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Show W lit tf,::- Msi - J- 1 wtr 4 t ; t FARMERS TAKE 10 AIR . . . More than 500 flying farmers from Illinois. Michigan, Wisconsin and Indl-ma Indl-ma kit their tractor and combines to fly to Lafayette, Ind., to attend the first annual flying farmers' Held day at Purdue university, and to prove that the airplane will play an Important part la Midwest igrlculture. The new croup, which has 1,056 members, watched demonstrations. THREE-MAN DECONTROL BOARD . . . Future price control will rest with a three-man price decontrol board. Recently named to the board by President Truman are, left to right: Daniel W. Bell, Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, former undersecretary of the treasury; Boy L. Thompson, New Orleans Federal Land Bank president, chairman; and George H. Mead, Dayton, Ohio, former chairman of the Industrial advisory board under the NBA and member of advisory board of Office of War Mobilization. III!!!! iiiiiiiiii EtE-JBOPPER BABY THEN AND NOW . . . When Richard Rose-U Rose-U was born In 1943, he weighed Just 24 ounces. Doctors fighting to ve the life of the tiny mite fed him with an eye-dropper, as shown left. He was kept In an Incubator. Today, Richard is a strapping ot man of 40 pounds, of sturdy body and well-developed muscles. W ' , . i i.Snnimii.M. !& r0B "EVER SUFFERERS ... Full war on ragweed, blamed for most at the mUeries of hay fever victims, was Brooklyn as a campaign got underway to eradicate the weed newt lota. Photo shows City employees spraying a tanriousgro wtt " "xnestv aw. .i. . L..U.M. jtrtiinnrahenoxyacetic In su m 2 wted plant die front a M vet cent solution of spraying. pIet control of ragweed Is now possible. " J. "Win. ' i SSii t T.'' W it 1 i R REGAINED MEMORY AND RIGHTS . . . Rajah Kumar Ra-mendra Ra-mendra Narayan Roy of India, who was believed to have died and been burned on funeral pyre, 12 years later regained his memory mem-ory and waa awarded his property prop-erty rights. He reported that rain had put out the fire and brought him out of coma and that for years be wandered as a beggar over India. The Lord Privy council coun-cil now has ruled that he Is the rightful owner of a huge estate with a yearly Income. POTATO BLOSSOM QUEEN . . Miss Tvetto Gagne, Van Buren, Ble., who was chosen from some IS queen candidate and crowned Maine potato blossom queen by Gov Horace Hlldreth during festival at Hon! ton, Maine. : ' I v - 1 1 4itrT-niiiii"--- -W.-..jf - STUDY IN CONTRASTS ... In connection with the 450th anniversary of founding of Cludad Trujillo, oldest city in the new world, a recent airview of the city (top photo) shows how the recent modernisation program has transformed the ancient city into one of the most modern mod-ern in Latin America. Parallel to the tea runs Avenida Washington. The shaft is the Dominican Washington monument, dedicated to lasting friendship between the Dominican republie and the United States. In sharp contrast is the street scene (lower photo) showing Cludad Trujillo Tru-jillo at the time when it still was known as Santo Domingo. At that time more than one-third of the nation was "Ill-fed, ill-clad and III-boused." THE OLD AND THE NEW New World's Stages Anniversary Fete Moss-covered ruins of some of the first buildings in Amer ica stand picturesquely among modern structures, suspen sion bridges, spacious boulevards, fine hospitals and schools J 4.1 1 J 4 2.... I .1 V 1 9 3 HI ' '.1 in the Dominican republic, wnicn on bunday, August 4, ob served the 450th anniversary As a highlight of the fete, a three- masted caravel, modeled after one of Columbus' ships, sailed up the Ozama river to re-enact the found ing of western civilization's first permanent site. Wearing late 15th century costumes, sailors moored the ship to a replica of a tree used by Columbus' brother, Bartolome, when he founded the city in 1490. Share With Haiti. The original city, named Nueva Isabella in honor of Spain's