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Show I WHO'S NEWS I THIS WEEK.-. By Lemuel F. Parton VtttttyVYtVttyytTYYYYYyV XTEW YORK. Possibly better than "horse and buggy" days would be "square-rigger" days as a phrase of poignant retrospect . There was a touch Sea Ancients 0f nostalgia In the Stow Engines amazingly expert o ? d press stories and in Sail Race beautiful plctures of the Newport getaway of the Conrad Con-rad and the Seven Seas the only seaworthy square-riggers left in America on their recent race to Bermuda. Both boats have Diesel engines, for emergencies, but they stow all that, and it is perhaps a bit tactless to bring it up now. This is a machine age holiday. With all Its shortcomings, the power age does enable some people to make enough money to get away from it once in a while. Young G. Huntington Hartford, owner of the Conrad, is the inheritor of a $200,-000,000 $200,-000,000 chain-store fortune. That's a good beginning for anyone who wants to voyage back Into past epochs ep-ochs whether his taste is for old houses, old prints, old ships, or even a horse and buggy. Simplicity comes high. Mr. Hartford spent $75,000 getting the Conrad in racing trim. One doesn't think of a demon squash player as a sailing man, but Mr. Hartford was a squash racquets wizard In his undergraduate days at Harvard, in the class of 1933. He is the only son of Mrs. Henrietta G. Hartford, of Newport and Charleston, Charles-ton, getting about a lot, having a wonderful time and probably not "wishing you were here." He takes a hand in all sorts of sports, and probably stirs more envy with this Old Gaff ers square-rigger race Dream About than in anything v r n he has done or Yardarm Days do He startg many an old gaffer dreaming he is out on the yardarm in a gale, and that according to the Prophet Joel is as it should be, providing the young men keep up with their visions. vi-sions. Mr. Hartford bought the Conrad from Capt. Alan Villiers, Australian book sailor who sailed her all over the world in his literary argosy. She had settled down in the xalhalla of old ships at Brooklyn when Mr. Hartford brought her to life again. The ship was built more than 50 years ago by the Danish government, govern-ment, which later used her as a training ship. Her proper name is the Georg Stage. She's a proud, staunch old ship, with two full suits of sails, decks of teak and two brass cannon on the poop deck. She is 100 feet 8 inches on the waterline, BARON KONSTANTIN VON NEU-RATH, NEU-RATH, German foreign minister, minis-ter, asserts the right and intention of Germany to organize Nazi units abroad. The dec-Nazts dec-Nazts Abroad laration comes at Organize to the Peak of a n ww-.i drive by the reich Back Hitler t0 solidify and in. doctrinate its minorities in all European countries and to unite Germans everywhere behind the national na-tional socialist regime. In this activity, Herr von Neurath seems to have displaced the frenetic Rosenberg, of whom not much has been heard lately. The foreign minister min-ister is of the ancient Junker clan, close in with the monarchists and the army, of aristocratic feudal background, and his new ascendancy ascendan-cy is interpreted by some observers observ-ers as an indication of the increasing increas-ing dominance of his allied groups, as against the newcomers who head the Nazi party. He stems from pre-war Germany, a hefty, ruddy, stag-hunting aristocrat, aristo-crat, of an ancient Wuerttemberg dynasty, with slicked gray hair and close-cropped gray mustache. He was a student of law, entering the consular service in 1900. Serving in many foreign capitals, he was ambassador am-bassador to Rome from 1922 to 1930, and formed a warm friendship with Mussolini, whom he characterized as the ideal ruler. He dislikes public pub-lic appearances and rarely makes a speech or grants an interview. WHEN the President Hoover was hit by an airplane bomb, Admiral Harry E. Yarnell assumed emergency command of all Ameri- d i a can sh'PP'nS in Rules Are Utt Far Eastern wa- WhenJaps tcrs- Since this F. i.r- isn't a real war, ight China just what he can do about such random shooting isn't quite clear there are no rules to govern the present situation but, at any rale, he's riding herd on our ships and doing the best he can. In the Boxer uprising, at the turn of the century, he was an ensign on the U. S. S. Yorktown. As America Amer-ica pursued her "manifest destiny." he hasn't missed any of the major excitements since then. Previously he had been in the Spanish-American war and the Philippine insurrection. insur-rection. He helped occupy Vera Cruz and he w:as an aide on the staff of Admiral Hugh Rodman when our ships were serving with the British grand feet in the World war. He rose in the navy through his mastery of engineering techniques. tech-niques. (i Consol'fintcd N'ews Features. WNU Service. |