Toy Pandas Aid War Victims
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An exact reproduction of a baby Chinese panda is presented to Uta
Hagen, youthful Theater Guild star, by little Marilyn Chu. The toy
pandas, first to be made, are being sold for the American Bureau for
Medical Aid to China.
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Keeping Cool Is
Easy for Kathleen
California heat waves can’t ruffle
pretty Kathleen Wilson, N. B. C.
dramatic star of One Man’s Family,
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for when Old Sol beams his hottest,
Kathleen snuggles under the garden
hose with enough Ice cream to bailie
Old Sol’s best.
What Happens When Train Meets Truck
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This unusual picture was made a few minutes after a Rock Island train had struck a trailer truck near
Chicago and tore it to pieces. Picture shows flames from the exploded gas tank licking the sides of the rail
road car. The driver of the truck was seriously injured.
UMP ROMMEL NOW
Ed Rommel, for 12 years a pitcher
of the Philadelphia Athletics, is
starting his first season as an Amer
ican league umpire. After retiring
as a pitcher in 1932 he served as a
coach under Connie Mack until this
year. Rommel’s decision at first
base deprived Bob Feller of the
Cleveland Indians of a no-hit, no
run game. Billy Sullivan, St. Louis
catcher, placed a slow bunt down
the third base line. The play at
first was close, and Rommel called
him safe.
Boat-tail Cars for Crack Train
Work is nearly complete, at the Pullman companys shops, near
Chicago, on the cars that will inaugurate new, faster service on the
Broadway Limited and Twentieth Century Limited between Chicago and
New York in June. This boat-tailed car will be at the rear end of a train,
remodeled outside for speed and inside for comfort.
New Atlantic Liner for Norway
The new S. S. Oslofjord, flagship of the Norwegian American line, which will make her maiden voyage
from Oslo to the United States in June, thus inaugurating a new era of Norway-American travel. This Diesel
powered ship will develop a speed of 19% knots. It is of 18,675 tons gross, and 20,500 tons displacement. She
is 588 feet long and 75 feet wide and will carry 800 passengers.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
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1—Chinese Eighth Route army soldiers in Shansi province decked out in captured Japanese coats, part of
captured items such as food, clothing and arms they took from the invaders. 2—Victims of an anti-Nazi riot
in New York city which grew out of the recent celebration of Adolf Hitler’s forty ninth birthday. 3—Henry
Ford, whose visit to President Roosevelt in the White House was regarded as the sign of a closer relationship
between business and the administration.
MARATHONER
The Methuselah of Marathon,
elghty-flve-year-old Peter W. Foley
of Winchester, Mass., shown as he
completed the 26-mile-385-yard dis
tance of the famous Boston A. A.
marathon, “Just to show ’em there’s
life in the old dogs yet.’’ He finished
In slightly more than hours. The
winner, thirty-four-year-old Leslie
Pawson, made the route in 2 hours,
B5 minutes 34 V> seconds.
Blondes Hold Peace Conference
Blondes from many parts of the United States interested in preserving
peace are pictured as they answered the roll call at the first National
Conference of Blondes to End War. The purpose of the “Blonde Brigade”
Is to fight war. Should America be invaded, members of the brigade will
meet the enemy. They are confident that there isn't a soldier in the
world who would shoot a lovely blonde.
“Sound” Baseball Played by Blind Performers
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Teams from (lie Industrial Home for the Blind at Oakland, Calif., demonstrate “sound” baseball. The
batter hits a jingling ball and runs down a padded baseline. Ten players form a team. The fielders kneel on
pads back of the baseline to catch the sounding ball and register an out by rolling the ball across the bases or
baseline ahead of the runner. Home plate has a bell on it to show when runs are scored.
Streamlined Boat for Mississippi
This streamlined river boat now under construction on the St. Louis
levee is beginning to assume the graceful lines which will make it the
most beautiful craft on the Mississippi. It will be used as a pleasure
steamer plying north and south from St. Louis.
FLYING WIENERS
Falling like manna from heaven,
food for a platoon of cavalry in ma
neuvers at Valentine, Texas, was
dropped by plane. The men were
fed for four days by this means as a
test of the efficacy of rationing mili
tary units by air. Here is a delight
ed trooper with the supplies.
