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A iteuin ifui scene (luring the graduation ceremonies held at the Walter Reed hospital, Washington, when the
g. r.hccod 42 young women nurses. Miss Malvina M. Grieves, one of the graduates, was presented with the
s. Henry It. Rea medal which is given annually to the graduate who shows the greatest natural aptitude for her
work
London Gets Photoradiogram From San Francisco
Tiie transmission of the first commercial photoradiogram from San Francisco to London, utilizing the new
transcontinental radio circuit which Mayor Walker of New York opened, was announced by It. C. A. Communica¬
tions. Inc. Tiie picture, shown above, was posed and developed in the Hollywood studios of Radio Pictures, the
motion picture producing organization of R-K-O, rushed by airplane to San Francisco, and there filed for trans¬
mission to London, via New York. This feat marked the first time that a photograph has traversed a distance of
approximately 6,000 miles to its destination, in commercial radio transmission. The photograph shows Henry
Didot, Freneli consul at Los Angeles, and Henry Bancroft- Livingston, English vice consul of the same city, with
Bebe Lhinieis and Betty Compson grouped around a representation of the northern hemisphere topped by a radio
tower.
Giving the Pensacola War Teeth
War teeth were put in the new United States cruiser Pensacola when
big eigtit-inch guns were put in place on her deck at the Brooklyn navy yard.
Horace Is an Expert Fisherman
Master Horace S. Major, five, of Ocean View, Va., Is an expert on pis¬
catorial matters. He follows the movements of commercial and sports fish¬
ermen with unusual interest. And when he wants to be can doll up like a
regular oldtlraer. Here he is with his hat. slicker, corncob pipe and fish.
CLEVELAND COURIER
ANOTHER PRINCE
Washington's diplomatic corps is
now graced by another prince—
Prince Amoradhnt Krimakara, who is
the new minister from Siam to the
United States. This Is a new por¬
trait.
ANNAPOLIS HONOR MAN
John B. Webster of San Diego,
Calif., who was selected as the honor
iB3n of the graduating class of the
United States Naval academy. Web
jster has led his class every year since
entering the academy.
EXPEDITION WILL
EMBALM GORILLAS
Complete Specimens to Be
Brought Back to U. S.
New York.—Four scientists sailed
from New York on the Aquitania for
the highlands of tropical Africa, there
to kill adult gorillas, embalm them
and bring them home complete for
anatomatical study. The new speci¬
mens will give first opportunity for
detailed comparison of "the gorilla
with man.
Columbia university, which wiil
finance the expedition, announced its
plans. The College of Physicians and
Surgeons is co-operating with the
American Museum of Natural History.
Henry Craven, who has explored in
Borneo, Celebes, Africa, Australia and
Greenland, heads the expedition.
He is associate curator of compara
time anatomy at the museum.
With him are Dr. William K. Greg¬
ory, professor of vertebrate paleon¬
tology at the university and curator
of comparative anatomy at the mu¬
seum; Dr. j. H. McGregor, professor
of zoology at the university and re¬
search associate in human anatomy
at the museum, and Dr. E. T. Engle,
associate professor of anatomy at
Columbia.
They also will make special studies
and photographs of the feet of the
unshod natives who carry their equip¬
ment through the thickly grown high¬
lands north of Lake Tanganyika Dr.
Dudley J. Morton, head of tiie com¬
mittee in charge of the expedition,
wants the data for bis studies of the
evolution of human foot and its dis¬
orders. The native feet are unde¬
formed by shoes and will he com¬
pared with American feet.
The expedition will return next
January.
Tired of Life, Blinded
War Bride Kills Self
Clarksburg. W. Va.—Tired of a life
of darkness and misery,* Mrs. Fred A.
Fratto, thirty, German war bride of
Frank Fratto, thirty, ex-service roan
and coal miner, fatally shot herself
through the right temple at their home
at Shinnston.
