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Show THE IDDVALE JOURNAL Luxurious Car for Young Fish of America A new de lu:x:e all-steel car for the transportation and distribution of young fish has just been put in service by the bureau of fisheries at Washington. The car resembles a conventional pullman and is fitted with tanks which will contain half a mHllon young fish, in addition to living quarters for the crew of caretakers who accompany the finny passengers. The photograph shows E. C. Fearnow, superintendent of distribution of the bureau, e:x:amlning some of the tanks. Thursday, February 6, 1930 Making Uncle Sam's Submarines Safe for Crews Various devices have been adopted by the United States navy for the safety of submarines and their crews. This picture of the new S-29 shows the "pad eyes" near the water's edge. These rings will permit cables to be attarched in case of sinking and pontoons will then raise the sunken ship. Other safety equipment on the S-29 Includes Momsen "lungs" (quickly attachable breathing devices for the crew), a safety escape lock on deck from which the trew can escape; a marker buoy which will serve as a marker for a rescue ship, and a telephone buoy which also will go to the surface and serve as a means of communication with the crew below. Air View of Eucharistic ·c ongress in Manila This Is the Pitiful End of an Old Ship Broadside view of the old sailing out for what iron fittings there as she lay in the mud fiats at San Francisco being burned Here Is Mexico's Largest Family TURNS TO COURT This striking view of the first Eucharistic congress held in Manila was taken from an airplane flying high over historic Luneta. A crowd of 100,000 gathered for the solemn ceremonies and followed Archbishop Michael U. O'Doherty in a procession down Dewey boulevard to the Lu~eta. SPECIAL ENVOY Gathering Books for the Sailors J. Reuben Clark, Jr., former under: secretary of state, who was appointed Gene McEver, Tennessee's All-Amet• special ambassador to represent the lean halfback who led the nation's United States at the inauguration of footballers in scoring during the 192\J Ortiz Rubio as President of Mexico. season, turns to the basketball cour: to continue his athletic activities. CORN SEED QUEEN The American Merchant Ma!'ine Library association has been waging a campaign to ohtain '10,000 books for the use of tlle men enlisted In that service. 1\Irs. Gibson Fahnestock was in charge of the drive. This picture, made at headquarters in Washington, shows Mrs. Amos Fries donating books to Mrs. Fahnestock (seated at desk). At the left Is Miss Dol.'othy SaUers, secretary. BUlLT LIKE A SHIP This picture shows the members of the Gonzalez family, the largest in numbers In J\le:x:ico. 'l'hey all live in one house. Mr. and Mrs. Gonzalez, the parents and grandparents, are In the center. ''False Pyramid" Is Being Excavated It Pays to Keep the Highways Open Mi,... Ruth Thomas, thirteen years old, >7!lv took top honors at the Good Corn Seed contest held in Sedalia, Mo. The large number of men and boys entered did not prevent Miss Thomas from establishing the superiority of the fair sex in this line of endeavo~. Do Your Duty A typical Mghway In the great open spaces of South Dakota, with a caterpillar motor patrol keeping the snow cleared from the road after the heavy "plowing" has been accomplished. Thls state belie>es in keeping roads open the year round, in spite of 01e blizzards and heavy snow, since the investment in modern equiprueut to do tl1e clearing job is returned many U.mes over by the auto and gasoline taxes. !!'ritz Hoger, German archi~ect, wa~ commissioned to design a buil din., "shaped lil•e a ship'' for a llambur~ man, and this was the result. The <'ight-story structure, which cost $7~0 . 000, is occupied by clinics and offices Do daily and hourly your duty; do It patiently and thoroughly. Do it as it presents itself; do it at the moment and 1et tt be its own reward. Never mind whether it is known and acknowledger: or not, but do not fail to do it. -Aughey. Under the direction of Alan Rowe, an archeological expedition from the University of Pennsylvania museum recently began its first season of work at Meydum, Egypt, where the expedition Is concentrating on the e:x:cavation of a pyt•amid which the Arabs call El-Baram el-Kaddab, or the "false pyr~ mid." The photograph shows this pyramid, which rises to a height of approXI· mately 215 feet and is believed to have been constructed during the Fourth dynasty in Egypt, dating from about 2930 B. C. onwards. 1\:Ieydum, the site of the pyramid, Is about fifty miles south of Cairo. |