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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAl,. Thursday, January 23, 1930 Swedish AppHed Art Exposition in Stockholm Americana Building Good Highways in China .. While a group of" local and state officials looked on, an American road building company, working against time, reeently completed a mlle of highway at Mukden at a cost of sixty Mexican dollars. To accomplish the same resnlt with manual labor wou~d cost 601,000 Mexican dollars. • Gennany World's Largest Power Plant Opened m An aerial picture of Stockholm showing In the lower right section the buUdlnp which bouse the exhibition of Swedish glass, i>ewter, textlles and furniture. Getting Uttle Ones Across the Street Miss A. Moses, public school teacher In the Bronx. New York city, putting Into practice her Idea for getting children across a buq street. The little ones are herded In a looped rope held by Miss Moses. 'l'bla Ugnlte burning power plant, the largest 1n the world, has just been opened at Bltterfteld, Germany, to It has two of the biggest turboge_nerato,rs ~ lftiPPI7 power for a large section of eastern and centrnl Germany. Eurepe. ~. ' ' ··.· • • Friend of~ Hopeless Home Again RUNS 180 MILES MEDAL FOR 0. WRIGHT ..Brother Tom" Llddecoat and his daughter, Mary, who have just returned from a Jlve months' world tour which was taken to study the way other countdee took care of their poor. "Brother Tom'' bas used up a personal fortune fJl $1,000,000 In twenty-eight years of charity work. Be returns from his tour eoovtnced that America is doing more for her poor than any other country with the possible exception of Italy. His daughter Is a senior at the Uni-verslt7 ef Southern California. French Royalist Back From Exile Eugene Estoppey, better known u "Gene, the California Bear," an Indian runner who recently nt the age of fifty-eight made the 180-mlle run from Fresno to San Francisco In less than 87 hours. SENATOR ROBSION A sculptor's sketch of the medal which wlll be awarded to Orville Wright on Aprlr 80, together with a similar posthumous award for his b&·other, Wilbur Wright, both of them pioneers In aviation. The medal, designed by Theodore Spicer-Simson of New York and France, Is the first to be presented by the Daniel Guggen~ helm foundation. Studying Marine Life at First Hand Leon Daudet, editor of the French ro7allst paper L'Actlon, shown here with his wife and son, recently was permitted to return to Paris after thlrcy months of exile In Belgium. He lmmedlatelf resumed hls efforts to make France a kingdonL CAGERS WORK SMOOTHLY Russia Calls This a Club House J'ohn Marshall Robslon, who baa been· a representative In congress from Kentucky, was appointed to the senate to complete the term of Senator Frederick M. Sackett, resigned. Here Ia tile class In marine zoology of the University of Miami, Florida, .-dJlaa marine llfe at the ocean's bottom. Some of the students are shown wttlt -dlvfaa helmet• on about to go down. The entire claa wears bathing I8Ua. Prot. Robert Mclntosb jots down notes and Instructions whlle the - ·--'- 1111der ~ fttberJDC speelaeu. Lo•• "RaiD" The Sunday school lesson was from 2 Kings 22, and read: "Josiah waa eight years old when he began to reign, and be reigned 31 years In Jerusalem." On describing the lesson to bls mother, John, aged fc,ur, said: ''The lesson was about a good rain, and there was a little boy nnmed Jo. slab, and It began to rain when ht was eiJht. an4 when he was thlrty-ont It wu ..tlU ~q." - T he University of Illinois basketball team bas gradually been brought ftround to winning form under the guidance of Coach J. Craig Ruby. There wore but two holdovers on the ·eam The strikingly original architectural design of the new club of the muulcl· pal workers of Sokoinlkl (Moscow city district), which is nearing completion. It seems to borrow Its Una from grain elevators and C!Oal cran• alone tbe doeks of Industrial cltiee. |