Near Fight in Harvill Strike
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When President H. L. Harvill and 50 employees tried to enter the
► Harvill Aircraft Die Casting corporation at Inglewood, Calif., their way
was blocked by a barricade of timbers and an auto. Police arrived
(above) and started to tow away the auto, but one striking employee
shown with his hand on officer objected. Violence was in the air, but
the police departed with the car.
Landslide Halts Rail Traffic
A landslide on the Conemangh division of the Pennsylvania railroad
along Pittsburgh's Allegheny River boulevard. An estimated million tons
of dirt and rock slid down to disrupt rail traffic, and temporarily blocked
the boulevard, one of Pittsburgh's main traffic arteries. Wheels of the
4 freight engine were derailed.
Torpedoed!
P. S. Schlaflin, second assistant
engineer of the torpedoed Standard
Oil tanker Charles Pratt, standing
by the mast of the lifeboat which he
commanded for five days. The gun
strapped to his waist Is his badge of
authority. Schlaflin, with some of
his shipmates, returned to Bayonne,
N. J., aboard a tanker.
Seized by Nazis
Jay Allen, American correspond
ent, arrested by Nasis for crossing
from Vichy to occupied France with
out permit. He Is the second U. S.
newsman recently seised.
U. S. Troops on Duty in Newfoundland
U. S. troops recently sent to Newfoundland on the U. S. transport
Edmund B. Alexander, are getting used to winter warfare conditions.
At top the transport is shown, docked at St. John’s. It serves as head
quarters and barracks for the soldiers. Below: Ski troops dressed In
white to blend with the snow leave for the training grounds.
To Investigate Defense Contracts
A senate investigation of strikes, bottlenecks, etc., was outlined by
Senator Truman (D.) of Missouri, chairman of special committee to probe
defense contracts. The committee, is L. to R„ (standing) Senator Ball
(Minn.), Senator Wallgren (Wash.), Senator Connally (Texas), Senator
Mead (N. M.), Senator Brewster (Maine), Senator Truman (seated).
Ambassador
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., who
Is ambassador in England to the
exiled governments (Holland, Nor
way, Poland, and others), Is pic
tured at LaGuardia airport in New
York city just before taking off on
the Yankee Clipper for London, by
way of Lisbon.
Arrest Nazi
Dr. M. Zapp, chief Nasi propa
gandist in the U. 8., after arrest in
New York by federal agents. He
is charged with failure to register
properly as foreign agent.
Training U. S. Aviation Mechanics
An impressive view of one of the “class rooms” at the Academy of Aeronautics, LaOuardia airport, New
York, showing some of the students of aviation mechanics at work in a mass welding session. The school to
training civilians and army men. About 300 enlisted men will take the course.
After Record Sub-Stratosphere Flight
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Left: Milo Burcham, famous test pilot for Lockheed, climbing out of P-M at Burbank, Calif., after he had
given the pursuit plane speed and altitude tests la the sub-stratosphere. Right: Chief test pilot Marshall
Beadle turns on the oxygen as Burcham starts pedaling a bicycle for 11 minutes to “supercharge” himself
for his flight high above ground. While pedaling he breathes enly pure exygen.
Brothers—Total Weight, 375 Pounds!
Nine-year-old Joseph Randazza of Gloucester, Mass., Is shown (left)
with his younger brother, Sammy, who is three. These are America’s
stoutest boys. Joe weighs 290 pounds, and Sammy 85. Joe gained 110
pounds in the last 14 months. The pair, 375 pounds strong, are out
for a morning stroll.
Royal Blood for Britain
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Her majesty, the Ranee of Sarawak, who ts the only white Ranee
in the world, is pictured here at the Presbyterian hospital in New York
city. She is giving her blood for the blood-bank which will be drawn
ipon by Great Britain from time to time. Attending the Kanee are
nurse Miss M. Clark and Dr. Earl Taylor.
To London
Thomas D. Campbell, famed
wheat expert from Montana, before
leaving the Transatlantic air termin
al in New York, on a secret mission
to London. Thomas was an adviser
to the government of Soviet Russia
on the first five-year plan.
Fled Norway
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Standing on stern of their little
fishing boat, In New York, are these
refugees from Norway. The 63-foot
ship fled on June 9 with 25 refugees.
