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Show THE BULLETIN Paris, Fashion Center, Previews New Style Trend Connecticut Tries Toll Roads a la Lending Plan a, raris, long a worm ruuea center, bow sets the style for a new kind of apparel. The new mode, clothing designed for air raid safety, la more practical than fashionable. The above costumes were displayed la a recent Paris exhibit of air raid precaution clothing. Left: What the safely dressed child wsmt w mw jV.r.n: r- t n nc iiini Sw,t .. . aaadsnsv, M Bar between four and six years eld will wear If the city Is bombed. Center: A specially1 designed gas mask for mother and child. Right: A mask suit and protected bag for carrying previsions during a time of emergency. Toll roads like Connecticut's new $20,000,000 parkway system would become commonplace throughout America under President Roosevelt's original (3,861,060, OH lending plan, which provided funds for construction of highways and bridges. Connecticut's experience provided a bird's-ey-e preview of public reaction to the plan, which departs from the traditional free highway system. Many motorists protested Connecticut's fee, but they paid anyway. WPA Workers Feted at Roof Garden Luncheon School Children Examined in Mass Poisoning 10-ce- nt A buffet luncheon en a Forest Hills, N. Y., roof garden was the reward tendered WPA workers at the completion of a road project In that city. The luncheon was given In their honor by 125 merchants and property owners along a principal street which was widened, and was, according to the hosts, a reward for their speed and competence In getting the work done promptly, relieving traffic congestion. Here at Last Successor to Automobile Sight for Semi-Blin- d examination Is in order for these youthful victims of Staten Island's recent mass food poisoning "epidemic," which struck 368 students In 41 public schools. New York school officials investigated the epidemic and found It the result of tainted food served to the children during school hours. Emergency hospital resources of island towns were strained to the utmost. Left: Abraham Churchrow, Investigator for the federal bureau of food and drugs, carrying canisters of food to be analysed. A thorough Gov. Long Promises Louisiana Purge She Gives Sea Shells m The myriad pleasures of sight have been regained for the through use of the a new type spectacle lens, members of the American Academy This Little Gem bike, equipped with all the comforts of of Optometry were Informed recenthome, Is the Invention of Charles Stelnlauf of Chicago, who Is not related ly. Representing the largest spec In any way to Rube Goldberg. The Inventor rides on top, while members tacle magnification yet achieved for of the family hold down various positions. Mrs. Steinlauf rides amldship, distant vision, 300 per cent, the new operating her sewing mschine. Charles says it's great, members of device has already returned chilthe family say they enjoy It, and spectators say they'll take vanilla. dren in blind Institutions to public seml-blin- d teloptio-magnifie- r, Winners of the recent seaside fete four-positi- on schools. Hoess Housing Plan May Be U. S. Model lift Hsga;f7i? mma mvmw rnmM The four Ilocss brothers of Hammond, Ind., who devised a low cost homestead and housing plan to fit the average working man's small income, may have started a nationwide movement. Frank Hons, (third left) oldest of the brothers, was subprnacd to sppear before Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney's monopolies Investigating rommitlcr. This com mittee Is considering amendments to the 1937 housing art, an & the Ilocss plan has been suggested as the basis for a national program. Left to right, the brothers are William, John. Frank and Joseph. Feathers for Nina li of at Long Beach, Calif., were awarded Earl K. Long, recently inaugurated governor of Louisiana and brother with shell trophies by Miss the late Huey ("Kingfish") Long, has promised the state a "ruthless Jane golden who handed out the Walsh, from within." former lieutenant-governo- Long, purge replaced Gov. given in connection with the Richard W. Leche, who resigned because of illness, postponed his resig- prises annual surf, sun and sand celcity's nation when Dr. James Monroe Smith, president of the state university, ebration on the famed silver strand. announced final and then his disappeared, resignation. Smith, accused of embessling $100,000, had previously quit his post. Long Is pictured here with his wife, an ardent movie camera fan. Depleted Reserve r, Donkey Cart Returns to Tokyo Streets J ; In rrgal robes and a crown of "horse feathers," Nina, 1938 champion mare, defended her title at the recent San Diego. Calif., fair. Here Is the equine queen with her owner, Miss Betty Lawrence. Fate gave Charlie Fung, Chinese 0 break recently newsboy, a when fire broke out in New York's Chinatown. He wss away when flames destroyed the rooming house where he lived, taking several lives. But $1,000 of hi carefully olleeted savings went up in smoke. He risked h!s lire to save remahtiny IS3C in silver. 50-5- e economy has resulted In the reappearance in Tokyo Japan's e the donkey cart, used to transport goods on even the boniest streets. Gasoline, an important munition, is so valued that a drop of II Is now compared to a drop of blood. Charcoal burning automobiles, a new Inventicn, have a'so made their appearance. war-tim- of old-tim- tr |