Brownsville herald. [volume], April 27, 1934, MAIL EDITION, Page EIGHT, Image 8

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World Events of Today Told in Pictures [
Japan Frowns on .Wings for China
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Japan’r sharp protest against) sale or military planes to China as
Imperiling the peace of East Asia was a slap at plane manufac
turers and their representatives who are in China to sell air
planes and Instruct Chinese fliers. Among U. S. airmen in the
Orient is Frank Hawks, famous pilot, who is demonstrating to
Chinese the giant bomber with which he is pictured here on
fee eve of his sailing from Seattle. Wash., recently.
Samuel Insull Homeward Bound
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Flown from Sicily to London and radioed here this picture shows Samuel
Iniull (center) aboard the S. S. Exilona en route to the United State:
to stand trial in Chicago. On the left is Burton Y. Berry, attache of th<
American Embassy in Istanbul, and right is James Kilgallen, of th<
International News Service. The former utilities king is in Berry’i
custody until his arrival here. (Central Press,
FLAT ROOFED HOUSE IS SOMETHING FRESH IN THE STATE OF DENMARK
Iluunr Beautiful—Home 4 Field
Flat roofed houses are found in
the tropics, but as you proceed
northward, especially toward
Europe, the pitch of the roof be
comes steeper and steeper, and in
Scandinavian countries they are
atoapest of alL However, the_
home of Max Rothenborg, promi
nent Copenhagen lawyer, recent
ly completed in the suburbs of
the Danish capital, has a flat roof,
as shown below in the picture.
The primary purpose of the archi
tect was to meet the needs of the
family. As the plan at 4he top
left shows, one enters a large re
ception hall through a small vesti
bule. Straight ahead is the liv
ing room. The dining room is
nearly as targe as the living room.
The guest room is entered from
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the main hall, and the master bed-'
room from the living room. The
second floor has four children’s
rooms, each child having a closet
and wash basin to himself, the
group sharing a private balcony^
and a deck over sunjooin. right/"!
Canadian, 35, Captures Boston Marathon
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From a field of 193 contestants who started out from Hopkinton,
Mass., (as shown above) on the historic 26-mile grind to Boston, it
was Dave Komonen. a 35-year-old Finn of Sudbury, Ontario, who
crossed the tape first. Holder of both the American and Canadian
marathon titles, Komonen is shown (inset) wearing the laurel
wreath, in accordance with the ancient Greek custom, after his tri
umph. His time was 3:22:53 4-6.
Modern “Minute Men” in Capital Protest
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By way of celebrating the 169th anniversary of the Battle of Lexing
ton, when "the shot heard ’round the world” was fired, a delegation
of modern "Minute Men” from that historic Massachusetts town pre
sented a petition to Congress as a protest against "unreasonable in
terference" by the Federal government in the affairs of a "free peo
ple". Here the delegation is seen presenting the petition to Congress
woman Edith Nourse Rogers on the steps of the Capitol. Left to
right: J. C. Hutchinson. E. L. Fenn, Robert H. Holt. Lexington Town
Moderator: C. L. Coburn. Mrs. Rogers, Frederick Fischer, Lynn Car
ter and R. B. Parker.
“Pm Innocent!”
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Dr. Alice Wynekoop
Still maintaining her innocence.
Dr Alice Wynekoop, former Chi
cago physician, is pictured in a
hospital room at the reformatory
for women at Dwight, III., where
the is serving a 25-year sentence
for the murder of her daughter
in-law. Mrs. Rh>ta Gardner
Wynekoop. Dr Wynekoop, in
ill health, asserts "I'm innocent,
ind I hope some day to prove who
killed RheU.”
“Scraps of Paper1*
Believe it or not, these two fetch
ing chapeau* are nothing but
"scraps of paper.” In other
words, they are made of strips of
crepe paper crocheted. The one
at the top is called "Desperado,
and the one below is the “halo "I
These paper hats look like rough
straw and are trimmed with pins;
or quills. They are youthful and
"harming.
Democrats of the Topeka, Kan.,
congressional district, are put
ting their taith in a woman can
didate. Mrs. Georgia Neese
Clark, above. They're counting
on her ability and beauty to
overoome the normal Republic
an vote of Rep. W. P. Lambert
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Figure in "Little Red House” Furore
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The “Little Red House in Georgetown,” mentioned by Representative Fred Britten (top left) of Illinois,
as a rendezvous for meetings “which promote Communistic legislation." Rep. Britten said the house is
occupied by Robert Kahn (lower left), of the PWA, James A. Landis (top right), federal Trade Com
missioner. and Thomas Corcoran (lower right), of the RFC. (Central PrtsgJ
Mexicans Battle Police to Protest Sex Education I
Fighting bitterly against the proposal for sex education courts in primary chools. •\«ral hun
dred Mexico Cltv parents, mostly mothers, battled police who attempted to halt their protest
meeting. The picture shows the flash, in which mounted oncers rode Into the crowd, exchange
blows with the throng, and tore down banners. Many were injured iu the melee*
Distinguished Family from a New Angle
By . stroke of luck our cameramen w.s at the top of the companionway of the liner Bownraria when tt
reached New York recently. This unusual photo of Norman H. D*'niir
wife deft, ami their lovely ««^c, M,,s SJ. D.v„^s the^rcsul.^hun.rm. and J'f
5000 Chicago Teachers Protest Payless Months
School teachers, some unpaid since last May. brought the school crisis vividly before Chicago whe*
6000 of them paraded through the downtown section, as shown here, protesting delays in state
legislation to enable payment of bach salaries.