One of the Family
Roberta Jonay, 17, St. Petersburg, Fla., dancer, is shown knitting & sweater on the lawn of the White House at Washington where she has been welcomed as a guest of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt whom the dancer met two years ago. The First Lady is deeply interested in - Roberta's welfare and is aiding her protege to accomplish her aims; namely dance in New York and act in a big show.
Slain Army Head
THE CHINA
NAVAL GUN CALIBR
American Action Upsets British Opinion
London, To-day.
The statement of the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, that the new American battleships are to be armed with 16-inch guns, has dis- appointed "The Times," which says that the efforts made by the London Naval Treaty of 1936 to prevent building of costly battle- ships with heavy tonnage, becoming ever more
The Naval Treaty, theory.
are
journal
declares, limited the calibre of guns to 14-inch and only admitted an in- crease to 16-inch guns in the case of one or the other of the States concerned not consenting to adopt smaller calibres..
Italy accepted the limitation and the the consent of Germany and Soviet had also been obtained.
ONLY JAPAN
BRYMO
COLLIERY DISASTER
London, Ta-day.
Five of the eighteen bodies of miners who lost their lives in the Brymo Colliery disaster last month at Stoke-on-Trent, were brought up to the pithead yes- terday by rescue workers.
Altogether thirty, lives were lost in the disaster, 18 of the dead. being entombed underground. Trans-Ocean.
MUDIE'S PUSHED
Only Japan refused to accept the OUT BY PENNY
14-inch limit, with the result that
the 16-inch limit came into force conformably with the Treaty.
As far as Britain was concerned,
A WEEK LIBRARIES
London, To-day.
it will not be necessary to wait and Considerable shock and surprise see whether she will follow the ex-has been caused in Britain by an ample of the United States.
It is practically certain, the ar- ticle concludes, that Britain will fit her new battleships with guns.—Trans-Ocean.
16-inch
announcement that Mudie's, the famous circulating library, has been forced to wind up its affairs.
Mudie's had been one of the largest libraries in the country and at one time had over 6,000,000
Palestine Report books and 50,000 subscribers.
-London, To-day.
The penny a week novel libraries The House of Commons will de- which have been springing up all bate the Palestine Report on July over England are believed to have 20 on the Colonial Office vote. contributed largely to the failure of Reuter.
Trans-Ocean. this very old firm.
Duce Greets Nazi V
A broad smile softened his usually grim countena dictator of Italy, shook hands with War Ministe in Rome The occasion was the much-publicized.
chief in Italy.
Ex-Royalty's Salute
Marshal Tukhachevsky, former Soviet Vice-Commissar for De fence, one of the high-ranking- Army officers executed in. Stalin's purge of the Red Army.
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Once a member of royalty herself, the G of the Dowager Queen Mary, mother c Mary appeared at a theatrical benefi
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