Testing Velocity ox Ligut .
The famous physicist, Dr. A. A. '
Michel son, testing and approving
the mile long test tube — the
longest in the world—at Santa
Ana, Cal. The tube was devised
• to make the first accurate
measurement* of the velocity of
light and is sealed by pipe line
below the Californian town.
(Interaallonal New»re«l)
Rc-elccted (#. O. 1 .
Head in Pennsylvania
State Treasurer Edward Martin
has been re-elected to the chair
manship of the Republican party
in Pennsylvania by a wide major
ity. The forties of Gifford Pin
rhot, Republican nominee for the
Governorship, were routed even in
the latter'* home county of Pike.
(International NlWurMlI
Baltimore Attorney
Nation's New Dry CAie.T
Colonel Amos W. W. Woodcocli,
U. S. Attorney at Baltimore, was
named as director of prohibition
in the new bureau that is to be
transferred to the Department of
Justice on July 1. „ „ ..
UnternalSvMl Nowaietl)
Famous Comedienne
Home Once Again
. - *«————mmatm——n*
Marie Dressier, famous cinema
comedienne, blowing a kiss to the
gentlemen of the preus as she re
turn on the S. S. Majestic from a
•'.sit abroad.
(iBtarnatianal N'timitd)
Coramander-iR-Cliief
Of Britain’s Fleet
A new portrait of Admiral Sir
Frederick Field, new First Sea
Ix*rd of England, who is to suc
ceed Admiral Sir Charles Madden
as tJie First Sea Lord and Chief of
Naval Staff of the Admiralty.
4inl«rnat iftiut-i
Aviator's r are well to riancec
Capt. J. P. Saul, navigator, <
pictured with his fiancee, Miss
Zenn M archant, just before
Saul and hie companions
** tiie trieaotered monoplane
“Southern Cross” hopped off
Cron; Ireland for New York,
landing at Harbor Grace Air
port after flying through im
penetrable l*JL__—.. !
Happy as Sue L.uds
Long Solo Flight
Miss Amy Johnson, 19-yeaf-old
British aviatrix, beside herself
with joy after her landing at Bris
bane, Australia, recently, at the
end of her long solo fight from
England to the Antipodes. The
fight required nineteen days, end
ing on May 34, She is shown with
a bouquet presented to her by an
admirer.
(tnta'rnatlonal NeWtrtel)
School Teacher Wins
Pilot’s Licen*«
Helen V. Cox, former Hagerstown,
Md., school teacher, and now serv
ing as an airplane saleswoman, has
been granted her transport pilot’s
license. There is no higher rating
for an airplane pilot. She is one
•f the twenty-three women in the
country to be granted the trans
port pilot's license.
(Internnuonal Newsreel)
Co-Slayer of Husband
Sentenced to Death)
Jersey justice struck with light
ning speed when Mrs. Hattie Evans,
of Toms River, N. J., was con
victed of killing her husband, Rob
ert Evans. Both Mrs. Evans and
Lester Underdown, an ex-marine,
muHt die in the electric chair for
the trilling, according to the ruling
of tne court.
(lBt*rB*tl«BBl
Selected for Edison Contest
. .
Victor Fanner, champion 17- <
f car-old boy scholar of Lamont.
owa who recently won the Iowa
Edison test, is congratulated by
members of the State Board of
Health. Thirty-seven other boys
competed in the examination for
the honor of representing their
home state in the annual national
contest given by th« wizard of
electricity.
(IMcrn.-.tlonut Nenstrc!)
lo nepresent Georgia
As Fairest of the State
Alice Louise Garretson, a gradu
ate of Agnes Scott College and the
daughter of a Decatur, Ga., con
tracting material distributor, is the
“Miss Georgia” by appointment of
the Governor of the State. She
will represent the fairest of
Georgia in festivals to be held thia
Summer. __ _
From Campus to
Operatic Stage
Only a few years afro a co-ed »*■
the University of Kansas, M*»
Beatrice Delkin (above) has
a contract with the Metropolitan
Opera Company to sing leadin',;
roles this coming season. H< t
greatest success before she signed
up with Metropolitan came to her
in Amsterdam and Berlin, where
she gave concerts.^
Minute Men of India on Guard
Coorkhas, or native soldiers, on ■
guard at Barr Street, Rangoon,
during the riots between Indian
coolies an.l Bur mans at Ran
goon, Burma. The disorders,
which came on the heel.? of a
strike settlement, resulted in
the death of 611 and the wound
ing of 748. Government rein
forcements were rushed to th'*
scene of conflict to establish
order.
(International Newsreels
Another Decoration for Byrd
Governor .’ohn S. Holland of <
Virginia, presenting to kiear
Admiral Richard E. Byrd the
beautiful sword which commem
orates Admiral Byrd’s late ex
plorations in the Antarctic re.
fions. The sword was subscribed
for by person* all over the State
of Virginia. A tremendous ova
ti<-a awaited the exploring Ad
miral when he returned to h'.<
heme State after a two years’
absence.
tiniernatlanal .Nev.arteij
Prominent Banker
Mends IJ. of Pcnna.
Thomas S. Gates, a jurtm r in P-e
f.;m of Drexel & Co. aid J. P. Mor
ton Co. °f New York, has been
•■hosrn as president of the Univer- j
ty of Pfnnsyh'ania. As pr<-si
leot, Mr. Gate;? will piny « leading
•ole in the rcorjfaauaSian of it*