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Six Atlantic Clipper Flying

_ Boats Scheduled To Go Into
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Construction detafls of six “At-
Jantic Clipper” flying boats which are
now being built by the Boeing Air-
craft Company, of Seattle, and are
scheduled to go into service early
next year between U.S. and Europe,
carrying 50 passengers and two-and-
e-half tons of cargo on a 24-hour run
from New York to London, were dis-
closed by Pan American Airways.
The first of the new air giants—
which will be twice the size of the
big hornet-motored Sikorsky Clipper
now making a series of survey flights
across the Atlantic preliminary to the
establishment of regular service—is
due to come out of the factory for

__the open-air fitting of its 152-foot
wing and will be ready for test
flights some time this fall.

Officials of the air line said the
Boeing Clipper’s 109-foot hull is
Jarger than the ships with which
Columbus first crossed the Atlantic
and is the first aeroplane to be con-
structed strictly along shipbuilding
lines.

The new Clipper will be equipped
with four twin-row, radial, air-cooled
Wright cyclone motors of new design
which have been under secret de-
velopment for two years and develop
1,500 horsepower each, being the
most powerful aircraft engines yet
built in the United States. Their
gross weight, fully loaded, will be
42% tons and they will have accom-
modation for 75 passengers and a
crew of 10 on other than trans-
oceanic runs. Engineers estimate
that they will have a top speed of
about 200 miles an hour and cruise at
150. :

There are three separate decks in
the Boeing Clipper, the upper,, or
flight deck housing not only the con-
trol cabin and necessary operating
stations of the crew, but complete liv-
ing quarters for the latter. The pas-
senger cabins are located on the mid-
dle deck while the bottom of the hull
is devoted to fuel storage and auxil-
jary cargo space. The ship is a full
tantilever, high-wing monoplane with
sponson floats or “seawings’ for
lateral stability in the water, these
devices also being utilized as gasoline
storage tanks.

Oldest Daily Newspaper

London Public Ledger Received
License To Print In 1759

When the Philadelphia Public
Ledger died it was mentioned here
‘that there was a London Public
Ledger even older than the Ameri-
can one, indeed the oldest daily news-
paper still published in this country.

‘Those who, commenting on the
sale of the Morning Post, stated
that that journal was the oldest were
mistaken. Mr. H. S. Alexander, the
present proprietor and editor of the
Public Ledger, showed to me in his
office overlooking the Tower one of
the earliest copies, but not the first,
which came out on January 12, 1760.
He also had a copy of the charter
or license to print signed by the
elder Pitt in 1759. Soon after pub-
lication Goldsmith became a contri-
butor and published in the Ledger his
“Citizen of the World” essays.

In those days it was chiefly, how-
ever, a register of commerce and a
digest of advertisements in other
Papers. To-day, it is still much the
same, and is valued by city banks
and brokers for its complete list of
commodity prices. At sixpence a copy
it must also be our most expensive
daily paper——Manchester Guardian.

Over The Top

Japanese At 109 Succeeds Ih Climb-
ing Mount Fuji

A Reuter despatch from Tokyo
gives a curiously human item of
news. A certain Toichiro Ito had
nursed a lifelong ambition to climb
Mount Fuji. He has at last succeed-
ed—at the age of 109 years. To
climb Mount Fuji is more than a
mountaineering feat. For the Japa-
nese Fuji has national, almost reli-
gious, associations. Instinctively one
recalls the case of Mallory and Er-
vine who died in an attempt to scale
Mount Everest. They were “last
seen going strong for the top.” Im-
a@gine living to be 109 and then
achieving your ambitions. “It’s
dogged as does it.”—New Outlook.

Taught Handy Jobs

Unemployed men in Croydon, Eng-
Tand, have been taught handy jobs
ground the house to enable them to
cut down their living expenses; they
were taught boot mending, clothing
and furniture repairing, painting, and
paperhanging, among other trades.

Rice has never been tasted by mil-
lions of people in the northwestern
gections of China.

