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Pictures show! Top (left) Mrs. A. Ricketts pinning a Flandera poppy to a contributor to the charity fund of the United Services' Association; at the right in group gathered outside the Cathedral after the Memorial Service. In the con. tre, Brig. General E. B. Machaghton is seen de- livering an address at the Cenotaph. Lower picture shows Mr, H. E. Arnhold placing the wreath of the S. M. C. on the Cenotaph.

Camel Express Will Live Again In United States

JUST FOR THE PHILATELISTS

Los Angeles, Nov. 20. Long-limbed camels, descended from desert "Camel mail" carriers of the 1850's, will take on a load of mail at famed Fort Tejon, in the Tehachapi mountains, this month, and lug it to this city-all for the sake of stamp fiends.

Philatelists of Southern California have arranged the unique revival of the old "Camel Express" which came from San Antonio, Tex., to Bakersfield, Calif., shortly before the Civil war.

Letters carried by "Camel mall" | Monterey, Mexico. One of the from Fort Tejon will be remailed most disastrong break downs of with special stamps as part of the "Camel mail" occurred in the National Philatelists' week--to all | black canyon in Arizona, when the parts of the country, thus acquir- “Camel express" ran into a mule- ing peculiar worth in the mindstruin, driven by Dave Murdock, of stamp addicts.

now a rancher in the black canyon.

The camel caravan will take of from Fort Tejon to-morrow and

Los Angeles.

Mules and horses, as Comman- der-Denle--discovered,became

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Kidnapping Threats In Chicago

New York, Nov. 15. Mr. Harold F. McCormick, the Chicago magnate who owns the International Harvester. Com- pany millions, is under police protection following threats that if he does not immediately pay £6,000 he will be kidnapped,

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travel over modern highways to goofy and unmanageable at the the writer of the notes is either "a

The long-legged desert lopers, Ing to experts on camels, the first

first whiff of a camel--and accord-one welf" or an agent of a power-

ful gang of extortionera.

The smallness of the sum de- BOW at Drum Barracks. Fort whilf is only a hint of what is to manded inclines them to the be- Tejon, supposedly are descendants come.

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country from Arabia by Jefferson Murdock's mulés smelled the the threats. Davis, president of the Con- camels, and as Murdock explained, The letters were posted. from federacy, several years before the "all hell broke loose. My mules post office close to the Harvester civil war.

junipod out of their traces, turn-factory and the telephone calls Commander Frederick Scale leded over the wagon and last I see were all in the same voice. the first and only-transcontin- was the lead team, still neek-yok-j Police tried to trap the threaten- ental camel caravan from Texas to ed, chargin' down on a clump of er by informing him that the Calfornia. Subsequently remnants captus."

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