Seventeen Joined the British armjr.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
| WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
! (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
NEW YORK.—Field Marshal Al
exander Papagos, chief of staff
of the Greek army, is a professional
soldier, singularly free from any
political con
Strong Mina of text what
Creek Army Chief ever, domes
Rule of the Land U,c or *°r:
eign. With
the passing of the late Premier John
Metaxas, he becomes possibly the
most important single individual in
the kingdom, so far as immediate
issues are concerned. From all that
can be gleaned from Athens dis
patches, he has made up his mind
and, by all accounts, his is a mind
that stays put. Greece will keep on
fighting. There will be no separate
peace.
The scholarly, gray-haired, trim
rigged soldier, smartly tailored in
mufti or in uniform, has been occu
pied quite steadily with military
strategy, both in study and prac
tice. since 1912.
After his graduation from
military academies and cavalry
schools In Athens, Belgium and
Italy, he fought In the Balkan
war of 1912 and 1913, rising from
a lieutenancy to a captaincy. In
the World war, he fought against
Bulgaria and Germany and, In
the campaign of 1929, had a staff
assignment In Asia Minor. He
was made minister of war In
1933 and chief of staff and chair
man of the supreme war coun
cil In 1939.
If he uses ammunition at careful
ly as he uses words, he should be a
supremely effective fighter against
all comers. Most characteristic is
his reserve, his calm precision in
action and his capacity for swift de
cision. Also characteristic is his
long aloofness from intrigue and
politics, during changing regimes.
He has opposed and bested the
brass hats of the army In mod
ernizing Greek fighting forces. His
calm, expert Judgment no doubt
weighs heavily in the royal counsels
today.
AS DIVING airplanes reach a
speed of 000 miles an hour,
they’re processing pilots through de
pression chambers like the sand
| hogs. Milo
1 T opay - T urvy Ace Burcham.
Oriented Self on record -hold
Bottom - Up Choir *r for “p*id*
down flying,
is rare laboratory material for the
army air corps, whamming a 1,100
horsepower Lockheed plane through
power dives which might finish him
if he hadn't had a half hour in a
decompression chamber. It pre
vents paralysis. t
Mr. Burcham, test pilot for
the Lockheed corporation, con
ditioned himself for his hazard
ous career by nailing a chair up
side down on the beam of his
kitchen, and spending a lot of
his time sitting head downward
as he coached arteries, nerves
and vision for a topsy-turvy life.
That was in 1933 when he decid
ed to make a try for the upside
down flying record.
His record flight of 4 hours, 5 min
utes and 22 seconds was just like
an afternoon of pleasant lounging in
the old kitchen chair. He had been
a sand-lot flier on Long Island be
fore going to California, to get a new
orientation on an also topsy-turvy
world. He is thirty-seven.
Nelson d. rockefeller's
friendly overtures to South
America hit a hot maxixe rhythm
and a mezzo-voce moaning. Holly
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Hollywood Aiding back to Bra
In Cartelization of zil in bril
U. S.-S. America lia,nt tecrhni‘
color Car
men Miranda, the Latin lallapalooza,
who has been hopping up the good
neighbor spirit in these parts for
nearly two years. The new film,
“That Night in Rio,” opening here,
with Senorita Miranda singing
"Chica, Chica, Boom, Chic,” looks
like a better attention-getter than
anything the Export-Import bank
might work up in the way of hemi
sphere cartelization. All this was
premeditated, as Hollywood is def
initely in on Mr. Rockefeller’s new
up and down flux of trade and cul
ture. The beautiful Brazilian chan
teuse was born in Portugal and was
taken to Brazil by her parents at
the age of two.
Her real name is Maria do Carmo
da Cunha, her stage nunte having
been taken from her mother's maid
en name. Still in her early twen
ties, she has made nine concert
tours of Brazil and other South
American countries, and her more
than 300 recordings top all sales in
the Western hemisphere. When she
made her debut here in “Streets of
Paris,” in June, 1939, North and
South America began to realize they
had much in common. Her “Sam
ba” rhythm seems to be indigenous
to both continents and ought to help
to keep good neighbors in step.