queen, was located on the south shore of the island which Columbus named Hispaniola. Hispanic-la, second to Cuba in size among the West Indies, In-dies, lies between Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles chain. Sharing the island with Haiti, the Dominican republic occupies its eastern two-thirds. Long called Santo Domingo, the 'city was renamed Cludad Trujillo (Trujillo City) In 1938 after President Rafael Trujillo, in gratitude for bis efforts in reconstructing re-constructing the city along modern mod-ern lines after a hurricane in 1930 almost completely demolished demol-ished the city. Proud of their capital city's long history, the 2,000,000 people of the Dominican republic are even more conscious of its modernity and up-to-dateness. Ruins of the first hospital hos-pital built in the Americas are a short distance from the sun decks CHURCH TREASURE ... Valued Val-ued at five million dollars, the above church treasure waa on display dis-play during Cludad TrujiUo's anniversary an-niversary fete. Included are the original cross planted on the Island Is-land by Columbus, an altar bell designed by Benvenuto Cellini, famous Italian artist, and other priceless items. sww4mwiiMiiiwii .Miwiwiii.t.m two i ' J " ' - r "T" i j '' '1 i ; t ! II J ' K , . I R .-. . V tt , Si v .. : .-:w:-A -T. :. : r. m IP1'. I ! - it." I l " - Woman Mail Carrier No Longer An Oddity SEATTLE. Accepted among the men in the station and the housewives house-wives on her route as a seasoned veteran and a neighborhood fixture, Mrs. Ellen Nermo, substitute mail carrier at tho Seattle post office for the last two years, is planning to take civil service examinations for permanent appointment Recalling her first day as a letter carrier, Mrs. Nenbo said, "I thought on woman! was going to faint when ah saw me come up i '' 1 -"-7- 't,n 'fW A Oldest City 01 us founding. FAMOUS TREE . . . Two nun and a little girl stand at the base of Ciudad Trujillo' famous tree, the old cottonwood to which Bartolome Bar-tolome Columbus, brother of the new world' discoverer, moored hi thip in founding the oldest city In the Western hemisphere. of the city's ultra-modern tuberculosis tuber-culosis hospital The vine-covered arch of the first monastery in America Amer-ica offers an exciting contrast to the modernistic verandas of the Jaragua hotel, reputed to be ths finest resort hotel between Miami and Rio de Janeiro. The Cathedral of Santo Domingo, another "first" fn the Western hemisphere, is close to a long row of modern government buildings. Wrecked by Hurricane. Two violent hurricanes striking 428 years apart each stimulated the community's growth. The first occurred oc-curred in July, 1502, demolishing the few flimsy buildings of the six-year-old post The second struck the Dominican capital in September. Septem-ber. 1930, a few days after Trujillo became president Through most of the 10th century, Santo Domingo thrived as Spain's capital of the western world. Co- i lumbus visited it often, even ignor ing a royal decree when he stopped there on his last voyage. In accordance ac-cordance with his wishes, he was buried there. Ashes of the great admiral ad-miral now rest in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo, awaiting transfer to the Columbus Memorial lighthouse, light-house, soon to be built on a high promontory just outside the city as a beacon for ships and planes. Nobles seeking gold, scientists scien-tists and explorers, rich, enterprising enter-prising merchants, flocked to the ' new world' capital, making it a springboard from which new conquests were launched. Cortes, Balboa, Plsarro, Ponce de Leon, De Soto and others made It the starting point of Important voyage of discovery. Two centuries of decay followed capture of the settlement by Sir Francis Drake in 1588. Spanish interest in-terest was diverted to mainland mineral wealth. Internal quarrels, attacks by English, French and pirates pi-rates thinned the colony to 500 people peo-ple by 1735. the steps. Kids used to gather in knots and whisper when I appeared." ap-peared." Mrs. Nermo was among the women wom-en hired by the Seattle post office when war depleted rank of carriers. Her only trouble, Mrs. Nermo insists, in-sists, was with a housewife after she made a wrong delivery of a letter. let-ter. "This woman kept lecturing mo about the mistake and I took it as long a 1 could, then told hex off." Mrs. Nermo said. ) mi imi. ui nV IIIHIW.WLWHH' im.iiwimmwuwwiiKiiiniui ihm i - v , '-' . . ,.: . u ... .ssv- ' Vy.