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(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
N EW YORK.—There’s a nice al
literation in “Cape Town Clip
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* Clipper's Skipper: Pan Alley.
He's a Topper; The tall,
MU a Whopper!
Capt. Harold E. Gray, who brings,
the ship back from the Belgian Con
go on a round trip of 19,961 miles,
is smart and good looking and could
walk on in a Jerome Kern musical,
commemorating his exploit, but it
is a safe bet that he never will.
Just a glance at his work sheet for
the last 15 years shows that he had
to keep his mind on his work to at
tain this eminence.
There may never be a Casey
Jones of the air, the bncko lad
who will ride anything, any
where, on the slightest provoca
tion. Just a look at the dash
board of a modern plane is
enough to convince one of that.
Even the Lindbergh saga might
have been different if it had
been paced to differential equa
tions. Bat, of coarse, there will
i he another Kipling with another
“Night Mail,’*-who' will find in
modern air transport an exalt
ed theme—this time fully real
ized. Just now there seems to be
no master or Journeyman of
poetry or prose who is quite up
to it.
As to being a Clipper skipper, any
lad who starts to day-dream his
way into the job had better make
other arrangements. Here are a
few but not all of the qualifications
of 35-year-old Captain Gray:
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Here in graphic detail is shown the location of strategic points in the war between Japan and the
United States. Distances between important points now in the headlines are also shown. Of particular interest
are the following points: the Russian port of Vladivostok and its nearness to Japan, which would make it
an ideal air base in a bombing raid campaign on the enemy; the Hawaiian islands where at Pearl Harbor
the Japanese opened their war on the United States with a devastating aerial attack; the most vulnerable
sector of the continental United States to Japan attack—the Pacific coast area. .
How Navies of Warring Nations Compare
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Heads Pacific Fleet
He is a ms
licensed engine mechanic, a li
censed airplane mechanic, a
graduate radio engineer, a li
censed radio operator, a first
class seaman and the holder of
certificates in international law,
maritime law and business ad
ministration. That’s about par
for the course on the ocean fair
ways for the men who command /
the big flying ships. /
Mr. Gray was born in Guttei
berg, Iowa, in 1906 and left the Uni
versity of Iowa to take flight train
ing at Brooks field in the army
school. He later went to the Univer
sity of Detroit and took a degree in
aeronautical engineering. He flew
first for the Ford Motor company,
and then joined the Pan-American
Airways for flights to the Canal
Zone. In 1931 he took up studies
for his master pilot rating pnd be
came one of the youngest meq to
attain the highest flying rank of
“master of ocean flying boats.”
'"pHIS department never has been
A able to get it quite straight, as
to women owning 70 per cent of the
wealth of the country, and wield-
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Women Out to Get tionate influ-
A Play for Their ence in pub-
70% of Wealth lie affairs.
Some per
sons informed in finance in politics
say they do and some say they
don’t. Miss Cathrine Curtis, the
tall, Junoesque lady who organized
women investors in America a few . aosbluld Edward Kimmel, 59, who
years back, not only insists that took over command of the Pacific
fleet and also of the entire U. S.
fleet last February 1.
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This chart shows the naval strength of the Axis and Allied navies. Latest figures available are shown.
The American fleet in the Pacific
is under the command of Admiral
women do have all this money and
say-so, but makes it a business to
see that they get a play for it—a
big new feminine pressure group if
you want to put it that way.
At Washington, Miss Curtis
leads her embattled 70 per cent
—if that’s what it is—into a fight
against price control legislation.
Her battle is one of many, on
various public issues, which she .
has centered at Washington.
In her home town, Glen Falls,
N. Y., where her father ran a hotel,
the 18-year-old Miss Curtis saw Gus
Thomas’ play, “Arizona.” She fol
lowed it around the up-state circuit
and became so saturated with it?
romantic glamour that she kept
right on going—to Arizona. There
Harold Bell Wright saw her and put
her in his moving picture, “Shep
herd of the Hills.” This was her
start in various moving picture and
ranching enterprises. It was in 1935
that, in New York, her present
home, she organized the women in
vestors. It appears that nobody ever
has figured out how much of that 70
per cent is merely something in the
wife’s name for safe-keeping.
I N 1840, the principality of Sara
wak, in Borneo, was a safe re
treat where one might hide out and
let the world go by. James Brooke
of England, and his descendants
found it so, for 101 years, ruling
500,000 persons. There’s an end of
that, with Lieut. Gen. A. E. Perci-
val, flying from Singapore to Sara
wak, 400 miles, to inspect and en
large defense operations on the Bor
neo northwest coast. Sir Charles
Vyner Brooke, white rajah, co-oper
ates. Sarawak is important in em-
pire survival, as an air base.
In Asiatic Waters
As President Asked War Declaration
The beautiful poinsettia is a tem
peramental plant. It must have the
proper amount of sunshine, dark
ness, water and warmth, or it will
die. But the brilliantly colored
flowers it has at Christmas time
will more than repay the efforts
needed to keep the plant alive.
Strong, healthy plants and fine
blooms will result if the flower is
understood and pampered just a
little. It is a tropical plant from
Mexico that is accustomed to the
conditions of its original home.
Constant warmth is required by
the poinsettia. The temperature
President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressing the joint session of con
gress, when he asked congress to declare a state of war against Japan.
Congress passed the declaration 33 minutes after FDR’s speech.
