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Show • THEJORDANJOURNAL,MIDVALE.UTAH -, t ~--' ~ch Man Takes His Relatives on Long Tour Dresden Police Now Have a New Big Motor Bus (Copy tor 1'hlo Deputment Supplied bJ' tbe American Legion Newa Service. ) LEADS IN MAKING GOOD AMERICANS • Second from the left in front, holding panama hat, Is Churles G. Hodes of Ft. LaudertlalE', Fla., who became D multl-ro.~IUonaire In developing Florida real estate. His family was spread all over the country, so he chartered a s~'!"lal train, ('ngaged cooks, walters and a physirlan, and arranged for o trip across the continent from Florlcla to Callfornla, picking up each family on the way. There were fifty-four members In the party when they were all aboard the train, and they have been touring old Mexico, Yellowstone National park, the Grand canyon and other western parks. The trip cost ~Ir. Rodes about $40,000, but he says Its worth It. 1 Maccabees Reelect Their Supreme Commander • ~ «<• F f> k , c ~-=-~ f.•. (t'. Althon~h Frank Cia.,· Cros~. new director of the nn tlnnal Amet·i<'anlsm commission of the AmPrican Legion, has spent much of his life, as he says, "above the clouds," far up the sirles of Colorado mountains Just at the timher line, he mea~urf's up to a family tradition of grn~ping the facts or life as they are and fighting to mold them Into sonwthlng better. It Is the pioneer spirit. a spirit that goes out into the wllrlerness and hews from den<'e fore~ts hom('s and cities and states, a spirit that <·onquPrs pia ins and mountains and. the physical s!rle subdued, movrs on to wrestle mightily with the finer, the spiritual things. Frank f'ro!'s's famll:r has hern a family of fl!.!htlng pioneers for generations, always on t he frontier of civil! zation. IJi,; for Pllr!lrS came to AmrrIC'a hpfnre the Revolution. His great· l!l'finrlfnther wa~ a pioneer !'ettler in l\£arinn count~· . Jn-dinna. "here nationul hPa<lquartPI's of the Le~ion I~ Jocnted. Tlw famil y trPl>ket! acro~s country with the co,·et·e<l wa~on. From Indiana th ey tnOY<'d into Iowa when that state was opening up. Tht'n to Kansas anrl to Colon do. while tl r hnf· falo were !'itlll on the plnins ant! Indinn Jands roamed t!1e country. "In comIng to Inrli ~ napoli~." he snys, "I 11111 the first of the trihe to bacl: trark and hit the trnll for the East." He ha<l laid a precNlent In some snrt for that. when he hit the trail for overseaR and the battlefiel·ds of France when there was work that needed much to he done oYer there. Ances· tors of his hacl fought In every one of the nation's wa:-s. Ilis entire familyhis father, two brothers and himselfvolunteered in '17. A younger brother, Ch::trles, lost his life in France. Frank Cross put in 13 months !n France. He was on detached service with the British north of Calais, look· lng after American trOOIJS who came VN()£iifWOOO & UNO'£RWO(> ,. A new motor system has been adopted by the Dresden (\lermany) poli<:e department to assist in speeding tha officers to scenes of disturbances. A bus capable of carrying 32 men 1s used. It bas sl.x wheels Instead of the usual l'our, a powerful motor, balloon tires and a four-wheel drive. ' Big Seaplanes for Nonstop Flight to Hawaii '.!.'he United States navy has built two giant seaplane>! with which a nonstop flight from San Diego to llonolulu wil! be made in 24 hours If expectations are realized. Each plane wlth crew of four and supply of oil weiJhS 19,000 pounds. The 1llustration shows workmen putting the Rodgers, in charge of the fiight. wings on one of the seaplanes, and Commander John FORGOT WHO HE WAS New Memorial Site for Borglum Supreme Commander A. W. Frye, re-elected head ot the Maccabees, with his bodyguard which attended hltu during the national convention in \Vashington. WANDA HAWLEY WED Wins Small Fortune at Baccarat .. ~rank I ~~ ~~ i ~~ Wanda Hawley, motion-picture ac· tress, and Stuart \Vilkinson, sportsman and auto racer, who recently suffered a broken back during a thrilling race at Culver City speedway, have just bellO married. { 1 fl ~ t1 ::-{ t1 U ~iW~-~~iii ~j OFFERS TO BE SLAVE ~dl...::l~t..'::S...~:S..IIIti~llilllll~:..d..::twa.~•~•..,;)llla..