Ballads Of The Rail

Few Realize That Many Melodies
About Railroading Have
Been Written

In his-courses on the English bal-| ”

lad at Harvard Professor George
Lyman Kittridge never devoted any
particular lecture (if memory serves)
to the railway ballad lore of the land,
and it is doubtful if many realize
how extensive the repertoire of folk-
songs of the iron pike really is, says
the New York Herald Tribune.
Every one is familiar with ‘Casey
Jones” and “The Wreck af the Old
97”, and, of course, “I’ve Been Work-
ing on the Railroad” has long since
become part of a more embracing
category of popular music, but have
many people ever heard “Southern
Railroad Blues,” “Railroad Bill,” or
“The Wreck on the C. & O.”?—out-
side any one, that is, not a devotee
of native minstrelsy and the ever-
growing circle of railroad and loco-
motive aficionados to whom legend,
ballad and wistful souvenir of the
saga of American railroading is ever
precious ?

In its current issue Railroad Maga-
zine lists more than half a hundred
rail ballads that have been imperish-
ably recorded on gramophone disks,
many of them in several versions
and redactions, and the number per-
petuated in “canned’’ music can bé
only a slight fraction of the extant

ber of popul dies devoted
to the exploits of engineers’ tragedies
of the rail or the sentimental side of
wheeling freight and varnish over the
illimitable vistas of the iron.

Spends Her Own Money

Daughter Of Baron Feeds Stray
Cats In London

Night strollers in London’s fashion-
able West End have become accus-
tomed of late to seeing a little old
lady walking with a basket on her
arm and, with good reason, followed
by a growing procession of purring
cats, mostly strays,

She is the Hon. Mrs. Helen Charl-
ton, 70-year-old daughter of the
third Baron Abinger. Her basket
contains such things as minced sal-
mon, pate de foie gras, minced beef
and cartons of milk, which she dis-
tributes generously and impartially
to any pussies, whether of high or
low degree, she which

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Theory Not Accepted

That Hay Fever Attacks Only The
Cultivated Class

As Bark Twaid used to gay, a lot
of people talk about hay fever but
dobody does adythig about it.

Here, for instance, is a learned
man from Budapest, who is reported
in the papers as reviving that old
saw about how hay fever is more
prevalent among the more cultivated
types of individuals than among the
lower classes.

There is small comfort in that at
best; and, anyway, most authorities
on protein sensitivity think it is
bunk. People have been saying it,
off and on, for forty years; but stat-
istics seem to give it the lie.

All that has been discovered is that
hay fever is a catarrhal affection of
the mucous membrane of the eyes,
nose and respiratory tract and seems
to be caused by the pollen of various
plants, by horsehair, by the motes
in a sunbeam, or merely by thinking
about sneezing.—Boston Transcript.

Similar Only In Colors

Chinese Ensign Carries More Red
Than British Flag
af airmen who machine-

happen to be around after dark and
therefore possibly may be hungry.

So engrossed is she in her chari-
table undertakings that she is said
to have cancelled her summer holi-
days in case her wandering pets
should suffer.

To a Daily Mail reporter who
questioned her concerning her hobby,
she said: “I expect some people
might think my practice odd, but
that is the only way I can be sure
the cats are fed. I have given up
donating money to charities —I
much prefer to spend it on food and
feed the animals myself.’—Strat-
ford Beacon-Herald.

“Can you take me to the station?”
the old lady asked the taxi-driver,

“Sorry, ma’am, I’m engaged,” was
the reply.

“Then I’m sure I wish you every
happiness, but you mustn't let love
interfere with your work.” 4

There are 17 Spanish-speaking na-
tions in the western hemisphere.

gunned the British ambassador as he
drove along a ChineSe road are re-
ported to have mistaken a British
flag for a Chinese ensign.

The flags of Great Britain and
China are similar only in that they
are made up of the same colors, red,
white and blue.

Contrasted to the familiar design
of the Union Jack, the Chinese na-
tional flag is dominantly red, the en-
tire base being this color. In the up-
per left-hand corner is a blue rec-
tangle on which is superimposed a
white symbol representing the sun.

It might be possible that an air-
man, flying at some height and ob-
taining an extremely foreshadowed
view of a flag flying upright, could
mistake one for the other.

He: “I am rather in favor of the
English than the American mode of
spelling.”

She: “Indeed!”

He: “Yes. Take ‘parlour,’ for in-
stance. Having ‘U’ in it makes all

the difference in the world.”

Fact Not Generally Known

No Man Ever Died Of Starvation
States Doctor

How long can a man live without
eating? This question arises anew
folowing the finding of Paul Crzuck,
50-year-old former resident of Tor-
onto, after he had been lost 24 days
in the northern bush without food.
Crzuck had chewed dried leaves, but
his life was at a low ebb.

