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Show · Raising the Hindenburg at Scapa Flow Philadelphia Navy Yard Gets New Commandant • i .. Vice Admiral Lucius A. Bostwick bas just succeeded Admiral Julian .A. Latimer as commandant of the fourth naval district, which centers on the Philadelphia· navy yard. The photograph shows the scene at the navy yard as the gun was fired which signaled the transfer of command, the admirals being at the right. West Point Cadets at th_e Tank Corps School Looking down the seaweed covered deck of the German battle cruiser Hlndenburg as she was raised trom the lottom of the sea at Scapa Flow In the Orkneys. Of the twenty-nine ships which the Germans scuttled there In :t919 after their surrender, the Hindenburg 'VI'as the last to be salvaged. • • New System of Transportation in Scotland • Members of the first class of the West Point Military academy visited the Tank Corps school at Fort George G. Meade near Washington and got first hand close up knowledge of ~ huge rolling fortresses. -----------------------------------------------------------------OVERTHROWS COCHET Both Are Grand Prize Winners • A new system of transportation Is to be tried out near GlaRgow, Scotland, when the "rail-plane," the Invention of George Bennie, will be demonstrated to the public. 'lhe conch, shaped like au airship, wlll be driven along overhead ralls by a propellor at each end which will be electrically driven. The train will be capable of making a apeed of 150 miles an hour. The photo shows the coach In the cour:;:e of construction. Lads Write Biography of Mr. Hoover QUEEN OF ROUND-UP Wilmer Allison, the American tennis player who defeated Cochet of France In one of the moat notable of the Wimbledon championship matches, NEW KIWANIS HEAD Martha Curran Gray of Mlnneapolls, Minn., was winner of the $1,500 In· ternatlonal grand prize for "Lovellest Mother In United States and Canada,'" in the $2<>,000 contest of the Photographers' .Association of America. Mrs. Gra7 Is seventy-eight years old, the mother of six children, twenty grandchildren. and seven great-grandchildren. Beside her Ia shown John Raymond Le Hu· quet, of Victoria, B. C., winner of the $1.:>00 International grand prize tor "Most Attractive .Child In United States and Canada" In the same contest. Ohio Reformatory Looks Like Palace Miss Lois Mcintyre, former student at the University of Oregon and WashWlll1am J. Marsh, Jr., (right) eleven years old, of New Milford, Conn., who has just published, from his own printing press, a biography of President ington State college, who was selected Herbert Hoover. His brother, Charles, nine, (left) assisted him In setting up - as "queen" of the 1930 Pendleton ronnd-up. and printing the book, which does for biography what Daisy Ashford did for the novel some years ago In "The Young VIsitors." .. ' MINISTER TO BOLIVIA ''Mr. Zero" and His Actress Bride Raymond M. Crossman of Omaha, a lawyer, who was elected president of Kiwanis International at the fourteenth annual convention held ln Atlantic City. WOMAN IS CONSUL This beautiful building, surrounded by excellently landscaped grounds, Ia the home of 263 of Ohio's most dangerous ct·lmlnnls. It Is the Ohio state reformatory at Mansfield. When built In 1896 the maximum capacity of the reformatory was believed to be 1,500. Prior to the fire and riot lo the Ohio state penitentiary at Columbus the 1\lansfleld Institution was housing 3,321 inmates. • Selecting a Champion Koto Player Edward li'rancls Feely, of Washington and New York, an expert on Sollfh Amel'ican finance, whose nomination as American minister to Bolivia waa COD· firmed by the senate. Liatleu Pleaaure Urbain J. Ledoux, whose bread lines and fJ:(>C lunches have made him a Jlatlonally known philanthropist under the nickname of "Mr. Zero," married ~sa Maq White, New York a.c tress, at Old Or~rd, Maine, the other dliy, "You society people chase aU over town looking tor pleasure, and yet you're always bored." "Yea, we run hither and yawa." -- - ---------- '!.'he diplomatic ranks of those stationed In the United States have at last succumbed to the eternal female. She Is Senora Berta de Selva, the first woman consul In the United States, shown when she arrived in Los Angeles, where she represent.. the iOV· ern,ment of Nicaragua. Weird strains of the koto fill the air a1 these muslc!ans take part In the contest arranged by the Japanese Musical association In Kyoto, Japan. Til• firl at ~e let~ woa the competition In addition to beln& the prettiest. |