Mrs. Fratto was a pretty little Ger¬
man girl in the picturesque city of
Coblenz when the American army of
occupation came there in 1917. There
she met Frank, member of the Ameri¬
can forces, and a romance blossomed
rapidly. They were married and when
tiie army left she and Frank settled
at Shinnston.
There they lived happily until 1920
when the young woman developed a
serious tumor infection of tiie brain.
At a Richmond, Va., hospital where
two tumors were removed, a surgeon's
knife severed the optical nerve render¬
ing her blind. Despondent because of
her blindness, an infection that affect¬
ed her mind and crippled her spine so
she was an invalid, site decided she
was better off dead and so decided on
suicide, several previous attempts at
which were frustrated.
Joan tTArc Features
Bring Movie Fame
Paris.—Only because she had the
features of SL Joan, eighteen-year-old
Simone Genevoix has risen from the
mass of unknown French women to
become one of the most popular of
French moving picture actresses.
Madamoiselle Genevoix hod never
acted until a few weeks ago, and stie
was known only to her fellow towns¬
folk as a quiet and demure young girl
who some day would make a good wife
for one of the town's beaux. But
French producers discovered she re¬
sembled Joan of Arc even in manner¬
isms and today she is among tiie most
praised of Freneli actresses.
Mademoiselle Genevoix is appearing
In the new French film, “Tiie Wonder¬
ful Life of Joan of Arc,” which pur¬
ports to be an authentic reproduction
of the Maid of Orleans’ life, and histo¬
rians and critics have acclaimed her
interpretation as superb.
Payroll Dropped From
Airplane Is Scattered
Hutchinson, Kan.—Ricking up $10,
000 in silver and gold strewn over an
area of 75 yards was the experience
of William Carr, former guard for tiie
payroll agent located in the Tampico
oil fields of Mexico.
The money, wages for oil workers,
was dropped by airplaue from sacks
in absence of a landing field. One
day when the plane flew higher than
usual, three sacks hit the ground,
burst open, and scattered their golden
contents over the surrounding area.
Only $94 was missing when the guard
had finished picking up the money.
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% in in Commerce Commerce Group Group *
Okia.—For Okla.—For '“v 5|C
* Edmond, Edmond, the the first first *
time time iri iri tiie the history history of of Oklahoma. Oklahoma, J
4= and and perhaps perhaps for for the the first first time time *
% in in the the country, country, a a blind blind man man has has * %
* * been been elected elected president president of of a a J
chamber chamber of of commerce. commerce.
* Philip Philip C. C. Slack, Slack, blind blind since since *
%. birtii, birth, was was elected elected unanimously unanimously * *
* to to cite the Edmond Edmond group. group. Coining Coining
si to to Kdmond Kdmond more more than than twenty- twenty- 4c
jj; eight eight years years ago. ago. Slack Slack lias has estab¬ estab- *
4c lished lislied one one of of the the largest largest book book | *
^ shops shops in in the the state. state. Janesville Janesville He He is is a a *
* graduate graduate of of the rise
J (Wis.) I Wis.) high high school school for for blind blind and and *
* the the college college for for blind blind at at Vinton, Vinton, *
* Iowa. Iowa. %
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SEEK COMPENSATION
. FOR PRISON YEARS
Friends Move to Aid Man
Wrongfully Jailed.
Madison, Wis.—An effort is under
way here to obtain legislative compen¬
sation for John A. Johnson, sixty-five,
who served ten years in prison for a
crime it now generally Is believed he
did not commit.
Althougb Johnson confessed in 1911
to the murder of seven-year-old Annie
Lemberger, he repudiated his confes¬
sion just before he entered the gates
of Waupun prison.
In 1922 he was pardoned by Gov.
E. 1- Philipp, who had been con¬
vinced the man confessed because of
a morbid fear of mob violence.
There are more than 3,000 Madi¬
son citizens who now are certain so¬
ciety “robbed" Johnson of ten work¬
ing years of his life and who have
signed petitions asking the legislature
to compensate him, as far ns possible,
for that which was taken.
