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Show Students oi University of Athens Do Some Rioting Six Winners of the Nobel Prizes for 1929 Tlie six winners of the Nobel prizes for livjo after being presented wllh their uwurds by King Gustur of Sweden. I.eft to right: Sir Frederick (lowland Hopkins of Cambridge university, lrof. Arthur Harden of London university. Thoinua Mann of Germany, Prof, liana You Killer of Stockholm university, rrluce Ixuils Yletor, Due de Hroglle of lurla and Irof. Owen W, Richardson of King's college, Indon. England Has a Hush-Hus- h Railway Locomotive of atodenta of the University of Athens, armed with cluba, staging a riot which was stopjicd only by the Intervention of the police and a threat from the government to close the nnlverslty for a your. Cablegrams didn't tell what It was all about A band Behind the Bars for Bootleg Boats 'X 4. me Here Is the new type of locomotive evolved in England and called the "Hush-Hush- " engine because of the new embodies and Is aursounded construction. Its of that It capable principles of boiler design. secrecy high speed ri ' ;: V. Eagles That Are Well Feathered SURVEYING LIFE vi3 ft 9 Shorn of all their glamor, these bootleggers' boats are shown as they were brought to an Ignominious roost behind the bars. They are being held "prisoners" by the United States border patrol of Detroit This is perhaps the only "boat Jail" in America. Largest Telescope Is Projected SEEKS HIGHER POST Wesley C. Mitchell, professor of economics at Columbia university, whom President Hoover has appointed head of the research council on social treuds. Despite its title, the council will conduct a survey of simple, everyday life as led by the everyday American. The investigation will be conducted In the light of great changes that have taken place In recent years. It will be strictly scientific and will be carried out by trained technicians working over a period of from two to three years. high-soundi- NEW CATAWBA COACH Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh dressed In the warm aviation clothes which they donned when they started on an Inspection tour of the air mall route on which they Inaugurated passenger service last. July. Old Wolf" Will Kill No More Cattle Dr. Enrique Olaya Herrera, mlulster of Colombia In Washington, has announced that he is to be s candidate for the presidency of the republic !a the elections that will take place during the first week of February. INTERESTS SCIENCE "Unk" Charlie Moran, big league hosebull umpire when not busy as foot, ball coach, Is going to Catawba college as head football mentor. A five-yecontract was approved at a meetthe college trustees. Moran of ing coached the Centre college (Ky.) team, In 1921. which defeated Harvard, He will bring with him George Cblnn, tackle on the famous team at Centre, who will be chief assistant In the foot-bu- ll program at Catawba. ar i; ;A, 6-- Here Is a rough model of the largest telescope, s reflecting eye penetratInto the reaches of space, that Is to be built and put to work in southern ing California or Arizona. The mirror disk Is to be 200 Inches in diameter. Details of this epochal forward step In science have been prepared by Dr. George Ellery Hale, honorary director of Mt Wilson Observatory and chairman of the observatory council of the California Institute of Technology. The human figures by the model give an Idea of the size of the telescope. TOLD IN A FEW LINES The chief mineral wealth of Vermont lies In its granite and marble Lost year &500.000 tons of soy beans were produced in Manchuria. The Greek physician Hippocrates, writing in 400 B. CL, warned against drinking Iced waters In time of summer beat quarries. The steamer Prince Olar, formerly the British royal yacht Alexandria, will be placed In passenger service out of Miami, Fla., to the Bahamas and West Indies this winter. Rviiin Girl Prodigy Russian girl astonishes professors la Moscow university. In 15 seconds she worked problems in ber bead that look the professors two hours with pencil and paper. A series of ss many Miss Margaret F. MacIntyre of ns ,26 words In several foreign lanyears guages were dictated and she repented rialnfleld, N. J, twenty-thre- e old, has been termed a "physiological them correctly. In the order given, celebrity" by scientists because she without a mistake. Some people fear breathes only from three to five times to use the brain, fear to put tasks on a minute, while the overage adut the memory for fear of wearing out breathes 15 to IS times a mhiuie. No their equipment. What they need Is similar esse has ever been beard of. mental exercise. A Representative Brooks Leavitt (Rep., Mont) with the skin of "Old Wolf," a notorious cattle killer, who Is said to have destroyed stock valued at mors than $25,000, before he was captured and slain by a government trapper Phoenix, Ariz a short time ago. |