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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL ·Regent Hortby Making Hungarian Heroes Thursday, November 28, 1929 New Cruiser Starting Out for Severe Testa The new 10,000-ton cruiser Salt Lake City, as It left Camden, N, J., to undergo a period of severe tests over the naval proving course off Rockland, Maine. The ship, which was constructed unller the terms of the Washingtoq conference, Is 585 feet, 6 Inches over all, with an estimated speed of 33 knots. . FOR ALL-AMERICAN Admiral Nicholas Horthy, regent of BllllPI'1, awarding the title of "Hero" to oftlcers and soldiers who showed during· tbe·. World WIU'. With the title, a small estate 1.8 deeded to the winners of the honor. ueepttonal braveey . Proposed Liberty Bridge at New York Harbor AD architect's drawing of the Liberty bridge, proposed to span the Narrows at the entrance of New York harbor and coooect Brooklyn with Staten Island. It will have towers 800 feet In height, exceeding that of the Woolworth building. The clear span of this monumental all-steel structure will be 4,~ feet, 1,000 feet longer than the malll span of the Hudson river bridge, and Ita clear height wlll be 236 feet above high water, Five Thousand Dollars Will Buy Her BISHOP ANDERSON Toby Uansa, sensational halfback of the undefeated Pittsburgh "Panther" football team, who has been running riot over all kinds of opposition this season and Is regarded 118 All-American material. OHIO'S NEW SENATOR 1\Iiss .Tanl.'t Chandler, from her walnut throne, announcing the ba~vestlng of the $14,000,000 crop during ceremonies held In Los Angelefi by the Southem California Walnut Growers' association. Her majesty further announced that • the crop was the largest on record. Testing. the New Radio Torpedo Bishop Charles P. Anderson of Chicago, who was elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal church In the United States by the ruling body of the denomination, which met at the Washington cathedral. Bishop Anderson succeeds the late Most Rev. John Gardner Murray. CHOSEN BY MEXICANS ~tJ-year-old Former Representative Roscoe C. McCulloch of Canton who was appointed United States senator from Ohio by Governor Cooper, filling a vacancy caused by the death of Senator Theodore E. Burton. CHAMPION HUSKER Jean Frances Schilling ot Baltimore, Md.. who offers heraetf 1n ma1'1'1age to -the first man who presents her witch $5,000. Miss Bchi!Hn& says she Is tired of struggling ar.d worrying about tt e future on the ancedaJn Income of a trained nurse. The Hammond torpedo, which is controlled by radio -after it hits Ute water, being fired during the recent navy tests of the new death missile off Newport, R. I. The torpedoes cost $12,000 each and have a range of six miles. . New Respirator for Gas Victims Turbo-Electric Liner Is Launched Pascual Ortiz Rubio, who was chosen president of Mexico in the national elections. Dr. C. Codelle 'with a nurse at 'Gouverneur hospital, New Yo.rk, looking -cnoer. a new type of mechanical respirator, sold to be more effective than the pulmotor. Instead of pumping air In and out of the lungs through a tube and mooib}Jiece, the machine rytbmlcally Increases and decreases the air pressure • ~e outside of the chest, the patient being enclosed 1n an airtight tank \r_!)D. ill Jewa Plant Balfour Foreat Walter Olson, young farmer from Rio, Ill., who won the national corn husking contest at Platte City, Mo. Two hundred and eighty thousand trees have been planted ln the Halfour forest in Palestine under the reforestation plan of the Jewish national fund. In reporting on the present status of the forest Lard Melcbett says that It Is undesirable at this time, owing to the PaJ.estlne disturbances, to proceed with the planting, but he hopes ~bat within the coming years the entire forest area wlll be planted.-San FraD· cisco Chronicle. Neolithic Relica? Containing bones of animals and human beings and showing signs of fire, an enot·mous cave was discovered in the Pills mountains, near Budapest, Hungary. One of the most Interesting objects found was an ax made from antlers of a stag. The excavators be· lieve that the find dates back to neolithic times and are pnshing their work for other traces of human life. The new turbo-electric liner S. S. Santa Clara as it w&s brought back to dock at Camden, N. J., after sliding down the ways at launching. The new boat will be placed in the regular service to Peru and Chile via the l'anJtrua canal. |