Liver and
| Gall Bladder
DR. JAMES W. BARTON
© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
I BELIEVE that most phy
sicians, including myself,
when there are abdominal
and stomach symptoms that
are not acute and there are
not definite symptoms of ul
cer, cancer or appendicitis,
are likely to blame a slug
gish liver and gall bladder.
As two of every three individuals
of middle age really have some liv
er and gau Diaaaer
disturbance anyway
—inflammation or
gall stones—the phy
sician is likely to be
right two out of
three times. The
symptoms are dis
comfort, nausea, gas
pressure, clay-col
ored stools.
If the adult is in
good health, exer
Dr. Barton cises to squeeze the
liver, such as long
deep breaths or bending exercises,
keeping the knees straight, are
used.
About the only medicine given
may be small doses of Epsom salts
daily for one week in each month.
Diet the Chief Thing.
The principal part of the treat
ment is by diet and so every book
on diet now has a diet for liver
and gall bladder disturbances. Thus
"Practical Dietetics,” Dr. Sanford
Blum, gives the following sugges
tions:
May take: Vegetables, especially
green ones; limited quantity of
boiled, mashed or baked potatoes;
farinaceous foods—rice, farina, bar
ley, arrowroot, cornstarch, oatmeal,
cooked breakfast foods; water, min
eral water, tea, milk, buttermilk;
fresh meat or white fish or game
or poultry once a day; eggs in mod
eration; cottage cheese; limited
amount of butter; toast, bread,
zwieback; plain cake and puddings;
fresh fruit—apples, grapes, pears,
peaches, figs, oranges, grapefruit,
pineapple juice; salads of fresh
green vegetables, raw or cooked.
Should avoid: Salt, canned, pre
served and spiced meats and fish;
herring, salmon, sardines in oil,
mackerel; stews, goose, domestic
duck, oysters and shellfish; old
cheese, American cheese, Swiss
cheese, cream cheese, except cot
tage cheese; dry beans, corn,
sprouts cold slaw, cabbage, cauli
flower, sauerkraut, onions, garlic;
rich soups; berries, preserves; gra
vies; nuts, sweets, pies; pastry,
fats and oils; alcoholics.
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Infection and Insanity.
Some years ago I wrote of a New
Jersey state hospital in which the
"cure” of a young woman occurred
within two months after some in
fected teeth were removed. She
had been an inmate of the institu
tion for over two years. This so
impressed the superintendent that
immediately dentists, nose, throat,
eye and other specialists were
called in to clear up or remove any
infection in teeth, tonsils, sinuses
or elsewhere, with the result that
about 40 per cent of the inmates
were able to return home.
Today practically every mental
institution has a dentist giving his
entire time to the patients, and oth
er specialists—gynecologists, derm
atologists, general surgeons—hold
clinics at regular intervals. Thus
many of those whose mental symp
toms depend mostly upon some or
ganic trouble in the body are en
abled to become normal again.
Now there are many of us who
do not do such foolish or unusual
things that we are considered "men
tal,” yet we come so near this at
times that our friends and we, our
selves, begin to wonder if we are
just quite sane.
We may undergo a severe shock
or other emotional upsetment and
our reactions to this—loss of ambi
tion, laziness, change in behavior—
is blamed on the shock or emo
tional disturbance. In a great many
cases the emotional disturbance
causes the above symptoms because
all the other body processes have
been "hurt” for the time being.
However, when the average sane
man or woman, whether or not he
or she has undergone a shock or
emotional disturbance, begins to act
“differently,” then a thorough
search for infection by physician
and dentist should be made.
Animals' Tails Useful
Most animals’ tails seem to give
the final touch of style to the wear
er’s costume. But tails aren’t flour
ished simply because it’s quite the
thing in animal circles; each serves
a very useful purpose. The alli
gator uses his tail us a club. The
horse considers his the best fly swat
ter ever made. The 'possum hangs
from a tree limb by his tail and
takes a pleasant little swing. The
fox wraps his around his neck as
a muffler. The fish paddles through
the water by means of his tail,
while the squirrel used his as a
parachute. Squirrels that have lost
their tails in accidents have been
killed by bad falls, while the usual
bushy-tailed little fellow always
lands unharmed, right side up.
