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Land and Air Maneuvers at West Point
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
KJEW YORK.—In Europe a few
years ago, this courier got a
strong impression that old Karl Bae
deker was slyly giving the Germans
the breaks.
Explorer-Writer in his guide
Prepares Guides book com-
On Latin-America Pfndium of
the compar
ative interest and importance of Eu
ropean show places. His son carried
on and in the long run of the decades
the Germans contrived to reveal Eu
rope to millions of visiting Ameri
cans—particularly school teachers—
through their eyes.
Hence one finds satisfaction in the
news that the South American Bae
deker is being worked up by a man
of German birth who is also a thir
ty-second degree American. He is
Earl Parker Hanson, engineer, ex
plorer, geographer and writer, pre
paring guides to all Latin-American
countries, under sponsorship of the
Nelson Rockefeller committee.
It is revealed that the guides will
spot up their material against a
background of “cultural and his
toric discussions.” That might be
more effective than sending down
hoofers and spoofers, # as we have
been. Two volumes^ containing
about 800,000 words, will have been
prepared at the end of this year,
under Mr. Hanson’s direction.
Mr. Hanson was born in Ber
lin, of American parents, in 1899,
eame to this country in his early
youth, attended the University
of Wisconsin and did graduate
work at the University, of Chi
cago. He was the editor of tech
nical publications, beginning his
exploring career in Iceland, fol
lowed by wanderings in the Ca
nadian sub-arctic, where he be
came a friend of Stefansson.
In 1931, he made studies df ter
restrial magnetism for the Carnegie
institution in the basins of the Ama
zon and Orinoco and thereafter de
scribed the expedition \ in his nota
ble book, “Journey to Manaos.”
Mr. Hanson didn’t need a guide
book to tell him where Adolf Hitler
was heading. Several years ago he
was on record with a sharp warning
that we’d better do something about
Iceland—that Hitler was staking it
out as a stepping stone in this di
rection.
(")WEN D. YOUNG’S farm near
Van Homsville, N. Y., is some
thing quite unlike the traditional
Sabine farm of the retired careerist,
_ , or sentimen-
* Returned Farmer talist. The
Enters Fight • for Youngs
Fair Milk Price started
farming
around those parts in 1710 and Mr.
Young, battling for the milk farmers
at Albany, says he is “more of a re
turned farmer than a retired indus
trialist.”
The former head of the General
Electric company and the Radio
Corporation of America, away from
home for a spell and now back with
money in bales and garlands of hon
orary degrees, is in dead earnest
about farming and about a fair milk
price for farmers. He has been in
the campaign for many months now.
Better luck to him than the “re
turned” American Presidents hi
Starting with Jefferson, there were
six of them who returned to their
farms and they all finished in the
red.
Mr. Yeung has been the coun
try’s champion dollar - a - year
man, but he thinks that’s too
much to ask for the farmers.
There was a drive to make him
President in 1931, which he hast
ily sidestepped. He said he
didn’t think he had the right
kind of training to sit in the
White House.
\ He was a farm boy, then a
Boston lawyer, his “earned run”
among his college degrees being
from St. Lawrence university.
He is vigorous and happy at 67,
6 feet 2, a bit heavier than
when he was running corpora
tions, and he still smokes a pipe
with a 10-inch stem. He retired
as chairman of the General
Electric company in 1939.
Some historians think traditional
American democracy was possibly
strangled in the contention between
the Hamiltonian industrialists and
the Jeffersonian agrarians. Mr.
Young is somewhere in between.
His career has widened the area of
“common ground.”
I N 1919, Col. Gerald C. Brant flew
from Houston, Texas, to Wash
ington, covering the 1,505 miles in
910 minutes. It was a big story and
there was a lot of head-shaking
about these firebrand aviators going
plum hog-wild. That’s the Maj. Gen.
Gerald C. Brant now commanding
the Gulf Coast air corps training
center. They’re getting under way
to train from 12,000 to 15,000 pilots,
taking full advantage of year-round
flying weather down there. He’s
from Charlton, Iowa, a West Point
er, and has plenty flying experience.
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Framed against the hills (left) an infantry column of the West Point cadets moves along a road in the
vicinity of the U. S. military academy. West Point, N. Y., at the start of the cadets’ annual field exercises. Pic
ture at right shows a low-flying “attacking” plane getting a hot reception, as cadet infantry and anti-aircraft
guns open fire on it.
‘Love Your Enemies’ on Eastern Front
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Picture at left shows captured Nazis receiving bread from Russian soldiers, according to the Moscow and
London censor-approved caption. In the picture at the right German troopers are giving first aid to a wounded
Russian soldier. It would seem that both sides in this terrific conflict like to send out photos showing their
men rendering aid to wounded enemies.
Mystery Blaze Sweeps Brooklyn Waterfront
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special plane made this unusual photo of the conflagration that swept
pier 27 in Brooklyn in one of the worst fires in recent years. In the
center, between both piers can be seen the Cuban liner, Panuca, ablaze.
Scores of firemen were severely injured and some military supplies were
damaged.
Home from ‘The Wars’
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Goldminer Frank Gimlett, in from
Colorado, gets his first glimpse at
New York’s architectural peaks.
Equipped with pick, shovel and gold
pan, he stands atop the Pennsyl
vania hotel with the Empire State
building in the background. He is
76 years old.
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The U. S. S. Wakefield, formerly the S. S. Manhattan, is shown
arriving in New York harbor with the force of soldiers who recently went
south to co-operate with the U. S. marines in mimic war. Landing exer
cise and beach head tactics on the coast of North Carolina were high
spots of the “war.”
This German plane looks like it
had its “ears pinned back.” Not
so, however. It was a fine, almost
undamaged specimen of the latest
German fighting plane.
One Too Many
Young Alec- was watching a
house painter at work. Presently
he asked:
“How many coats of paint do
you give a door?”
“Two, my boy,” was the reply.
“Then if you give it three
coats,” said the lad brightly, “it
would be an over-coat?”
“No,, my lad,” retorted the
painter grimly, “it would be a
waste coat.”
SOMETHING ELSE
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Pop—So your engagement to
that rich deb is off. I thought you
said she doted on you?
Son—She did; but her father
proved to be an antidote.
While Iron Is Hot
“I hear your new lodger is a
Very impetuous fellow. Does ev
erything in the heat of the mo
ment.”
“Yes, it’s his job. He is a black
smith.”
Why Tell It?
It was a very wet night when Jones
knocked at the door of his friend
Watts.
"Hallo!" exclaimed Watts. ‘7’m glad
to see you. Come in!"
"I don't think I dare" Jones protest
ed. "My feet are very dirty."
“That doesn't matter. Just keep your
boots on."
No Sale
Lawyer—That’ll be $10, please.
Client—What for?
“My advice!”
“But I’m not taking it.”
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