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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAU Page Eight More War Time Horron to Be Razed How Dry Raids Help Disabled War Veterans Another Washington "hang over" from the hectic days of 1918, the so-called Government Hotels, built in the Union Station plaza to house temporary war workers, is soon to be razed. The bulldings are of frame and stucco construction and have been called an eye sore for years. Watermelon Time Comes to the North When Washington revenue officers raid an ililcit distillery, the copper which composes the still is carefully saved and turned over. to disabled veterans at \Valter Reed hospital, who use it to make candlesticks, bowls, ash trays and other novelties. The photo shows one of the boys cutting up a section of a large still while his comrades are buslly turning other parts of it into useful and legal articles. Start of Women's Balloon Race in France ' Four little negro puplis of a. Chicago public school pooled resources and got a watermelon from a peddler. Then tlle photographer came along. How much they like wafermelon is nobody's business, but actions speak louder than words. NEANDERTHAL MAN Scene at SL'. Cloud, !''ranee, at the start of women's balloon race. sklll in handling the balloons. Premier Duke Asswnes H..is Titles ' The feminine air pilots displayed great When Ford Had to Borrow Two Cents WINs HIGH HONOR j Henry Ford at Atlantic City buying from Postmaster Alfred Perkins the first of the Thomas Edison commemorative stamps issued for the golden jubilee of the electric light. Though .Mr. Ford is one of the richest men in the world, · he had to borrow two cents to make the purchase. Salt Water Swimming for Paralysis B. Kenneth Johnson, a member of this year's graduating class at Yale, who captured the annual award of the Prix de Rome in architectme. This is the William Rutllerford l\Iead Fellowship, and it ~arries an annual cash income of $1,500 for three years, with residence and studio at the academy in Rome and an allowance for trans· portatlon to and from Rome. It is estimafed to be worth about $8,000 to the winner. The Neanderthal man, who roamed tl1e earth about 50,000 years ago, has been reproduced in lifellke figures in a setting like d1at in which he lived, at the Field Museum of Natural The picture History In Chicago, famliy. shows the head of the The duke of Norfolk, England's premier duke, being greeted by 'well wishers as he left the church of St. Philip Henri, Arundel, after attending services on his twenty-first birthday. Becoming of age, the youthful peer assumed his estates and titles. ~ Largest Old Glory on the Capitol . DAWES' SECRETARY KIPKE IS HEAD COACH On the theory that child patients sufiering from infantile pnral)•sil! relax their muscles while immer"Secl in warm salt water, a tank hus been installed at the ChildrPn's hospital in Washington. Edith S~· mes, Loui~e C. Lippett an•l Mary :::.>. Tulhcrt are shown demonstrating the tank treatment with two tiny vntlenls. Harry Kipke, one of the greah.~<:t all-around athletes In Michigan football history, will guide the tlestinies of the Wolverine ~ridiron team next fall. He was named to suc1•eed Elton E. ("Tad") Wieman, whose personal anti admin!strntive conflict~ with .\thletiC' Director Flel1ling ll. Yost resulted in his disnussul. llenry Dawes, twenty-three yeal's old, a year out of college. has been chosen to be secretary to his uncle, Gen. Charles G. Dawes, Unlteti States amh:1csador to the Court of St. James ·n London. Yonng Dawes' home is at Coltuubus, Ohio. • View of the largest American flag ln the world as It was displayed across the fl'ont of the United States Capitol where flag exercises were conductPd by the United States Flag association. The flag is 1GO feet long and 90 feet wide. It wns sent to Washington from Detroit. |