Explorer MacMillan Bade In Civilization
After weary month* In the Artie, the little signer "Bowdoln" has returned to Wlscasset. Me., brin^
tog Donald McMillan and his party back to civilization. MacMillan 1 s shown wearing his Artie. furs. MUJ
Mary B. Fassett. of Woodmere, Long Island. N. Y.. a sdmmer vacation!, t in Maine, donned the. south gieea
pre-nuptial costume worn by Eskimo girls and brought back by the exp! dltlon- The suit 1s trimmed with
lace, beads and fur.
ZR-3 on Her Last Flight Over Fatherland
The giant Zeppelin built In Friedrichshafen, Germany, for the United States Government, is shown
hen on her last trial flight over Germany. She wae snapped aa she flew over the famous Brandenburg
Gate on Uater den Linden, in Berlin.
First Photoraph of Disastrous Russian Flood
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The most disastrous floods in Russia for the past hundred years nearly Inundated Leningrad (old
St. Petersburg) and for a time cut the city off from the rest of the world. At points the water was 12 feet
over the city. This photograph shows one of the busi ness streets, covered with debris, after the water had
partially subsided.
Would Nab Pedestrian*
For Breach of Traffic
St. Louis.—Pedestrians who pass
•A automatic traffic signal which Is
•et against them will get a ride In
the patrol wagon if the plans of
Alderman John V. Brod, Jr., chair
man of the Traffic Council to make
this city safe for motorists, are car
ried out
Brod has announced he would ask
that the police be Instructed to arrest
pedestrians wiho disregard the sig
nals of the silent policemen, in the
same manner that motorists are now
arrested for the same offense.
Bred has jointed out that care
lessness on the part of pedestrians
has been a contributing factor in
the record automobile fatality toll
IMP X«e* which at the beginning of
September had exceeded last year’s
total for the same period by 22 per
cent.
Fishing Schooners Will
Have Motors and Radio
Galveston, Texas.—When the Gulf
Fisheries three-masted schooner
Areas sails out of the channel to the
gulf here within the next thirty daye
| the old era of the fishing schooner
! will have passed, and for the first
| time a fishing boat will enter the
| Gulf of Mexico equipped with radio
! apparatus and power other than her
! sails.
The entire fleet of the Fisheries
| company here is being equipped with
l radio sets and gasoline power
engines, the first company to make
1 such Improvements along the entire
gulf.
It will be a different world for the
crews in tho future, with the strains
of Jazz from distant cities and ths
throb of motors supplanting ths
“song of the sails-’’
Clarence Loveless Is
Wedded to Ruth Loving
Amarlll o, Texas,—“Loving-Loveless
Wedding” read the caption on the
society page of an afternoon news
paper here.
“Quite common," remarked a read
er, but the Item revealed that Miss
Kuth Loving had taken for her hus
band Clarence Loveless. Not Inap
propriate that a loveless young man
should take a loving bride
Scopolamin Failed tq
Get Confession
Scepolamln, or “truth serum,1*
failed to make Mrs. Annie Willoif
confess participation In the murdQf
of her husband, according to tho
physicians who gave It to her. Mr*.
Willow was tried In Mlddletovfc
Pa., on the charge of forcing sev
enteen - year • old Ralph Shadel to
kill her husband so sue could love,
the boy, who was, on a separate
trial, sent to prison tram ton tt
twenty years.
Major Kirby Made Head
of U. S. Money Plant
4t?
Major Wallace Kirby, 0. S. A~,
has been named head of the Bu>
reau of Engraving and Printing In
Washington, which W™8 out
the paper money, stamps and bond*?
for the United Statea Government
The appointment follows a reor
gantzation of the bureau after t
bitter partisan figru of two yearn
ago, when President Harding dlb»
missed twenty-sLx officials withOaV
a bearing.
Married Woman Lead3
University Class
,'KR^A2W-U t> Tirootx^
Mrs. Anna D. Wood, a Junior of
Boston, Mass., University, has been
awarded a silver medal for hav
ing attained the highest academic
standing In a class of more thaa
300. Although eighty per cent oj
the class are men, she boat theix.
easily, Retwoen classes, she de\\£
her own housework.
ROMAN PAVING ON RHIN?
Trier, Germany.—Road builders ^
the Althaea- elver valley have un
earthed a stretch of atone paving
blocks dating back to the days of
the Romans. These stones, covering
a stretch of several hundred yards
if© to b© number© 1. taken up and
ralaid tor ©shlbUt in purposes lr
T'.Vtm.
PRINCE OF WALES VISITS HENRY FORD,
I pjamce o/'tsssj/zs $ ree:isnaar
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H. R H„ the Prince of Wales, Is shown with Henry Ford on thl
occasion of his visit to the latter's automobile plant in Detroit, when
the Prince saw the entire assembly'of a Ford car.
SWALLOWS POISON IN CHICAGO COURT.
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When Mrs. Charlotte Qrjtes Testard, twenty-four years old, wat
awarded $75 a week alimony by Judge Joseph Sabat.U, of Chicago, In
her suit for separation from her husband, James V. Testard, from
whom she asked $100 a week, she swallowed poison, and for a time
her death wras feared. Her husband Is a wealthy road house owner.
ROYAL ENGAGEMENT TO BE ANNOUNCED.
I
gacrow sgiarcE vbqpot/d % maxas/va. j
According to dispatches from Rome, the engagement ot Princess
Mafalda, daughter of the Italian monarchs. to Crown Prince Leopold ot
Belgium will be officially announced on either November 4 or on Novem*
her 11, the latter date being the King’s birthday. At one timo it was,
reported Princess Mafalda was desperately In love with Prince Nicholas
of Roumania, now « midshipman on the British cruiser Benbow, and;
that she had threatened to kill herself it compelled to marry Leopold.'
“Canned Jags" Puzzle
Kansas City Officials
Kansas City.—Canned Jags Is the
latest wrinkle that authorities are
trying to iron out of hooch imbibers
In this section of the country.
It has stumped the authorities, be- *
cause the "liquor" cannot be confis
cated as an Intoxicant, and neither
can they arrest a man with It la
his possession; nor can venders b«
apprehended as violators of the law.