| Show I i WHO'S NEWS e THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON PARTON NEW YORK Reginald Reginald Denny the time one professional boxer who became a motion picture star develops his toy airplane hobby into a business He lie Robot Planes Plane It Is rings Up a sale Ex Pug Ex-Pug of six robot Hobby P planes nes to Uncle Sam to be used In army experiments next summer The They are expected to be curtain- curtain callers for larger and more businesslike businesslike busi busi- businesslike ness-like ness robots flying without pi- pi pi pilots pilots lots guided by radio beams dusting TNT on Intruders Reginald Denny will be remembered remembered remembered re re- as the actor extolled a decade or so o ago as the typical typical cal wholesome young Ameri Ameri- can Then he turned out to bean be bean bean an Englishman a flier filer and ma ma- gunner chine gunner in the British royal roal air force In the war A light comedian he be had bad two absorbing Interests Interests his his screen antics and what seemed at the time a Juvenile juvenile Juve juve- nile absorption with miniature airplanes From the latter he developed some Ideas about ra ra- controlled dio-controlled planes tie lie established established fished the Reginald Denny Industries Industries In In- with James Blackton an experienced technician as manager lie He Is making a small flying torpedo designed for flying in swarms with no DO pilot and with land-control land of the Lomb dropping as well as guide guld avee When completed the tho United United Unit Unit- ed States Stales will get It lie He ran away from school at the age of 16 18 to play for Charles Frohman Frohman Frohman Froh Froh- man at the Duke of Yorks York's theater His first featured role was in the Merry Widow Then he became a professional boxer later champion of the Second corps of the royal air force n NELSON T T. JOHNSON ambassador dor to China coming home by bya a side door as Japan slams the open door probably will have bave in his hip pocket a copy of A Scholar and the Anal Analects G Th Confucius E Envoy J Johnson 0 h non barrIng Allee is In possibly Wonderland Wonderland Won Won- l derland which he also packs around with him it is his favorite reading Like Henry R R. R Curran deputy mayor of or New York he believes that public activities and attitudes attitudes atti atti- tudes should be infused with hu hu- hu- hu mor More lore than any other American he has been successful successful successful success success- ful in translating our best anthology anthology an an- tholo of 0 pullman car gags gars to the Chinese Following the labyrinth of Confucius and Lao Tze he finds a unique approach to the Chinese mind and has been one of our most successful ambassadors But back home be is sharp exact statistical and thoroughly occidental among which attributes is a Ii line of up coming Chamber of Commerce oratory He lie lives in two worlds After his bis graduation from George Washington university Mr Johnson mixed with the Indians of the Southwest Southwest South South- west picked up Indian dialects with remarkable facility thereby discovering discovering discovering ering his linguistic gifts That sent him to China as a student interpreter interpret Interpret- er in 1908 1906 In the Far East he has occupied many important posts and andis andis andis is a form former r assistant secretary of state He finds the Chinese have a alot alot alot lot more humor than the Japanese IT WAS about three years ago that the head of the German National Institute of Physics denounced the debased Jewish atom and promised prom prom- to deliver Group Aims Aim to to to- the Reich an Keep Scientific untainted Ar Inquiry Free yan atom Under Under Un Un- der the banner of The Pragmatic and Dogmatic Spirit In Physics tt this scientific revolution has been advanced by the Nazi Nail savants and at last Amer ican scan scientists mobilize against it Dr Franz Boas year old Ger Ger- man-born man American anthropologist heads a committee of eight distinguished distinguished distinguished distin distin- scientists in publishing a manifesto signed by 1284 of their colleagues leaders In all branches of science throughout America They defend the right of scientists to speak the truth as they understand understand under under- stand it It tt Dr Boas Doas spent about 5 55 yeas yean studying long loll heads beads and round heads beads but was stymied by the square beads heads If It 11 the world goes crazy craty what can we do doT he be said resigning from rom Columbia university two years lears ago He lie came to this country to attend the Chicago Worlds World's fair In 1893 after an Arctic expedition which had launched his career as 81 an anthropologist anthropologist anthro anthro- polo gist He remained to coach vir I all great American anthropologists anthro anthro- and to b become come a world authority authority au au- au- au in linguistics primitive men men- folklore ethnology and ity The old Germany honored him The new Germany made an extra extra- special bonfire of his bis books 0 Consolidated t N. 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