Crime Committed In 1911.
Johnson, an employee of the city,
has aged rapidly and is in none too
good health. He still works, but his
earning jmwer is small and he and
the wife who trusted him during his
years of imprisonment are not enjoy¬
ing the comforts they might have had.
Annie Lemberger, daughter of Mar¬
tin Lemherger, was put to bed by her
! mother about nine o’clock the night
; of September 5. 1911. Several days
later her body was found floating in
! j Monona bay. She had been beaten
to death.
Johnson was arrested three days
later and was questioned by a detec¬
tive. For hours he maintained that
he was innocent—until tiie detective
struck the vulnerable spot.
The officer, failing in all other ef¬
forts to make Johnson confess, told
tiim that a mob was outside clamoring
for his life.
Saw Man Lynched.
Johnson once had seen a man
lynched at Darlington and the moment
he heard that lie was in danger of
meeting a similar fate lie became a
cringing, terrified wreck. He con¬
fessed. begged protection, and when
arraigned in court pleaded guilty, with
the additional plea that he be hurried
to prison and saved from the mob.
Despite the fact that Mrs. Johnson
and two daughters, Stella and Bertha,
testified that Johnson bad gone to bed
about nine o'clock Hie night of the
murder and never left the house dur¬
ing tiie night, the man's plea of guilty
was accepted and he was sentenced
to Waupun for life.
Use X-Ray on Diggers
to Halt Diamond Thefts
Cape Town, South Africa.—Obser¬
vation posts with searchlights and
special X-ray apparatus are stated to
he among the means which the South
African government is adopting to end
the diamond smuggling in Namaqua
iand. in which women are said to be
largely employed.
No stones have been produced from
the state diggings since last February
and the work is not proceeding until
all the precautions against Illicit dia¬
mond smuggling are completed.
The X-ray apparatus is said to be
such as to make It possible to detect
diamonds on or in a man passing an
observer. While smuggling fs admit¬
ted, the government denies that the
stones are coming from the state dig¬
gings.
Sweeping of Jewelry
Shop Floor Yields Gold
Cincinnati, Ohio.—An effort will be
made to recover several hundred and
probably thousands of dollars' worth
of gold and other precious metals be¬
lieved to have accumulated under a
floor of a jewelry manufacturing firm
here during tiie last quarter century.
The firm will move into a new loca¬
tion soon and officials are going to
make sure they remove all their be¬
longings, even to the tiny bits of
metals in floor cracks and other in¬
conspicuous parts of the shop.
Employees wash their hands in a
sink that lias no outlet and about
$1,000 worth of precious metals is re¬
covered this way each year. Sweep¬
ings from the floor yield about $200
wortli a month.
Monks Work to Divert
Traffic From Monastery
Cumberland, R. L —The strange at¬
mosphere which pervades the Cister¬
cian monastery will become even more
pronounced with the completion of a
new stretch of highway under con¬
struction here.
Without outside aid. the Trappist
monks of the monastery are building
a new road, tnree-quarters of a mile
long, to divert traffic from the main
highway which now runs close to their
retreat
In carrying out this novel project,
the monks are following the example
of Henry Ford, who had a similar
road constructed to divert traffic from
his Wayside inn at Sudbury, Mass,
Will Dres» Statue
Kovno, Lithuania.—Kovno’s statue
of the Greek god, Apolio, will be of¬
ficially clad in a bathing suit hence¬
forth. When a group of women pro¬
tested against the statue's compara¬
tive nudity, the town council refused
to- remove the work of art. A compro¬
mise to dress the statue in a bathing
suit finally was reached.
BRITAIN TO TEST
N EW DIR IGIBLES
One Will Visit Canada, Other
Goes to Egypt.
London.—The world’s latest and
most expensive experiment in aircraft
construction will be given its first
test soon when gas is blown into the
bags of the R-100 and the R-101, Great
Britain's new $-4,000,000 airships.
