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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH Scenes and Persons in the Current News Advance of Flying in Thirty Years Thirty years ago, on December 17, 1903, the first successful flight of a heavier than air machine was made by Orville Wright at Klttyhawk, N. C. The ndvance made since then In this form of aviation is illustrated by these photographs. Above Is the first plane of the Wright brothers, which weighed 728 pounds and had a speed pf 30 miles an hour; Below Is the new type three miles a minute" Boeing monoplane used by the United Air Lines.' It weighs six and one-ha- tons, has 1,100 horse power and can fly 700 miles without refueling. - 1 Senator Boyal S. Copeland of New York (right) and Walter G. Campbell, head of the food and drug administration, Inspecting samples of condemned cosmetics and drugs. 2 Part of a throng of needy unemployed single women in New York who paraded with banners to the civil works administration headquarters. 3 Gen. Lazar Cardenas, nominee of the Revolutionary party for the presidency of Mexico. Japanese Worpen Organize Fire Department lf . Supreme Court Building Near Completion V 0 Here are the members of Japans first completely organized fire department composed entirely of women, at as they were being reviewed by the emperor. The women have become every bit as efficient as were the men in battling flames, and have even donned the same uniforms as worn by the men. Kino-sakimur- BRITISH FASCIST Biggest Derricks for Biggest Bridge . Italy Wins Battle of the Grain NOTRE DAME COACH Elmer Layden, who was one of the famous Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame university, Indiana, in 1924, has been employed by that institution as coach to supplant Ilenrtly Anderson. La.vden has recently been coach of the successful team of football Duquesne university. Italy has finally won the "battle of the grain," In other words, reached the point where she raises all the grain she needs. To signalize the victory of his plan. Premier Mussolini operated a harvesting machine on a farm neat Rome. lie Is seen above in the midst of the wheat FROM THE ORIENT Healthiest in the Nation Mrs. L M. Swire, a prominent figure the womens section of the British Union of Fascists, shown wearing the new uniform completed for use by the English women Fascists. It comprises a gray skirt, with a black shirt and In hat FROM PHILIPPINES Work on the Golden Gate bridge at San Francisco Is progressing rapidly. For the construction of this, the largest span In the world, the lnrgest derricks ever used are doing the lifting work in the erection of the Marin tower. , Boy on Ledge Eight Days Perched on a ledge overlooking an abyss 7,000 feet above sea level, Antonio Plodarl was found In the mountains near Bergamo, Italy, after being lost eight days. He had four-year-ol- d lived on a crust of bread which he had in his pocket when lost and he was nearly dead from exposure when mountaineers, Who had heard his cries, rescued him. Antonio had accompanied his two brothers into the mountains when they went to cut wood and had strayed from them. Parties from nearby villages searched In vain for him for a week. Testing Smoothness of Metals The photoelectric cell, which has already been found an improvement upon the human eye In many Indus trial operations, has been adapted to still another field by the Flench metallurgist. Dr. Albert Portevin. who applies It to determining the degree of smoothness of polished metals. A beam of light focused on the metal specimen Is reflected to the cell. When the specimen is moved along In the path of the beam, any uiLroscoplo hills or valleys will register as flue tuations In the electric curtent pro dticed by the cell. Literary Digest. vO - ' fr- - If If K .v ' - I ' ; Aw ;vn. ' . This visitor in the United States from the Orient is Princess Nour Uamnda, leader of the Syrian, Arabian and Oriental Womens alliance. She seeks the of American women In working for world peace. Perional Viewpoint What do you think of the who walks like a man? 1 haven't met one as yet." un swered Miss Cayenne. "Inn I noj e lie'll prove mole agreeable than tin man who dances like a bear." i t 4 r I ' This mouse deer, t tie only specimen of Its type in the country, arrived at the Detroit zoo recently after a long Journey from the I'hiilipine islands. It is n ui ft to the local park from Frank Murphy, former mayor of the city and now governor general of the islands. Here are the two girls and the boy who were found to be the nearest to physical perfection of any of the half million boys and girls who belong to the clubs in the United States. They are, left to right: Clista Millspatigh. a high school girl from Mount Pleasant Iowa; Glenn L. Sherwood, a farmers son, from Kan.; and Shirley C. Drew of Fayette, Mo., freshman at Christian college, Columbia. 4-- |