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By LEMUEL F. PARTON
XJEW YORK.—Lester P. Barlow,
’ temperamental inventor of
bombs and other war weapons, re
cently said he wasn’t going to con
gress with his
Inventor Gets bad news about
German Bomb the devastating
c, j » new German air
Story Recorded bomb> because
they ‘‘put him in the dog-house”
when he tried to tell the house naval
affairs committee something last
year. But his story gets into the
Record, via Senator Bennett C.
Clark, who relays to Maj. Gen. H.
H. Arnold the news of the bomb, as
he had it from Mr. Barlow, and
asks the general what about it. The
general tells of army reports that
the German bombs in Barcelona
“killed every human being within
the range of a quarter of a mile.’*
The U. S. A. was supposed to
have used about $300,000,000
worth of Barlow bombs and
weapons in the World war.
Several weeks ago, the senate
voted him $592,719 in royalties
for the wartime use of his pat
ents. He is a prolific inventor,
now consulting engineer for the
Glenn L. Martin Co., of Balti
more, builders of bombing
planes. He describes the new
German bomb as truly horren
dous, basically a combination of
liquid oxygen and carbon, but
with other ingredients, such as
magnesium and aluminum. He
thinks he can just about match
it with his L. O. X. bomb.
In 1932, he offered to President
Hoover a simple button-pushing rig
which would wipe out a city hun
dreds of miles away. Even with
the backing of Senator Frazier of
North Dakota, he failed to get the
government interested and was said
to have offered his device to Russia
and Germany. Later, he had other
disappointing encounters in con
gress, offering, among other things,
a shock-proof battleship, on whose
ribs the heaviest projectile would
be just the pat of a powder-puff.
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I)IG, Bucko Giuseppe Creatore,
u puffing smoke from a cigar as
unfailing as Vesuvius, makes a
grand comeback, as he nears 70, to
his own and ev-
Creatore Comes erybody else’s
Back in Opera complete satis-
For the Masses faction - T h , e
Bronx recently
celebrated its 300th birthday with a
big splash of 40-cent grand opera,
with Signor Creatore finding in
“Aida” something in the range of
his titanic energies. The opera
company will be permanent, finan
cial wind and weather permitting,
to be supplemented by a scries of
symphonic concerts.
As a band conductor, Signor
Creatore used to earn as much
as $5,000 a night. He slipped
out of sight, and then, in June,
1935, was conducting one of the
park bands ef the New York
Emergency Relief bureau. His
cigar and his baton were still
bold and unwavering and he
told the reporters he was pacing
the country back to better
times. He had with him about
half of the players in his old
band of the days of their tuneful
and triumphant national tours.
He arrived in this country from
Italy in 1902, with a lush black mus
tache and a heavy mane, but little
else worth mentioning. Two days
later, he was playing on Hammer
stein's roof. A contemporary of
Sousa, he became one of the coun
try’s most famous bandmasters,
only temporarily clipped —or
eclipsed—by the depression, it is to
be hoped.
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\\7 HEN Britain and the United
’ * States begin to exchange cook
ing recipes, they are really getting
neighborly. Carlota, the British
_ . poetess, who ar-
Recipe Swap to rived llcre re .
Better British - cently, not
U. S. Relations averae to favor '
mg friendly re
lations, prefaced her trip with a
radio appeal for American recipes.
She got more than 2,000. When we
get to telling each other about our
operations, the entente will be com
plete.
Carlota is the wife of Louis
Oppenbeimer, managing direc
tor of the South African dia
mond syndicate. She has pub
lished many books of poetry in
many countries, speaks seven
languages fluently, and finds
time to convert old houses into
charming dwellings or “mews,”
for working people.
Her London home is one of the
great social and political salons of
England. She knows the proverbial
way to the now somewhat intransi
gent American heart. Her visit
marks a pleasant departure from
the customary exchange of recipes
lor cooking TNT and the like.
• Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
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Modernized Cavalry Practice Wartime Maneuvers
Weather conditions and rough terrain do not stop the mounted soldier. He operates as well in fog or rain
as when atmospheric conditions are favorable. To the horse cavalry the passage of bad terrain is all in a day’s
work—rocks and hills, sand and mud, forests and rivers never stop them. Graphic illustration of this is fur
nished in the picture at the left where a 75-mtn gun battery unit nears the top of a steep bill during First
Cavalry division maneuvers at Fort Bliss, Texas. Right: A 75-nun gun unit photographed during night firing.
GLOVED GOURMET
Either the corn was too hot for
this old fellow or else be couldn’t
wait to take off his gloves before
digging into the delicious corn-on
the-cob. He is one of the many hun
gry, homeless vagrants fed by the
i Volunteers of America soup kitchen
in Detroit.
Royal Guest—Award Winner—Stylist
In an official announcement from London recently Lady Nunburnholme was listed as a member of the
party of King George and Queen Elizabeth when they visit Canada and the United States in the near future.
Bette Davis, center, pictured as she appeared in “Jezebel,” a role which won for her this year’s Motion Pic
ture academy award for the best performance of a film actress. “Women’s hats will be saner this spring,” ac
cording to Lilly Dache, fashion authority, who arrived in New York from Paris recently.
Bachelor Hairdresser Adopts Baby Boy
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Happy indeed are Sydney Gaialaroff, 30-year-old Hollywood bachelor, I
and Jon, the 10-months-old baby boy he has adopted. Guialarofl says he 1
is the nation’s highest paid hairdresser, and, as far as he knows, the i
only bachelor in'the nation to adopt a baby. He took the boy when he 1
was six days old because he likes babies. i
‘Dizzy’ Confident Arm Is in Shape
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Take it from Jerome “Dizzy” Dean, his “ahm” is all right. He also
stated that the shoulder which was injured last season has been given
a complete rest all winter. Dean was one of 13 pitchers in spring train
ing practice at Santa Catalina island, Calif. Left to right: Charles Leo
(“Gabby”) Hartnett, manager of the Chicago Cubs; Andrew Lotshaw,
trainer, and Dizzy himself.
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Young Dick Shaughnetsy of Ded
ham, Mass., set a new world record
in the annual Middle Atlantic skeet
championship in Morristown, N. J.,
recently. His high-over-all for the
three events, the .410, 20-gauge and
all-bore was 295.
Star Dust
★ Censor Comes to Bat
★ Appeasement of Isa
★ ‘ Bamp * Arrives via Air
By Virginia Vale
IT’S an ill censor that blows
no picture some good. War
ner Brothers’ “Yes, My Dar
ling Daughter” is the latest
picture to profit by censorship.
And anyone who saw the play
of the same name on which
the picture was based is likely
to suspect that the movie
moguls who were responsible for
the film rather hoped that a little
censorship, though a dangerous
thing, might result in plenty of free
publicity.
New York’s state censor board
obligingly banned the picture.
Whereupon the department of edu
aation’s board of regents even more
obligingly lifted the ban, and the
public rushed to the theater where
the picture was finally shown, eager
to see what all the fuss was about.
In fact, so much interest was
stirred up in this darling daughter
that the theatrical producer who
produced the original play is said
to be considering reviving it.
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Some of the women who read the
books of the “Five Little Peppers”
series when they were children will
be escorting their grandchildren to
see those young Peppers on the
screen. The series of nine books
has been bought for Edith Fellows.
Isa Miranda was so upset when
she lost the title role in “Zaza” to
Claudette Colbert that she was
ready to give up and go home to
Italy. But when the picture was
released she had reason to thank
ISA MIRANDA
her lucky stars that the cast didn’t
include her name.
Now Paramount is making it up
W her by giving her a grand chance
in the re-make of “Hotel Imperial,”
and has also booked her for
“Tempted,” which should prove to
be something extra-special. And la
belle Miranda thinks America is a
swell place and is taking steps to
become an American citizen.
When Baron Cal von Ripper spent
seven months in a concentration
camp he probably didn’t believe
that it would ever do him any good.