Sir Samuel Heare, British air min¬
ister, recently announced in the housa
of commons that the two new airships
would make flights to Canada and
India in the fall if the trial flights
were successful. Air experts of the
world perked up their ears at this An¬
nouncement for Great Britain’s failure
in these two ventures may mean death
for future airship construction.
The R-100, the air ministry has de¬
cided, will go to Canada, while the
R-101 will make the first long flight
to India and Egypt, where arrange¬
ments already have been made for
handling the ship. It is understood
here that the R-100 might include the
United States in its itinerary if Wash¬
ington extends an invitation.
But so far Sir Samuel has refused
to divulge when the shed tests and
first trial flights wiil be held. Pre¬
vious delays, and subsequent question¬
ings in parliament, have made him
cautious. It was learned, however,
ttiat the bags will be filled some time
in June, after which the first local
flights will be made.
The construction of these two 5,000,
000 cubic feet gas-filled airships is
rapidly nearing completion after in¬
numerable delays occasioned by
changes in plans and the addition of
many new devices which never before
have been employed on giant airships.
The R-101, in particular, represents
several radical departures in the con¬
struction of the steel frame and in
the arrangement of the interior.
As the R-100 is fitted with ordinary
petrol engines, it was selected for the
flight to America, whereas the R-101,
equipped with Diesel engines, is more
suited to the warm atmosphere which
will be encountered ou the flight to
India and Egypt.
Pope Limits Use of
New Vatican Money
rtome.—Officials of Vatican City wilt
continue to receive their salaries in
Italian money after the papal govern¬
ment's new money is issued, it was un¬
derstood.
The papacy's own silver and gold
coins will be few and their use lim¬
ited.
Gold coins of 20 lire value and silver
coins of 5 lire value (about $1.05 and
26 cents, respectively) are planned.
The coins will be used to purchase
Vatican City stamps, to pay entrance
fees to the art galleries and fees to
tiie holy congregations, especially to
the congregation of sacraments in
cases of annulled marriages.
Robber Splits Loot So
Creditors Can Get Pay
San Francisco, Calif.—Kind hearted
ness of a robber mixed with the ora¬
tory of Herman Krieger reflected sat¬
isfactorily upon the latter's creditors,
Krieger told police a man came in¬
to his house, drew a pistol, and forced
him to give up $S5. He said he plead¬
ed with the man not to take ail the
money because he had to meet some
bills.
“All right, guy,” the robber an¬
swered; “we’ll split it.”
The robber counted out $42.50 and
gave it back to Krieger.
The next day the creditors got their
money.
Gives Away Old Shoe
With Diamonds in Toe
San Francisco, Calif.—The fun
started when Mrs. A. J. Jadig discov¬
ered her husband had hidden her dia¬
mond ring and his diamond stickpin
in an old shoe—the old shoe she gave
to the Salvation Army two days be¬
fore.
The brogan search that followed
Mrs. Jadig's discovery surpassed in
excitement the annual city Easter
egg hunts by far and was successful.
Salvation Army workers*found the
shoe among thousands of others and,
what was better, found the $3,500
worth of jewelry.
Beg* for Life Term
Minneapolis.—Raymond Askiey told
Judge E. A. Montgomery he had
proved a failure at everything, includ¬
ing being a burglar, and asked for a
life sentence so he would have some¬
thing to eat every day. The judge
agreed.
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* $15,000 Frogs Are *
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* Loot in Robbery *
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* Toledo, Ohio.—Toledo's latest *
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* robbery, involving two frogs val¬ *
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* ued at $15,000, is shrouded in * £
* mystery.
* Dr. Robert Wald, of the *
owner *
jjf high-priced amphibians, from told their po- * *
* lice they were stolen *
* tank in the rear of his home. *
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* Raised on artificial food and *
* imported from Louisiana, the *
* hoppers were the subjects of an *
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* important experiment, intended *
* to prove whether amphibians *
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* could be raised in artificial sur¬ *
* roundings in sufficient number
* commercial invest¬
* to warrant
* ment.
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