~a~•~ll'i&lfllllh~.,. "'j 'l'he money trouble~ of pretty, dlmlnntive Laura Carter Gould are over. temporarily at !Past. The former wife of Geot·ge Jay Gould has won approximately $100,000 ln a sensational manner at the baccarat tables, ploying for seven hours without rising from her seat, at the casino at Le Toquet heacb, France. Mr!'l. Gould made "pont" after "pont," going "banquo" o11 doubles and redoubles until she won that vast amount. I Augustine Brodeur of Worcester, ' Mass., World war veteran, Is ready to aacrUice his pride and "sell'' himself Into ala very for a year so that he may be able to take care of his mother and tamWy of seven. He recently lost his .poUtlon as a shoe salesman. J I '1 John II. Neubert of Flint, Mich., who has just regained his Identity after five years. He su!Iered a stroke of epilepsy five years ago, and went to the University hospital at Ann Arbor, !\Uch., for treatment. After partly recovering he came to New York, having suffered a lapse of memory. He registered at the Seamen's Christian AsThe great granite cliff overlooking Chimney Hock gorge, near Haleigb, sociation home In \Vest street and N. C., on which Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, proposes to carve a memorial lived there for a long time until finally of the Confederacy for the state of North Carolina. Below are Mr. Borglum he asked the police to find out who be was. and Ugo Vllla (left), one of his associates, looking over the site. Syracu~e TOLD KIDNAPING TALE and Los Angeles Beauties 1 1 I > ! across ~he channel from England. Then he was sent down to Tours with the French, wlwre he handled all ship· ments out oi' that city. He was dis· charged in Wyoming in July, 1919. He became assistant cli<-mist wito an oil company for about a year. In the !ntpnul he manled l\Iiss Helen :II. Fry, a former schoolmate at tJ·~ Uni· versity of Denver. She wa~ of :1 famIly of teachers and Cross' thoughts turned to that profession. He went In for more schooling-eC'onomics, sod· ology and political science--and then became superintendent of a consoll· dat<'d school. In 1!l2:l he became head of the department of pconoJuics at the Colorado School of :Uines. He also he<'ame u lectur<'r at the Den,·er "op1,ortun!ty school." That "'~ns a turnin~ point for hiln, the thing which led dirertly to his nppointment n~ director of the Americanil'm com· mi~slon. He gave lectures of ndvke, !nsvlr8tinn, Information. Jl~ to11chPd on anything wh!C'h would'bp g-Pnerall:v helpful to thl' forel:m-horn sep!dnl! to hero me A mer! can citizen« nnd to play thf'ir part as !lUch. He harl two thou~hts In mind. One was to ~i~e nil th<' infOJ·mntion nec·f'«~nry to pn"s the naturalization l'xaminntion. 'l'he other was to giYe tlwm nn nn<lt>rstnn<1!nc; an<i appreC'intion of Anwrica, of \Yhat the C'mmtr~· sta;uls for. of Its h!storv, it~ institnt!nns. its <'llRtoms. Its id,,als: ltR aspirations-and to Inspire thPm to liYe goo'! AmrriC':m citizens. "Just better c!tlzt'nship" Is the way he Rum« It up. Tiel ping to lll'lk"' 0 1t thP Qll<'stlons for tpac!wr pyaminations In the ('olornrlo school~. the nl'w rlirector found out tl1nt many M thr tP:whers. <>specially In o•ltl~·lnc; dl><triPts. kll<'W "\pss than a 1<1!1 ought to know" ahout the fnndnmentnls of Anwriranism. So he organizrrl nn Anwricanism ~ectlon in the Stat<> l~rluration nssoC'lntinn. He also former! till' AlliE'd Counf'!l for AmeriC'anism Comll~lttf'PS, embracing the various patriotic societies of the state. Meantime .Tohn C. V!Yian, C'Oinrnand· er of the f"olnrndo dep rtment of the LPglon .. had seen his work nnn in.-lted him to hPcome Phairman of the state Amer!Panism committee. ' From this p.-sition he wns a<huneed hy the na· tiona] exPcut!vE' committee to the dl· reC'torRhip of thP National AmeriC'an· Ism l'fllllllli~sion. where he goes on p!onrering (:!~ his fathPrS hn<l done for vp 11 rs hrfore him). not with dt·eatllY ~·<-'kit!<•« hnt with a prcH·tlcnlity that .,,.~ tn 11"' hrntt pf tlH" rrl'blem, tor 1 I Broadcast Boat Races From Yacht Douglas Rigney of New York has equipped his 30-foot motor yacht, M. U. I., with a complete broadcast· lng outfit In order to racllocast the reports of all yacht and :motor boat races In nearby waters. The reporta wUl be put on the air through the station in Richmond II!Il, WAHG. Clay Cross. •• j . , 1 ,. , ...... •11 Mt" VIrginia Lee Cookson, photographed at Calexico, Cal., soon after she had told a "'eird story of her extwr!ence at the hands of supposed kidr,apers. She disappeared from Loa Angel-es and was thought to have been murdered, but she says she was ~eated Is Miss Fern Jackson, who hus been selected as "Miss Syracuse~ kidnaped and taken lnto the undertor the Atlantic City beauty pageant. Standing Is Miss Adrienne Dore, chosen ground world below the Me:r.lcaa 1 lo represent Los Angeles in the national contest. border. 1 I ======:::UJ l |