Show NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel le muel F parton i EW E W YORK possibly belief than horse and buggy days daya would be square rigger days as a phrase of poignant retrospect there was a touch sea Anci ancients enis of nostalgia in the sf stow ow engines amazingly exper m sail race press stories and beautiful pictures of the newport getaway of the conrad and the th e seven seas the only seaworthy square riggers left in america tin their recent race to bermuda both boats have diesel engines for emergencies but they stow all that and it is perhaps a bit tactless to bring it up now this is a machine age holiday with all its shortcomings the power age does enable some people to make enough money to get away from biorn it once in a while young G huntington hartford owner of the conrad is the inheritor of a chain store fortune a good beginning for anyone who wants to voyage back into past epochs whether his taste is for old houses old prints old ships or even a horse and buggy simplicity com comes es high mr hartford spent getting the conrad in racing trim one think of a demon squash player as a sailing man but mr hartford was a squash racquets wizard in his undergraduate days at harvard in the class of 1933 he is the only son of mrs henrietta G hartford of newport and charleston getting about a lot having a wonderful time and probably not swishing wishing you were here he takes a hand in all sorts ot of sports and probably stirs more envy with this old gaffers square rigger race dream about than in anything he has done or yardarm days will do he starts many an old gaffer 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 visions mr hartford bought the conrad from capt alan villiers VU liers australian book sailor who sailed her au all over the world in his literary argosy she had settled down in the valhalla of old ships at brooklyn when mr hartford brought her to life again the ship was built more than 50 years ago by the danish government which later used her as a training ship her proper name is the georg stage ashes a proud staunch old ship with two full suits of sails decks of teak and two brass cannon canno n on the poop deck she is feet 8 inches on the waterline BARON B ARON konstantin VON NEURATH german foreign minister asserts the right and intention of germany to organize nazi units abroad the dec Nazis abroad layalion ration lar la alion comes at organize orm zeto t 0 beeich the peak of a drive ve by the reich eich back hitler to solidify and indoctrinate in its minorities in all european countries and to unite germans everywhere behind the national socialist regime in this activity herr von neurath seems to have displaced the frenetic rosenberg of whom not much has been heard lately the foreign minister min is of the ancient junker clan close in with the monarchists and the army of aristocratic feudal background and a rid his new ascendancy is interpreted by some observers as an indication of the increasing dominance of his allied groups as against the newcomers who head the nazi party he stems from prewar pre war germany a hefty ruddy stag hunting aristocrat of an ancient dynasty with slicked clicked gray hair and an d close cropped gray mustache he wa was s a student of law en entering bering the consular consular service in 1900 serving in many foreign capitals hesam he was ambassador Sa bas to rome from 1922 to 1930 and formed a warm friendship with mussolini whom he charach characterized arize erize d as the sc ideal ruler he dislikes public appearances and rarely makes a speech or grants gra an interview 0 the president hoover WHEN was hit by an airplane bomb admiral harry E nsf yarnell assumed emergency command command of all amer can shipping in rules are off far eastern wa When Japs since this s a real war fight china just t what he can do about such random shooting quite clear there are no rules rides to govern the present situation but at any rate hes riding herd on our ships and doing the best he can in the boxer uprising at th the e turn of the century he was an ensign on the U S S yorktown As amer ica ca pursued her manifest destiny he missed any of the major excitements excite excitements excite ments since then previously he had been in the spanish ameri can war and the philippine insurrection he helped occupy vern vera cruz and he was an aide on the staff of admiral hugh rodman when w hen our ships were serving witt with the british grand fleet in the world wo rid wr war he rose in the navy through his mastery of engineering tech hiques a 0 consolidated conioUS ird news newa features feature Fea turf y service lc |