As Turkey’s Mechanized Army Keeps Neutrality
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Backed by one of the world’s most highly mechanized armies, mysterious Turkey holdB the balance of
power in the fight for domination of the Near East, now being waged by France and Britain on one side
and Russia and Germany on the other. Although allied with France and Britain, Turkey's motorcycle troops
and “big berthas” are aimed primarily to assure her neutrality.
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Old Glory Breaks Even in Massachusetts Schools
The American flag made headline news in two Massachusetts schoote recently. Left: Brothers Beech
er, 16, and Hollis Green, 12, willingly salute the flag, but their sisters, Wanda, 14, and Geneva, 11, members
of Jehovah’s Witnesses, refuse the patriotic gesture. Other pupils in the Saugus school, also members of the
religious sect, refused to salute the flag. School officials have instructed parents to explain their children’s re
fusal. Right: Kathleen E. Ross, 12, Norwood, Mass., received permission from probate court to change her
name to Betsy E. Rose, after the young Philadelphia woman who designed the first American flag.
First Lady Sees First Jai Alai Match
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as she saw her first jai alai game in
* Miami, Fla., where she spent her vacation. Pictured with her are Ur.
Frank Christian and Manager Richard Berenson, who is showing her a
ball and cesta, the “basket” which the jai alai player ties to his hand and
in which he scoops up the ball before returning it against the wall. The
game is becoming more and more popular in this country.
Frankie Frisch Returns to Diamond Wars
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Frankie Frisch, who has taken over the managerial reins of the
Pittsburgh Pirates, is shown talking to pitchers (left to right) Butcher,
Bauers and Iierrell as they don their uniforms for an early-season
workout during the spring training season at San Bernardino, Calif. Frisch
was out of baseball last year, when he worked as a baseball broadcaster.
‘A Very Good Boy’
First place winner in a city-wide
poll of New York teachers was this
picture titled “A Very Good Boy.”
Teachers acclaimed it as the best
photograph ever to appear in the
annual pictorial report of the super
intendent of schools.
‘Party’ Man
Vice President John Garner drinks
a toast (milk only) to Sen. Burton
K. Wheeler of Montana, who cele
brated his fifty-eighth birthday at a
i party in the senate dining room of
1 the Capitol, Washington, D. C.
Death Misses Classroom Mark by One Hour
Death was cheated by one hour’s time recently when a water heater exploded In the Ripon junior high
school at Modesto, Calif. The heater blew up at 6:55 in the morning and ripped out a whole corner of the
athletic building, left. It sailed 150 feet through the air and was projected through the agricultural building,
right, piercing both walls of the structure like a giant cannon ball. It sailed another 150 feet before burying
itself in the ground. There were no casualties as classes were not scheduled to gather until one hour
later.
Model Railway Helps Make Cleveland ‘Safest City’
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A model railway, in use for the past 10 years, is used to test all applicants for motormen’s Jobs on the
Cleveland, Ohio, street railway. The model railway is an exact replica of conditions the men will face on
the city’s streets. Lefts A test is made of Applicant William Murray’s reaction. Right: According to the
scoreboard, Murray used ‘‘poor Judgment” in permitting this “crash.” Authorities claim the Job test has
made Cleveland’s streets the safest in the country.
Grandstand
A marine mine which was washed
up ou the English coast provides a
grandstand for this youngster who
gazes out over the ocean. It isn’t
as dangerous as it looks for the de
tonator was removed from the high
ly explosive machine, which is pow
erful enough to sink a ship.
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Glamour Boy
Shades of Christy Mathewson!
Pictured here is Tom Healey, cap
tain of Harvard university’s base
ball team, acquiring a bit of glamour
In a Cambridge, Mass., beauty par
lor. Why? It might be for pub
licity’s sake.
Swedish Premier Visits King Gustav
King Gustav of Sweden, right, with his premier, Albin Ilansson, diu
cuss the results of the recent Copenhagen conference between Norway,
Sweden and Denmark. The foreign ministers of the three countries voiced
hopes for a peaceful solution of the Finnish-Kussian war and decided
their own countries would continue their policy of neutrality in Europe's
wars.
Hoover Sees Europe a ‘Starvation’ Spot
Former President Herbert Hoover as he appeared before the house
foreign affairs committee recently to tell members that the whole conti
nent of Europe would be "a starvation spot” after the war. Hoover urged
that congress make a start toward the general European relief program
by appropriating $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. Rep. Sol Bloom, committee
chairman, holds a paper as Hoover makes notes.
Strange Facts
Blank to White
3-Lane Sidewalk
* Bouncing Chocks *
The whitest of all white pig
ments is Titanium dioxide, which
is made from ilmenite, a black
sand. This transformation, taking
five days, requires several com
plicated chemical processes, after
which the substance is calcined at
a high temperature and ground
into a fine powder.
By marking off its busy side
walks into three traffic lanes, the
inner for window shoppers and
loafers, the middle for slow walk
ers and the outer for those in a
hurry, Louisburg, N. C., (pop.
2,182), has eliminated its pedes
trian traffic snarls.
The large hotels of New York
city, in cashing millions of dollars’
worth of checks annually for
guests and patrons, average a loss
of $1 out of every $2,600.—Collier’s.
FIGHT COLDS by taking Dr.
Fierce's Golden Medical Discovery
over a period of time. Helps build
physical resistance by improving nu
tritional assimulation.—Adv.
Full Reason
To abstain that we may enjoy
is the epicurianism of reason.—
Rousseau.
INDIGESTION
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Greatest Fault
The greatest of faults is to be
conscious of none.—Carlyle.
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Most Noble Work
No artist’s work is so high, so
noble, so important for all time
as the making of character in a
child.—Cushman.
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Why Let Yonrself
Get Constipated?
Why endure those dull headachy
days due to constipation, plus the
inevitable trips to the medicine
chest, if you can avoid both by
gettlngat thecauseof thetrouble?
If your constipation, like that
of millions, is due to lack of
“bulk" in the diet, the “better
way” is to eat Kellogg’s All-Bran.
This crunchy toasted breakfast
cereal is the ounce of prevention
that’s worth a pound of .emer
gency relief. It helps you not only
to get regular but to keep regular,
day after day and month after
month, by the pleasantest means
you ever knew.
Eat Kellogg’s All-Bran regu
larly, drink plenty of water, and
see if you don’t forget all about
constipation. Made by Kellogg’s
in Battle Creek. If your condition
is chronic, it is wise to consult
^a physician. ^
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Knows Only Price
; The cynic is one who knows the
price of everything and the value
of nothing.—Wilde.
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WHEN kidneys function badly andj
you suffer a nagging backache,!
with dirtiness, burning, scanty or too;
freauent urination and getting up at
night; when you feel tired, nervous,
all upset... use Doan’s Pills.
Doan's are especially for poorly
working kidneys. Millions of boxes
are used every year. They are recom
mended the country over. Ask your
I neighbor! .
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our merchants announced
in the columns of this paper
j you can depend on them. They
! mean bargains for you.
i • They are offered by merchants
who are not afraid to announce \
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of the merchandise they offer.