Show UA A AAu WHO'S NEWS HEWS THIS WEEK By Lemuel Lemucl F Parton NEW EW YORK Possibly better l than horse borse and bug buggy day days would be square rigger days as asa asa a phrase ot of poignant retrospect There was a touch Sea Ancients ot of nostalgia ln in the Stow Engines amazingly expert stories and andIn In in S Sail al Race press beautiful pictures of the Newport getaway of the Con Con- Conrad rad and the Seven Seas the only seaworthy square riggers left leU In AmerIca on theIr recent rate race to Bermuda Both boats have Diesel I engines for tor emergencies but they I stow aU all that that and It is perhaps a abit abit bit tactless to bring it up now This Is a machine age holiday I WIth aU all its shortcomings the power age does docs enable some people to make enough money to get away I from It once In D a while Young G Huntington Hartford owner of the Conrad Conrad is the Inheritor of a store chain fortune That's I a good beginning for tor anyone who wants to voyage back Into past ep- ep whether ochs-whether his taste Is for tor old houses old prints old ships or even evena a horse and buggy Simplicity evenI I comes Mr Hartford spent I getting the Conrad In racing I I trim One doesn't thinly ot of a demon squash player as a sailing salling man but Mr was a squash racquets wizard In his undergraduate days at Harvard In the class of 1933 1033 He HeIs Heis Is the only son ot of Mrs HenrIetta G Hartford ot of Newport and Charles Charles- Charleston ton getting about a lot having baving a wonderful time and probably not wishing you were here bere He takes a hand In all sorts of sports and probably stirs more envy wIth this Old Gaffers square rigger race Dream About than In anything be has done or orar orwill Y Yardarm d ar arm will do He starts many an old gaffer gafTer 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 vi vi- vi Mr Hartford bought the Conrad from Capt Alan Villiers Australian book boole sailor who sailed her aU all over the world in his literary argosy She had settled down In the valhalla ot of old ships at Brooklyn when Mr Hartford brought her to me life again The ship was built more than 50 years ears ago by the Danish govern govern- government ment which later used her as a training ship Her proper name Is IsI I the Georg Stage She's a proud I staunch old ship with two full tull suits I ot of sails decks ot of teak and two brass brassI I cannon cannon on the poop deck She Is feet teet 8 Inches on the waterline ARON KONSTANTIN VON NEU BARON B BATH RATH German foreign minis minis- minister ter asserts the rIght and Intention ot of Germany to organize Nazi units abroad The dec NazIS Abroad comes at Organize to the peak of a aB aBack drive by the reich B Back ac k Hitler Ht I er erto to solidify and In In- In Indoctrinate Its Hs minorities In aU all European countries and to unite Germans everywhere behind the na na- na national socialist regime In this activity Herr von Neurath seems to have displaced the frenetic Rosenberg ot of whom not much has been heard beard lately The foreign min min- minister Ister Is ot of the ancient Junker clan cl close in with the monarchists and the army of aristocratic feudal background and his new ascendancy cy Is Interpreted by some observers ers as an Indication of the increasIng ing dominance ot of his allied groups as against the newcomers who head the Nazi party lie He stems from war prewar Germany a hefty herty ruddy stag hunting aristo- aristo aristocrat aristocrat crat ot of an ancient dynasty wIth slicked gray hair and cropped close close cropped gray mustache He was a student ot of law entering the consular service in 1900 1000 Serving inmany In Inmany many foreign capita capitals he was am am- am ambassador to Rome from 1922 to 1930 and formed a warm friendship wIth Mussolini whom he characterized as the ideal ruler lIe dislikes pub lie lic appearances and rarely makes a speech or grants a t tt t WHEN X the President Hoo r rV V V was hit by an airplane bomb Admiral Harry E Yarnell assumed emergency command ot of aU all Amen Amerl can shipping in Rules Are Off Far Eastern wa- wa Japs tens Since thIs isn't a real war Fight F Ig ht Chi China na just what he can cando cando do about such random shooting Isn't quite there clear are no rules to govern the present situation but at any rate hos ho's riding herd on our ships and doing the best he can In the Boxer uprising at the turn of the century he be was an ensign on the U S S Yorktown As Amer Ica pursued her manifest destiny he hasn't missed any ot of the major excitements since then Previously he had been In the Spanish Amen can war and the Philippine insurrection He helped occupy Vera VeraCruz Cruz and he was an aide on the I staff of Admiral Rodman I when our shIps were serving with the British grand fleet In the he World I war lie rose In the navy through his s mastery of engineering tech C Co 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