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Show THE MIDVALE JOURN AL Chinese Have Annor ed Trains in Manchuria Friday, Septem ber 27, 192 Outpo st of the British in Transj ordani a This photograph shows Amman, the British outpost In Transjordan ia where armored cars and airplanes are kept In readiness against Arab hostll!Ues. The armored cars patrol out Into the desert daily to guard cars carrying go1'· ernment mail from Bagdad and also to give assistance and protection to airplanes that have made forced landinp. Not to be caught unprepared, the Chinese military authorities have rushed a number of armored cars, such as the one shown in the picture, to the scene of the recent encounters with Red Russian troops, near Harbin in nortllern Manchuria. Ameri can Gets World's Larges t Privat e Yacht Remember When the Ladies Dressed Like This? The magnificent Orion, called the largest private yacht In the world, after being launched at Krupp's Germanla shipyards at Kiel, was turned over to and accepted by JnUus Forstrnann "of New York. The ship is said to hav• cost nearly two million dollars. It has two Diesel motors of 3,600 horse power each, and can go 16 knots an hour A crew of 50 Is needed to run the ship. These members of the California Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs In convention at the Hotel Huntington, Pasadena, Calif., added zest to their proceedings by adopting costumes of three decades ago for "Gay Nineties" day. ~~ . . New Wind Beacon for the Airmen PROF. A. M. BUSWELL TO PROTECT BANKS Cleaning the Capital's Statue s • Hector Fuller Is here holding a 'I Prot. A. M. Buswell of the Unl· Thompson subrnachlne gun at the 1·ersity of Illinois and his assistants Bankers' Industrial exposition In have de,;ised a practicable method of New York. The baby machine gun making illuminating power and heatweighs but nine pounds thirteen lng gas from corn stalks. It Is exounces, but Is capable of "spitting" pected that farmers will be able to a stream of 300 bullets a minute. take full advantage of the device. JACK QUINN QUITS NEW HEAD OF G. A. R. All the numerous statues of general!'<, actmirals and statesmen that adOJID the parks and avenues of Washington have been getting their annunl cleaning. The photograph shows workmen polishing up the statue of John Paul Jones. --------------------------------------------~.-----------------~ Muj, Diablo Dam, Highest in the World ~·rancis Boyle, Ca,pt. I;, H. Palmer and Capt. Dudley Howard, left to right, Inspecting the new windage beacon undergoing tests at Bolling field. This revolving beacon with the wind direction indicator was invented by 1 ajor Boyle and is so designed as to throw a colored beam down wind for a distance of from one to two miles as an aid to pilots making landings at night. • Jackie, Crippled, Uses Wheelchair Jack Qpinn, one ot' Connie Mack's veteran pitchers and who aided materially this year In bringing the Athletics to the top, has announced his retirement. Edwin J. Foster of Worcester, Mass who was elected commander in chief of the Grnnd Army ot' the Republk at the national meeting in Portland. Maine. Mad Woman's Achievemen t "Ja(·kie," pet of a Dullas (Texas) family, recently run over by an auto· mobile, pulling himself along th~> "road to recovery" in a wheel chair con· traption built especially for him. A square of rag, Inscribed in exquisite needlewot·k with a clearly readable message nearly 1,000 words long, was among the exhibit at the pathological exhibition at the British medienl congress at Manchester. 'l'he worl•er was a madwoman who ima~ined that she was Eve, and the needleworli de· scribes her hallucination s. The most astonishing thing about It Is that It was all done under the coverlet of he: hed, to conceal It from th~ nm·s1 ~he in tendetl It us a me::;suge to (j YC • Garages I When Robert was two and a half the t'am!ly went to visit grandpapa on the farm. On the filst evening Rob ert crawled Into his mother's arms ,, ith a deep ~igh of contentment . "Well, mother, grunrlpupa and I .Y:ttclwd the horses go into their ~; mq::es, and we shut their doors. J•t>n '' e watched all U1e chicken!' go ro t! •eir gnrages 11nd we shut their 0 1 :;:;: · .. A view of the Diablo dum in northwester n Washington which when co~ t•leteu will be 380 teet high and 1,200 feet long. The dam, which wlll be the llighe!'t in the world, will develop 320,000 horse power by backlnr up 90,000 reet of water for a distance of seven mlles. |