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Show 5 c5j f . c$& British Battleships Turn Day Into Night Proposes WPA Jobs ists Cs la Leads to Bitter Xjmovk Rivalry y ? & f s ,.-1.' ;i vav. X.'.v .-.v.-.-x-;'-,.. , : ;f v t " S - - -y j: 7 h A speedine British cruiser on maneuvers belches billowing clouds of dense smoke that turn the bright Mediterranean day into nignt, concealing u irom an enemy snip as eneciuany as u men uicovcucju encounter were lakina Dlace in midnight darkness, while ! -r- ' . 47 ,7v that sam night H. M. S. Royal Oak. in nocturnal war games with Great Britain's ; combined homCand Medrterfanean fleets, switches on her tun -brilliant searchlights to turn night into day ntfhUe combing comb-ing the waters off -Gibraltar for lurking "enemy" craft. ' ' Proving That Cockroach Can Smuggle Smokes to Solitary Machine Wins in Kansas City ! IV- III S ' 1 I 9 y'.5'?A Prtpfro? hi, - ... fmt n, i di i) iii i iiiiiii.iimhijlijuu.iii iii iyniiiuiimm.il ii ii , hd iln,, jtmwuwitMM .'A,W.vMrww.w.wpwTOOA"W y '' I Si 1 Js, SsMs1 Well, maybe that Amarillo. Tex., jail prisoner wasnt lying, after all, jailers decided in Los Angeles after a cockroach proved he could carry a cigaret and match into a cell, as pictured above. The test was conducted after the prisoner told how he had trained a cock roach to come to his solitary confinement cell when be whistled, stopping only long enough for other prisoners to tie a "smoke" on his beck. Above, Mr. Cockroach is proving his ability as a smuggler to Jailer W. J. Seaman. Below is a closeup of the cargo-laden insect. No Money for Rent, Family Moves to S) fi- A fe mi ' n f(& film .jg&Mm'mi msh Evicted from their home for non-payment of rent and with no other place to go, the impoverished Hobert-L--Barnes family, of Daysville, Term., became modern cliff dwellers. Pictured above. are the? parents and five . of their seven children in the cruder shelter they found under van overhanging cliff. One bed and cot'Was about all the furniture the family had. Note how the stove chiftineys ean d the srtdkerwlH miss the 'protruding rocks: 6ut Bames is an ex-service man arid teher tte AmeTican! IegiOQ pest ot Rockwood, Tenn., heard ofjhis plight, the family soon had a real house to live in, Thew. ' . . . Igioniiaires are now trying to buy a small farm toy Xbt fajnily A ' big stnile was. 'easy' fox Big Tom Pendergast, top afterj.bi. Democratic machine p rxf-v e d again that it is one of the most powerful political organliatlons in America by re-electing Bryca B. Smith, lower Ohoto. as mayor of Kansas City. By a majority of 40j000 votes, the Ppndergast machine bowled over the CoaU tion party born In the Wave of reform following the l936",vot scandals In the Missouri tity. Absolute termination of direct relief throughout the country and substitution of social security aid and -WPA Jobs for every able-bodied able-bodied worker, was proposed by WPA -Administrator Harry Hopkins, Hop-kins, shown above alter he had gone 4o the White House to confer con-fer with President Roosevelt on the ' -New Deal's forthcoming fourb1Hion dollar "pump priming" prim-ing" spending program. ; S V i 4 i:vVvV..v:-. Ac 4? Bitter feeling between the C. I. O. and the A. P. of I as to which had Jurisdiction in a Crockett, Calif., sugar refinery strike resulted In a pitched oat-tie, oat-tie, broken up by tear gas., A, V. of L, members and sympathizers attacked the C. I. O. picket line, and fists were used freely by both skies. Some of 1 it y ; t : : v . ' , ft,,!. Chained to His Past the participants are hown struggling through a choking cloud of tear gas.. John Bull's Big 'Bullet' If You See Him Notify Police ?4t W M 1 JOWvil !'!' Fpr seven years Dewey Terry, of Passaic, N. J., has feared that he had not brokerj the last Jink with his past when he escaped from a Nortte Carolina chain gang after serving less than a year of his murder sentence of 20 to 25 years. Police got the inevitable tip arid now Terry is resigned to going back. He is shown above with his wife, Mane, whom he married after his escape, and Eugene, ; 10, his son by a former rriarriBge. How Rebels Drove a Wedge Splitting Loyalist Spain Home-made movies that were to be a souvenir of happy childhood days will be put to tragic use when they are combined in a movie "short" for a nation-wide appeal from the screen on behalf of Kidnaped 12-year-old peter Levine. . Th picture above ia enlarged en-larged from one of . the films, in which the boy's father, Murray Levine, will request assistance of movie audiencfts. Hits High F, So Is Movie-Bound iMI It1 Kt' l tV ... . . jo- ; ? Q&W tmMy JrU VsTi ;srfi l.V, - f fcllilfciifpfW ;1 . i-w y:? t pit: ' " ;" it te&v$is J ,: ...... ArXvX?C.,i:.V.-.-. The giant torpedo in the picture above gives some idea of the magnitude of modern instruments of war. It is being slung under a British bombing plane during maneuvers to test Britain's conVoy system for merchant ships the system which was so successful in the World War in bringing cargoes cf food and raw materials to England. Protecting the convoy was ihe home fleet: attacking, a force including 130 planes like this one. Note that the torpedo is almost as" large as the fuselage of a small passenger plane. ROMANTIC PURSUIT LA GARBO AND STOKOWSKI DODGE RUMORS, BUT NOT CAMERA An amaxirlg young, lady is 12-year-edd . Janice Chambers, pic- : 5 ' tu-ed above in the kitchen:, of This map shdwa how nrslino1Jn$l&o Franco's hard-driv- dJMSerhIust5S: iiujNaUonalist troops hav split JDoySr Spain In two by their Unf swift drive ott- Tortoa;Mediter oft .SSTtb m A w tA. -' -n. ' J 1 11 - irom uw i,oyaut capiieu, at -Barcelona, "Ma ie wi-umwrMuit cuu , -,i,- whih she's oh , v. ; . ";.n, road blocked. anao was reported Planning an ultimatum demand- - 5f itoeL i 1.. -L ?Z VVhn severe traveling clothes replacing the glamorous attire familiar - i . M . r j "i A .lt TIUUNJ CWrct, ol-c "fiS?0-" in six' languages, hit I ii mail im v ' u n . . waiuuiiiiiiii nmiiiiHii Tn iiMiinin . were offering little tnreat or merciless atiacK on . - " r . . . " w aw aucu muo, urem uuuu "uuS w onallati claimed, the Loyalists ,IaPfuages, rut nign earner as she was snapped while walking outside the Vatican mu- rWance at any point, on the norther front. .1 "" Jf But the government was reported bringing .in 100,000 reserves in a , - - sne pas oeen, visiting in iy niu runwrs 01 ryraiwiue, u Jait effort to halt the Reber advance. seen at rear hastening to catch up with her. |