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Show THE JORDAN JOURNAL. MIDVALE. UTAH AI Fresco Dinner of Govemors' Convention Navy Uses Radio in Santa Barbara Relief Work Ulie A~II:RICAI~I U:GION (Con for Thla Department Supplied bJ' tba American Le•Ion Newa Service.) VETERANS' BUREAU WILL AID LEGION Rapid strides are being made by the American Legion In Its program of arrangements for caring for the orphaned and dependent chll<l•·en of World war veterans, It was announced at national headquarters of the Legion. Numerous slgnUlcant dllvelopments have taken place recently. Detailed plans are being worked out for co-operation of the United States Emergency radio receiving and transmittlnar station eatabliahed by the navy at Santa Barbara, after the quaktl, Veterans' bureau with the Legion In '!11th the navy operator at work. this work. Maj. Davis G. Arnold, newThe a&YerDeJ'I of the T&rlOCUI states have been haviq a coodr time at their convention In Bar Harbor, -Maine. were eatertalned at the .John D. Rockefeller home, and are here seen enjoying their Pot and . Kettle club ly appointed national goJardlanshlp officer Jn the bureau, at a meeting of the In the opera alr. national children's welfare committee of the Legion, the Auxiliary and the Forty and Eight recently, endorsed the work being done. Major Arnold told of an Investigation being made by his division Into the care of minor children wards of the bureau. He stuted that a complete list of children of veterans who are in hospitals Is being assembled and assistance will he given through the Post OtHce department in locating veterans' children wilD cannot be found at their last known addresses. A board of nine directors to have executive direction of the child wei· fare work has been appointed, three by National Commander James A. Drain; three by Mrs. 0. D. Oliphant, national president of the Auxlllary; and three .bY George Dobson, chef de chemin de fer of the Forty and Eight. The members are: Fred D. McCarthy, Minnesota: George A. Withers, Kansas; Mark T. McKee, Michigan, chairman; Mrs. S. E. Hndson, Texas; Mrs. A. H. HolTman, Iowa, secretary; Mrs. Ray Calllhan, Kansas; George Dobson, New Jersey; George F. Plant, Wisconsin, Photograph shows the great Gros Ventre lake, in Wyoming, formed when part of Sheep mountain, at the Rul8ell Delaney, director of Clarendon Municipal beach, at Chicago, has started a tree class in physical vice chairman; Herb E. Michaels, Ohio. crashed Into the Gros Ventre river canyon from the south, damming it up to a depth of nearly three hundred tight, An7 yo~ ladr who 1.1 a devotee of swimming and health may have the entire course In dally lnstrucThe fourth cottage at the regional teet and backing the river up for nearly seven miles. free of cost. She needa only the desire and a bathlni suit. Photoarraph shows one of Mr. Delaney's classes children's blllet at Otter Lake, Michl· Hn'tln.r1r on the beach. gan, was opened recently. The comeratone tor a new hospltal-admtnlstratlon $10,000 FOR THROAT unit, to cost $85,000, has been laid. Eighty-all: children can now be cared for at Otter Lake. The billet at Clarksboro, N. J., has been opened. Twenty-six chlhlren can be accommodated there. The billet Is In charge of a board headed by Eugene Pattl~on, commander of !:l~ Ne·.v Jei'sey depart!JI!!!:t; Other members are Di'. lret,ell J. Wyckoff, Pennsylvania; Jay 111. Holmes. Delaware; H. Findley French, 1\Iaryland; Nigel Cholmeley· Jones, New York; Mrs. E. B. Garrison, New York. Construction work is now under way at the billet at Leglonvllle, near Indenendence, Kan. The worlt Is under the direction of a board recently appointed. 'l'he members are: National Yice Commander Frank ·H. 1\Icl~arland, Kansas, chairman; Mrs. Ray Callihan, Kan· Pas; Charles S. Hoffman, Kansas; Jay Scovel, Kansas; W. J. Johnson, Texas; J. Ed C. Fischer, Nebraska; 1\Iorton David, Colorado; Frank T. Douglas, Oklahoma; Ralph Lloyd Jones, Iowa; Carl R. Mandigo, 1\IIssouri, and Dr. W. l\laJ. • John G. Quel{Pmeyer, formerly aide to General Pershing, with R. Brooksher, Jr., Arka~sas. "Argentina," a six-year-old polo pony presented to him by the minister of Miss Emily Puschner, formerly agent war of the Argentine republic, General Justo. for the board of children's guardians Hev. Enos Bacon, pastor of a Kel· at St. Louis, Mo., Is now a cnse worker (ll11nn.) church, who created n logg In the child welfare division. sensation by announcing that he had sold his "two throats" to the British Indiana War Memorial :\ledlcal association for $10,000, de· livery to be made after his death. Turned Over to Legion Doctor Bacon Is known as the "York· With representatives of every state Marlon McCarthy, who Wttd shire Nightingale" and Is famous for the first unit of lndlana's $10,· present, com· Merry, T. by Col. William possessing twJ complete sets of vocal ~ant of tbe University R. 0. T. C., cords. This unusual throat arrangeThe famous Waterloo bridge across the Thames at London is being 000,000 war memorial project was ref llon,or~ll'Y women student colonel at replaced with a new struct'ure. The photograph shows the central span, weigh· cently dedicated and turned over to ment gives him a deep bass and also Unlvel'llt)' t>f Dllnols. Her duties lng 000 tons. being placed in position from the old bridge, on which it waa the American Legion as a national a high soprano voice. He has traveled headquarters building. ~1Jde tile appointing of 64 sorority all8embled. extensively In America and the British The ceremonies attendant on the &*tSOII'S tor the 'Various organizations Empire, gl vlng concerts. dedication were simple and Impresthe L 0. T. 0. She wlll lead the sive. A parade which fncluded the ~IJtitrf f.IU'&de and balls. SOLDIER AT 3 MONTHS massed colors of each state depart· ment of the Legion began the program. National Commander James A. Drain led the 'way with Gov. Ed Jackson of Indiana. The national executive committee from each department followed. In brief addresses, Governor Jackson proffered the building and Commander l.ttl·ge three-englnecl Imperial air expr~ss, which, once In the air, tile~ Drain accepted. The program was Itself, thut Is being tested at the London air station. A huge gyroscop~ 'tftdiocast. attached to the plane, revolving at 9,000 revolutions per minute, keeps It The · Lull ding Is a four-story affair stt>&dy. once It Is in the air During one or the tests, the aviator left his with Grecian simplicity of line and d1·i\·in;; sPat, went to the cabin, read a book for half an hour and, on returning. declared to bl! one of the most beautl- f<miHl the machine still flying accurately on Its predetermined course. tul structures In Indluna. It has been rhoroughly furnished In keeping with the tone. Each deportment including those ohroad have special desks with the state seal. Special permlssloo was obtained from the French government for the use ot the French seal on the desk to be used by the committeeman from FrancP.. Hanging In the exeeutlve lobby Is the famous wlir picture, "America," by Ren:-1\Iel, painter for the ministry of war In France in 19!8. Lake That Was Made by the Sliding of a Motmtain Chicago Bathing 'Girls Leam Physical Culture ·Gets Fine Present From Argentina New Waterloo Bridge Is Built This Airplane Needs No Pilot Montana Quake Made Big Fissures Georgia Mayor and Female Cabinet Elaborate Decoration• Street decorations during the AmerIcan Legion national convi!IPtlon tt be I held at Omaha, Neb., in October will j be the most elaborate the convention 1 has ever been greeted with, according to plans under way by the decoration committee. The feature of the dec- 1 oration scheme as planned wlll be the I jeweled "Legion Arch," In the center of the city. Uniform decoratlons by Mayor· Robert M. Hull of Savannah, Ga., and hl8 woman's cabinet which business houses all'd 1D the realdenee IDvlted to aulst In the runnbag of the elty by sugarestton. The women hu be dZatricta are bellll pluned, whlle In addition to the regulal' kard of alderms and can adviH. but fmlctlon ~own streets wUl be a moe 4rl l..,eJst DOt I llarhta. and multl-eolored I Bop ft1H1'81, aeveral feet deep, appeared In tbe earth'• surface near Tlaree J'oU., IIODt., Gpeaed bJ the ~ev-. earthquakes. The ereTice .-..a . . ftl 180 feet 1oq. 2 to D feet wl. . ad I to 8 feet teep. •or John Stepben Tillman, now f<Mn months old, seen here in the lap of hl.t father, Lleur. Stephen Tlllman, Is th4 youngest member of the Citizens' Training camps, having been enrolled when he was three months old. H4 wW train !n the camps In 1942. BabJ Tillman Ia a kinsman of Brl&. Gen. Samuel Iii. Tillman, former eoJDt mand&Jlt of Weat Point, and of tiC lat• leDator IJeD ~~ |
