HE’S STILL A KINC to this young subject, his son, but
Faustin E. Wirkus thinks he’d rather not go back to La Gonave as
king. Back in 1926. some 12.000 Negroes on La Gonave, a Haiti de
pendency, chose him kl after he d been sent there for marine
duty. He ruled three years. Now in New York he sa>. : “I nj so I -
ing securities these days; it's tougher than being king.’
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mat h between optimistic Jack
Roper (above) and Champion
Joe Lruis, who sometimes
polishes off opponents in Round
1, is scheduled for April in Los
Anpeles. Roper’s ape has been
estimated at “more than 35.”
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•STOPPED’ BY A CAMERA, an English plane is shown at the split second before it sepa
rated from catapult launching gear on II.M.S. Argus during trials off Portsmouth. The ship being
J launched is not one of the navy’s pilotless “queen-bee” planes to be carried regularly by the Argus,
I which was converted into a “control” vessel at a cost of £500,000._ J
PULL aplenty has tiny
magnet developed by General
Electric at Schenectady. It's able
to lift 1,500 times its weight and
is a “hot” magnet, being so hard
it stands temperatures that cause
other magnetic metals to peel as
if sunburned.
EASY WINNER an.l easy
on the eyes, too, was Cobina
Wright, jr., a New York society
girl chosen as the prettiest girl
at Palm Beach, southern resort.
The Artists and Writers’ club
members who voted had no
trouble reaching a decision
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GATHERING OF WAR CLOUDS on other continents directs attention to army’s new Vultee V-12 attack plane soaring
peacefully over Downey, Cal., in tests. Ship carries bomb load of 3.000 pounds, six machine guns and crew of three. _
‘BUND DEFENDS CONSTITUTION’ declared
Wilhelm Kunze (right), national public relations director for tho
German-American bund, at a Los Angeles meeting. He further
described the group as a defender of “true democracy,” and Her
man Schwinn (left), Pacific coast bund leader, charged a “bunch
of aliens in Hollywood” with persecuting the bund in Los Atttfeles.
HEIRESS FOX FARMER Kay Barker (above), 29,
proved less camera shy than “Filbert” and “Gwen" when these
and 18 other foxes started across country from Seattle In upstate
New York Miss Barker, formerly of Parkersburg, VV. Va., plans to
use the 20 foxes to establish a fur farm. She’s just returning from
her fox farm on Fshigak, a storm-swept Alaskan island.
BY A WIDE MARGIN Marion Tyrrell of Toronto, Ca
nada, and William Tate o? Blowing Uock, N. C., won the three
lejrged race at Pinchu st, N. C. *lere th«-y are coming to the finish
line, easy winners. The idea of the race is to ride horseback to one
end of the track, dismount and tie two legs togetner, and race
back to the staitinc line, leaning the two horses. I
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