Now that experience stands him in
good stead. RKO Pathe has en
gaged him to act in an advisory
capacity for their forthcoming fea
ture length picture, “Unknown Pa
triot.” s..
Rose Bampton may not have
Grace Moore’s genius for publicity,
but her name is practically a house
hold word all over the country,
thanks to her radio performances.
The first of the Metropolitan Opera
company’s glamour girls to be ini
tiated into “The Circle,” she was
called back for a repeat perform
ance. Three days later she had to
be back on the East coast for the
Hobby Lobby show.
And of course she is always bob
bing up on Bing Crosby’s program
—she has appeared on it nine times
so far. y,
George Murphy, master of cere
monies of the “Screen Guild Show,”
thinks he works pretty hard. He
has to track down movie stars*and
arrange for their appearances on
the program. So far his “work” has
involved skeet hunting with Robert
Montgomery, swimming with Loret
ta Young in her private pool, skiing
with Basil Rathbone and visiting
Judy Garland during school hours.
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After broadcasting for two years
and thirteen weeks for one sponsor,
A1 Jolson departs from the air in
mid-March, possibly to remain a
non-broadcaster until fall. He is
slated for a Twentieth Century-Fox
picture, “Rose of Washington
Square,” and wants time to work
on a new type of radio program.
His place is being taken by Dick
Powell. The rest of the cast re
mains the same.
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ODDS AND ENDS Those radio
dramas, “Dr. Christian ,” in which Jean
Hersholt has been appearing, will be
made into a series of three pictures . . .
Pat O’Brien will star in “The Life of
Knule Rockne ” . . . John Wayne did to
well in “Stagecoach,” Waller Wanger’s
latest, that Republic it making him a
star.
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£ A General Quiz
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The Questions
1. Which cabinet member was
bom in a log cabin?
2. What is the smallest repub
lic in the world?
3. How long is the San Fran
cisco-Oakland bay bridge?
4. How long following her mar
riage does custom allow a wife to
be called a bride?
5. Who was the author of the
following aphorism: “Laws do not
make reforms; reforms make
laws”?
6. How long is the world’s long
est chain?
7. What casualties did the Unit
ed States forces suffer in the Span
ish-American war?
8. In what European countries
do the most Americans live?
9. What does it cost the govern
ment to educate a student at West
Point?
The Answers
1. Secretary of State Cordell
HulL
2. It is San Marino in northern
Italy, with an area of 38 square
miles.
3. The total length is 8% miles
and the length over water is
miles.
4. One year.
6. Calvin Coolidge.
6. The world’s longest chain is
a 4,200-focrt chain made of 12,500
nickel steel links, used in planting
ocean cables.
7. Killed in action, 498; died of
wounds, 202; died of disease,
6,423; died of accidents, etc., 349;
total deaths, 6,472.
8. On May 13, 1938, Italy had
more Americans living there thar
any other European country,.
There were 25,616 at that time.
Great Britain and Northern Ire
land ranked second with 12,447,
and France third with 12,384.
9. The adjutant general’s office
says that the cost to the federal
government of sending a student
through the entire course at the
United States Military academy is
$9,715.45."
( Safety Talks "
Mischievous Hands
V/lAYBE he picked up the habit
about the time he couldn’t
resist pulling the pig-tails of the
girl who sat ahead of him in gram
mar school. But even though they
were more chivalrous in their
school days, adult man (and wom
an) has a lot of trouble keeping
his hands and fingers out of mis
chief.
The National Safety council re
ports that of all accidents suffered
during 1937 by persons who were
at work, 33 per cent were hand
and finger cases. Legs and feet
were injured in 24 per cent of the
occupational accident cases. The
human trunk was injured in 19 per
cent, or the third largest, number
of cases.
Other parts of the body and the
frequency with which they were
injured: arms, 11 per cent; head
(other than eyes), 6 per cent;
eyes, 2 per cent. The council said
general accidents accounted for 5
per cent of the cases.
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