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Show Thursday, May 1, 1930 I'HE MIDVALE JOURNAL Scene During Prison F~re That Killed 317 Convicts Uncle Sam ·Tries to Improve Theaten for Talkiea ' --....._ How to Improve theaters for talking motion pictures Is a problem now being tackled by the bureau of standards. V. L. Chrisler of the sound section, who looks as It he Is Imprisoned In stocks, Is really studying the "echo" effect In this room, and hls body and the observing lnstru ments are enclosed so as not to Interfere with the tests. 1t has been found that cushioned seats In talking picture theaters afd In the absorption of the "echo effect." • This Is What Argentine Strap-Hangen · Do Guards and conTlcts trtfng to re&QCitate some of the victims ot the con1lagratlon In the Ohio state penitentiary at Columbus which cost the Uves of 317 prisoners who were trapped In their locked cells. The fire was started bJ a short dre\llted wire. . Dancing Chon. at the Convention of Twins One of the attractive features of the annual conve-ntion of twins at Long Beach, Calif., was this dancing eborua made up of twelve pairs ot twins. Th.- iltftalr waa highly successful and attracted many visitors. Strange Steeds for Children TAFT BEACON • Tills Is what Irate commuters do In sunny Argentina when their railways don't give them the kind of service they want. Owing to diftlcultles between several British railway companies {n Buenos Aires and their worket'S, trains have been running hours behind schedule. Aggravated strap-hangers decided to take matters Into their own banc!li and proceeded to apply the torch to railway coaches, stations and other equipment of the Southern, Western and other lines. KNOWS EVERY COUNTY The chlldren of the head keeper of a private zoo at Ampthlll, England, are regularly seen In the streets on their uauaual steeds, two Uamas which are housed in the grounds of the zoo. Real Passive Resistance in India A model of the Taft lllemorlal bea· con which the city of Cincinnati proposes to · erect In Alms pllrk somt 1,500 feet above and overlooking the Municipal Lunken airport. The bea· con will be 100 feet high with an ele\"ator to the observation tower. The memorial will be of white granite an!J will coat about $40,000. Here Lies a Vestal Virgin Here Is Arthur V. Swift of Baker, a member of the Oregon state legislature, who has been In every one of the 8,076 counties In the United States. He can name the county seat In any one of them and tell just where It Is located. Before complet· lng his feat of visiting every county Swift declares he had traveled almost a million miles. It took him 25 ;years to make the journey. He is flfty-slx years old. • FIRST HOME RUN ONCE BITfER ENEMY This is the tomb of the Vestal Virgin Cosslnla, discovered at Tivoli, Italy. Roman archeologists are enthJlslastic over their find. Building for National Archive& A Ions line ot worbhop strikers In Parel, India, lytns In front of the _ . of tbelt' shel), preventing atrlkebreakers from entering and resuming WO$. ~ea hili Qre supporters of Mahatmtr Gandhi, who seeks Independence for e~ from Brltlsh rule. Gen. Emlllo Aguinaldo, once th• fiery leader of the Flllplno rebellloq against the United States, finds peact and friendship for his former enemlel as the ;years g~ IJJ. AI Simmons, left fielder for the Phllndelphla Athletics, who refused to sign oa the dotted line until just a few minutes before the gong rang to start the t>hiladelphla-Yankee game. .\t his first time at bat he sl11.mmed a homer pft George Pl.pgras. It was the "rat home l'UD ot the 1930 season. - - ~- .. A - · First photalfaph of the model of the proposed National Arc:hlves ballc1lng w.hlcb S. ~be erected at Washlnston to provide a eec:ure storage pl(I.Ce for Yaluable historic doc:umeDta, maDJ ot. which are now stored Ia makedtt't 1 lluarterl. |