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Show THEJORDANJOU~NAL~MITDVALE.UTAH Girls of Glac ier Park 's Attr activ e Swiss Chal ets • Scen e of the Rece nt Disa strou s Floods m Kore a (Copy lor 1'hll!l D~p a rtmP.nt Supp11Pd 07 tbe American Legion '4 ~ r\~wa ServlcA. J JAMES F. BART ON IS NATIO NAL ADJU TANT l. Jomes F. Barton, foruJeJ·iy assistant national adjutant of lhe AmPJ'i<'HD Lc;{ion unu prior to that for ~e,·erul year 1 adjutant of t11e Iowa depart· ment, is now national adjutant . He suceeede d ltus,wll Crevisto n of In· diana. who retired at the end of .July Ji• after n connectio n of six yenrs with tl1e nution,tl organizatiOB to become tlt•l rl director for the \V l!J' Mot hers' UemOl'lal associati on nt Washiug ton. The new ndjutllnt has heen active in the LPg-ion eYer· sin~:e Its formatio n Ile .was chosen commarHier of l•'ort The Swiss "chalets' ' or Glacier National park are famous througho ut the couutry, and It is Inueed dllflcult lln<lge post 1;{0, l~'ort Dodge, Iowa, befor the visitor to realize that he Is in America Instead of the Alps of Switzerl and. To add atmosph ere, the pretty fore the first n.ttionai convent ion at girl attendan ts, some of whom are here seen, are dressed in Swiss costume. ~1inneapo1is in l!ll!). Ile hecnme ndju· tant of the Iowa depnrtm ent in the full of lD~O. PrtHninent members of FROM HIS HOME TOWN the Legiou ln Iowa say tliut a lur·ge par·t of the <'redit for mnkin-; and keeping the Iowa departm ent one of the be<;t in the Legion helon~s to Jim Barton. Ten days after wnr "as declared In 1!l17, Barton ent.JreJ the service. In n month he was promoted to captain. He saw service overseas for 14 months. He was discharg ed at Camp Dodge, Iowa, August 8, IUlO. He was a star allliete at the Univ~>rsity of Iowa, where he captaine d the baskethll ll team in his senior year. fle took a law course there. lllr. Creviston , Immedia tely followlug his relinquis hment of the duties of natiouat lldjutant , went to Rome, Italy, as secretary of the America n Legion delegatio n to the Rome congress of Fidac. For that purpose he was granted a special leave of ab· sence from his work as field director with the War !11otlters' Memoria l association, which Is seeking to erect a great memoria l in honor of the mothers of the men and women who served In all the Will'S In which the country has taken part. Resoluti ons of apprecia tion of Mr•. Admiral J.'. W. Ebet'le, chief of Crevisto n's services with the Legion, naval operatio ns of the United States together with a wlltch and a past na~~vy, with the gold sword presente d tional adjut!lnt 's badge as tokens of to him by the people of Fort Smith, personal esteem, were presente d to Ark. It is a token of their admirati on him on behalf of the national execuand pride In having one of their own tive committe e. 1'he resolutio ns, drawn townsme n attain the highest ranking William J. ("Fingy" ) Conners, Bufl'alo newspap er publishe r, has an- by a committe e compose d of Past Na()1Jicer's position In the navy. nounced that he has establish ed a charity foundati on of $1,000,000. The tional Commat1der Henry D. Lindsley , project will b~ put in operatio n witl1in the next few weeks under the super- Past National Comman der Hanford vision of six trustees from three religious faiths. This board wiil invest the MacNide r and Donald Strachan , recitNOVE L MOTO R CAR million, which Mr. Conners expects to grow to five times that sum, and the ed ~lr. Crevisto n's tong and able servproceeds will be devoted exclusive ly to Bufl'alo charities . Mr. Com:.ers now Ices to the nat!onal organiza tion and makes his residenc e in Florlc:la. the vision and understa nding Which he brought to his duties. Mr. Creviston , whose home Is at Marion, Ind., helped to plan the llrst national conventi on of the Legion at Minneap olis. He became assistant national adjutant in 1920 and was promoted to the national adjutanc y In Fehru1try, 1924, following the resignation of Lemuel Bolles. lie Is a graduate of Indiana universit y. :;.:). l I j Gives Million to Buffalo's Poor - Scene along the bank!