-- " " . - ' , ."rw - ... ... . . . . ' , .- 'r,- - 1 r iiTilii' "farMfl MtaMaf "f -rrai i riai lrml' NEW ARIZONA GHOST TOWN . Photo thow town of Jerome, Arts., founded on, the sloping tide of the mountain from which rich ore was . taken over a period of mora than 60 year of mining, leaving the town ;f dry from ere. Ths site produced more than !00,000,COO in copper, liver and gold and Will be abandoned nest year. Businessmen plan to develop the area a a tourist center with dud ranches, resort and private schools, so It will not be ghost city, " V - "til " ! 'iM&l!4f'Ki ;i' : MMSBidaliBWajH REPRESENTATIVES AT POLICY CONFERENCE . , . Three members mem-bers of the National league ball Clubs, left to right, Marty Marlon, St. Louis; Dixie Walker, Brooklyn, and Bill Herman, Boston, who will represent player at policy meet to discus reform and adjustments, , Including pension and expense, pay and other contract provisions. ; The movement was started following attempt to unionise ball player and de away with some objectionable practice. - 4 i 1 ' . Z'i ' If ' ! . . ' - - ONE TEAR AFTER ATOMIC BLAST . . . Here Is view of the city of Hiroshima, Japan, a year after the cosmlo blast that shook the world was released by U. 8. air forces. Little attempt has been made at reconstruction re-construction due to lack of building material. During the cleaning up hundreds of bodies were recovered from the debris. It Is estimated that between 6,000 and 10,000 corpses still lie under the ruins of the city. 4f.7tV ' V '7' ft "1 J t IDEAL CHICKEN OF TOMORROW America' chicken will be bigger, consumers will eat more of them because of their tastier qualities, quali-ties, if poultry scientist showed at baby chick convention, St Louis, have their way. Shown with painting of Ideal chicken are Dr. B George Jaap, Oklahoma AAM college; Dr. S. 8. Munre, Washington Cooperative Coopera-tive Chick association, and Dr. T. C. Byerly, V. 8. department of agrfr culture, Washington. "f "" 1 1 1 il fry4""! if ' i i4-mm nwet 4 t 1 ' H " - k VJ-7 v 1 1 :7 if i JW". I FULL-JOBS' HEAD . . . Edwin O. Nourse, vice president of the Brookings Institute, Washington, who ha been named by President Truman to be chairman of newly : created economic advisory council coun-cil for full employment 1 i 1 .JAtM TEDDY'S GREAT GRAND DAUGUTER . . . Mrs. Alexander McCormlck Sturm, Westport, Conn., grand-daughter of the late President "Teddy" Roosevelt, I shown with her daughter, Joanna. Mrs. Sturm Is tho daughter of Alice Roosevelt I 7 WHAT'S TOUR NAME . . . Calmly Calm-ly munching on a sandwich In ,: Philadelphia police station, where ha I comfortably ensconsed, this five-year-old lad' answered all question by asking others. He : wanted to know all, but told notb-ing. notb-ing. At latest report the police till were trying to determine his name, ' , I'M' y CAN "HE SWIM ... Can pig swim? Some authorities say they are excellent ewlmmers, some aay no. It I maintained by some that the natural fat keep them float, others Insist they would Ink from their own weight Flo tared hale and hearty Is Fig 311 who was said to have bees found swimming after the Jap cruiser Sakawa went down following first Bikini atom bomb test FIRST AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR AMBASSA-DOR First United States ambassador am-bassador to Australia, Robert Butler, Is shown a bo took oath f office. Former representatives all held the rank of minister to Australia |