U. S. Fleet Off Coast of Hawaii
should be kept between 70 and 80
degrees during the day and about
65 degrees at night. Sudden temper
ature changes and drafts will cause
the plant to drop its leaves.
Abundant water is important, but
it should be applied only once each
day so that the soil can become
moderately dry between watering.
This is necessary to permit needed
oxygen to reach the roots. High
humidity in the air surrounding the
plant will also contribute to its
vigor. When it is impossible td
maintain a high humidity, a daily
syringing of the foliage will be
beneficial if applied during the fore
noon. ^
It is best to give the plant the
sunniest spot available. Occasion
ally fertilize it with a good commer
cial food tablet. ‘
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When flowering is over and the
leaves are dropped, withhold water,
until the soil becomes dry. Place
the pot on its side on the floor of
the basement where the tempera
ture hovers around 50 degrees and
let it remain there for the next three
months. Early in May repot the
plant in a mixture of good garden
loam, coarse sand and leaf mold,
and cut the stem about four to eight
inches from the soil level so that
two or three joints are retained.
Place the plant in a sunny window
after potting and water carefully un
til there is new growth, when the
quantity of water should be in
creased.
The plant may be placed outdoors
when the temperature becomes
balmy, but it should be taken in
doors early in fall before the arrival
of cool nights. The first colored
bracts will appear late in Novem
ber and the plant will bloom about
Christmas.
Admiral Thomas C. Hart, 64, who
commands the U. S. Asiatic fleet.
A splendid view of units of the United States fleet at anchor in Lahaina
roads, Hawaii, near the scene of the unprovoked attack by Japanese
bombers at a Sunday’s dawn.
Pa cific
Ocean-
TOKIO
In bombing raids on Japan, Russia’s port of Vladivostok would make an ideal air base for U. S.
Toys for Children
Should Be Selected
To Fit Age Level
Select a child’s Christmas toys as
you select his clothes—to “fit” his
age level, suggests Dr. Ella J. Day,
head of the University of Tennessee
child development department.
“If the child is just learning to
walk and climb, give him play ma
terials to stimulate these activities.
He needs his first picture books when
he begins to talk, housekeeping toys
at about three when he begins to
want to help mother, and crayons
and scissors when he can begin to
handle them,” says Dr. Day.
Parents, aunts, uncles and cousins
should consider what the child is
ready for as regards physical
growth and mental and social de
velopment in selecting toys, contin
ues Dr. Day.
“If toys are selected with some
relation to the child’s growth and
needs, they will be toys which stim
ulate self-reliance. This is impor
tant from the standpoint of building
up habits of industry, concentration
and stick-to-itiveness, and to foster
creative and constructive activity.”
Most children can fare better with
fewer but carefully selected toys, it
is believed.
Dr. Day also recommends that
parents consider the probable “life”
of a toy before buying.
Good Children
Boys and girls, listen to this. Santa
keeps careful tab on all of you. Ev
ery time a little boy uses daddy’s
razor for carving up the furniture,
or a little girl spills the ink on
mother’s best tablecloth, it is writ
ten in red ink against the name of
the little boy or girl. But if a boy
carries out the ashes for dad, or if
a little girl helps her mother with
the dusting or the dishes, the report
is written in green ink. And it’s the
green ink reports that bring Santy
down your chimney on Christmas
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The Questions
1. In British history, what is
meant by the star chamber?
2. What is a menage?
3. What name is given to ft
poem in which the initial letters
of the lines, when taken in order,
form a word or words?
4. If London bridge should fall
down, into what river would it
land?
5. What is the plural of the word
mongoose?
6. At what is a calligrapher
adept?
7. One-fourth of a barrel is
called what?
8. Who coached the “peint-a-
minute” team famous in football
history?
9. When was the first star
measured?
10. Which country first intro*
duced the lifeboat?
The Answers
1. An ancient high court which
fiat without a jury.
2. A household.
3. An acrostic.
4. The Thames.
5. Mongooses.
6. Handwriting.
7. A firkin.
8. Fielding H. Yost.
9. Although the stars have been
scientifically studied for hundreds
of years, not one was ever mqfts-
ured until December 13, 1920,
when the diameter of Betelgeuse
was determined with the aid of a
special type of interferometer at
the Mount Wilson observatory in
California.
10. The lifeboat was a British in
troduction. The first was launched
at South Shields in 1789. There
were many wrecks and great loss
of life in the stormy waters at
the entrance to the Tyne, and
South Shields residents offered a
prize for the design of a boat capa
ble of riding the rough seas. The
best points in the various designs
submitted were combined in the
first boat.
DON’T LET
CONSTIPATION
SLOW YOU UP
• When bowels are sluggish and you feel
irritable, headachy and everything you
do is an effort, do as millions do — chew
FEEN-A-MINT, the modern chewing
gum laxative. Simply chew FEEN-A-
MINT before you go to bed—sleep with
out being disturbed—next morning gentle,
thorough relief, helping you feel swell
again, full of your normal pep. Try
FEEN-A-MINT. Tastes good, is handy
and economical. A generous family supply
FEEN-A-MINTTo*
Selfish Gratitude
The gratitude of most men is
but a secret desire of receiving
greater benefits. — La Rochefou
cauld.
middle-age;
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Simple Science
Science when well digested is
nothing *but good sense and rea
son.—Stanislaus.
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