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Show THE MIJ>V ALE JOURNAL Scenes and Persons in the Current News Thursday, June 11, 1931' First Boy' Scout ''Mounties'' Get a Guidon • f'atricia Hurley, seven-year-old daughter of the secretary or war, presenting a guidon to Curtis George, tlag bearer of the first mounted Boy Scout pack, at Fort Myer, Va. George is the grandson of Vice President Curtis. IS~ the rear watching the ceremony is Lieut: S. B. Barth who is cubmaster of the troop. 1-M. Lassey and Dick Grant welcomed at the Battery, New York, by Jule Marshall of the American Canoe asso- ciation, after they had paddlBd their canoe from Chicago to the metropolis. 2-Prof. Auguste Piccard and Charles Kipfer standing beside the aluminum gondola of the balloon that carried them to the record altitude of 52,500 feet. 3-S. S. Harvard hard aground at Point Arguello, Calif., photographed after the 500 passengers had taken to the lifeboats. Berlin Dedicates Memorial to Zeppelin Crews English Mansion Reported Bought by Henry Ford Henry Ford, American motor magnate, it is reported, has purchased Boreham House, near Chelmsford, Eng. land, an early Eighteenth century mansion. This residence was for some years the Essex seat of Lord Kenyon. Three Best of Annapolis 1931 Class WINNER OF BIG RACE Scene in Berlin at the dedication of a memorial to the members of Zeppelin crews who lost their lives during the war. The statue shows an aviator landing with a parachute. HE'S HELPING CUBA Louie Schneider won the nineteenth annual 500-mile auto race at Indianapolis, Schneider's time was 5 hours 10 minutes 27.94 seconds or an average of 96.629 miles per hour. Fred Frame took second place and Jimmy Gleason was third. IN HIGH NAVAL POST Thomas D. Tyra of St. Paul, Minn. (left), honor man of the 1931 graduating class of the United States Naval academy at Annapolis, who attained a mark of f\()2.39 during his four years, photographed with A. C. Veasey of New Jersey (center) and H. Rivero, Jr., who follow him with marks of 900.67 and 900.36 respectively. In Memory of Sweden's Aviators Prof. Edwin R. Seligman, Columbia university economist, is under con. tract to conduct a survey of Cuba's financial troubles. President Machado has signed a decree employing the econon::ist's services and appropriating $6,000 for expenses in connection with the work. Prof. Carl Shoup, also of . Columbia, will assist Professor Seligman in making the survey. Scene at the ceremonies attending the unveiling of a memorial in Stockholm to the dead aviators of Sweden. It was erected by the Royal Swedish Aero club, and inside it was placed an urn containing medals inscribed with the names of those honored. ADOPTED BY OSBORN Commerce Department's New Home World's Longest Single-Span Bridge .< Rear Admiral Samuel M. Robinson, newly appointed engineer in chief of the United States navy, as . he appeared at his desk in ihe Navy building after taking over his official duties. Prior to his appointment, Admiral Robinson held the rank of captain. Be succeeded Rear Admiral H. E. Yarnell, who was ordered to sea duty, ,, _______ Youthful Bookworm Many persons do not read 1,000 ~ooks in a lifetime, but Robert Vandiver, tweh·e, high school boy of Florence, ,Ala., has accomplished it in four Complete and almost ready for occupancy, the mammoth new home of years. Be read 200 of them in six the Departmeu! of Commerce looms prominently in the ~ky line of downtown · months and did good work at school, too. He is a Boy Scout, plays foot· Washington. Lxtending for a distance of three city bl<Jcks north and south Wl and runs errands for peopl<J and a \!lock wide, it is the Largf!s.t federal office buUdin~r 1n tbf.l United States. 1\liss Stella Lee Brunt Osborn, thirty-seven-year-old newly adopted daughtet· of Chase Salmon Osborn, lecturer, writer and former governor of Michigan. l\liss Brunt, who worked her way through night school when she was twenty-one and then worked l:ter way to a l\f. A. degree at the Uni· ver .. ity of JI.Iiehigau. had been literm·y >ecrAary to :I.I"r. Osborn man~· years. I '! Across the famous hurbor of Sydney, Australia, is being erected the long-Pst single-span bridge in the world. The photograph shows a view of thfl! ;.:rea t structure in the making, |