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Show / Thursday, September 4, 1930 THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Once Fine Cruisers Are Being Scrapped Kyoto Turns Into a Venice for One Day 1 F:\ . . .•. : . ~ S r··~;~... , . . • ... , . .,......;-N.-Yw•••'.;r ~· !· Two of the United States' most emc1ent cruisers of a genemt!on ago, the Huron (right) and the Charleston, are being scrapped by a commercial junk concet·n on the waterfront of Seattle. Where the British Are Fighting The Afridis Scene in Kyoto, the ancient capttal of Japan, after one of the worst typhoons in history 'vhen 10,000 houses In Kyoto and the neighboring city of Osaka were flooded. , ' Reds Shout, but There Is Nothing Much Doing ' • • View of the town of Lanrll Kotal, a mile outside of Peshawar, where a fierrP attack re('ently took place on Briti::;h troop:s })y Afri<li tribesmen. In the foreground can be seen Afri<ii houses, the towers of which were used by the tribesmen as watch towet·s. \"i{'w of the Communists gathPred In· Union sqqare, Xew York city, to celebrate the third nnn!versat'J' of the Long Distance Clock Record DEAN OF CARDINALS ('Xeeutiou of ~acco and Yanzetti. The "electric chair'' shown in the ct>nter of the crowd was expected to arouse their it·e, hut they merel.1' yawnPd, while !'>quads of mounted and foot police stood by. Communist speakers shouted "down with everytlilng," but nothing happened. MODERNISTIC CLOCK First Hundred Voyages Are Over Cardinal Gtanito de Belmonte, who ~tH: cee<le<l the late Cardinal Vanmnell i ns dN.n of the College of Cardinals in Yatican CitJ· . has ..... ,..-.-•'( Lef't to right: Chief Engineer J. L. Wosser, Mate Gus Lind, and Capt. A. A. ~nwyer·, With the fiag that Is t·arely seen on the high seas. It is the nne ltunrlrl"<lth Yoynge pennant which few ships ever obtain and whleh no f<hlp tile~ ntor·e than twice-on entering port at each end of the one hundredth rnund trip hetl\·een the snme ports without interruption. The seamt>n above lire rnemhers of the crew of the S. S. C'alnwall whtct, ha~ made 100 tctps hat ween Los Angeles and the Il!l wail an island:>. 'fhis feat required seven years. BEARD IS HONORED 'l'his clock, In Oakland, Calif., is the first or lt~ kind in the world, having th n~e til a b. :set iu an in,·erted pyramid. It Is Wildt vf chromium r,nd ,·Itrotite anrl Is illumiuatetl I.Jj neon gas It Is oo,.,t·ated hy electric current from the po-v~>r houf:'e where lr is 'constantly regulated by a master clock. Believed to be the only one of its kind in the United States, thi~ waterdriven clock tn Waterworks park, Dett·oit, t·ecently completed 40 years of service without winding. .\!though the clock requires to !le set each day, due to changes 'n water pre:ssure, not a cent has been spent for operation or repairs 1uriug its existence. EYES FOR GRID • Byrd's Ship an Antarctic Museum Breaking World's Pulling Record .. l\Iost recent portrait of Dan Carter Bear!!. nationvl commissioner of the Bos Scouts of America, who ha!" HI: cepted thE post of houorar~ president of rhe Craft,.,mar,·!; Gu:ld !! Ot'" or gnnizatiou <.tenllf'cl tc th€ E-tlmuiat!OIJ of hHtel crafr~mauship among Am~>r icnn boy". :::;tra:ninp en'rJ· musde In their powe1·fnl bodies, "Dill" nnd "Colonel," the team llelon{!i!ll' tr (:enrt.:e Wilcox of GrPem·!Jie Ohio, hrenking lhe wtJrld'~ {tullmp n•rord b~ exPrting a :~,r;;:;o.poumls traerh·e null lit the J>IY coullt~ fair· HI l'llrrt.ma Ind. 'l'hi~ i~ equi\'alent to nulling Hl.lll2 notm<ls ~n 1 wa!\'<'O on grunne hlork puvernent, or to pulling eight H-inch plows six inche~ deer. if, ~rdinar~ wlwat t>IUI.Jble Frank Yalllon;;k!, lJniYerslty of Pennsyh·aniu guanl. with the new p1'0tectiYe he! mPt whi('), he will wea t next ~Pnson ltPgnlar optit·ll 1 t>n~e' n(lr. 1JP snewr.d Into th<;> llt'iHI::ea r !lll'' be ea~lly repiact>d ln cnse or "ill~ tJreul~ttg~ British Trade Mark monomurk i~ a (·ommon tra<lc lllll'i; used b:o British manufacturers ,, ·nnlemplatetl for 'J'e IJ) ~hem The •II 'I'• 8 C ~I 'l re Utl(lt>r,;tood tc rep !'~Pnt tile name Btiti~t• Commercial .llooomark. A I 1 Admira. Byrd':; Antarctlt expedition sl>ip, the Cit~· of • 'ew Yorl;, has lleen cur,Yeil('O h1t< ll te .J(!OI"llQ Autun-tic t1111seum which i,-; attract inj:: many 'l~.•un llJC•r,g tl1t Arlant1c cohH. Capt. AshiPy .\It:Kini<•y, al'riat photogr·apher , ! tl.e expellitlor.., Is ;,ecn extllaiuillfi. so~e of the pxhibils to a group o1 l)oys. |