< of the Han river of Korea, where the water recently rose to a height ot 43 feet and flooded great districts of the coumry, wiping out entire villages aud killing 600 persons. Site of Old Fort Unio n Is Dedi cated Scene at the dedicato ry celebrati on on the site of old Fort Union In North Dakota. The bufl'alo skin tepee lu the foregrou nd sixty years ago was the lodge of Chief White Calf of the Blackfee t Nation, whose native land In the Rockies was ceded to Uncle Sam as Glacier Natlonul park. New Engl and's Prize Beau ties SWED EN'S PRINC E Beebe's Expe ditio n Hom e Agai n Good Shootin g George C. Snydt•r, a New York en· -gineer, is pictured here demonst rating Ills new machine , a motorles s car which Is propelled by the weight o1 the rider. It burns no gasoline, has no gear shifts and Is capable of making thirty mlles an hour. SOUTH 'S BEST BABY Dr. William Beebe and his party have returned to New York frcrm their trip on the Arcturus after five months of studying the ocean bed and Its life In the Sargasso sea and at the Galapago s Islands. Here Donald Cady, member of the ex.vedltion. is shown on the deck or the vessel with a peculiar shark which was one of the many specimen s brought back. • Fave rsha m Weds In Secr et The Stars and Stripes must never touch the ground. E. P. Robertso n was taught that when he wus serving his nation in olive drab in far-of!' Franee. He remembe red It recently while he was wearing the blue ot a uniforme d policema n at Atlanta, Ga. Walking his beat, Rotertso n saw a party of joy riders. TrailIng from their car w11s an America n flag. It was belng drugged through the dust and dirt and HI th of the street. Robertso n's marksma nship record In the army is not known, but examina tion revealed that, although he fired but four shots to stop the desecrat ors of the flag, his sense of sight and balance was good ; the rear tlreiil Late photogra ph of t he future king of Sweden, Prince Gustavu s Adolphu s, In the uniform o! the mounted dragoons of the Royal Swedish Guards. Above are pictured Miss Nina Wolf!' of Boston, who won the title of In Sweden there Is compuls ory mlU"1\!Iss Boston," und Katherin e Keras of Newton, who won tbe title of "Miss tary service and the young prince bas New England " for entry In the forthcom ing Atlantic City page&nt. just begun his term. ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- --!B RIN GIN G SKY TO EARTH Pret tiest Mac cabe e at Conclave Restora tion Camp ·•camp America n Legion," new res· toration camp for veterans establish ed through the instrume ntality of the Legion departm ent of Wisconsi n, was deditated at !{'omahawk luke t·ecently liefore an audlence of 1,500 persons. "~inee the elose of the war," said a Legiou oftidal, "hundred s of men have been discharg ed ft{)m hospitals with the advice from the Rtafl' physician s to get out into the open. The advice was not taken beeause the average former sen·ice man has no IlJoney to spend upon a vacation . As R result they went buck to their old jobs and within a matter of months were back at the ho~pital with broken health again. 'l'hls big summer enmp at Tomahaw k lake will provide the needed environment for large number of convales cent veterans ." I I Baby Charles :\I. Lamru, Jr., south- I ~rn prize winner and 100 per cent I perfect, Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. l M. Lamm of Wilson, N. C., and Rich-! mond" Vn. The baby, although but I nlne months o! age, has been declared by physicia ns to be better develope d than the a"erage child of a year old. ' He has nine teeth, walks, and speaks ()ne-sypa ble words distinctly . A Ne&t Egg Somew hat Excited ''You sa: Jones got all excited when he saw his wife coming? " "Excited ! He reminded me of some-! Wllllum F1wersh am; thn well-kno wn actor, and Edith ca.npbel l wen· body running around looking for a fire- I married secretly aome days ago by a justice of the peace at IIuntfng ton Lon:! 9aeape In hades." lalaDd, Mrs. Faversba m Is now at her husband 's estate near that to~. • "If 1 had the money, dearest," he bemoane d, "we would be married, but 1 am penniless ." ••Don't worry, darling," she cheerea him. ''I've been .saving all the small change that slips out of your pocket on the sofa every nl~bt."-'l'he Amerfr can Legion Weekly. II I At the bureau of Jltandard s in Washington high altitudes are brou!ht to the ground. The low pressure ex:lstlng In the air at high altitudes causes the Miss Kathryn Wrenn Smith of Lexingto n, Ky., was acclaime d the "pret- airplane engines to give less power• tiest 1\faccabee" at the great conclave and parade In Washing ton. Miss Smith So to study how thls can be remed19\l, posed for her picture on her charger with 1.1. F. Elkln, Kentuck y state com- tbe same air pressure Is brought to this room, the engines started mander. their perform~nce atudled. aa« |