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Show ,.. THEJORDANJOURNAL,MIDVALE,UTAH This Year's Six Honor Men at Annapolis Academy The Summer White House and Its Library eLe~on1 f(:opy Cor Thla Department Suppllecl by tb• Amerfcan Legton Newe Servlee.) ··:. JAMES F. BARTON ASSUMES NEW JOB James F. Burton, tormerly adjutant ot the Iowa depar·tment ot the Amer- at·t• the six honor men of the class of 1925 at the naval academy at Annapolis, with Admiral Nulton, superintendent, In the middle{)! the line. On June 2 these men, left to right, received the following awards: D. A. Ros.<~, Hoboken, N. J., the Thompson prize, a navigating se:!..1:ant; J. H. Wel!lng~, Boston, Mass., the dress sword presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution; R. H. Sentman, W llnungton, Del., the 18!)7 cla!'ls swor1l and cup; E. H. Edmlndson, Salem, Ore., Sons ot the Revolution cup; H. FJ. Hubbard, Baltimore, Md., class of 1871 sword, and W. 0. Gallery, Chicago, the Van Dyke prize gold watch. lH'l't• • ., Murdered Chicago Gangster Given Fine Funeral I Ican Legion, has u.sumet! his duties as asslstunt nutlonal tHijutant. Barton took on!r a large part ot the routine duties ot the adjutant's office. In this way, National Adjt. Russell Creviston is left tree to devote more of his time to the $5,000,000 endowment fund whleh the Legion Is raising for the dtsabled and the orHe had ' phans of the \Vorld war. the naor duties been handilng the tlonal adjutancy and of the executive secretary.,hip of th~> ~>ndowmt>nt fund. With the exten~ion of the campaign for the endowment to every state In the Union, the pressure •>f dutl£"s of the execntin~ !<N'rl.'taryshlp hecame 1 greater and he found it !InpoRsible to I continue to perform the dutle!'! of the two position>~. Ba1"ton's appointment relieved him of part of the load and gave him more time for field work. Barton has long been nctive In Legion work. Members of the lo\\·a departmeilt give him much of the credit I I l The summer 'Vhlte House at Swampscott, Mass., and, below, a view ot the illwary. Bringing Out the Bodies of Mine Disaster Victims Scene at the Carolina Coal company's mine near Coal Glen, N. 0., just after the explosions that entombed and killed about fifty-two men. Rescu<) crews ure seen entering the mouth of the mine to recover the bodies. I Angelo Genna was a gang leader of Chicago and a notorious ru m runner; but he also wus a polltfcal power, and so, after he was murdered, he was given one of the most elabornte and eostly funerals seen In Chicago In years, and among the mourners were many local and fPderal officials. ThP fiowers filled thirty-two automobiles. James F. Barton. -------------------------~-- BELOIT'S APOLLO Proud Day for "Pa" Jedding for the remarkable record which department ha. made. He served as adjutant of the department from the fall of 19~0 until his transfer to national headquarter;~. 'l'he new assistant national adjutant's first activity In the Legion wa~ as command£"!' of the post at Fort Dodge, Iowa. hi:s home town. He was elected to that position before the first nntlonrti convention o! the Legion In 101!) anrl ~Pt ·e•l until his appointment us depurtment ndjutant. Dr. R. J. Laird of Algona, Iowa. took the department adjutancy folLaird lowing Barton's resignntlon. rPslgned as nut!onal executive committeeman. ~'hat position wus tilled hy Mnurlce Cuhlll of Cerlnr Itnplds, Iowa, formerly alternate committee' man. , i • ~ _,.,1 ' • "' ..- . •1 Claire Pierce of Medford, 'VIs., as he w111 appear In a modern lnterpretai tlon of Apollo, In Euripides' "Alcestis," In the revival of the Greek play In an outdoor amphitheater at Beloit co}lege, Beloit, Wis. Pierce is president of the senior clasti. had years, forty for .. Mich Creek, Battle of " " Jeddlng, a mail carrier at Coolldge President I of his lifetime when he was presented to the J: INDIANS NAME QUEEN t he White House. The trip to Washington wus given to him by the citizens ~f B a ttle Creek as a token of appreciation for his long service. I Italian Flyers Reach Australia ---' Would Make It Harder to Amend Constitution A re.. olut!on mal•lng amendments to the Constitution of the United :Stntes more cllillcult was Introduced in Frankling post of the American Legion, Columbus, Ohio, by L. D. Bower, journal clerk of the Ohio ;;enate. The resolution proposes an amendment to Article V of the Constitution making It necessary to secure a twothirds majority of the actual memberl!hlp In coogres"' to lnltlnte an amendment. WhUP the rntlticatlon of an tllllendment by the state legislatures of three-fonrths of the states Is st!ll retained. the re;;olut!on propo,;es that such ratification rnust represent -threefourths of the congressional re})resentat!on or ull the state::~. 