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World Events of Today Told in Pictures Sits on Top Rung of Films’ Laddec «i — A little French girl who wasn't especially thrilled at her first stage •hence and whose father bitterly opposed her "play acting" today alia enthroned on the top rung of fllmdom'e ladder of fame. From a three line part In a play 10 years ago. Claudette Colbert, above, rose to win the Academy of Motion Picture Arta and Sciences award for 1144, sharing the honor with Clark Gable for their performances lb “It Happened One Night." 0 What’s This! Tunneling a Bridge? rr~-1 Tallest tower* of the $76.000 000 San Fra nctsc.vOak land Bay bridge will bo as high as a 70-story building vet a tunnel must be built near Us center! The paradox Is explained b> this photo, taken from a plane on the Oakland side with San Francisco seen in the distance. On Yerba Buena Island In the foreground where the two spans of Ibe bridge meet, an immense tunnel 80 feet wide and 00 feet high is being blasted through the roek as a connecting link The bridge [will bare two decks, the upper for six lanes of automobiles, the lower, for two Interurban tracks and three lanes for trucks Queen of Mardi Gras Min Barters Bouden. New Orleans banker’* daughter, was chosen to *— -- aueen of Msrdi Gras. Her father, Whitney Bouden, w»* king q U ttecarnwaliamd. (Cmdrml Prm»l New Indoor Tennis Titleholder Another Californian has won na tional tennis honors. Jane Sharp (above) of Pasadena. Calif., be came the women's indoor tennis queen when she triumphed over Helen Pedersen in the annual tournament held in New York. Where New Crisis in U. S.-Japan Relations Arises Although no alien is permitted to own land in Japan, unofficial protests are showering American Embassy in Tokyo over forced exclusion of Japanese from ownership of land in western states. The question, long a disturber of relations between the two nations, has arisen again as a result of difficulties between whites and Japanese in rich Salt River Valley of Arizona. Secretary of State Hull (top). Ambassador Saito (left) and Gov. B. B. Moeur b^ve been given serious problem to handle by such mass meetings of white farmer* *« that pictured above. fCentral Press) Woe Hits Sons in Love Quadrangle With their parents, leading figures in the bizarre Beverly Hill*. Calif., “love quadrangle” case, fighting for their custody, these three children were the main concern of Judge Ben Lindsey as he heard the tangled rase in Los Angeles. The children ara the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Emerson, both of whom have filed divorce actions, l^eft to right here with their father are Edmund Ralph, S; W aiter, Jr., 12; and Frank Barton. 1. Babe’s Back Where He Started Advent of Babe Ruth as vice-president, assistant manager and ehief pinch-hitter has Quadrupled interest in the Braves in Boston, where Ruth won his fame as pitcher and homermaker with the Red Sox. Spirit of the old tun Ruth hovers over scene as the Home Run Ring signs up with Rail Fuchs, president of Braves. (Central Press) She demands £}UU,OOU from Him Norman Gould and his sinter-in-law, Wilma E. Gould, face camera smil ingly, despite fact she is suing him and a private detective agency in New York supreme court for $500,000, declaring she was lured into a trap in an effort to get her divorced from her husband. THEIR DECISIONS HIT NEW DEAI * Judge Grubb Judge Nields Judge Daw ton Judge Chettnut Judge Wheal Within recent months five federal judges, all Republicans, have rendered adverse decisions in cases involving the New Deal. Shown above, they are Judge John P. Nields of Delaware who deeided against the government in the famous Weirton case; Judge William Grubb of Alabama who held the TV A unconstitutional; Judge W. Calvin Chestnut of Baltimore who held the Frasier Lemke act unconstitutional; Judge Charles Dawson of Kentucky who held the NRA bituminous coal code did not apply; and Judge Alfred Wheat, chief justice of the district supreme court, who de clared the Railroad Retirement act unconstitutional, He Flies Like a Bird I These are the wings with which Clem Sohn, parachute - jumper, opened a new era in avia tion. With wing* and webbing of his own de vising, he soared up and down over Daytona Beach, Fla., at a height of 6.0CK) feet, before open ing his parachute and dropping gently to earth. SCsatroi Pr—$) Heavyweight Destroyer Ready Tit* Ay I win. first ot the new bean armored destroyers bMna built for the U 8 Navy, baa been commissioned for duty witb the fleet The ship la shown at Philadelphia Navy Yard where. il the sli months since it was launched, it baa been fully equipped (or war service. His #10,000,000 Racket Bared Thousand* to eastern seaboard cities poor at least $10,000,000 weekly ia mall amount* into the "number* game," in which odd* are 1000 to 1 against them, it waa diacloeed by J. Richard Davis, attorney for Arthur Fle^eaheiaaer, alias Dutch Schults, No. 1 New York puhtie enemy, in testifying in New York City inquiry into bail bond frauds. Schultz (top) vas disclosed in the inquiry as boss of the racket. Schulti^nd the lawyer