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Whether or not this proves to be a conference of wrist-slappers, Shanghai dispatches announced this week that at least two of the conference nations, the French Republic and the Soviet Union, are at length helping China to give Japan black eyes by supplying bombing planes flown to Nanking from Soviet Siberia and from French Indo-China. These ships this week were bombing Japanese positions not only at Shanghai but in North China, and every patriotic Chinese itched for the day when they will actually dare to fly over and for the first time in history bomb Japanese towns...
...anniversaries, those of 1) the death of Polish General Casimir Pulaski, Revolutionary War hero, for whom he made a brief speech upholding ". . . the ideal of human society which makes conscience superior to brute strength." 2) The birthday of his wife, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, to whom he gave a watertight wrist watch to replace one she ruined at a beach last summer...
...Races (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Groucho Marx washes his hands in a basin, discovers that he has his wrist watch on. He removes it. puts it on a table, notices a bystander eyeing it. He puts it back in the basin, says: "I'd rather have it rusty than missing...
...this came out next morning when the cabin which the man in the beret had occupied was found empty, in violent disorder, its washstand and the catwalk outside its open, window bloodstained. On the floor were shattered glasses, a wrist watch, its metal band wrenched and broken, and a nickel. No one could place his red-faced friend, but purser's records identified the missing man as Charles F. Keene. His disappearance was apparently the first drama in Mr. Keene's life. He had lived with his wife in a modest residential hotel in Washington...
Birthday. Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of England, heir presumptive to the throne, 11; at Windsor Castle. Celebration : a Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck film show in the throne room. Gifts: from "Uncle David," the Duke of Windsor, a wrist watch and tennis racquet; from King George VI, a white pony named Snowball; from Queen Elizabeth, a saddle, harness and crop; from younger sister Princess Margaret Rose, a handbag with silver fittings; from Grandmother Queen Mary, doll furniture. Royal family rules forbid accepting personal presents from the public...