THE OMAHA BEE
Bee Camera Flashes of Current Events
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'lh lint airplane lighthouse, a permanent nigbt guide (or aviator),
hit bean placed in service at Collefo Point, L. I. Hugh D. McKay,
president of the American Airway Training achoot, guide mighty
boms in tha iky.
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Mils Bertha Ten Eyck James
(above), daughter of Dr. Ed
mund James, former -president of
tha University of Illinois, has
keen awarded first "place in the
contest for the John Billings
Fiska poe,try priie. : She is an
undergraduate of the University
of Chicago. . -
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Tha great tea-going palace, the White Star liner Majestic, the largest ihip afloat, came into New
York harbor on her maiden trip with nearly every craft capable of making a noise bidding her a
screeching welcome. The Majestic, once the pride of the Germans, who constructed her as the
Bismark, presented m handsome appearance The big ship crossed the Atlantic in five days, 14
hour and 45 minutes, a record maiden trip.
P o p p y Wyndhtm,
famed British film
beauty, and her fa'.h
er, Lord Inchcape,
shipping magnate,
have arrived in New
York, apparently
having effected a re
conciliation. He dis
owned her following
her marriage in 1917.
She refuses to !:
cusa plans for her
future theatrical appearance.
Establishing a home for her own mother and father and adopting
them as her parents is the anique experience of Miss Myrtle Bill
ings, wbo had been legally adapted when she was an infant by
Rear Admiral Billings of the U. S. Navy, and who was made one
of his heirs when he died in Lot Angeles a year ago.
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ot.fe.sion which may aave N.ccolo Sacco and Bytholomeo Vttu whkh repo,a in the
entenced to die as slayers of a paymaster and a guard at 5outn v..
laloon of tha old S. S. Vater-
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Braintree. Mass. The two were killed by a gang ot gunmen, accora
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in a southern prison, wno - " -- - - - , s0lrti, Norwalk, Conn. It finally
conviction of Sacco and V.n-etti, who mrSZ Ld for mora 'than $800.
followed by bomb outrage against American diplomatic representa
tives in Europe.
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What call this? It's a'MThingamagig" motor, the inventor says.
Built by Edgar Croft, Zion City, 111., the weird craft is said to
travel 50 miles en a gallon of gas.
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Miss Mary Cul
berson (above),
daughter of the
U. S. senator
from Texas, ha
sailed for Europe
after her report
ed romance with
Alexander E. Ro
bertson, British
war hero, was
halted
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Martha Doty and Loretta Deanison (above) appeared in a specialty
danca at the M. E, Smith roof garden party for Mis Anna MeNamara,
one of the winning candidate in The Bee Good Will contest.
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By being dadarad the nest dog at the Elmhurst
L. I. how, Radiant a Tan H'Sai, chow, brought
mile to bis awner, Mr. Rabert Appleton, East-
hampton and new York.
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.Thi sculpture of "The Lart Supper," carved in
" mother of pearl and hand engraved by a native
artist in the village of Bethlehem, is worth ev-'
eral thousand dollar. ' It r-quired twa year to
complete.
A Wagnerian rooster which Cyrena Van
'Gordon, prima donna of the Chicago
Opera company, took to New Orlean
with her and which she declare lolemn
ly wakes her leach morning by crowing
the "Yo-Hoto-Ho" war cry of the
Valkyrie, it shown nere.
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A big airplane, bearing 150 quarts of Canadian whisky, crashed
on a farm near Croton, N. Y., when the pilot made a forced land
ing. The rum-laden plane, from Montreal, is said to be one of a
fleet of such machines running from Canada to New York
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In Chicago's labor war, with battles and wholesale ar
rests, the police mopped up union headquarter!, break
ing open the safe aad seizing secret papers. .
Ellen Terry and Sir James Barrie photographed t the oldest .uni
versity in Scotland, St. Andrew's, when Sir James was made the
new rector.
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