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Show Thursday, Septem ber 25, 1930 THE MIDVA LE JOURN AL Sophomores and Freshmen in Picturesque "Brawl" These "knights,'' mounted on human steeds, are taking part In the annual "brawl" of the sophomore and freshman classes at St. l\Iary's college, near Oakland, Calif. The sophs triumphed. Beautiful Mess Hall of a Soldiers' Home Everyone Plays Chess in This German Village These school children of the ancient v1llage of Stroebeck, Germany, are In the .nidst of one of their open-air lessons in chess. The gam~ is played by young and old of the village, where Count dunzelln is said to have played 1t with the villagers back in the Eleventh century, when he was a prisoner In what Is now known as the Chess tower. • What the Chinese Reds Did to City of Changsha 4 • • A striking view of the new modernistic mess hall at the National .Military home at Sawtelle, Callr. This attrac- . tlve building replaces an old frame structure which burned down, and !s part of the prograrr costing $1,000,000 of the $2,100.000 government appropriatio n for replacing old buildings with new brick, concrete and steel construction. Chicago Has a New Kind of Beacon RESERVE BOARD HEAD Wide World Photo Chinese Communists, who recently captured the Important city of Changsha, systematicul ly looted and wrecked the place while they held it. This picture shows the ruins of the main building of a rich banking firm. KING OF PLOWERS A dose-up of the reflector light on the new La Salle-Wacke r beacon in Chicago. The eight parabolic mirrors, each five feet In height, magnify and reflect the rays of tbe sun during the clay, and at night red neon lights are reflected in the mirrors, sending out beams to eight points of the compass. Eugene l\Ieser, Jr., who was appointed by President Hoover to succeed Roy A. Young as goYernor of the fedentl resen·e board. 1\Ir. l\Ieyer was managing director of the war finance corporation under Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coollctge and Hoover until he resigned a year ago. LEADER IN GERMAN Y Young Marines Report to the Boss ... Homer Lapp with the cup he won by taking first place for the third time in the annual plowing contest at He drove a threeWheatland, Ill. competition with in horse team tractors. NEW ARMY COACH and Ec1ward Forcln<'y, children of l\Iujor anfl !\Irs. C. 1•. llll·h., ''rep<'rting for duty" to their grandfather, l\Iaj. ~uglnaw, of Fordn~y who also happens to be the commandnnt of Unit I'd Fuller, H. Bcnjar11n I GeJil. were visiting their grandfather in the marine children The StatE-s mnrlnes. Fordney is also in the marine corps. l.laJor barrn~ks in \YRshington. Cath<'rirH•. . ~1ary . Sensational to a degree unequaled in German post-war politics is the sudden rise to leadership of Adolf Hitler, Austrian author of the Munich Putsch In 1923, who has become a political power of the £rst rank as a result of the Fascist landslide in the recent reich~tag general election. The party's power advanced from 12 to 107 seats. The Fascist party ranked secon•l onl.v to the Socialists in the otltclal final totals and, with the Communists. wl:o also ll1lvocate overthrow of the yonnf\' German republic, has more haekin~ tlwn any other party exccvting the ] Social Democrats, Huge Bell for Rockefeller Church Here, with a six-foot man standing beside it, is the largest of the 72 bells for the Riverside Baptist (Rockefeller ) churci:' in New York city. The bell is 10 feet 2¥.! Inches in diameter and weighs 20%. tons. It is claimed that the ringing. of this bell may be heard five miles away. Celebrating His Fourth Birthday '. The new army head coach, Major Ralph J. Sn~se, photographe d on the first day of practice of the army teams at \\'est Point. Indian Planting Rule An iudiau ntle fm plauting corn I'. a~ lo "uit until tlif' lea,·es on the nn k lrt~·s 11 ere the size of a squirrel's tU.~ Here is Bamboo, a gorilla In the Philadelphia zoo, photographe d on Ills fourth hirthday. He is one of tlle very few of his kind that have reached maturity in captivity. ·- ~ |