Men have been known to live for
70 days without food and others
have died after 19 or 20 days of
starving.

“In the first place,” said a well-
known Toronto physician, “no man
ever died of starvation. When a man
‘fasts to death’, what kills him are
the poisons he generates as his hun-
gry body absorbs its own tissues.”

In other words a fasting man “eats
himself,” but his body is not equipped
to get rid of the resulting polsons.
So that how long a man lives de-
pends on his general physical condi-
tion, on how well he can resist the
inroads of the poisons, rather than
on how much fat he has to absorb.

“As a matter of fact, the doctor
said, “a fat man’s apparent advant-
age in a hunger strike, in having
more tissues to absorb, is balanced
by the fact that the more he burns
up stored energy in the form of
starch and sugar, the more poisonous
acids he looses into his body.”

So no definite rule can be laid
down concerning how long a man can
live without food.

Must Be A Record

Sir Temulji and Lady Nariman of
Bombay, both 90 years old, celebrat-
ed their 85th wedding anniversary
recently. They were married in 1852
at the age of five when child mar-
riages were common in India. Sir
Temulji is still in active practice as
a doctor.

The first crop in a new planting of
tea bushes is ready by the third year,
and a full crop may be harvested
five years after the planting.

France has seventeen cities with
populations exceeding 100,000, ac-
cording to the last census.

Gold was one of the prizes that
the Romans sought when they set out
to conquer Britain.

Purge Of Soviet Officials
And Lowly Russian Peasants
As Nation’s Production Falls

Started Two Centuries Ago

Druggist In Philadelphia First Used
A Soda Fountain

You may wonder why the device
you have been patronizing so freely
during the hot weather is called a
soda fountain when it does not. dis-
pense soda water and it isn’t a foun-
tain. The Chicago Historical Society
tells why, because it has in its pos-
session one of the early types of
soda fountains which was set up in a
drug store around about 1850; the
days when drug stores didn't sell
bathing caps, bulbs and serve lunches:

“Sodas” originated as far back as
200 years ago, but they were just
that in those days. The inventor
was a Dr. Cyng Physik, of Philadel-
phia, which sounds as if he had been
a bit of a quack and adopted that
name. At any rate he prescribed
carbonic acid gas for a patient, and
a druggist named Speakman supplied
the man’s wants over the counter.
Perhaps the patient spoke highly of
this drink he was having, because a
lot of other people went to Speak-
man’s for a shot of the bubbly
water. Speakman had an eye to
business, and realizing that he could
create a demand for it, he set up a
device which looked like a coffee urn
with six spigots, and was soon doing
a roaripg trade which he expanded
by adding a flavoring to make it an
attractive drink. So, instead of sell-
ing a medicine he retailed a beverage.

Not until about 1890 did the wall
type of soda fountain come into use.
Prior to that druggists had added ice
cream to the drink. Modern science
has made the soda fountain what it
is—a dispensary of flavored drinks
of all kinds to which mankind grate-
fully resorts during the dog days.—
St. Thomas Times-Journal.

Monks Train For Army

Leave Monastries In Shanghal To
Take Six-Month Course
Seyenty young Buddhist monks at
Shanghai discarded their long robes
for the grey uniforms of field order-
lies as they began a six-month train-
ing course in war-time first aid.
The monks were chosen by com-
petitive examination in four Shang-
hal monastries. They are between
21 and 35 years old and were selected
after strict physical and mental tests.
The course—consisting of lessons in
biology, hygiene, elementary medi-
cine, dressing of wounds and treat-
ment of patients suffering effects of
poison gases—is sponsored by the
China Buddhist association as a con-
tribution to national defence.

Last Word In Luxury

Bulldog Will Sleep In Special Bed
Costing $150

Visitors viewed a bed ordered from
Jake Maca, cabinet-maker of Dupree,
S.D., by an unnamed Black Hills
woman.

The visitors thought it was a
“beautiful piece of work—but a bit
small for a bed.”

The cabinet-maker explained the
woman had ordered the bed, com-
plete with inner-spring mattresses
and springs, for her pet bulldog. It
is valued at $150.

A correspondent wants to know
how many people keep books in the
United States. Those who own lb-
raries say you'd be surprised.

