The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-12-29
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON


NEW YORK.-Reginald Denny,
l y the one-time professional boxer
who became a motion picture star,
develops his toy airplane hobby into
business. He
Robot PianesIs rings up a sale
Ex-Pug Dennys of six robot
Hobby-Business planes to Uncle
Sam, to be used
in army experiments next summer.
They are expected to be curtain
callers for larger and more bust
ness-like robots, flying without pi-
lots, guided by radio beams, busting
TINT on intruders.
Reginald Denny will be re-
membered as the actor extolled
a decade or so ago as "the typi-
cal, wholesome young Ameri-
can" Then he turned out to be
an Englishman, a fiier and ma
chine-gunner in the British royal
air force in the war. A light
comedian, he had two absorbing
interests-his screen antics and
what seemed at the time a juve-
nile absorption with miniature
airplanes. From the latter, he
developed some ideas about ra-
di0-cOntr0lled planes. He estab-
ished the Reginald Denny In
duStries, with James BlacktOn,
an experienced technician, as
manager. He is making a small
'fying torpedo" designed for
flying in swarms, with no pilot,
and with land-contrOI of the
bomb-dropping as well as guild
ance. When completed the Unit
ed States will get it.
He ran away from school at the
age of 16 to play for Charles Froh-
man at the Duke of York's theater.
Fis first featured role was in the
"Merry Widow" Then he became
a professional boxer, later champion
of the Second corps of the royal air
force.
NELSON T. JOHNSON, ambassa-
dor to China, coming home by
a side door as Japan slams the open
door, probably will have in his hip
pocket a copy OF
a ScfoIoT ana the "Analects''
Gagster--That's of Confucius,
EnDov .Johnson barring possibly
"Alice in Won
derland," which he also packs
around with him, it is his favorite
reading.
Like Henry r. Curran, deputy
mayor of New York, he believes
that public activities and atti-
tudes should be infused with hui
NOR. More than any other
American, he has been success
full in translating our best an
thology of pullman car gags to
the Chinese. Following the
labyrinth of Confucius and Lao
TIE, he finds unique approach
to the Chinese mind and has
been one of our most successful
ambassadors. But, back home,
he is sharp, exact, statistical
and thoroughly occidental,
among which attributes is line
of up-and-coming Chamber of
Commerce Orat0ry. He lives in
two worlds.
After his graduation from George
Washington university, Mr.. Johnson
mixed with the Indians of the South
west, picked up Indian dialects with
remarkable facility, thereby discov-
ering his linguistic gifts. That sent
him to China as student interpret
er in, 1906. In the Far East, he has
occupied many important posts and
is a former assistant secretary OF
state. He finds the Chinese have a
lot more hurnor than the Japanese.
IT WAS about three years ago that
1 the head of the German National
Institute of Physics denounced the
"debased Jewish atom" and prom
-. ised to deliver
Keep Scientific untainted car.
Inquiry Free yam" atom. I'm
der the banner
of "The Pragmatic and Dogmatic
Spirit in Physics" this scientific
revolution has been advanced by
the Nazi savants, and at last Amer
lean scientists mobilize against it.
DR.. Franz Boas, 80-year-old Ger
man-born American anthropologist,