Pocket Submarine May Be Powerful Jap Sea Threat
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According to reports reaching London from Tokyo, the Japanese navy finally has put an oft-reported three
man submarine into mass production. Dispatches say the boats are being turned out in mass production at a
cost of $5,500 each. The craft, depicted here by an artist, measures 18 feet overall. The average modern
V > submarine is 300 feet in length. Its displacement is 100 tons, compared to the usual 2,500 tons. It is reported
that the new boat can submerge to an almost unbelievable depth of 1,800 feet. It carries only one torpedo.
But one torpedo has a potential nuisance value of millions of dollars.
To Assist President in World Peace Problems
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Hopes for world peace on the part of President Roosevelt have resulted in two recent far-reaching
moves. First W'as the President’s appointment of Myron C. Taylor, left, former head of United States Steel,
r as this country’s representative to the Vatican to work with Pope Pius for peace. Second was his invitation to
religious leaders to confer with him. Invitations went to Rabbi Cyrus Adler, center, president of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America, and to Dr. George A. Buttrick, right, president of the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ in America. Archbishop Spellman of New York City was expected to be named as representa
tive of Catholics in the peace conference.
Princeton’s Grid Hero Goes Home
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Don Herring, young Princeton football hero who lost his left leg as
the result of an injury in the Harvard game this fall, is shown in a
Princeton, N. J„ hospital just before going home to his family. Cheerful
as always, Don sees a good future ahead for a man with one leg “who
can take it.’' The leg was amputated several week,s ago after doctors
fought a losing battle to save it.
Hawaii’s Official Greeter at Work
A royal Hawaiian welcome Is given Jack Dempsey by Duke P. Ka
hanamoku, famous swimmer and official greeter, and a bevy of Island
belles as the former heavyweight champion disembarks at Honolulu. The
beverage, incidentally, is pineapple juice.
Battles Machine
State Sen. James A. Noe of Louisi
ana, close friend and aide to the
late Huey Long, and now a candi
date for governor, has promised to
break up the political machine
founded by the “Kingfish.” Noe
broke with the other “heirs” follow
ing Long’s death and is given
credit for instigating and leading
the present graft investigation in the
state.
Sky Beauty
Mona Friedlander, beautiful 25
year-old London girl, was selected
among the eight British women pi
lots who will ferry new army planes
from factories to airdromes.
American Canteen Serves a Clip of Tea to Tommy
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Lady Astor, left, is shown serving tea to a British soldier as she Inaugurated the first of the American
canteens In London. These canteens were presented by American women In England. From them free snacks
will be served to soldiers, featuring doughnuts and hamburgers. The latter are slow In gaining favor with the
Tommies, who claim they are filled amply during regular “mess.” Additional canteens, donated by the same
group, will be opened soon in several convenient points in England.
Cosmic Ray Photographers Get Chilly Reception
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It was 38 degrees below zero near Chicago recently—but John Q. Citizen didn’t know about it, for that tem
perature recording was made at an altitude of 29,300 feet. A party of photographers ascended to that height
to photograph cosmic rays. Perhaps Santa Claus’ whiskers serve a practical purpose. They help keep
him warm.
Now He, Too, Is Gone With the Wind
Seated before the typewriter in his New York home, Howard Rush
more writes his own exclusive story telling just why he resigned as movie
critic of the Communist publication, the Daily Worker. He refused to
criticize the motion picture, “Gone With the Wind,” in his review and
as a result was forced to quit hi.s post. Rushmore’s article exposed the
“pressure” brought to bear by Moscow on the Communist newspaper.
Finnish Air Raid ‘Ears’ Warn Gunners
Advance indication of raiding Russian airplanes is given by these
sound detectors in the Rovaneimi section of Finland. The "ears” tell the
anti-aircraft gunners that planes are approaching before they come Into
sight.
Oil Land Judge
The problem of legal compensa
tion to United States and other for
eign oil companies for lands seized
by the Mexican government now
rests with Judge Ponciano Hernan
dez, who will appoint an appraiser
to evaluate oil properties.
