Miss Lolita Sackett, of Geneva, N. Y., is known as the youngest woman lawyer in the United States. She is only 25 years of age, and in addition to having been admitted to the State Bar, she was recently admitted to practice in the Federal courts.
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The great value of radio cómmunication was demonstrated in the Japanese disaster, for it was by means of the radio alone that the world first-loarged of the catastrophe, all cables having been severed. The Radio Corporation of America maintains an immense wireless station at Tominks, through which constant communication was carried on tuning the earthyjukker Great credit is due Mr. Wakamatsu, the Japanese engineer in charge. He marshalled his forces and maintained direct communication. Being the only Japanese there who know English, he remained at the key for 50 hours, without sleep, to tell the world what had happened. The main tower of the station is 660 feet high, 60 feet in diameter at the base and 14 feet at the top. There are 36 wooden masts, 250 feet high, to which the antenne are strung.
Crown Prince Hirohito, Regent of Japan, will not be married this Autumn, as had been planned, because of the sorrow into which his country has been thrown by the earthquake. The young ruler was so concerned over the fate of his people that he announced the indefinite postponement of his marriage to Princess Nagaka, daughter of Prince Kuni The future Empress of Japan is in hearty agreement with her imperial fiance. She is devoting all her time to alleviating the suffering, of her countrymen.
Brigadier-General Frank R. Mc- Coy, attached to the staff of Governor-Geueral Leonard Wood, in the Philippines, was on leave of absence in Japan when the carth- quake occurred. He has been re- called to duty and placed in charge of the American relief work among the disaster sufferers.
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In modern naval operations the
Raymond "Moremen, a young Pomona Near East Relief Worker,
standing under an American flag, drew a
revolver and dared Mustapha Kemal Pasha, the camera figures as prominently as the former palace of the Greek Turidsh Nationalist leader to enter. the torpedo and the 16-inchi rifte. Motion and still pictures are essen-Premier, Ventzelos, at Boudja, a tial for determining accuracy of suburb of Smyrna, where 400 shell fire, velocity of projectiles Greek orphans had been housed and for mapping zonos of fire. Hby the American relief workers, A. McPhee, a still photographer, is He got away with his bluff, shown above, with his huge speed camera, making photographs, from the deck of the seaplane carrièr Wright, of seaplanes firing torpe does during the naval operations and manoeuvres off Newport.
THIESDAY. NOVEMBE
Princess Abbas Halim, twice. married to princes, has just been fatally shot in Alexandria, Egypt, under, mysterious circunstances, The Princess is the daughter of James Harcourt Harrington, of Lon- don. Although her father is wealthy she went on the stage and while an actress married Captain Arthur Evelyn Ellis, but they were soon divorced. „At a dance she met and later married Prince Mohammed Djemet-ad-Din Mahmud, a member of the royal house of Egypt. Later he divorced her, and she married his cousin, Prince Abbas 'Halim, a much younger man. Though details of her death are lacking, her father declares she was too well adquainted with firearms to have shot herself accidentally. She is shown here with the veil of an Egyptian Princess.
Lieutenants Mario. Fosasti and Brack-Pupa, both of whom won honours as Aces in the Italian Alp Service during the World War, [have been entered in the International Air Races for the Pulitzer Trophy, to be flown in St. Louis on October 1, 2 and 3. They will use | 700-borsepower Fiat biplanes of tremendous speed.
By the remarkable invention of W. G. Moore, of London, of a spe- cially concentrated are evolved from electrodes made from a special alloy. of rare metals, Wolfaun Rays are made. When
Ex-Premier Takahashi; of Japan,
who, with the other leaders of the
The first public, utterance); of Premier Yamamoto, sent broadcast by wireless, appeals to the people of Japan to unite in the trying | hours through which they are, passing and to make a supreme effort to relieve the suffarers and hasten the work of reconstruction: Premier Yamamoto forged. his Dew Cabinet during the fire which destroyed Tokio, and the first meeting of the Ministers was held in the open air, outside the burned
Here is the world-famous Summer resort hotel, Fuji-Ya, near the The great disaster that destroyed Yokohama also threw down the concentrated upon any spot in the
home of the Premier. Yamamoto village of Miyanoshita, Japan, in the heart of the Hakone Mountains. U. S. Navy Hospital, maintained there by the American Government human body these extreme ultra Seiyukai Party, was reported to had a narrow escape from where 40 foreigners, lucluding several Americans, are known to have for Alfincan sailors who Become illin Oriental Waters. Commander violet rays increase the red blood raster in Tokio, is now known to ditch by the force of the earth lost their lives diiring the earthquake. The beautiful hotel was totally
have met death in the earthquake being hurled into a waterfilled Wabb, the physician fir charge, la "Known to have böên badly injured, 'and several American sailors were killed.
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