WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
ZECHOSLOVAKIA and all that
may hang on its destiny is just
an added starter in
Robertson
Has Remedy
for Gloom
board of the West»
inghouse Electric
& Manufacturing
company.
It is the always assured and hope-
ful Mr. Robertson who announces his
and, from where Mr. Robertson sits,
that's just a couple of white chips
compared to spendings to come.
Mr. Robertson is the H. G. Wells
of industry.
the following specifications:
Migratory humans, shifting
north and south like the birds.
“Just whether the children will
be born in the North or the
South,” he said, “‘is not quite
clear to me, but I expect we
will follow the policy of the
birds and have the children in
the North.”
Windowless houses, pasteur-
ized air, and artificial sunlight.
One-man planes, with folding
wings, kept in the hall rack,
with the umbrellas.
Pocket radios for two-way
talk with anybody, anywhere.
Noiseless cities with double-
deck streets.
Flat houses, with a push-but-
ton crane which will park the
the auto on the roof.
Panama, New York, chore boy and
rustler in his youth and hence not
through grammar school until
was seventeen.
in a country office, entered prac-
tice, got corporations for clients and
then began owning and operating
them.
At forty-six he was president of
the Philadelphia company and now
heads a $200,000,000 company. He
pays liberal wage bonuses and
urges friendly, co-operative rela-
tionship between capital and labor.
* » *
T WAS only a year ago that Rob-
ert R. Young, thirty-nine-year-
old Texan, quite unknown to Wall
Street, rode herd on the straying
Van Sweringen
system and cor-
ralled it. It was
all bewilderingly
complicated, but,
finally sifted down, it appeared that
Mr. Young had picked up a $3,000.-
000,000 rail ““empire’ with an orig-
inal investment of $225,000.
He is a quiet, inconspicuous, un-
assuming man, and now the feature
Young Texan
Rode Herd on
Rail System
calling him a “Titan.”
He won a rock-and-sock
proxy battle for the control of
the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
way. Within the last few years,
he has infiltrated gently into
high finance, which is just now
becoming acutely conscious of
his presence.
His family was in and around
Canadian, Texas, before the battle
of the Alamo. They started the
which is now in the hands of the
fourth generation.
At Culver Military academy, Rob-
ert R. Young was graduated at the
head of his class,
Career at
Culver Was
Prophetic
uate, and later he
attended the Uni-
versity of Virginia.
With the Du Ponts in 1916, he got
and joined General Motors in 1922.
In 1932, he founded his own
Wall Street firm, with Frank F.
Kolbe, his later associate in the
Van Sweringen putsch.
Mrs. Young is the former Anita
Ten Eyck O'Keefe, of Williamsburg,
Va., sister of Georgia O'Keefe, the
painter. In 1935, they leased Beech-
wood, the Astor estate, in Newport.
Mr. Young, a Democrat, like his
father, paid $15,000 for a consign.
ment of those famous Democratic
convention books, which congress-
men, badgering him at a senate
hearing, insisted wasn't nearly so
much of a bargain as the Van
Sweringen deal. “You are a big-
ger sucker than I thought you
were,” said Senator Wheeler.
© Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
Languages of Nations
Switzerland is not the only nation
having more than one official lan-
guage. Palestine has three recog-
nized tongues, English, Hebrew and
Arabic. Actually more than one
language is spoke in every country
in Europe but one. Portugal is the
only nation having a single lan.
guage. In Asia, India has 220 dis-
tinct vernacular languages. But
even with four languages Swit
zerland is not finished, says the
Washington Post. There is still one
more obscure dialect called Ladin,
spoken by a small group of people.
Hoyd Gibbons
ADVENTURERS’ CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
“Battle in the Void”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
ELLO EVERYBODY:
Now you know as well as I do that an airplane is one dog-
goned easy thing to get in trouble with. You've probably read
a lot of stories of adventure in the air. But, boys and girls, you
ain’t heard nuthin’ 'til you've grabbed yourself an eyeful of this
Y,
What happened to Jim was that he got hold of an airplane and didn’t
Ordinarily, that wouldn't be such a serious
Took Up a Girl Parachute Jumper.
It was down in Miami, Fla., in the summer of 1919. Jim was taking
flying lessons from the noted pilot, Wholmer Stultz, He'd had two
hours of instructions, and he knew how to keep the plane going once it
was up in the air. He wasn't any too good at that, either, and he admits it.
Furthermore, he hadn't the slightest idea of how to take a plane off
the ground—or to land it.
That was the status quo when, one day, Stultz hired a girl to do para-
The girl said she had made
They took off one hot July
well—just for the ride.
Jim and the girl sat in the front cockpit. Stultz, in the rear
cockpit, was doing the flying. They climbed to 3,000 feet, and
Stultz signaled the girl to jump. She climbed out on the wing
and—then things began to happen.
The girl got out to the end of the wing, and there she lost her
Stultz yelled
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The Girl Was Hanging From the Bottom of the Plane.
to her to jump, but instead, she wrapped her legs around the strut, too,
Then Stultz called to her to come back, and after a lot of coaxing, she
started.
Hanging by Her Chute on the Plane.
She had only gone a few feet when, suddenly, she slipped and fell
from the wing. At the same time, she pulled the ripcord of her chute.
The chute opened--caught on the rigging of the plane. And there
was the girl, hanging from the bottom of the wing, unable to pull herself up.
