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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1941)
f Our Newest Bomber in Flight ■mm mi mu ii mill i i immi in in in in mu in n n i i m i i mi im iiyj The newest and best of the 17. S. medium bombers is B-26, shown here taking off (above), and in the air (below), during a test flight at Baltimore, Md. Product of the Glenn L. Martin factory at Baltimore, this high performance dealer of destruction will soon be rolling off the production lines at mass production rate. President Awards Collier Aviation Trophy President Roosevelt awarded the Collier trophy, principal aviation award of the year, to 15 representatives of commercial airlines for the safety record achieved last year. Three physicians were also honored for developing an oxygen mask. They are L. to R., standing (front), Dr. W. Boothby and Dr. W. Lovelace II, of the Mayo Foundation, and Capt. H. Armstrong of the army medical corps, Wright field, Dayton, Ohio. Power for Defense John C. Garand, inventor of the army’s famed semi-automatic Gar and rifle, is shown at work in tils model shop at the Springfield, Mass., armory, where his grand gun is in mass production to arm our defense forces. ' Sees Fascism’s End Count Carlo Sforza, former Italian premier, who is credited with the statement that the Italian people are dissatisfied with Fascism. He is now an exile in the U. S. ‘The Olympics of Aviation’ Dive bombers will demonstrate their prowess at the annual All-Amer ican Air Maneuvers—the Olympics of Aviation—in Miami, Fla., January 10 to 12. One of these “Stuka” bombers is pictured, upper right. Crack torpedo bombers are shown above flying over the Miami airport. Low flying army air corps planes appear in the bottom panel as they zoomed low in last year’s exhibition. Celebrate ‘Old Christmas’ The young boy above points to January 5, the day when the people in his village of Rodanthe, N, C., celebrate Old Christmas on the day before Epiphany. Santa Claus is shown making a delayed visit to one of the homes while “local talent” provides music for the dancing which always accompanies the celebration. Will Defend Title The world three-cushion billiards tournament will be held in Chicago on January 13. At this tournament Willie Hoppe of New York (shown above) greatest billiard champion of all time, will defend his title. Leads C. I. O. Philip Murray, new C.I.O. presi dent, will preside at an Important board meeting Jan. 8. It is believed this meeting will open a campaign of organization in all industries. 207th Coast Artillery Called to Colors i .... _ . . . ........ . ... The snappily attired officers of the 207th coast artillery, anti-aircraft (mobile) New York National Guard, stand at attention during the farewell dinner tendered at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New York city, December 16. They will see service with Uncle Sam’s army. The dinner was given by the veterans of the Seventh regl ment and the Seventh regiment New York Guard. Britain ‘Takes It’ and Carries On . At the left is shown a “knitting bee” in a Ramsgate, England, bomb shelter. These shelters are cut through solid chalk, 60 feet below the surface, and accommodate about 60,000 persons. The women are knitting com forts for the warriors. Right: Repairing watermains and light conduits in Ramsgate after a Nazi air raid. Facing Mecca From Desert Prison Camp I Senussi Tribesmen from Italian Libya arc shown making their prayer ful bow towards Mecca at sundown, somewhere in Egypt. They are prisoners of war in a British prison camp. Their spiritual leader, Sayed Idris El Senus, was visiting the camp when the photo was taken. Sayed fled from Libya into Egypt at the outbreak of the war, and is now aiding the British. Explosive Train Wrecked—Hint Sabotage The car with the white square marking in this photo is loaded with dynamite. The car was in the train wrecked on the single-track spur of the Belvidcre Delaware division of the Pennsylvania railroad at Tren ton, N. J. Fortunately, the dynamite did not explode. No one was injured. | A report that car couplings had been tampered with is being investigated. Bombed! * British firemen pouring a stream of water on the still smouldering St. James church, historic London landmark, following a German air raid on the British capital. This pic ture approved by British censors. For Air Might J. W. Hanes, former undersecre tary of the treasury, examines a 90 H. P. aviation motor, which | is being explained by chief radio man R. A. Williams, at the forty fifth congress of Americau industry in New York. By VIRGINIA VALE (Released by Western Newspaper Union.! tUCILLE BALL cut a three ^ storied wedding cake for her friends and tossed her bouquet to the ladies who at tended the reception she and Desn Arnaz gave before de parting for Hollywood and more work at the RKO Radio studios. It wasn’t exactly a wedding bouquet, since the reception was what might be called delayed. Their elopement startled prac tically everybody; the general opin ion had been that their romance was one of those things that are cooked up for the sake of sweet publicity. It’s reported that even the studio was surprised. You can see the honeymooning couple in ‘‘Too Many Girls.” _*_ These publicity stunts—"angles'* is the name for them—are the bane of a press agent's life. For exam ple. if a movie star is arriving in New York it’s up to her press agent to think up something that will sound reasonable enough to land the story of her coming, with photographs, on the front pages of the newspapers. Sometimes the stories are true, of course—but it's usually the syn thetic ones that get the most space. When Linda Darnell arrived in New York recently she got a fine press reception. She announced to reporters that she was allergic to rabbits, cats, tobacco, horses, feath ers and baking powder—she rides a horse in her latest picture, "Chad Hanna,” so that got the name of the picture into the story too. Well, Linda's a beautiful girl, and maybe she really is allergic to cats, horses, baking powder, etc. -* "Andy Hardy" has reached the age where he has a private secre tary; In the new Hardy picture, Mickey Rooney graduates from high MICKEY ROONEY school and the secretary enters his life. In this picture Kathryn Gray son. a 16-year-old singer, makes her film debut. -* James Roosevelt’s “Pot o’ Gold’* Anally went before the cameras the other day, after seven delays. First the director, George Marshall, was ill; then, when James Stewart could work, Paulette Goddard couldn’t. Finally Roosevelt himself was called up by the national defense emergen cy. Even now, when the picture has finally got under way, Stewart Is doing retakes at another studio, and they have to shoot around him. -$ The other day Henry Fonda jumped off a pullman car while clad in pajamas and a dressing gown, and sat down in a mud puddle, dur ing a heavy rain. When he rose he heaved a sigh of relief. A series of seven comedy accidents which he'd suffered for “The Lady Eve’’ was over, and he was free to go ahead and make love to Barbara Stanwyck according to the script. He’d stumbled over Miss Stan wyck's legs twice, crashed into wait ers carrying trays, fallen over a sofa into a platter of food, been drenched by (1) roast beef gravy and (2) hot coffee, and pulled some heavy por tieres down on himself. All for the sake of amusing us. -* Rudy Vallee has emerged as a triple threat man on his Thursday program over the NBC red network. Not only does he sing and lead the orchestra, but he also docs a let of verbal sparring with John Barry more, who is now a permanent fea ture of the program. We don’t know whether Barrymore has been coach ing Vallee, but Rudy’s histrionic abilities certainly have improved. It takes plenty of ability to stand up to Barrymore, but Vallee seems to have more than held his own. —-* ODDS AND ENDS—The nation'• handsome ice man is working as a ship’s officer in Paramount’s "New York Town," along with Mary Mar lin, Fred McMurray. Hob Preston and Lynne Overman. Ted Uarnick won that title in a national contest, muJ.a.ruJM in a picture teas part ol Hfkiutom . . . Leslie Howard haj fcnflm kmaidi that he's in Englof . lux—. not for the duration'of the war, but long enough so that, he can’l actnmt commitments' here . . Trierfc tieth CenturryFof hwfigned Diand Barrymore, John's daughter—so she and km--m,K'workmr-ii''W 'timi studio.
