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...more in the Eastern than in the Western Hemisphere. To Japanese it stands for the same thing that Trafalgar means to the English, to Russians, what Waterloo means to the French. Greatest naval battle since Trafalgar, and one of the four greatest of all time,* Tsushima (1905) was the knockout blow by which Admiral Togo won the Russo-Japanese War, set all Japan in a roar of Banzai! History has written down Togo as hero of the fight, but last week a footnote to history gave the other side of the story...
...Craig falls in love with him. When the assistant arranges to have a fake Czech count (Mischa Auer) pose as a millionaire decoy for Precious, a genuine English lord (Ray Milland) takes his place by accident, begins a romance with Kay Craig. It devolves on Penny to administer the knockout punch to her father's mesalliance almost at the altar. She does it by running away, singing arias in a police station until the captain promises to help...
Died- Billy Papke, 50, oldtime (1907-08; 1911-13) world's middleweight boxing champion, Los Angeles saloon "greeter"; by his own hand (revolver), after shooting and killing his divorced wife Edna, 46; on Balboa Island, Calif. Against Champion Stanley Ketchel in 1907, Papke scored a twelfth-round knockout after punching his opponent's head instead of shaking his hand, as they entered the ring. Ketchel punished him severely in a return bout...
...itself astonishingly bolder. Drastic censorship in both Tokyo and Nanking has delayed and blurred this greatest Far East news story. By last week, however, it seemed clear that the present which her bantamweight Premier & Generalissimo was giving his country on his 50th birthday was a heavyweight and possibly a knockout blow of Chinese statecraft, ending the policy toward Japan which the Nanking Government has pursued for nearly a decade: the turn-the-other-cheek policy of accepting humiliation...
...since the February walkout. In Manhattan, General Manager Harry M. Bitner of the Hearstpapers insisted: "The Wisconsin News has accorded no recognition . . . made no settlement with the Guild. The Guild has simply called off its strike." Nevertheless, many an observer felt that, while the Guild had scored no knockout in Milwaukee, it had certainly won a victory of a sort on points...