Russian Flyers Feted After Record Breaking Hop
Jubilant after their record-breaking non-stop flight of 6,262 miles from Moscow to a cow pasture near San
Jacinto, Calif., three Soviet flyers were feted and congratulated on their remarkable feat. Photograph shows,
left to right, Pilot Michael Gromov, Co-Pilot Andrei Yumachev and Navigator Sergei Lanlin. The flyers,
who were in the air 62 hours and 17 minutes, exceeded the record of the Soviet trans-polar expedition of three
weeks previous by nearly 1,000 miles.
BRITISH GOLF ACE
Henry Cotton, who was ac
claimed as the new British Open
champion at Carnoustie, Scotland,
recently, after defeating leading am
ateurs and professionals from all
parts of the world.
Swedish Prinee and Commoner Bride
Prince Charles, nephew of King Gustaf of Sweden, with his bride, the
former Countess Elsa vOn Rosen, pictured soon after their recent wedding
in Stockholm. By marrying a commoner. Prince Charles lost his title and
prerogatives as a member of the royal family,
Families Pick New Homes as Town Starts Moving
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Mayor Fred Howell of Shawneetown, 111., right, helps Clifford Durham and his family select their new
home on the model of the new town. Fourteen hundred citizens are going to move to a new site three
miles to the west and 400 feet above sea level. The re-location project, expected to take two years, was
undertaken as a result of last winter’s floods that completely inundated the community.
Air, Not Water, Is His Province
He looks like a deep-sea diver about to go down, but instead, he’s
an aviator about to go up. This is Flight Lieut. M. J. Adam of the British
royal flying corps, being fitted with a special high altitude pressure suit
before his recent attempt at a high altitude record. Lieut. Adam reached
a height of 53,937 feet, setting a new high altitude record.
AIRPLANE BICYCLE
The addition of a propeller which
controls the speed of his stream
lined “aerocycle” makes it possible
for Dominick Devincenzi of Chicago
to drive his bicycle at the rate of
45 miles per hour.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1—Mrs. Elizabeth Walker Harrison appears before the senate claims committee to ask a pension for her
mother, Mary Lord Harrison, widow of the late President Benjamin Harrison. 2—Severe fighting between
Chinese and Japanese troops around Peiping presaged a major war in the Orient. Photograph shows a de
tachment of Japanese troops arriving at Tientsin. 3—Lieut. Gen. Sir Arthur Wauchope. high commissioner
for Palestine, under whose direction British troop reinforcements continue to enter the Holy Land in view
of possible trouble between the Arabs and the Jews.
I
Chicago Cadet Is
West Point’s First
Arthur W. Overbeck, who was
cited by Gen. Malin Craig as the
No. 1 man of the 1937 graduating
class of the West Point Military
academy. He led 298 future gen
erals in his elass with a general
average for four years of 94.6. He
is the first cadet from Illinois to
graduate with top honors.
Nation Honors Memory of Sen. Robinson
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Honoring the memory of Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who died sud
denly in Washington at the age of sixty-four. President Roosevelt, cabi
net officers and members of congress attended the state funeral in the
senate chamber. Funeral services were held later at Little Rock, Ark.,
where the body was interred.
It s Good-by to Wasli Day “Blues”
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Arlene Causey shows how easy it is to hang up clothes with the aid
of a new canvas clothes basket suspended on the clothes line wound on
a new automatic self-tightening reel. The devices were on display at
the recent Summer International Homefurnishing Markets at the Mer
:handise Mart in Chicago.
Hot summer days cause no dis
comfort or worry to seventeen
month-old Mike of St. Vincent's or
phanage, Chicago. In fact, Mike
appears neither hurried or worried.
He actually seems to enjoy hot
weather and the bath spray.
War Clouds Threaten Peace of Holy Land
An impressive array of British military might, pictured with an old fortress for a background outside ol
Jerusalem. Outbreak of fighting between the Jews and Arab population was feared as a result of the recom
mendations of the British royal commission that Palestine be divided into separate Jewish and Arab sections
with a British neutral zone between them. Neither Jews nor Arabs desire such a partition.
Doors Fly
Open
By H. IRVING KING
© McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
WNU Service.
