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Mira Sonja Dagmar Claussen, the daughter of Capt. Theodore Claussen and Mime. Julia Claussen who is to become the wife of Mr. William K. Findlay of Dalbeattie, Scotland. The Engagement was announced by Mme. Claussen, the opera singer.
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Thousands. Flee from Mount Etna · Eruption
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French Premier
Many were killed and thousands rendered homeless as a result of eruptions of Mount Etna in Sicily, the worst in more than a quarter of a century. Mascall, a "thriving town of 7,000, was inun dated and wiped out in boiling. Inva-as completely ns was Pompeli 2,000 years ago by Vesuvius. Photos above tell the story of tragedy on Elna's burning alopes. Above. an aeroplane. view of the dendly crater:, innet, fugitives hürrying down. mountainside before on- nahing Java, and, below, dazed villagers looking on as houses and trees and gardens are swallowed up in the molten streani.
Defeat-and Smiles!
French Politician
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M. Raymond Poincare, who still en-
joys much confidence in Europe.
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Left the "Follies'
Governor Alfred E. Smith, the defeated U.S. Presidential candidate, and Mrs. Smith, as they an- peared in their hotel suite where, besides listening to election returns, they celebrated Mrs. Smith's. birthday. Shortly after this photo was taken,, "the happy warrior" sont a sportsmanlike telegram of congratulation to President-elect, Mr. Herbert Hoover,
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Ruby Keeler (Mrs. Al Jolson).
who gave up a Ziegfeld Follies carga when her husband wired her to join
him. The husband starred in the first
#talking-movie" in London.
The super-dreadnought "Marylan 1," pride of US. Battle Fleet, which President Coolidge assign- ed to carry President-elect Herbert Hover on his South American "goodwill tour.", The "Maryland"
is commanded by Capt. Victor A. Kimberly and was stationed in Pacific waters,
Steamed to the Rescue of the "Vestris
The U.S.E: "Wyoming," commanded by Captain I. M. Overstreet (inset), which ateamed at fore-
ed draft to the rescue of "Vestris" e urvivors.
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Tiring of hor career as a circus
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