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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1930.

World News In Pictures

Youngest Pilot in the World

Election Will Form a Woman's Bloc

LAST DAY

George Dade, the seventeen-year-ok| Hesupstend, L.I., boy who was granted a pilot's licence a few weeks ago, is the youngest pilot in the world Ir desn't consider it extraedinary for one of his ege to be an ariator. Nor does he believe it reniarkable that the ferner cause to him after only five, hours of dual instruction.

Sweethearts 50 Years Ago

Sweethearls Ofty years ago and just married. This is the story

of Mr. and Mrs. Aibert H. Rogers, of Seattle, Washington. After fifty years of separate married life, they have resumed the romance of their youth and were married a few weeks ago.

Confession Machine

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Peminine power and influence in the Federal Government will reach, a new hign state with the selection of women members of the House of Representatives to important posta. Several women members of the House contemplate running for Senatorial honours. Among the ladies whose elec- tion may form part of a possible women's "bloc" are (upper row) Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Represenative from Illinois; Ruth Pratt, of New York; Miss Edith Nourse Rogers, who has been meo- tioned the Republican nominee from Massachusettă. elow) Judge Florence Allen, of Ohio, who seeks the nomination on the Democratic ticket; Mrs. Kellie T. Boss, former Governor of Wyoming; Mrs. Jessie Woodrow Sayre, daughter of the late Woodrow Wilson; Ruth Bryan Owen, of Florida.

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Commander Richard E. Byrd set out on Thanksgiving-Day-in-his-successful Bight soonendid bẹpum South Pole. The daring explorer and his crew used the tri-motored neroplane Floyd Bennett, named after Byrd's companion on the famous North Pole flight 1926. Commander Byrd was лесом panied in his flight by (top row left to right) Captain Ashley C. Mc Kinley, who la aerial photo- grapher of the expedition over the ice-covered continent. (Centre Commander Byrd, Harold. I. June, radia operator. The tri-motored 'plane Floyd Bennett. (Bott om row) Berni Balchen, nated Norwegian pilot, who piloted Commander Byrd in his trans-Atlantic flight of June 29, 1927. Part of the 5,000,000 square miles of Antarctica, of which loss than 100 square mites is not covered by ice of. immense thickness.

"Confession'

Machine Invented

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JANUARY 18th

Mrs. Molly Nohreteae, of Seattle, Washington, using the "lie detector," an invention of August Vollmer, who is consultant of Pre- sident Hoover's Crime Commission. This machine was recently used to obtain a confession from a man who is now serving a Hío term as an habitual criminal. According to E. D. Colvin, prosecuting Attorney of Seattle, the machine was need on the prisoner for eight hours before a confession came,

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Lieutenant Marshall A. Bogga, of Hempstead, L.I., engineering Instruc- tor for the Department of Commerca, narrowly escaped death when his thirty-two-passenger plane crashed intó a house at Mineola, LI, "The plano was the largest built in America and weighed more than six and a half.

Leonard Keeler, left, expert, and Ewing Colvin, prosecutor, centred, explaining to Heiry Agnew, santed, the working of the 11q- detector machine which is an invention of August Vollmer, a member of President iHoover's Crime Commission, Agnaw is attorney for Dezasto Ear) Mayer, the man who was subjected to the machine for six or eight hours daily, for,'many days until a confession was ob tained from him regarding the murder of James E. Bassett, which took place last year. Kesler supervised the working of the machine. during the experiment with Mayer. The machine, also known as the pneumo-cardio-sphygmometer, consists of two leather plates which go under the arms on either side of the breast and a chain which Golds them bi plega from the back. A rubber tube, is wižand around. the art to register blood pressure. (Inset) Decasto Earl Mayer, from whom machine is said to have wrung a confession.

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