To land the plane would have meant certain death for the girl. While
Jim gaped open-mouthed at the sight of her dangling in the wind, he
heard Stultz shout to him: “Climb back here with me.” Jim was
scared out of his wits. “I started to obey,” he says, “but half-way to
the cockpit I froze—just as frightened as the girl was. Stultz grabbed me
and pulled me in. ‘I'm going out there and get her,’ he said. ‘You
keep flying straight ahead.” ”’
Terrible Dilemma for Jim.
Well, sir, the next few minutes were a nightmare to Jim.
“Everything went all right,” he says, “until Stultz stepped out on
the wing. Then, due to the shifting weight, the ship banked.
Stultz yelled: ‘Kick the right rudder.” 1 did, and the ship straight-
ened, but my knees were knocking together, and try as I would, I
couldn't keep the plane straight. Several times I almost dumped
him off.”
And what would happen if he did dump Stultz off?
all Jim could think of. For with Stultz gone, who'd land the ship?
Not Jim, certainly. He didn't know the first thing about landing a plane.
life of a fear-crazed girl.
up,”
saw,
Stultz was having his troubles. “He got her
The girl, panic stricken, grabbed Wholmer around the neck.
Stultz Had to Knock Her Senseless.
‘““He tried to break her grip, but it was hard work. He was blue
in the face and getting desperate, when finally, he let go with a
right hook that knocked her out for twenty minutes.”
The girl was out.
began ripping the chute from her. He wrapped it around the struts
and then around the girl, tying her down firmly to the wing. Then, all
began edging his way toward the cockpit.
him as the sight of Wholmer Stultz climbing back into the cockpit again,
Stultz tum-
They made the landing without any further trouble. The girl
came to again a few minutes later, and then Jim and Wholmer
Stultz found out that she had never made a parachute jump before.
She was only bluffing—but my hat is off to a girl who'll bluff her
way into a parachute jump!
Copyright.~WNU Service.
The Crowned Crane
The crowned crane has a coronet
of filamentary plumes that rise
from the head and extend several
inches, spreading out like a halo.
The body is a dark slaty gray, al
most black, and the tail or plume
feathers are of midnight hue. The
top of the head extending to the
beak and eye is covered with short
feathers that give the appearance
of black velvet while the cheeks are
a flaming scarlet,
Founder of Shakerism
The true founder of Shakerism
was Ann Lee, born in 1736 in Man-
chester, England, the daughter of
a blacksmith. Calling herself “Ann,
the Word,” says Pathfinder Maga-
zine, she came to America in 1774
settling with a few followers in Wa-
tervliet, N. Y.; near Albany. There
she founded the first Shaker com-
munity, establishing her church as
a celibate and Christian communis-
tic sect,
Speed of Sound, Bullet
The National Bureau of Standards
says that the speed of a bullet may
be either greater or less than the
speed of sound. The speed of sound
in air is about 1,100 feet per second.
A pistol bullet may travel as slowly | very rarely favored and more re-
as feet per second and ihe bul- | markable, as a general rule, for
of
from a rifle may reach the speed | biti east winds than genial
2,000 feet per second. ies '
Age of Parrots
Parrots are among the long-lived | Ice cream was
. The average length of life is | America by Jacob
25 to 35 years. more in 1851,
Youth Like Spring
Samuel Butler in “The Way of All
Flesh,” said: “To me it seems that
youth is like spring, an over-praised
season--delightful if it happens fo
be a favored one, but in practice
First to Make Ice Cream
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serious rival to the movies, and
giant airplanes and ‘‘press-the-
warships things which
it is surprising that
attacks of modern science,
The Greeks could not weave lin-
en or wool on anything like the
The secret has been
forever.
The Romans sank wells for wa-
Exactly how
they did the boring is unknown.
The beautiful purple dye, known
And modern builders
can make nothing of the strong
and durable cement used by the
tomans in their
walls. This cement was stronger
ancient Egyptians was very ex-
They had a method of
dressing stone to withstand the
ravages of time and weather. They
ing. Probes, forceps,
surgical instruments have
found in Egypt. For what
pose they were used we will nev-
er know,
That secret, along with many
others, passed away with the de-
struction of the famous library at
Alexandria in the Fifth century.
The loss of the knowledge con-
tained in that library was a blow
to civilization.
Reading and Thinking
Reading furnishes the mind only
with materials of knowledge; it is
thinking makes what we read
ours. So far as we apprehend and
see the connection of ideas, so far
it is ours: without that it is so
much loose matter floating in our
brain.—Locke.
Must Books Be Read?
The collector of books need not
fear the challenge that is sure to
| be made, sooner or later, by his
| skeptical acquaintances: “Have
you read them all?” The first
{idea he ought to get out of his
head is that he must only buy
books for immediate reading.
| “The charm of a library,” said
| that devout book lover, late
| Arnold Bennett, “is seriously im-
| paired when one has read the
| whole or nearly the whole of its
contents.”
Bennett confessed that he had
| hundreds of books he had never
| opened, and which, perhaps, he
never would open. But he would
not part with them. He knew
they were good, and as he gazed
on them, he said to them, “Some
day, if chance favors, your turn
will come. Be patient!”
Best Thoughts
| Try to care about something in
this vast world besides the gratifi-
cation of small selfish desires. Try
to care for what is best in thought
and action—something that “is
good apart from the accidents of
your own lot. Look on other lives
besides your own. See what their
troubles are, and how they are
borne. —George Eliot.
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On May 30, Floyd
Roberts shatlered all
track records for the
500-mile’ Indianapolis
Race, averaging 117.2
miles an hour using
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miles an hour
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sun-baked brick of the
battle for
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