WHERE SHELLS RAINED DESTRUCTION ON SHANGHAI

Here are two excellent views of the crowded shopping areas in the heart of Shanghai where a big shell exploded, killing more than 400 and injur- |

ing hundreds of others during the fierce artillery duel between Chinese and Japanese.
thoroughfares in the International Settlement, and at the right is a photograph of the

exploded during the rush hour.

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A broadening “purge” of Soviet
officials and lowly peasants within
Russia was reported as the nation’s
production fell well behind 1937
quotas—evidence, authorities said, of
sabotage, diversion and enemy spies.

With many parts of Russia ‘spy
conscious,’ records of death, dis-
charge, exile and imprisonment for
enemies of the state have mounted
in proportion to the failure of shops
and factories to meet an ever-in-
creasing demand for new materials.

Inspired by prominent Soviet news-
paper accounts of skilful detection
of spies and wreckers, men, women
and children have become  self-
ordained detectives and almost any
gesture may inspire someone’s sus-
picious curiosity.

Soviet officials are silent, and only

ional press ts enlighten
the public on wholesale punishment
meted out to the Soviet unfaithful.
The known dead “enemies of the
state” can be counted in hundreds;
the lesser offenders, who are in prison
or exile or who are demoted, total
thousands.

So closely watched are foreigners
that few Russian dentists will treat
them, so they go to Helsingfors for
dental care. Russian language teach-
ers stopped visiting their foreign
students weeks ago. Other Russians
hold aloof from all foreigners who
might bring spy-chasers to their
doors.

Workers have denounced their
executives; children have become
spies. Arrests were made on the
word of either class of informant.

The fact that only 27 per cent. of
the year’s schedule in brick-making
was completed excused building de-
lays. Production here and in other
fields continues to increase but fails
to keep pace with ambitious Soviet
programs.

The press reported that the Siber-
fan lumber industry was ‘full of
enemies of the people.’ The person-
nel was shaken up. Production for
1937 is short in cotton textiles, ma-
chinery, steel, chemical fertilizing,
coal and cement. The motor car
turnout is below schedule.

Light industry’s own newspaper
reported that at the end of the first
half of the year this particular field
was behind schedule to the amount
of 26,000,000 pairs of hose, 4,800,000
pairs of shoes, 7,000,000 suits of un-
derwear, 32,300,000 pieces of cloth-
ing, 285,000,000 yards of cotton cloth
and 76,000,000 spools of thread.

Good Judge Of Horses

Princess Royal Is Now An Authority
On Racers And Hunters

There is no other member of the
Royal Family whose enthusiasm for
racing is comparable to that of the
Princess Royal, according to the
London Daily Sketch. Next to her
would be Lady Cambridge. Riding
with her two sons is one of the fay-
orite holiday recreations of the Prin-
cess Royal, who with her family, is
now at Knaresborough Hall. The
Princess has been coached consider-
ably by her husband, Lord Harewood,
who is a prominent member of the
Jockey Club, and she is now an
authority on racers and hunters. As
a girl the Princess learned from her
father the rudiments of judging
breeds. She has hardly missed an
important meeting this season. While
on holiday she and Lord Harewood
are making plans for the autumn
meetings and entries from the Hare-
wood stable. Although Lord Hare-
wood guides his wife in her selec-
tions, her own opinion is sound on
form. It is often followed by her
relations.

Limit To 'Plane Speed

Airplanes have flown through the
air at over 300 miles per hour. What
incredible speeds will be achieved in
the future? Scientists limit the speed
to somewhere around 600 m.p.h., the
reason being that at a greater speed
than that the sound waves created
by the engine would meet the air
passing over the top of the wings at
about the same speed, namely, 770
mp.h.

Travels In Limousine
An Oklahoma Indian—one of
oil-land Oklahomans—was the
tre of attraction when his limousine

the

cen-

stopped for a moment while the
liverfed negro chauffeur did some
shopping at Belleville, Ontario. The

Indian wore plaits of hair down his

latest novelty in Germany.

cheeks, a sombrero hung with sil-
ver coins, buckskin shirt and smoked

| a black cigar, oblivious of the curious.

Eyeglasses that enable you to read

At the left is a view of the Nanking Road, one of the main | a book on your lap while still appar-
Wing & On Co., department store. It was here that the shell | ently looking straight aheud are the

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