They Keep Trade Channels Open for Britain
Busiest craft in the European war are the British mine sweepers, whose duties it is to rid the seas of
those deadly weapons. Here vessels take up positions in an area suspected of having mines hidden below
the surface. The mine cable,? are cut, causing them to rise to the surface. Sharpshooters then explode them.
Inset: A sailor prepares to throw marking buoys overboard to indicate to vessels that the area has been swept
clean of mines and is safe for shipping.
High Court Appointment Causes Job Switches
Early political predictions were confirmed recently when President Roosevelt announced that Attorney
General Frank Murphy, left, would succeed the late Pierce Butler as a member of the Supreme court bench.
Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson, center, replaces Murphy as attorney general, and Judge Francis Bid
dle of Philadelphia leaves the circuit court of appeals to succeed Jackson as solicitor general. The high court
seat has been vacant since Butler’s death on November 16, 1939.
Hoover Instructed in Auctioneering Art
Water Famine
Actress Gertrude Lawrence shows former President Herbert Hoover
the technique she used when she auctioned off a group of 28 paintings
in New York to aid the Finnish relief fund. The art was executed by
Ben Siibert, an American, who painted them in Finland, working in
temperatures which ranged to 20 below. Siibert donated the collection
to the fund.
Ratifying Berlin-Moscow Trade Pact
Ambassador Schkwarzew, left, seated, of Soviet Russia and Foreign
Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, right, belatedly affix their signatures
to the trade pact agreed on last fall. Premier Molotov of Russia is re
ported planning a visit to Berlin to seek German military aid against
Finland.
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Photo-diagram shows the serious
ness of New York city’s water short
age, due to last year’s drouth. The
reserve water is only 46 per cent
of the 1939 total at Croton reservoir.
Gatehouse Foreman John Tompkins
indicates with a pole the point to
which water usually reaches.
First Soldier
President Kyosti Kallio of Finland
cocks an investigating eye at an
army range finder during his re
cent visit to the Karelian front on
the Mannerheim line, which Red
invaders have failed to penetrate.
Chamberlain Gets Closeup of Front Line ^ arfare
His umbrella discarded for the time being. Premier Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain is shown inspect
ing a camouflaged gun emplacement during his recent visit to the front lines in France. It was on this occa
sion that he replied to critics of the “boring” war with the sage remark that “it is better to be bored than
bombed.” The premier is equipped with boots and puttees, evidently prepared to rough it.
Civilian Planes Meet in All-America Air Maneuvers
The greatest aerial armada of privately owned planes ever seen In this or any other country concen
trated in Miami, Fla., recently to hold its annual All-America air races. More than 1,500 civilian planes at
tended the meet. Winners included Homer C. Rankin of St. Louis, left, who was awarded the trophy do
nated by Bernarr MacFadden, center, and Bobby Lupton of Detroit, right, whose precision stunting won for
her the Gimbel air acrobatics trophy.
Business as Usual for Warren Billings
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New War Minister
Warren K. Billings, who served 23 years of a life sentence in Folsom
prison in connection with the San Francisco Preparedness day bombing
in 1916, is now running his own watch-repairing shop in San Francisco.
Billings learned the profession in prison, where he says he worked on
10,000 watches owned by fello.v prisoners and prison oflicials. Billings is
pictured at his work bench, surrounded by tools presented him by friends,
many of whom worked diligently to secure his release from Folsom. Tom
Mooney, convicted with Billings, was released from San Quentin after
serving 22 years.
Service I)e Luxe by War Zone Waiters
Steel-hatted German soldiers, serving as waiters, nu ke their cautious
way through the woods near the front line ‘‘somewheie in Germany”
carrying rations for the garrison of an advanced outpost. The man in
the rear is a guard, whose duty it is to protect the food. There is probably
hot soup or stew in the tureens on the back of the "waiters.”
Conservative Stanley Oliver,
above, was given a recent interim
appointment as British war secre
tary supplanting youthful and dar
ing Leslie Ilore-Belisha in the first
major governmental shakeup of the
present conflict. Oliver’s appoint
ment aroused a storm of contro
versy. The appointment of Sir John
Reith to replace Lord Harold Mac
Millan as minister of information
was also announced.
'They’re Lively Here’
“America is the only country
where the lively arts are alive,” ac
cording to Marta Ley, European
dancer, niece of the late Otto Kahn,
who gleefully displays her first cit
izenship papers in New York.
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• Benign Deafness •
To eliminate the annual damage
of $500,000 to submarine cables by
fishing trawlers off the coast of
Ireland, the lines are now buried
in the ocean bed by means of a
new sea plow that automatically
makes a deep furrow, inserts and
covers the cable, even at a depth
of 2,400 feet.
The record for bell ringing is
held by the men who rang, from
memory, 21,000 changes of eight
bells each in a little more than
12 hours in All Saints’ church in
Loughborough, England, on Easter
Sunday, 1909.
People get so used to seeing
their faces reversed in a mirror,
with the right side of it on the
left and vice versa, that they al
most invariably select, when giv
en a choice, a reversed photo
graph of themselves in the belief
it is “the better likeness.”
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In several British munitions
plants, only deaf men are em
ployed in the shot-blasting depart
ments because the roaring, clang
ing noise would soon make phys
ical wrecks of those with normal
hearing.—Collier’s.
Duty Called Constable
To Go the Utter Limit
The special constable was being
shown his first night beat.
“See that red light in the dis
tance?" said the sergeant. “That’s
the limit of your beat in that di
rection. Now go on with it.”
The new constable started off.
When three o’clock rolled around,
he did not come in to report, nor
did he show up for duty the fol
lowing night. Then, along about
4:30 that next morning, he turned
up again, weary and limping.
“Where in thunder have you
been,” demanded the sergeant.
A feeble response: “That red light
was a long-distance moving van.
I came upon it 43 miles out when
it stopped because of a flat tire.”
Friday the 13th
It is generally believed that the
superstition in connection with the
number 13 has reference to the
Last Supper of the Lord and His
disciples, at which 13 members
were present. Friday is consid
ered unlucky by Christians be
cause it was the day of the Lord'*
Crucifixion.
There is also a legend that it
is the day on which Adam and
Eve partook of the forbidden
fruit. Friday was considered un
lucky among the Buddhists,
Brahmans and also the Homans.
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