Over the Top Means Rickety Ride for Japs
A partially demolished bridge on the Chinese front provides the setting for this unusual picture. A Jap
anese tank followed by soldiers rumbles cautiously over the unstable structure as the army moves forward to a
: new fighting position on the way to Nanking.
General Billotte
Takes Post of
Governor of Paris
Many-medaled General Henri Bil
lotte, new military governor of
Paris, pictured shortly after he had
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taken over his important post to
succeed the veteran, one-armed
General Giraud, hero of the World
War.
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twins, Helen and Hertha Coelln who sailed on the Europa for Schleswig
Holstein, Germany, recently. Until their destination is reached, they
will be entirely in the hands of traveling agencies. Their mother died
recently and their father is sending them to relatives in Germany.
Machine Tells Sex of Eggs
Dr. Willard P. Funk, (sitting) of Los Angeles and his assistant Jack
Davenport shown demonstrating the operation of his new machine which
can determine immediately whether a newly laid egg will hatch a pullet
or a cockerel. Dr. Funk claims he can change the sex of eggs wit i the
new device. In the past 80 per cent of chickens hatched were roosters.
When the contact is made with the egg, the instrument gives off an
audible male or female signal indicating its sex.
Cousin of Italian
King Is Made
Ethiopia's Viceroy
The duke of Aosta, cousin of King
Victor Emmanuel of Italy who has
been appointed viceroy of Ethiopia,
succeeding Marshal Rodolfo Grazi
ani, who was relieved at his own
request. The duke is married to
the daughter of the duke of Guise,
pretender to the throne of France.
They have two children.
Russian Cathedral Observes Anniversary
The robing of his eminence the archbishop of North America and the Aleutian Islands was one of the cere
monies in the services commemorating the thirty-fifth anniversary of the erection of the Russian Cathedral
of St. Nicholas in New York, mother church of the Rus >ian Orthodox Greek-Catholic faith in the United Staten.
■ Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1—President Franklin I). Roosevelt pictured on the rear platform of the Presidential special as he departed
for a southern fishing trip. 2—Chinese in conquered Shanghai waiting in line for the handful of rice that will
stave off starvation, o—Homer Graber, eighteen, of Mineral Point, Wis., shown with his 4,243-pound Hereford
steer that won the grand championship in the junior feeding contest at the International Livestock show
in Chicago.
NEW CARDINAL
Most Rev. Arthur Ilinslcy, arch
bishop of Westminster cathedral in
London, has been selected as one of
five new cardinals by Pope Pius. He
is the first Englishman to be accord
ed this recognition by the Catholic
church in many years.
Orphan Is Lanib-Raising Champ
Boyd Maryhew, age fourteen, of Belleville, III., an orphan, was the
first of 2,000 boys and girls to win a championship at the national 4-11
club congress in connection with the International Livestock show in Chi
cago recently. Boyd is shown with his yearling Southdown Shropshire
lambs which were awarded the blue ribbon.
Synthetic Sea Serpent Visits New York
A 12C-foot sea serpent which required 53 men to [.old it dawn was one of the features or a recent holiday
parade in New York city. The balloon with a helium capacity of 8,300 c ubic feet Is shown as it passed through
Columbus circle. It was entered by a leading department store.
Delicate Surgery Saves Boy’s Life
Saved from starvation by surgery after he had accidentally seared
his throat with sulphuric acid, nine-year-old Ernest Slivicki of iVIinot,
N. I)., will soon be able to resume a normal life. Doctors at the Abbott
hospital at Minneapolis, Minn., first fed the boy through an incision made
in his stomach, i'hen they laboriously worked a string up through the
stomach and out of the mouth, tying a larger rubber tube to the string
each day. <*,
She’s Best Canner
Among 4-11 (»iris
Miss Mary Frances Thompson of
Ourham, S. C„ given the title of
national canning champion by the
4-11 club congress held recently in
connection with the International
Livestock exposition at Chicago.
Prize canners from every state par
ticipated in the contest.
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0 A General Quiz
1. What are the freezing and
boiling points of mercury?
2. Which is larger, the United
States of Brazil or the United
States of America?
3. What do the designs and col
ors of Scotch plaids indicate?
4. What were the first messages
sent by telegraph and telephone?
5. Does the use of veneer on
furniture imply poor quality?
6. How much torn and defaced
money is sent to the United State*
Treasury for redemption?
Answers
1. Its freezing point is —37.95
degrees F., and its boiling point.
675 degrees F.
2. The United States of Brazil,
which is 272,000 square miles
larger. •
3. They indicate the clans or
regiments to which their wearers
belong.
4. The first by telegraph was,
“What hath God wrought,” and
by telephone, "Mr. Watson, please
come here: I want you.”
5. It does not. It is the only
method by which the grain or fig
ure in some rare and beautiful
woods can be displayed to advan
tage.
6. Approximately three billion
dollars a year in mutilated cur
rency is turned in for redemption.
Rising Tide
A new magazine has made its
appearance on the newsstands of
the country. It is pictorial in char
acter under the name of the “Ris
ing Tide," originally issued in Eng
land and now being prepared for
distribution in eleven countries un
der nine different languages. The
magazine is reported to be a non
profit publication carrying no ad
vertising but such matter that is of
interest to the people of the world
who are seeking answers to their
own problems. It is said that these
problems are covered without re
' gard to race, class or creed.
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