Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-07-14
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

the harem, they kept rlgnt on gong.
They seem to be out-distancing our
girls who are merely coming out OF
the kitchen.
Turkeys ''Flying Amazon is Sa-
biha Gueckchen, twenty-four-year-
old daughter of Turkish army cap
tain who was killed fighting Greeks
in 1921. She is a pretty little thing.
An admiring woman CORE
sp0ndent described her as "shy
and demure," with quick re-
course to her "modish little van
ity case" as she climbed from
her plane after a hard days
bombing. That was in the Der
sim area, in eastern Anatolia, in
which she had been blasting the
Kurds out of their caves.
She is a first lieutenant in the
Turkish army, the only woman air
force officer in the world.
Her French flying instructor says
she is the most gifted woman aero
=. batic pilot in the
Sdblnn Best world. She was
Stunt Flyer, trained in flying
Cru. Me,tor and gliding in
'' M ~ Russia and later
was cadet in the Turkish army
air force school. She rides a single
seated military plane, handles all
types of planes and is especially
accurate and skillful in bombing.
It is said no aviator in Turkey
can match her in diving and stunt
ing, but she shrinks modestly from
all such, possibly unfeminine, exhi-
bitionism, and sticks to her hum
drum bombing tasks.
III ERE is another diverting little
news note, in sharp contrast,
however, on the emergence of the
modern woman. At her home in
New York, Mrs. Lewis Stuyvesant
Chanler presents prizes of $3.50 to
the winners of the annual "Intel-
lectual Olympics," conducted by her
new history society.
Happily the flying bomb put is
not included in her decathlon. She
has been for many
Detie 0tOeS years a diligent
Up Society and earnest advo-
For ReJ;o;on cate of peace and
brotherhood, work.
ing through the international Ba-.
haist movement, of which she has
long been leader. She derives
from the Blue book and has turned
from society to religious and hui
manitarian concerns.
Her husband, now retired, is
a great-grandson of John Jacob
Aston, and a former lieutenant
governor of New York. He is
big, gray, silent man, walking
small white poodle dog, rarely
seen at his wife's salon, but a
loyal partner in her endeavors.
He is the brother of the late Bob
and John Chanler.
The faming-haired Valeska Suratt
was an instrument of fate in the life
of Mrs. Chanler. They were jointly
engaged in Hollywood script enter
prise when Miss Suratt introduced
her to Mira Ahmed Sahrab, de-
scendant of Mohammed and a dis
ciple of the Abdul BAHIA. He was
her tutor in the esoteric faith whose
followers, like those of the Oxford
movement, fervently believe the
world can be saved only by re-
igious and cultural International
ism.
DOWN in Peru, this writer knew
some dilatory natives who fire.
quently used word which meant.
mot tomorrow, but day after to-
NJ morrow and may
DicR oets be not then"
Degree 20 From anc lent
Years Iote parchrnents, Trim
ity college dons
lift the reverse expression nunc
pro tung," which means "now in
stead of then" With this high aca-
demic' sanction, they are enabled to
deal bachelors degree to Richard
Barthelmess, who failed to touch
second when he was there 20 wears
ago.
Baseball mOguls could now
say "nunc pro tung" and hand
Fred Merkle that run he didn't
get in 1908. If the custom gets
going, it might open the way for
some European debt payments.
Mr.. Barthelmess is one of the thin
ming line of the stars of the old
silent screen who remain in the pub
lie consciousness. His mother was
Caroline Harris, an actress of the
Biograph days. She gave Nazimova
English lessons and in return Nazi-
nova gave her boy his professional
start in "War Brides" "Broken
Blossoms" with Dorothy Gish, was
his last big success.
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