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The Daily Times-News from Burlington, North Carolina • Page 5

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Burlington, North Carolina
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5
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THE BUBLINGTON (N. C) DAILY TIMES NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1939 PAGE TEN NEWS OF THE DAY AS TOLD IN PICTURES What'llThey Think of Next? GARGANTUA He's Colossal GARGANTUA Charting. War Games Off New England's Coast PROVIDENCE AIRPORT Army support for Blue forces, urv Jr Mninr Genera! Drum, will BOSTON NAVY YARD Headquarters of Rear Admiral Tfirmnr. commander of naval unit of Blue defense. Coast Guard ships have headquarters here.

Boeing "flying fortresses" and Douglas ono planes will to check Black attack. iSOmoers win suengmen umei N.H. SNT BLACK 5 IV TZJ) RAIDERS i CONN i'L New44v A. Detachment of 1 I i fleet under NewLondon0 jf jflH Rear Admiral JV iSr.dgeportQ Of Johnson will da N' 11 Sft P3' attempt to "de T' stray" isolated New York Um' sh'ps of Blue KflWf1 IfeS eoostol towns. NARRAGANSETT BAY fc JlTUNrC OCEAN Center of naval aeria! operations, under Rear Ad "0.

BLUE FLEET Theoretically steaming peacefully northward from Caribbean Sea, Its miral Blakely. Under his command will be 48 long range patrol planes which can fly 3000 miles without refuelinjjC vessels entering various ports soutn I 3D iflO: VfL, ot New York ror reruenng. Step closer, ladies and gentlemen, but be careful! Presenting Gargantua, the giant gorilla, largest anthropoid in captivity! Weighs 500 pounds. See this fearsome creature as he sits glowering on the floor of his cage. See his powerful talons shake the bars of his cage! Watch him drink his favorite demi tasse, offered by his trainer! On the inside of the big tent with Ringiing Barntim and Bailey circus, at winter quarters at Sarasota, Fla.

British Mediterranean Stronghold In this "war zone," co operation between U. S. military and naval forces gets a thorough test late in April. Shaded area on map is most important section of mock "battlefield" extending from New England tfiorelrne eastward' 400 miles into Atlantic. Planes and ships will be combined in defensive "Blue" efforts to protect American coastal centers, bottle up attack by "Blacks." Approximately 16 naval veels 10ff to 175 aircraft, and several Coast Guard ships will participate in the maneuvers.

Let Freedom Sing: Marian Ander son In Washington Tad Wieman, Princeton football coach, streamlines spring grid drills with the aid of a portable loud speaker system which enables him to project his voice to all parts of the practice field. Congressional Register of Expression with underground stores of food and munitions, it provides a vital base tor sea Where Poli Patients Will Soon Learn Three R's massed about the pool between the Lincoln and Washington monuments, an Easter Sunday crowd 75,000 hears the capital debut of Marian Anderson, negro contralto, sho.vn, inset, singing from the steps of the Lincoln memorial. Amplifiers car ried the strains of "Ave Maria" beyond Constitution Hall, from which Miss Anderson was barred by the Daughters of the American 'Revolution. Landing a Stiff Right Hook French Style Film star Robert Montgomery, right, above, apparently is getting a drastic lesson in facial expression from Senator Ellison (Cotton Ed) Smith. They met at a Senate Committee hearing on a motion picture trade practice bill.

Family Awaits Returning Draft Dodger Rapidily nearing completion, this new school for patients at tiie Warm Springs (Ga.) Foundation will be formally dedicated by President Roosevelt. It is 137 feet long, 43 feet wide and will accommodate the 135 patients now at the Foundation, Rumble of Polish Tanks Answers Nazi Warning Girls as well as boys are participating in the revival of French boxing, which employs liberal use Df the legs as. weapons of attack, in addition to the orthodox jabs and hooks. The sport is now being demonstrated, is schools, colleges and gymnasiums all over France after having virtually disappeared in recent years. When Stanley Cuppers Get Shore Over Something Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, World War draft dodger fugitive from the U.

S. for 20 years, will return from Germany to accept the penalty, according to his wife, Bertra, She is pictured above with her children as they arrived in New York from Hamburg. Left to right, Emma, 10; Alfred, 11; Minna, 9, and Erwin, 5, held by his mother. (NEA Service Radiophoto) Poland continued to move troops toward her southwestern borders despite a reported request fronvth German government that they he withdrawn. The radiophoto above shows Polish tanks rolling toward the German frontier.

Breezing Along on Record Breaking Spree Door of Freedom Opens for Hines Battling Eddie Shore of the Boston Bruins is nursing a broken nose, biaek eye and gashed cheek, vhile most of his teammates and tho rival New York Rangers are soaking in liniment after indulging New York's worst hockey riot during the Stanley Cup playoffs in Madison Square Garden. In the attle scene above. Shore (No. 2) is having a couple hung on his nose by the Rangers' Murray Pat former amateur iieavywcight champ of Canada. At right, Ranger Phil Watson is backed against lie boards bjr HamiU of 'he Bruirs.

P. S. There WAS hockey cnt and tbt Rangers won, 2 1, Shultz policy racketeers, James J. limes, once powerful Tammany leader, is pictured leaving the Tombs. New York prison, after posting 535,000 bail.

Freed by a certificate of reasonable doubt, appeal of hit case may insure him a year's liberty. S. Mortimer Auerbach leaves a horseshoe of silver spray in his wake as he sweeps around a curve his Emancipator VII at Miami. where he broke five international speedboat records in one Auerbach, Atlantic City and Miami sportsman, set marks for 24 miles, one hour and three noun in the four litre class, and 34 miles and one hour in meuolimitcd clajt,.

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