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Show Page Eight THE MIDVALE JOUR NAL What a Royal Garden Party Looks Like Friday , Augu st 16, 1929 Laying a Smoke Screen in ''Battle of Puget Sotmd" • View from an airplane during the maneuver s of the battle fleet in Puget Sound. A fleet of destroyer s was layIng a smoke screen to conceal the battleship s from the big guns of Fort Casey. In the foregroun d Is the Maryland . • Grea t Germ an Dirigible Land ing at Lake hurst The royal garden parties are rather frequent functions in London. Here is an excellent view of on€' recentty glven at Buckingh am palace by Queen Ma1·y at which members of the new Labor cabinet and many other notables were guests. • America's Most Exclusive Bathi ng Place • This picture, taken after dark, shows the huge German dirigible Graf Zeppelin just as It was brought to the ground at Lakehurst , N. J., at the close of the flight from Friedrichs hafen. EDISON 'S PROTE GE Verit able "Old Oake n Bucket" . An excellent air view of the most exclusive bathing place in the country-B ailey's beach at Newport. Note the ruagniftce nt mansions and estates surroundi ng. The beach is at the little isthmus in the center. --------------------------------------~------------------------------- HEADS THEOS OPHIST S Wilbur H. Huston of Seattle, Wash., the sixteen-ye ar-old son of an Episcopal bishop, wus declared the winner of the six-hour examinati on conducted under the auspices of Thomas A. EdIson at the latter's laboratori es at West Orange, N. J. The prize carried with it a scholaL·ship with all expenses, at any technical school chosen by the winner. Young Huston said that he was interested in chemical engineeriBg and chose to go with his scholarsh ip to the Massachu setts Institute of •reclmology. HOME RUN SLUGG ER Pope Plus being carried from the Vatican to celebrate mass at St. Peter's and to observe the feast day of St. James the Apostle. This was the first time since 1870 that a Roman Catholic pontlli had left the Vatican. Perry ·Homestead Will Be a Museum Dr. Gottfried de Parucker who ha!l been appointed official tiead of the Universal Brotherho od and Theosoph · leal society to succeed the late Katherine Tingley, who died recently ln Europe. Doctor de Purucker, fifty-five, Is a bachelor and native of the United Stutes. Headquar ters of the society are at Point Lorna, near San Diego, Calif. "The old oaken bucket, the Iron bound bucket," and sure enough that'• just what you see pictured above-th e original oaken bucket which Samuel Woodwor th wro~e of in his famous poem. l\Irs. Pauline F llli!'fer, a descendan t of the author, ls pictured drinking from the well, which is in Green Bush, Muss. She's Enter ed in Women's Air Derby • OLDES T CLERGYMAN Chuck Klein, Philadelp hia clouter und leader of the big league home run hitters. He gives p1·omise of equaling Ruth's record of last year. .. .. Educated The Commodo re Perry homestead at Wakefield, R. 1., which will be a museum commemo rating the lives and deeds of Commodo m Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the battle of Lake Erie, and Commodo re Matthew G. Perry, who opened Japan to American commerce . :r.Irs. Perry Tiffany, widow of Mattbew' a rrandson, ts standing In tbe doorway. Itev. EbenP.zer Bean of Urbana, Ill., who recently celebrated his one hundredth birthduy, is said to be the old· est clerg~·mun in the United States. He is also the oldest lh·ing graduate of Bo\\'doin university and the oldest memhl"r of the Th:)ta Delta Chi frn ternlty. He is a CongL·eptlcrut.list. A little neighbor girl had been atlending kindergar ten a few weeks and thought she was very learned. The following conversat ion between this little girl and a little boy of about the same age was overheard : "Do you know what 'nails' are, Johnny?" "Why, sure; nails are to pound Into boards to make houses." "Oh, no, Johnny; 'nails' are boys and 'fenalls' are girls," she proudly I!Xclalmed. Mrs. Claire Mae Fahy, of Los Angeles, who has declared her tnten· lion of competing In the first National Women's Air derby, has been trained by her husband, Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy, for seven years. The race starts at Santa Monica and ends at Cleveland , Ohio. |