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Show THE JORDAN JOURNAL, MIDVALE, UTAH I - Calles Supported by IVIexican Federal Employees Battle of Spokane Commemorated by Indians (Copy tor This Department Supplied by tho Atnerlcan Leg-ion Ne\VS SerYice ) TO GET TIME TO GO TO FRANCE IN 1927 • A recent announcement by Gen. W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, that employees o! Llle railroad who are former service men may huYe four weeln; o1I in Septembei', 1!127, to go to Frnnce with the American Legion and that they need not forego their 1923 vacations, has been followed by a nation-wide movement of employers to take similar action. Time off for Legionnaires to make !he trip has been indorsed by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the Commonwealth Edison !) One of ·the outstanding events of the second Indian congress at Spokane, Wash., was the unveillng of a monument commemorating the Battle ot Spokane Plains, the last big battle between the Indians and whites to be tought In the Pacific Northwest, September !S, 18158. At the dedication, lndian descendants of the warrlon1 who rought there pledged everlasting peace with their white brothers by means ot sign language, St. Louis Fashion Pageant Shows Olden Styles Above, hundreds of federal employees in Mexico City parading to demonstrate their loyalty to President 1n the church strife. Below Is Calles' bodyguard lined up before the national palace. Preparing for a Big Exposition in St. Louis Gen. W. W. AtterbLlry. co!Jlpany, the United Mine Worker>~ of America, the American Federation of Labor, the International Typographical union, and scores of other employers and employees' associa· tions and unions. The Couzens bill permitting former service men in government employ to , have 60 days off for the trip has been signed by President Coolidge. Another act made it necessary, however, [ that the employees forego their 192:6 vacations in order to get the GO days. Styles of yesteryear, and the Snowbird Pages of this year are shown in this photograph, depicting a scene of the St. Louls Pageant ot Fashion. TROPHY FOR FLIERS l Young Bob Hunt Now Is "Calf Child" I St. Louis, Mo., is making elaborate preparatlons for the Greater St. Louis exposition, which will be held September 4 to 19. Above is shown one day's output otl sculptUred art for the adornment of the buildings. Liberty Bell of Lehigh Valley DR. MIGUEL MENDEZ Tl1e liberty bell that announced the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the people of Lehigh valley, Pennsylvania, was sent to the Sesquicentennial exposition from Allentown, where it was hidden during Dr. Miguel Mendez has just been in· the llevolutionary war. It was accompanied on its trip by more than 150 auto· augurated as President of the repubmobiles and 500 citizens of that section. Photograph shows Miss Thomas o:!l lic of Colombia. He was elected last the Pennsylvania State building and 1\Iayor Gross of Allentown with the bell. February by the Conservatives and will hold the office for four years. Only Public Bee Market in World L. J. PETTIJOHN Essay Contest Date Is Extended to November 15 The date for closing the national "Back-to-France Essay Contest" of the France convention committee of the American Legion, has been extended to November 15 instead of September 15, due to urgent requests from the field. Several l.mndreu essay:; have been received from eYery part of the United Slates. The subject is "Why I Want to Go to France wil!J the American J,egion in 1927." Tlll'Cee cash prizes have been donated IJY the steamship f'omvanies whose 24 ocean liners will carry the 30,000 Legionnaires to France. The first prize is $3fi0; the second, $150, and the third, $100. Th<•tSe eligible to compete are members a£ the American Legion and the Legion auxiliary. Three judges or national prominence will choose the winners. They are \Villiam Allen What American boy has not dreamed o:!l being adopted by an Indl\ln White, Richard Henry Little and The triumph of commercial aviation tribe and given an Indian name? This eleven-year-old lad, Bob Hunt, son Frederick Palmer. over land and sea transportation in of Frazier Hunt, associate editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, was adopted The essays must give the name o.l' the race to conquer distance is symby the Blackfeet tribe, Alberta, at the Calgary stampede. Chiefs Rushes, the writer as well as the post or unit bollzed in the Edsel B. Ford trophy 1 Whiteheaded Chief, Boy Chief, Calf Child, Buffalo Child Longlance, Water of which the writer is a member. offered in the commercial airplane re1 Chief, and Spring Chief, known as the Tigers of the Plains, conducted tlla Each essay is limited to 400 words. I liability tour of 1926. The trophy is ceremony. Chief Joe Calf Chlld acted as the spokesman and gave Bob his TO.y should be addressed to the Na- 1approximately 36 Inches In height and own name of "Onistah-Poka" or Calf Child. tional Convention Committee, Ameri- ) is made of sterllng sllver mounted on can Legion, Indianapolis, Ind. 1 a marble base. .A.t the front of the base Is a plate containing the nll,illes of those who made perfect scores In Insurance Companies the 1925 trial tour, while surrounding Ofler Trips to F ranee the base is a series of shields on ' which wlll be Inscribed the names of j Several Insurance companies are 1 the winners each year. A commercial I offering free tr·ips to B'rance with the I air liner is the surmounting figure of American L,•gion in 1~27 to their j the trophy and is shown being launched agents who are eligible to make the ' in the clouds by the god or commerce. pilgrimage if a certah1 amount of business is written by 1hem. WM. WILLIAMSON · One company offers three gmdes of accommoclations besides an additional $100 for spending money. 'l'lltl first prize, including the be'!t accorumoclations, raill'O,ld fare to and from thP port of saiii!.;g [:nd the ~100, require;; tlint $400,000 worth o~ llusiness be written between July 1, W:26. and July 31, 1027. The agent w11o writ€'8 $:200,000 will receiye railroud fat'e, the $100 and tile minimum accommouations, wl1ile $300.000 busine,;s written will proviue fo!' Lhe metlium accomlliOdaLions, railroad fare and the $100 spending money. Fossils of Oldest Trees Found S us,<?icio:Js "Ilello, sheik !" hailed the llapper "Tnke me for a ni<-e long ride in your ne\v car?" "Got .rour wall~ing shoes?" ask eel tl!e sheik suspiciously. '·No." "C:ot a pair of roller skates witll you?'' "No." The only public bee market in the wodd is held annualll in the little \"illage of Veanendaal, Holland. From all sections of the country the bee farmers arrive, carrying their hives with their thousands upon thousands ot bees. "Carry a six gun?" "\\"(']!, then, ellmb aboard, but I'll An especially posed portrait of L. J. Pettijohn, member of the federal farm I bet 1hPre's a •atch in It somewhere"Amt>ri'','l' L!'g-ion Illonthlv loan boarn. A valuable fossilized tollectlon of the oldest known trees, ferns ant! rootlets, that flourished 100,000,000 years ago and were uncovered at Gilboa, N. Y., in the construction of a large dam, hus been received at the Field museum In Chicago. This collection, which was at the height of its growth during the Devonian period, which antedated the coal or carbonaceous period, contains specimens of seed-bearing ferns which reached the enormous heiglll An especially posed portrait of of fifty feet or more. One mass of rocks, in the form of a tree stump, I~ Representative WUllam Williamson of ~ightee.n Inches in diameter and bears the imprint o:!l the tree-covering of tl'.nl llge. SQuth Dakota. |