Show A NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F parton NEW YORK possibly better than horse and buggy days would be ba square rigger days as a phrase of poignant retrospect there was a touch S sea ea ancients ot of nostalgia in the stow engines amazingly expert in sail ra 0 ce press stories and beautiful pictures ot of the newport getaway ot of the conrad and the seven seas the tha only seaworthy square riggers left in america on 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 ag age ge does enable some people to make enough money to get away from it once in a while young G huntington hartford owner of the conrad is the inheritor ot of a ZOO chain store fortune a good beginning for anyone who wants to voyage back into past epochs whether his taste Is tor for old houses old prints old ships or even a horse and buggy simplicity comes high agh mr hartford spent getting etting g 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 ot of 1933 ile 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 wishing you were here he takes a hand in all sorts ol of sports and probably stirs more envy with this old 0 id gaffers square rigger race Dream About than in anything he has done or yardarm days Day swill do he gg 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 cconrad from capt alan villiers australian book sailor who sailed her 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 on the poop deck she is feet 8 inches on the waterline ARON AHON konstantin VON NEURATH bi B german foreign minister asserts the right and intention of germany to organize nazi units abroad the dec 1 nazis abroad la ration bomes at organize to the peak of a drive by the reich back D i hitter hitler un to solidify and indoctrinate its minorities in all european countries and to unite germans everywhere behind the na dional socialist regime in this activity herr von neurath seems to have displaced the frenetic rosenberg ot of whom not much has been heard lately the foreign minister is of the ancient junker clan close in with the monarchists and the army of aristocratic feudal baLl background ground and 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 close cropped gray mustache ile he was a student of law lav entering the consular service in 1900 serving in man many Y foreign capitals he be was ambassador bas to rome from 1922 to 1930 and formed a warm friendship with mussolini whom he characterized as the ideal ruler he dislikes public appearances and rarely makes a speech or grants as an interview HEN the president hoover W WHEN was hit by an airplane bomb admiral harry E yarnell assumed emergency command of all ameri can shipping PP in i rules D i are A off rn far eastern wa when japs since this E a real war china fight j just what he can do about such random shooting quite clear there are no rules to govern the present situation but at any ny rate hes he s riding herd on our ships and doing the best he can in the boxer uprising at the turn of the century he was an ensign on n the U S S yorktown As america ica kursu pursued ed her manifest destiny he ha missed any of the major excitements excite ments since then previously he had been in the spanish ameri can war and the philippine insurrection he helped occupy vera cruz and he was an aide on the staff of admiral hugh rodman when our ships were serving with the british grand fleet in the world war he rose in the navy through his mastery of engineering techniques a 0 consolidated news features feature i service |