The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-07-15
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
wErK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

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NEW YORK.-As a token of good
~ will, President Renal Ataturk
Of Turkey sends his bomb-tossing
adopted daughter on a fight over
Greece and the
FEMININE Balkans. She holds
Bomb Tosser a diamond medal
for b o m b in 6
~ ~ Kurds, having out
scored veteran male fliers in re-
cent workout.
When the tinid 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 corre-
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 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 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
Sd0tn0 6eSe world. She was
Stunt Flyer, trained in flying
So,. Me,tor and gliding in
Russia and later
was a cadet in the Turkish army
air force school. She rides 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.
TT 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
Belle Clues years a diligent
Up Society and earnest advo-
For Pey;o;o, 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
q great-grandsOn Of John Jacob
Aston, and 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
loyal partner in her endeavOrs.
He is the brother of the late Bob
and John Chanler.
The fiaming-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-
igious and cultural International
ism.
nOWN in Peru, this writer knew
- some dilatory natives who fire.
quently used word which meant,
''not tomorrow, but day after to-
morrow and may
LICK Oets be not then"
Degree 20 From anc i e nj
Yeore Lofe parchments, Trim
ity college dons
lift the reverse xpression-'' 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