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Show : x 'ft f'TiiTi-tfiiiri--iii' Vf im WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON XTEW YORK. As a token 'of good will. President Kemal Ataturk of Turkey sends bis bomb-tossing adopted daughter on a flight over . . Greece and the Feminine Balkans. She holds Bomb Tosser a diamond medal Has Good Aim1 , bombing Kurds, having out-scored out-scored veteran male fliers in a recent re-cent work-out. When the timid and demure Turkish Turk-ish women started coming out from the harem, they kept right on going. They seem to be out-distancing our girls who are merely coming out of the kitchen. Turkey's "Flying Amazon" is Sa-biha Sa-biha Gueckchen, twenty-four-year-old daughter of a Turkish army captain cap-tain who was killed fighting Greeks in 1921. She is a pretty little thing. An admiring woman correspondent corre-spondent described her as "shy and demure," with quick recourse re-course to her "modish little vanity van-ity case," as she climbed from her plane after a hard day's bombing. That was in the Der-sim Der-sim area, in eastern Anatolia, in which she had been blasting the Kurds out of their caves. She is a first lieutenant in the Turkish army, the only woman air force officer in the world. Her French flying instructor says she is the most gifted woman acro- c l d a batic pilot in the babma Best world She was Stunt Flyer, trained in flying Says Mentor and Siding in Russia and later was a cadet in the Turkish army air force school. She rides a single-seated single-seated military plane, handles all types of planes and is especially accurate and skillful in bombing. It is said no aviator in Turkey can match her in diving and stunting, stunt-ing, but she shrinks modestly from all such, possibly unfeminine, exhibitionism. exhi-bitionism. tJERE is another diverting little news note, in sharp contrast, however, on the emergence of the modern woman. At her home in New York, Mrs. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler presents prizes of $750 to the winners of the annual "Intellectual "Intel-lectual Olympics' conducted by her new history society. Happily the flying bomb put is not included in her decathlon. She . has been for many Belle Gives years a diligent Up Society and earnest advo- For Religion cate of peace and brotherhood, working work-ing through the international Ba-haist Ba-haist movement, of which she has long been a leader. She derives from the Blue book and has turned from society to religious and humanitarian hu-manitarian concerns. Her husband, now retired, is a great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, and a former lieutenant governor of New York. He is a big, gray, silent man, walking a small white poodle dog, rarely seen at his wife's salon, but a loyal partner in her endeavors. He is the brother of the late Bob and John Chanler. DOWN in Peru, this writer knew some dilatory natives who frequently fre-quently used a word which meant, "not tomorrow, but day after to- morrow and may- Dick Gets be not then Degree 20 From ancient Years Late Parchments. Trinity Trin-ity college dons lift the reverse expression "nunc pro tung," which means "now in-sead in-sead of then." With this high academic aca-demic sanction, they are enabled to deal a bachelor's degree to Richard Barlhelmess, who failed to touch second when he was there 20 years ago. Baseball moguls conld now say "nunc pro tung" and hand Fred Merkle that run he didn't get in 1908. If the custom gets going, it might open the way for some European debt payments. Mr. Barlhelmess is or.e of the thin-1 thin-1 ning line of the stars of the old j silent screen who remain in the public pub-lic consciousness. H;s mother was Caroline Harris, an actress of the Bicgraph days. She gave Nazimcva English less-tr.s and in return Nazi-roova Nazi-roova gave her boy his prcfe.s.cnal start in "War E rides." "Broken 1 Blossoms." with D ore thy G.s.-., was h: las: b.g success. C Co:. sc.- J " '""l Fe.l.rci. |