EDWARD TURNER was not quite
sure whether Edith Alden would
have him or not—he rather thought
she would. But there was another
question—ought he to marry her?
Edith had everything desirable in
a wife—except money. And Edward
had been brought up to consider that
in choosing a companion for life
money should be the first considera
tion. This had been instilled into
him by both of his estimable and
prudent parents. Their own mar
riage had been what they called a
"prudent” one. And did Mr. Turner
love Mrs. Turner any less because
she brought with her a large
dowery? Not a bit of it; and they
jogged along through life very com
fortably together, neither of them
being of a sentimental turn of mind,
and both having an eye to the main
chance. As a business proposition
their marriage might be considered
a success, and they were both satis
fied with the co-partnership. True,
Mrs. Turner would, now and then,
when in a reminiscent mood, recall,
with something like a sigh, that
very prepossessing young man
whom she had met some years be
fore she had met her husband, a
young army officer who had no
money except his pay, a youth from
whose dangerous society her par
ents had whisked her off to Europe
and finally married her to Mr. Tur
ner. She smiled to think how utterly
silly she had been for awhile over
the matter—then sighed once more
and told herself how lucky she
was that her parents had been sen
sible people. And Mr. Turner would,
at rare intervals, have something
cause him to wonder what in the
world had become of that farmer’s
daughter he had been so fondly fool
ish over, away back in the days he
was in college. She was pretty as
a picture, he remembered, and good
as she was pretty. And he thought
of the apple orchard in bloom, and
the path they used to take through
it down to the brook where the great
oak stood. "Golly.” he would say
to himself, “that was a close call.
I wonder now if I had — but non
sense—I must be getting into my
second childhood." And he would
bullyrag his office staff for the
rest of the day. These cabinets
which Time constructs for us; the
cabinets with pigeonholes wherein
we stow away, out of sight, such a
very considerable portion of our
lives, arc wretched pieces of work
manship: the doors of the little cub
byholes are constantly flying open
in the most unexpected and annoy
ing manner and exposing to our
view "the things that might havs
SHORT SHORT
STORY
Complete in This Issue
been and never were,” until we
slam the little door to again and
go about our business. Now, if it
sometimes not infrequently happens
that even sentimental people, who
have married for love themselves,
are most sternly opposed to a repe
tition of the proceeding on the part
of their offspring, what could be
expected from people ilke Mr. and
Mrs. Turner with regard to the
marriage of their son Edward? They
had carefully trained Edward in
the path to a "prudent” marriage
with wealth as the chief considera
tion to be observed.
EDWARD had responded to his
bringing up in a most creditable
manner—until he met Edith Alden!
Those clear blue eyes, those rosy
cheeks, those laughing lips—girls
like Edith have been a disturbing
factor in the lives of the well
brought-up youths since Cupid
learned to shoot—and that is a long,
long time ago. Edward strove man
fully to be true to the faith wherein
he had been raised, but struggled in
vain; and one night he forgot every
thing else but Edith and asked her
to marry him. And when she had
said “Yes,” instead of feeling re
l morseful over his slip he felt ex
ultant, The reckless youth had cast
aside the shackles of parental pre
cepts and rejoiced in his deed. There
would be a row when he told the
I "old folks”; but what of it? Edith
was worth any number of rows.
Edward informed his father and
! mother of his rebellious step at
dinner. The explosion was terrific!
Turner actually swore and Mrs.
Turner burst into tears. Edward
got up and left the house, slamming
the door behind him.
"John,” said Mrs. Turner at last,
“how much irvoney have we got?”
“You ought to know as well as I
do,” replied Mr. Turner. "With your
money and mine we ought to be
worth—” and he named a sum
which I won’t betray on account of
the income tax.
“Well,” said the mother, “don’t
you think we could afford to let
Eddie marry for love?”
"Oh, I suppose so,” replied Mr.
Turner. "Guess he will anyway.”
You see, in the short space they bad
sat gazing at each other, after the
departure of Edward, each had
heard a little click and the doors of
the pigeonholes wherein they bad
so carefully placed away the ro
mances of their pasts had flow*
onan