Dark Victory
Blind since birth. Miss Lillian Hill
man of New York saw a lifetime
ambition realized recently when she
was given a specially written part
in a new Guild Theater play, “The
World We Make.”
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NTEW YORK.—Word comes from
* London that Sir Seymour Hicks,
who, last September, became offi
cial bucker-up of British civilians.
_ , sailors and
Sir Seymour a i0idiers. is
Laughter Bomba exploding
Buck Up Britiah ‘™gh buinbs
all over the
kingdom, which eventually may
blow down the Siegfried wall like
the trumpets of Jericho.
Sir Seymour, who had a similar
job in the World war, is England’s
favorite light comedy actor, a lead
ing producer and actor-manager, a
writer of consequence and a rallying
point for both musses and classes,
as they both claim him as their own.
He is 78 years old and last month
celebrated his fifty-second year cm
the nage.
He started life as a call boy
In a London theater. His next
job was as an undertaker’s
mute, a hired mourner, some
times filling In as an emergency j
pall-bearer and the like. He
wore black well and did nicely i
In his new career, until bis
memories of the theater obtrud
ed at an unfortunate moment.
He was walking solemnly be
hind a hearse, when a distant
band struck up a tune, which
carried him back-stage again,
lie swung open the door of the
hearse and called out, "The
overture begins now, sir.”
That shunted him right back to
the theater, which, by all accounts,
he never should have left. He has
written and produced 64 plays and is
the author of eight books of remi
niscence, comment nnd criticism.
He was knighted in 1935, and May
fair made a tremendous fuss over
him, with similar cheers from the
populace. In the World war he or
ganized concerts and shows for the
Soldiers and kept up a drum-fire of
spirited humor which rated him as
the leading empire morale-builder.
DINING with Henry F. Grady
many years ago, this writer
noted that he had that old-time free
trade religion. He has never back
G rady Sticks to ^ec r e*t a r v
Old-Time Free Hulf’. Jeph'
Trade Religion ^ah- *in*f
to smite the
Ammonites hip and thigh as they
assail the secretary’s trade agree
ments program.
Mr. Grady, 57-year-old Celtic
and incurably optimistic spe
cialist in foreign trade, is assist
ant secretary of state and has
taken over the job of expound
ing and putting forward the
agreements. The law authoriz
ing the plan will expire June 12,
and the continuation of this
trade policy will be an early
and exciting kick-ofT in congress.
Mr. Grady, a San Franciscan, ed
ucated at St. Mary’s university, Bal
timore, is a man of encyclopedic
learning in trade matters, a lec
turer at many universities, the au
thor of many books and treatises
and a member of many learned so
cieties. He boils down a mountain
of data and statistics to his vehe
ment insistence that, no matter how
we may tinker with tariffs and quo
tas, the only helpful reality is the
flux of good through the internation
al bloodstream.
THE Russian Baltic drive, side
tracked by the Finns, was, ac
cording to the meager evidence ob
tainable, the pet idea of Andrei'
, Zhdanoff, fre
Futna Hammered qUently re
Wedge Between ferred to in
Stalin, Zhdanoff the last a
years as Sta
lin’s possible successor. Later news
is that Stalin has other ideas about
M. Zhdanoff’s future, as the latter
takes the rap for the debacle in
Finland.
He was designated secretary .
of the Leningrad Communist j
party committee on December
16, 1934. That made him a vir
tual dictator of the Leningrad
district, the Pittsburgh of Rus
sia. M. Zhdanoff has been par
ticularly bitter against Britain,
and several correspondents have
attributed to him the disruption
of last summer’s negotiations of
the allied powers with the So
viets.
He is 43 years old, a Revolutionist
since 1912, when he left school to
engage in agitation against the czar
ist government. Until 1917, he was
chiefly occupied dodging the police
and joined the army as a germ
carrier for the Bolsheviks. In the
early revolutionary years, he was
one of the leading organizers of
party propaganda and was thrown
into close association with Josef
Stalin. It was the beginning of a
beautiful friendship, which, quite
possibly, the skiing Finns have dy
namited. He is of a middle class
family, one of the cleverest word
smiths of Red Russia.
(Consolidated Feature*—WNU Service.)
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