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Show Page Eight THE MIDVALE JOURNAL • Tomlinson Wins the Curtiss Seaplane Trophy . _ Flying a speedy Hawk seaplane, Lieut. W. C. Tomlinson, one of the navy's famous "Sea Hawks.'' swept over the 100-mile course on the Potomac river at Washington to victory in the Curtiss l\Iartne Trophy race. The photograph shows Senator Frederick Hale, chairman of the naval atralrs committee of the senate, presenting Lieutenant Tomlinson with the small cup which is the permanent property of the winner; at the left is seen the Curtlss trophy. United States Building at Seville Exposition The exhibition palace of the United States at the International exposition at Seville, Spain. This Is one of the thr.oe buildings erected under the supervision of the United States commission to the exposition and houses the prinl')ple exhibits of the <!3 United States government departments and bureaus. The building was designed b7 Wliliam Templeton Johnson ot San Diego, Calit. War Secretary Inspects New Mobile Weapon Cadets Ride on New Tractor Gtm MolDlt Secretary of War James W. Good Inspecting a new 3-inch anti-aircraft gun and its moving truck at the War department in Washington. The truck is almost as interesting as the gun, weighing 10 tons and carrrlng such loads as the light tank shown in lt with ease, as well as towing the gun. ft.lerubers of the graduating class of the West Point Militnry academy who visited the army proving grounds at Aberueen, Md., enjoyed a ride on a new type tractor gun mount from which the gun can be llred whlle in motion. • Gennan Officen Here to Study Capt. Warllmont of the Sixth PrwiSlan Artillery regiment and Captain Speidel, Thirteenth \Vuerttembergleches Infantry regiment. calling on acting cbl- of staff Brig. Gen. Albert J. Bowley to discuss the arrangement by which ~7 have been detailed by the German government to receive instruction tor oae tear in United States army service schools. At the right Ia Rudolf Lelt· oer, first secretary of the German embassy. Fighting Battle of Cantigny Again OSCAR IS SAVING New Home for Chicago Opera Companf BREAKS OWN RECORD Sam Behr of the University of made a record shot put of 47 teet 7% Inches in the preliminaries of the Western Conference championships at D7che stadium. Evans· ton, (IlL) ; and next day bettered this mark by throwing the 16-pound weight 48 feet S inches. Oscar T. Olsen, a veteran letter carrier of the Mount Ranier (Md.) post office, near Washington, has collected a huge ball of string measur· lng 75 inches in diameter and weigh· lng 66 pounds. Olsen gathered the string which was around the pack· ages of letters received at his sta· tlon and during a period of less than two years has accumulated this enormoua quantity. I W~onsln Tbls huge building Is being erected prlmarUy to house Civic Opera company and Is nearing completion. The view the river front of the structure. "Prettiest of Coeds" is Twins ALICE AND PAULINA FOR PERSIAN MEN t Soldiers going over the barbed wtre during the re-enacting of the bartle of f~ntlgnJ, a feature (If the annual military tournament and garden . .rtJ ou ~o•er.or•s Island. New York. Persia bas adopted a new bat tor men following a proclamation of the shah. President Dadguare of the Persian parliament, ls sbowu weariDI! the aew hat. or ••pahlavl," that beal'l' some resemblance to a mllltary cap. This posed portrait Is the ftrst une In three years to be made of Mrs. ~lcholas Longworth, wife of the speaker or the house of representatives and rlun,:hter of lnte President Roosevelt. md her young daughter Paulina, wbo Ia a favorite U. Washington. ! The tlUe of America's most beautiful coed, tnt ded for oDe. , ;hnred by the Dodd twins of Chicago, Helen and Lola, aa a naUon-wlde contest, concluded In New York. The Misses Dodd an; oil_. I \'ears old and attend the University of Cbleago. The perpln:ed who voted for the twins, wet'@ John Barrymore. the actor; F. a ....... , I gerald, novelist. and Cornelius Vanderl>Ut. Jr., writer and former publl.. 1 |