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David Lloyd George, Great Britain's war Premier, showed on- siderable "pep" during a round of golf on the Royal Golf Course at Dixie, near Montreal, where he played with Sir Arthur Curry, Pre- sident of McGill University, who commanded the Canadian army during the World War; J. W. McConnell and L. J. MeGil).
Secretary of War Weeks has approved the plans of the Army Air Service for à flight around the world by a squadron of Douglas World Cruisers, all-metal aeroplanes now under constructio..cach capable of carrying fuel for a 2,000-mile flight. It is believed the flight may be made in 30 days from the start, which will take place this year. The flight will start from Washington to Seattle, Wash., northward to Alaska and across the Aleutian Islands, touching on Japanese insular possessions, and thence to points in the Far East. The fight will be continued across Europe to England Greenland, Labrador, along the Canadian coast to Montreal and Quebec, and back to Washington. The above photograph shows the tentative route:
Ex-Governor and Ex-Congressman George Curry of New Mexico, now 68 years old, is the American Commissioner on the Ainerican-Mexican Boundary Board and has started in a small bo it, with Butboard motor, to make the trip from El Paso, Texas, to Brownsville. The trip by boat is said to be the first ever attempted. Mr. Curry is shown in the stern of the boat with Randolph Fishburn (in centre), a consulting engineer who accompanied him. They are seeking first-hand information about the twists and bends in the river for further boundary negotiation..
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Senhor Don M. Texiera Gomez, President-elect of Portugal, re- ceived full military honours when he boarded a British battleship at Portsmouth, England, on which he was carried to Lisbon to take up his official duties.
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When "Queenie," a collie, was run over in Chicago by an auto- mobile, a policeman was called to shoot her. But Roland 'Schelder, four years old, who owned "Queenie," begged so hard for the animal's life, because she was "a mamma dog,” a kilidiy veterinary surgeon set the dog's legs in splints. But there were more serious injuries, and "Queenje" died. When a photographer arrived, Roland sat in the back yard of his home, with a basketful of puppies whose eyes were hot even open, and murmured through his tears: "I gotta do somethin'"
Count Busi, known abroad as
Evan Burrows Fontaine, of New York, noted Oriental dancer, has Kained a point in her. legal battle against, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, son of Harry Payne Whitney, who she sued for breach of promise, alleging the Yale oarsman was the father of her child. The Appellate Division of Arnaldo Francesco Busi, Count of the Supreme Court of New York Lambardia, and now a Boston
a decision of the Supreme Court, which had vacated (Mass.) tailor, has commissioned the annulment of her marriage to an attorney to sell his Italian title Stealing Adair. a sailor, who died for $5,000, as he needs the money, several years ago. The reversal He is also suing his Contessa for of the decision gives her an opportunity to renew her breach a divorce, alleging she attacked of-promise suit for $1,000,000. him with a batchet.
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Radio and motion-picture screens have been called into service by James Forbes, a New York play wright, in his search for his brother, Robert E. Forbes, manager of the New Capital Theatre," of Albany, who dis- appeared while suffering from amnesia. Mr, Forbes is 56 years. old and weighs 160 pounds. He has gray eyes, heavily lashed, and with gold spectables." wears tortoise-shell rims. He wore, an Oxford gray sack suit, with white hair-line stripe, dark, medium- weight overcoat, black derby and black laced shoes.
"SHE DID DID SHE: NOW YOU JUST WAIT THERE, AN, I'LL SHOW, YOU WHO'S BOSS IN MY HOUSE!
News photographs, photo graphs of criminals and of Angerprints, signatures for identification by banks, and the like, may be sent' either by wire 'dr wireless on the photo-telegraph
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paratus completed by Mar- vin Ferree, of Cleveland, O. At the left of the dual picture is a photograph of Miss Catherine Campbell, selected as "Miss America". at the Atlantic City Beauty Pageant in 1922 and 1923. At the right is the same. photograph as it was trans-
mitted over the wire for a distinge of 400 miles, the sending raking five minutes. Neither photograph his been
retouched.
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In appreciation of the wonderful relief work done in Poland by the American Red Cross after the signing of the armistice, the Polish Government has conferred its highest order, Poland Restituam, upon the Red Cross General Josef Haller, distinguished Polish military. chieftain, who, is in America as the guest of the American Legion, acted for his Government. The ceremony, in Washington, is pictured above. Miss Mabel Boardman, head of the American Red Cross, is holding the flak,
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