The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1938-07-14
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

o.
NEW YORK.-As token Of good
IN will, President Renal Ataturk
Of Turkey sends his bomb-tossine
adopted daughter on fight over
Greece and the
Feminine Balkans. She holds
Bomb Tosser a diamond medal
Has Good Aimfor b I'M b n 8
As Kurds, having out
scored veteran male fliers in re-
cent workout.
When the timid and demure Turk
ish women started coming out from
the harem. they kept right on going.
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 pretty little thing.
An admiring woman CORE
spondent described her as "shy
and demure," with quick re-
course to her ''modish little van
ity case" as she climbed from
her plane after . 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
Sd0ind oest world. She was
Stunt Flyer, trained In flying
Saws Mentor and gliding in
Russia and later
was a 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.
HERE 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
mn, Co. has been for many
~ years a diligent
Up Society and earnest advo-
For Religion cate Of peace and
brotherhood, work.
ing through the International Ba-
haist movement Of which she has
long been a leader. She derives
from the Blue book and has turned
from society to religious and hui
manitarian concerns.
Her husband. now retired, Is
. great-grandson Of John Jacob
Astor, and . former lieutenant
governor Of New York. He Il
big, gray, silent man, walking .
small white poodle dog, rarely
seen at his wife's salon, but .
loyal partner In her endeavors.
He d the brother Of the late Bob
and John Chanler.
The flaming-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 a re-
ligious and cultural International
ism.
nOWN in Peru, this writer knew
- some dilatory natives who fre-
quently used word which meant,
mot tomorrow. but day after to-
NIL Ca. morrow and may
be not then"
Degree 20 From ancie {
Years Late parchments. Trim
ity college dons
h1t the reverse expression-'.nunc
pro tung," which means now in.
stead Of then" With this high AGA.
demic sanction, they are enabled to
deal q bachelors degree tn Richard