These Quakerettes Are Winners Clair Firman (left), captures first prize at Philadelphia beauty contest, Clair being ad judged the entry with the most graceful car riage. And Ruth Wallan (right), also went home with a handsome trophy after defeating numerous contestants for having the shapeliest legs, (International tlhutratod Now*) Which Scout Will Go With Byrd? She’s a Winner 11 III mt- II' 111 111 WWW • ->* .mm*vm — .. m rnmm John Jacobson, retired sailor, is showing these six Boy Scouts some rope tricks aboard the “Sampson,” at Brooklyn, N. Y. One of these scouts is going to accompany Commander Byrd on his dash into the Antartic. Left to right theyare Aldenr Snell of Washington, D. C., Sumner D. Davis of Alabama, Clark Spurlock of Oregon, Donald H. Cooper, Tacoma, Wash., Paul A. Siple of Pennsylvania, and Jack liirschniann, Min eaoolis Minn. (IntarKitlonal Illustrated N>W!) Step up and meet pretty Ruth Hurschler. She captured first prize in the annual "perfect hack" contest of the National Progressive Chiropractic As sociation held at Los Angeles recently. We’ll say that Ruth certainly merited the award! (Internttl'jnal Newsreel) Would Save Cult ' Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is conducting a campaign against English courts and police be cause of their drive against spiritualists. Doyle, one of the leaders in spiritualism, believes that ?n attempt is being made to wipe out the cult. (latoraationU .\ewsre«l> Freighter Picks Up Courtney Plane Here are some of the members of the crew of the freighter “Yalprato” which picked up the wrecked plane of Captaif* Frank Courvney after he was rescued by the Minnewaska. 1 hey are proud of the fact that they spotted the wreck in mid-ocean. This picture, taken at Sidney, Australia, shows th< engine casing which burnt out in the fire which caused the forced landing at sea. (International Nawartal) Planes Will Be Used For Mail to France Ship-to-Shorc Service Said to Save Twenty Four Hours The postmaster general, Harry S. New, has just announced that a ship to shore air mail service will be inaugurated with France be ginning August 8, 1928. Transpor tation oi mail by such a service will result in a 24-hour saving in the time oi arrival at destination, Mr, New said. The full text oi the an nouncement follows: Commencing with the sailing ot the French Line steamship "He De France” from Le Havre August 8, 1923, and from New York August \7. an air mall service will be In augurated by means of an amphi bian plane. This plane wilJ leave ;he steamship at such a distance front the American ana Frencf ooasts that its employment for t*t transportation of mail will resjli in a 24-hour saving in time of arriv al at destination. Mail matter except parcel pas. will be accepted for dispatch on this steamship and delivery to the French service by an amphibian plane on prepayment of $1 for eactt naif ounce or fraction thereof on letters and post cards. On printed matter, commercial papers and samples of merchandise the postage will be 25 cents for each two ounces or fraction. Until further notice, mail for France and countries beyond dis patched by this steamship and con veyed en route by plane from steam ship to the French service will be forwarded onward from France by the ordinary route. No provision has yet been made for the use of aii mail routes for the onward trans mission in and beyond France of thl3 correspondence. LOCKS AND TIPS Four federal prohibition agents from Washington, posing as men about town with plenty of money to distribute, are said to have spent four months and some $60,000 to $75,000 in the night clubs of New York, securing evidence which lea to the recent wholesale raids. Ti». episode illustrates the steady pro«* ress of prohibition enforcement, one cares to look at it that way, for it was not so long ago that, when ike same type of spy used up a thousand dollars, more or less, in obtaining evidence against the bell boys of a popular hotel in Wash ington, their methods and extrava gance were made the subject of special investigation by congress, •"The world do move.” However, it is not the glorious ad ranee in the enforcement of tha Volstead act that interests us quit# so much as the astonishing strategy deemed necessary to win success for this extraordinary campaign. Tha four spies were personally and of fically unknowm to their colleague* in New York, nevertheless, the dis patches inform us that on the daf of the raids all the New York pro hib'Uon agents were herded in a room and kept incommunicado, to ^reclude any cha-.ce of a “Up” reaching the cafe proprietors, and were not released until th; raids started, when they were turned loose to join with the others in the hunt. The charge can no longer stand that prohibition dees not con tribute Its due share of the na tional gaiety. Things That Happen Quicker Than a Wi-J From the Popular Science Monthly. The fastest thing that any man can do Is to wink his eye. The in stinctive reaction cf winking when a cinder blows into the eye is about one-tenth of a second for most peo ple. In that flash of time an auto mobile speeding 60 miles an hour Will move nearly 10 feet. A fast airplane will move more than 25 feet. Thus, the pilot can run into a small bird after he has first seen it before he can wink hi3 eye against the expected shock Some months ago a workman fell out of the 15th floor of a build ing in cour.se of construction in New York City. On the 13th floor he fjrabb^d a rope hanging from a scaffold and swung himself in on the 12th floor, saving his life. He i afterward confessed that he was as much astonished by his act as any one who saw him The explanation Is that the fall of 20 or 25 fe->t before he grabbed the rope occupied about one second and a quarter, which was time enough for hi3 thinking machinery to issue the orders which made his muscles take hold of the rope below at the nropsr instant. Had he been Disced In equal danger while driv ing a motor car at 60 miles an hour he would have been killed. Tests with a group of typical mo tor cor drivers have shown that the average time needed to see a danger signal, realize its meaning and be- | ein to press the brake lever is a little more than half a second. Tn that time a car traveling 40 m'les an hour would move 50 feet. That distance represents the minimum margin of safety the driver must maintain. * ♦ NOT VER Y PLENTIFUL From Answers, London. Farmer John Giles sent his young 1 est son into the miller’s with a sam ple of his crop of wheat. The miller took it inside and made a verv careful examination. He was delighted with the result, for the wheat was the finest he had seen for sorre time. “This is splendid wheat, you nig man,” he murmured to the farmer's son. “I’d like to buy it from your father. How much has he got like this, do you think?” . “Not much.” the boy replied slow ly. "He scent, all the morning pick ing that out.” Nobody Home From Pages Gaies, Yverdon. Master: I have been waiting for my boiling water for an hour, isn’t it ready? New maid: No. sir. I thought the first lot was too long getting hot so I changed it. Q. What became of Jefferson Da vis after his release from prison?— V O. T. A. After his release he visited Europe and spent the rest of his life in retirement, during which he -'rote The isRe and Fall of the Con* \ derate Government. He died Dt rnher 6. 1S89. in New Or'.c-CuJj. I Named Carroll’s Jail Visitor An investigation by a Congres sional committee into the al leged irregularities in the fed" eral prison in Atlanta, Ga., Has brought out the fact that Doro thy Knapp visited her friend, Karl Carroll, while the New York theatrical man was con fined there. It is thought like ly that she will be called to testify as to whether she re ceived any special favors on this occasion. (UtarnatloBal Nawarael) Two Fair Flyer* Mrs. Foster Welch, J. P., lord mayoress of Southampton, England, who will leave short ly for a visit to the United States. She is pictured above in her ofticia! robes. (lniernatloDAl Nawaraall Lady Heath (top), now bears the distinction of being the frst woman in the history of aviation to pilot an air liner, .'•he took a Royal Dutch air craft from Amsterdam to Croy don, England, without a mis hap. Lady Drummond Hays of London (lower), has an nounced her intention of being among the two-score passen gers to make the first trans Atlantic flight scheduled for September for the new Zep pelin LX-127. t it will take place. (International Nawarnol) _3