1925-05-18 — Page 10

Hongkong Telegraph 港電新報 士蔑新聞 All

Jackie Coogan's Brother.

Jackie Coogau, dimidutive film star, is now playing a now. rolo-big brother-to Robort Coogan, who arrived just five months ago.

Record Dive.

TELEGRAPH

MONDAY,

MAY 18, 1925.

Beauty Prize Winner.

Mdite. Suzy Vernon won first prize in a beauty contest conducted by 'a) French newspaper. She has appeared in moving pictures,

Shanghai Norwegians Gather.

U. S. Artillery Tests.

Here are shown the now developments infield artillery which are boing tried out at Fort Bragg, N. C. The photo shows the firing of one the new six-inch Bold, guns, with the smoke just breaking from the mouth of the gun.

Tons of Luck.

Willy Wolf, Polish diver, furnished. a thrill to thousands of French people by doing a dive from the Abridge over the River Seine at Rouen France, Ho planged a distanco of 180 feet, making his feat the highest dive ever done successfully,

Giant 'Plane

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Carrier.

Last month, a Shanghai division of the great Norwegian Union "Nordmands-Forludet" was founded at a meeting held at the Norweglan Consulate-General. This Union has about 50,000 membrs all over, the world, and more than 500 smaller Unions both in Norway and abroad are connected with it. A local committee was elected, consisting of the following (reading from left to right, front row):-Messrs. B, Herlofson, A Esk, F. Hoohako, O. Thoresen, E. Tollefson (Chairman of the Com- mittoo), H. Borante, Y. Utne, B. Rein, Th. Sigvaland, Acting Consul (Representative of the Hoad Union in Norway). Those standing, reading from left to right:-Messrs. S. E. Jensen, E. Hansen, H. E. Olson, A, Warild, H. Hovik, C. Blix, A. Feragen, A. LLorntson, A. Sorenson, A. Byo, B. Thams, H. Knoff, S. A. Brodtkorb, H. A. Anderson, J. Thorvig, Fr. Utne. One member of the committee, C. J. Josefsen, was absent.

Not Exactly Dignified."

Here is a firm which believes in advertising, and believes that horseshoes are lucky. Several years ago Julian and Trump, blacksmiths of Greenville, IL, began piling up the old horse shoes taken from animals. The chimney-like heap. contains thousands of shoes and woighs several tona.

Well Whiskered.

The U.S.S. Saratoga is shown just after hor launching

at Cainden, N. J., with the airplanes for which she is to be a mother ship flying overhead in greeting. Inset shows hor as aho left the way. Tho Saratoga is the longest naval vessel in the world, with a length of 889 foot, boam 105 foot and 74 foot doop. displacing 35,000 tons. Six great electric motors developing 180,000 h.p. enough onergy to supply a city of 1,000,000, will drive her by means of six great pro- pellors at a spood of 33 lenots por hour. She is capable of handling 72 airolance, which can be ropairod and refuelled,

nd then take off and land on her spacious docks,

Governor Smith, of New York, climbs the cutter to the side of s.8. Leviathan, to greet his wife on her return to Now York. What with the rocking of the two and with the ladder moving up and down, the task is not as easy as it looks,

Porter F. Booth, English railway worker at Knaresboro, boasts the longest) moustache in captivity. It measures more than a foot from tip to tip. Many people journey to Knaresboro just for a look".

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