Opening of New Jersey Auto Racing Season
Winner in Speedboat Race
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They’re off for the Summer racing season on this
dangerous little auto racing track at Troy Hills, N. J.
It is only one-third of a mile in circumference. Here
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are the midget cars tearing around in the opening race
recently. Auto racing has become the most poimlar
sport of the Sunday crowd in New Jersey.
’Who’s Turn is It?”
"For Cotton” Man
King Cotton has staged a comeback
through the person of George A.
Sloan (above), President of the
Cotton Textile Institute, to whom
Secretary of Commerce Roper has
just presented the annual award
for trade association work most
beneficial to both public and indus
try. Mr. Sloan, pointing out that
one in every ten Americans de
pends on cotton for his livelihood,
conducted extensive campaigns to
educate the public to new uses for it.
Mm. Robin believes in feeding her little ones in rotation. It is quite
• strain on her memory, however, as the entire brood of hungry new
comers stretch their necks with gaping bills towards the juicy morsel.
Maybe they were just saying grace as this delightful picture was made.
Where Man Triumphed Again Over Nature
View ?! the hu*8 B™Ider Dam th8 *idea of the B,ack Canyon, leaving the spot where
li.lll Uoff Ne7,’,R4Vt appeare<i flowing the the giant spillway is to be built practically dry. With
liivir iiti fi?1 dlvert^ tho course of the Colorado the course of the river diverted, engineers say that
Iti er into the specially-constructed tunnels along the most difficult uroblem has been overcome.
Air Executive
Tulip Time in Holland, Mich.
On his new job as general manager
of the Gilpin Air Lines, Elliot
Roosevelt, 22-year-old son of tho
President, is pictured as he went
to work at Glendale, Cal. Young
Roosevelt revealed he has been in*
tarested in aviation for the past
Hi years.
It is tulip tima ia Holland, the land of windmills. It la also tulip tirr«
in llol'and, Mich., where, once a year, the residents of the quaint towr
cast off their American habits sod return to the customs and attire ol
the land whence came their forebears to the New World. Here is a typica'
troofe pictured in Dutch costume, admiring the blooms ao rsaumsccnt ol
aid Holland.
Mrs. Annie Bern is, of Rowe, near
Pontiac, 111., who has been a teacher
for 65 years, is here pictured after
she passed her 100th birthday re
cently—still going strong. Despite
her great age, the grand old lady
can still do tricks with that bell
she's using to call the pupils to
class.
Lady Commissioner
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Mrs. Lucille F. McMillin, of Ten
nessee, new Civil Service Commis
sioner, is pictured at her desk in
the Civil Service Department after
she had taken up her duties. Mrs.
McMillin is the fourth woman to
be honored with appointment to
high Federal office since the inau
guration of President Roosevelt
New Harvard Head
Dr. James Bryant Conant, noted
authority on chemistry, who has
been elected president of Harvard
University to succeed Dr. A. Law
rence Lowell, resigned. Dr. Conant,
who has been identified with Har
vard as a student and teacher since
1910, is widely recognized as a
leader in scientific research. He is
only 40, one of the youngest heads
the university ever has had.
New Romance?
A» Joan Crawford, screen star, took
the first step towards a divorce and
freedom from Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr., Hollywood speculated as to the
possibility of her marrying Fran.
«hot Tone, with whom she is shown
dancing here. Tone, new romantic
star of Irish extraction, has been
Miss Crawford’s leading maa for
some time.
Smiling the smile of victory, Mrs. Florence Burnham, of Wilmington.
Del., is pictured as she coasted her boat to the judges’ stand after sh®
had won the inboard class in the Albany to New York motorboat mara
thon. Mr. Burnham is playing second fiddle on this occasion—he acted
as the crew.
Fair View from Sky Ridt
ft won t be necessary for the visitor to Chicago’s Century of Progress
exposition to go up in an airplane in order to get an aerial view of the
treat &how. Toe sky ride, one of the big recreation features of the
>now, Is here shown as it neared completion, with steel workers aloft
putting on the finishing touches.
Relic of General Custer
Mis* Gertruda O'Connor is pictured holding tha gray uniform that
General George A. Cutter, famous Indian fighter, wore when he wa*
a cadet at West Point. It waa found in the New York house where
Mrs. Custer died some time ago. Another relic of the famous soldier
discovered in the house was the knapsack he carried at the battle of tha
"LlUie Big Horn," where he was sUuq with almost all of hu men.
