state
of untidiness. It was in order to
deepen the contrast between her
self and Nyra that Ada kept her
house so scrupulously clean.
"She aroused a fire in John
which I could never have awakened,
that vital flame which alone make*
married life worth while," Ada med
; itated. Then, laying aside her sew
ing, she mechanically went up two
, flights of stairs, and methodically
1 looked at her catalogue.
“N—Nyra’s tambourine, north end
of attic, Uncle Joe’s chest, lower
left - hand corner.” Directly she
placed her hand upon the disturb
ing memento.
She paused a moment, thinking.
“I’ll change it to the R’s, Rosa
bel’s tambourine will be more
sweetly suggestive,” she bravely
soliloquized.
Going downstairs, she began to
stir the pancake batter vigorously
and to fry the cakes.
