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Show The Cache American, Losran. Cache County, Utah Pace Six head fill-job- s i:dta . . . G. Nourse, vice preshlrnt of the Institute, Washington, Brooking who bat been named by Irealdrnt Truman to be chairman of newly created economic advisory coun- cil for full employment. FARMERS TAKE TO AIR . . , More than 500 Dying farmers from Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana left their tractors and combines to Dy to Lafayette, Ind., to attend the first annual flying farmers field day at Purdue university, and to prove that the airplane will play an Important part la Midwest agriculture. The new group, which has 1,056 members, watched demonstrations. t) I' iii - "m ... NEW ARIZONA GHOST TOWN Photo shows town of Jerome, Aria., founded on the sloping sides of the mountain from which rich ore was taken over a period of more than C years of mining, leaving the town dry from ore. The site produced more than JGOO.OOO.COO In copper, silver and gold and wiU be abandoned next year. Businessmen plan to develop the area as a tourist center with dude ranches, resorts and private schools, so It will not be a ghost city. V, TEDDYS GREAT GRAND DAl'GIITER Mrs. Alexander McCormick Sturm, Westport, of the late Conn., President "Teddy Roosevelt, Is shown with her daughter, Joanna. Mrs. Sturm Is the daughter of Alice Roosevelt. ... grand-daught- r x f . ? -, iin Jr i t V : r. REPRESENTATIVES AT POLICY CONFERENCE . . . Three members of the National league ball clubs, left to right, Marty Marlon, St. Louis; Dixie Walker, Brooklyn, and Bill Herman, Boston, who will represent players at policy meet to discuss reforms and adjustments. Including pensions and expenses, pay and other contract provisions. The movement was started following attempts to unionize ball players and do away with some objectionable practices. ' t ' V V WHATS YOUR NAME . . . Calmly munching on a sandwich In a Philadelphia police station, where he Is comfortably ensconsed, this lad answered aU questions by asking others, lie wanted to know all, but told nothing. At latest report the police still were trying to determine his name. ld DECONTROL BOARD . . . Future price control wlU rest with a three-ma-n price decontrol board. Recently named to the board by President Truman are, left to right: Daniel W. Bell, Washington, D. C., former undersecretary of the treasury; Roy L. Thompson, New Orleans Federal Land Bank president, chairman; and George II. Mead, Dayton, Ohio, former chairman of the industrial advisory board under the KRA and member of advisory board of Office of War Mobilization. THREE-MA- v N .MW. WW l.ljsw -- V A, -5- T tf' i .W yt I? r '',A ft ' " - V I ! - ijni JO, .v mm y) 'V. REGAINED MEMORY AND RIGHTS . . . Rajah Kumar Narayan Roy of India, who was believed to have died and been burned on funeral pyre, 12 years later regained his memory and was awarded his property rights. He reported that rain had put out the fire and brought him out of coma and that for years he wandered as a beggar over India. The Lord Privy council now has ruled that he is the rightful owner of a huge estate with a yearly income. ra ... CAN IIE SWIM Can a pig swim? Some authorities say they are excellent swimmers, some say no. It Is maintained by some that the natural fat keeps them afloat, others Insist they would sink from their own weight. Pictured hale and hearty Is Pig 311, who was said to have been found swimming after the Jap cruiser Sakawa went down foUowing first Bikini atom bomb test. BABY THEN AND NOW . . . When Richard Rose-ma- n In was born 1943, he weighed Just 24 ounces. Doctors fighting to as shown save the life of the tiny mite fed him with an at left. He was kept In an Incubator. Today, Richard is a strapping muscles. young man of 40 pounds, of sturdy body and EYE-JROPPE- R eye-dropp- 1 c ; V' ONE YEAR AFTER ATOMIC BLAST . . . Here is a view of the city of Hiroshima, Japan, a year after the cosmic blast that shook the world was released by U. S. air forces. Little attempt has been made at reconstruction due to lack of building material. During the cleaning up hundreds of bodies were recovered from the debris. It is estimated that between 6,000 and 10,000 corpses still lie under the ruins of the city, w VS'-- '5 s' v i-If, ' - & tv s J ' t V s . FIRST AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR First United States ambassador to Australia, Robert Butler, is shown a- - he took oath of office. Former representatives all held the rank of ministers to Australia. ... - BATTING FOR HAY FEVER SUFFERERS . . . Full war on ragweed, which is blamed for most of the miseries of hay fever victims, was opened in Brooklyn as a campaign got underway to eradicate the weed in vacant lots. Photo shows city employees spraying a luxurious growth In six to of the pesty weeds with a herbicide, dichlorophenoxyacetic. eight weeks, treated plants die from a .01 per cent solution of spraying. Complete control of ragweed is now possible. BLOSSOM QUEEN . . . Miss Yvette Gagne, Van Buren, Me., who was chosen from some 15 queen candidates and crowned Maine potato blossom queen by Gov Horace nildreth during festival at Houlton, Maine. POTATO - - V .'v L -- i u I i ' v i IDEAL CHICKEN OF TOMORROW . . . Americas chickens will be bigger, consumers will eat more of them because of their tastier qualities, if poultry scientists showed at baby chick convention, St. Louis, have tbeir way. Shown with painting of ideal chicken are Dr. R. George Jaap, Oklahoma A & M college; Dr. S. S. Munro, Washington Cooperative Chick association, and Dr. T. C. Byerly, U. S. department of agriculture, Washington. |