The Pantagraph from Bloomington, Illinois • Page 18

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.1 THE SUNDAY PANTAGRAPH SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 193S. I That First Day in School I 0 yy ipiv- i If 1 0 VKI-'t to 1 -jTN 1 1 ti3 NEWSPAPERS, TOO. First graders at the Jefferson school have newspapers written somewhat in the primer stjle to teach them what's going on in the world today. This view is of the library table in one corner of the room. Howard Hughes and the liritish pickaback plane were pictured topics in the current special newspaper.

rNT.c..n. LEARNING TO RITE. Only the modern first grader is first taught how to print by hand. These seven girls are learning how to print "hoy" hut their thought wander now and tlien to pictures faces, ships and so on. There's a ship at the far end of the blackboard to break tlie monotony.

Tor their very first day in school, they were doing quite well. SAILING. ThU little girl tlemonvtrateil that site roulJ write lier own name as well a the prescribed bo) ami Ihu earned th riglit to let tier imagination go sailing. Result, a ship with portholes ami a bit mt the sea. If Jiff' -VtfrW i'v-.

i v1 1 3 L. i 1 WELL, WELL. Printing these girls naturally discovered that the lends itself admirably for deft transformation into a front view of a funny face. A bit lopsided, but a face just the same. Giggling, they stand back to appreciate the full effects of their little creation.

And then, hearing LET'S PLAY HOUSE. And the tedium of is broken for these youngsters who thus are gradually "broken in" to the ways of school which are very different from pre-school playing. Fireplace, rocking cliair, dolls everything is here. STREAMLINED PRIMER. The primer Isn't what it used to be.

Tlwse I -A pupils are prmsinf copies of an edition rontaining such familiar scene a papa getting his automobile service. There ar' photographic reproductions along with the tet. Miss l-aura Itrlle Sajocr, the instructor, is explain about that boat business, they tried that. ing to one of tlietn at the renter, background. VV Itoi Wri mJr irrr I rT- 1 4Yi; 11 -v- -c- v- I Kv iimmMif fi wV vtyr i -til i I Ifj ,3 M.ght no thousands I I H- 11 i I S-T.

of Jews have flocked to Mose -A I. II SI I 3 Guibory. in Jerusalem i V- A i r7 If -Al -fefe-S here his proplle utterances I A -J i if AilSrrM come true in the past dade pM LUM' 6 Lif' i L-rr-Vl S5 convinced Im the li'V. Al fi I riiWHV -V'i long-awaited Messiah. Guihhory I AR JITTERS.

The spines of superstitious folk in the London crowd pictured at left, above, probably became cat-walks for chattering chills when they spied the black feline shown, at right. While the crowd waited anxiously before No. 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting to determine Great Britain's stand in the European crisis, the black tat, symbol of bad luck to believers in omens, marched up and parked itself at the door. TV .4 2 1 i If METEORITE STRIKES. Here's the hole 28 feet deep and 21 feet wide that was blasted in the earth at Menard, when a meteorite whistled down out of the sky.

In the top photo, the tree at the right perches precariously at the edge of the hole after being grazed by the meteorite. Iower photo shows a party exploring the cavity. MISS AMERICA? Wlut in the world would this quartet of comely "bathics." all from 'way down south in Iiie. be doing 'way op north in Atlantic ity. N.

Well, joii guesl it. Thej're contestants in the annual beauty Migrant for the title of MUs Antr-rica of I93S." l-ft to right. Hie hatliirs answer to the nani of Mjry Jane Thomas. "Miss rt Rrlircca Pearl I Unit ins. "Miss Alice Talti.

"Miss Atlanta." and Irene It. horn-berger, "Miss New Orleans." J0 1Kb. ft II 1 I. I gvX "tS Jji it iiiijinMiii ill A I I i ff I A ccH5fcc4V sv REALISTS. Two key men both classrtl as hard lwadr rralMs in ROSE COLORED.

Glasses on North Caldwell. N. Y. warden KM) pullets have stoped niur-di-rs. The pullets had been killing those which bled slighlly after being peked.

Now the red glasM blind them to crimson stains. -CHIEF WRONG AY." When Doug Corrigan. for the umpteenth time, repeated his story of how he landed in Ireland after heading for California, the Otoe Indian tribe derided to make it official and dubbed him -Chief Wrong Way" at Tulsa. Okla. In the picture above, Corrigan's famous grin is framed in a feathered head dress given him by Otoe Chief Frank ICrown.

right. LEAP. Hold your breath, folks. There goes Putt Mossman, famous American trick Biotorrjcle rider, trying to leap the River Lea at Rye House, England, after getting np speed on a specially built 60-foot runway. Hut he doesn't make it, as the picture at the right shows.

He and the motorcycle get dunked and the crowd gets a thrill. European diplomacy stand toCrthrr at the Nal congress at Num. berg. Al thin meeting Sir Nevile llftiderson. left.

Mas believed have told Field Marshal Hermann Goerine. Hitler's rutillutirf man. that Kritaiu would fiKbt with Era lire in event of German aggressi in Czechoslovakia..