'l'he resolution also providPs that ratification must be accomplished within five yenrs from the dute of suhm!sslon to the stntes. Bower claim>~ that under the pro•;(sionR of Arti!'le V of the Constitution, not only may an anwurlm£"nt to the Constitution he proposed for mtificatlon hy ev~c'n less thun a minority of congress, but th!lt the C'onstltutlon now may be ratified by a minority repre!<Pntatlon of the voting population. First Lady Laying Cornerstone MISS LOWDEN ENGAGED I ............ ~-- I: I I ·~ ~l!ss Harriet Lowden, the beautiful daughter of ex-GoY. and 0. Lowden of Illinois, who to Albert F. M. Mnulener, cugo. They are to be October at the Lowden Oregon, lll. / \ J > 1 Mrs. Frank 1 is betrothed Jr., of Chi I I married in : home. near ,. •> ' .. :\Irs. Cub·!n Coolidge layin::; the cor nerstone of the Theodore l:ltone Me· morlnl hosp!tnl In Washington, an n!ldlt!on to the Florence C'rlttcnl~_n home. The hospital Is a memorial to the daughter of C'heo;ter Snow, and will be completed In the autumn. . Punkah Puller' • Pedigree The longest lan1l tenure holders In Europe are believed to be the Larrhat famlly near Pau In France. They ha,·e held the property for over 900 years, passing It along from father to son. , Even such a record of hereditary ol'- • cupatlon would be deemed lnslgnlfic-~ unt, however, In countries where the caste system prevails. A punkah-pulJer ot ~Iadrns, being asked by an Eng-~ llflh Indy why he did not try to Improve his position, answered haughtily, 1 "Mem-sahib, my father pulled a vunkah, my grandfather pulled a punkah, all my ancestors for four mllllon years pulled punkahs, and before tilat the god who founded our caste pulled a ;>unkah for Ylshnu." • Toledo Disastrous Fire m 1' Vice President Dawes Now Member of 40 and 8 ta Miss Jane Mayes of Pryor, Okla., a Cherokee, wns eler·tetl queen of the National Indian <'onventlon for 1926, Commander De P in edo and his 111echanlc, Campanello, who have arrived at the 192!5 pow-wow 1n Ponca Clt;r,, Australia on their airplane fli&ht from Italy to Japan. JOkla.. VIce President Charles G. Dawes has taken a vow In ad•litlon to his vice prPsldentlal on th. He wus recently sworn Into tl1e "40 nnd 8," ofticlnl playground organization· of the American Legion. The "40 and 8 bnx:-car soc!Pty" ot the Legion adopted its title fr(lm the information printed on Frpnch box curs warning Itinerant members of the A. E. B'. that the cnrs were !or the accommodation of "40 Homme~ ou 8 Chevaux" (forty men or £"ight hor ·es). Voyageur Dawes (all members of the 40 and 8 are termed "Voyugeurs") was sworn Into the box-cnr organlzntlon In his office In Chicago by George Dobson, chef de chemtn de fer, national head 1' . of the society. Wonder land l11 Located There has been much speculation as to the location of the ancient kingdom of Thule. described by the Greek traveler und astronomer, Pytheas, as "the wonder country on the edge of the earth." Norwegian scholars now claim they have solved tlte age-old mystery and located Thule In the northern 1 • part of Norway. In his book, "The world's Ocean," Pytheas says: "The barbarians point- , d out to me the place where the sun 1 ~'he scene of the spectacular fire which destroyed the 'l.'ermlnai building, :oes to rest for the night. It so happened In that wonderful country that Toledo's principal public auditorium. The fire wal'l ot undetermined orlilll, the night was very short, only two and within halt an hour a!ter it started the entire structure was In tlames., The loss was $200,000. hours." |
