Scenes and Persons in the Current News
1 ? Gen. John J. Pershing delivering the principal address on Memorial day In Arlington national cemetery, Washing
ton. li ? Admiral Joseph M. Reeves, commander-in-chief of the United States fleet, being decorated by "Neptune" as the
battleship Pennsylvania crossed the equator, the sea queen standing by. 3 ? Jean Trowbridge of Stuart, Iowa, winner
of the national spelling bee In Washington, receiving plaques for herself and her school from Dean George B. Woods of
American university. %
In the Scroll Case at Norris Dam
This scroll case at the Norrls dam In Tennessee forms the lower end of
. the penstock or tube which conducts water from Norrls lake to the turbines of
the power plant The swirling water will pass through the wicket Elites or
valves to the right of the workman, and thus into the turbines. There are two
of these scrolls at the Norrls dam, one for each generator.
Count Potocki
Is Newly Selected
Envoy of Poland
Count George I'otockl, Poland's new
ly appointed ambassador to tbe United
States, who arrived on the new motor
liner Batorj's maiden voyage. The
count Is an Oxonian, a big-time hunt
er and a member of one of the most
Illustrious families In Poland. He Is
popular with American sportsmen,
man; of whom he has entertained on
his extensive hunting preserves at
Lancut, In southern Poland.
Lindbergh Minnesota Estate to Be State Park
Flyer's Early Home
Will Become Shrine
Honoring Air Feats
On the ninth anniversary of Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh's non stop flight
to Paris, WPA announced Its final plan
for the project to make the Lindbergh
estate at Little Falls, Minn., a state
park at an expenditure of $23,777. The
residence Is shown at right
Scorn* Shorter Nam*
Boise, Idaho.? Although his name is
Ed OarrognerrlcaecheTarrla, a Boise
barber born in Spain, didn't ask to
hare It changed when he applied for
final citizenship papers here recently.
Young Priests Ordained by Cardinal O'Connell
With Cardinal O'Connell celebrating the ordination maas 37 graduate* of St John's Ecclesiastical seminary were or
dalned In the Cathedral of the Heljr Croaa, Boston. The photograph, tafcen during the aolemn service, ahowa the new
priests before the altar. The cardinal can be seen sested In tbe center officiating at the maas. Following tbe ordination
ceremonies the yonng priests were assigned to parishes In the dloces*
Village Built for the Olympic Athletes
Ad aerial view of tbe Olympic village which has been completed on Berlin's outskirts, where the athletes from all
over tbe world will be housed during tbe forthcoming Olympic games.
New Cruiser Vincennes Is Launched
The actaal launching of the new United States cruiser Vlncennes, at the
Fore River plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation in Qulncy, Mass.,
Is pictured above. The 10,000-ton vessel was christened by Miss Harriet Vir
ginia Kimmell, daughter of the mayor of Vlncennes, Ind.
Garage Employee
Is Discoverer
of Newest Comet
Leslie C. Peltier, garage employee of
Delphos, Oblo, who discovered the first
new comet to be found this year. Pel
tier, who is one of the leading amatenr
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astronomers of the world and Is thirty
two years old, has discovered five com
ets. The new comet Is of the ninth
magnitude, risible through small tele
scopes, and is moving slowly through
the north heavens near the pole.
MARRYING THE SEAS
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Rltnal of "marriage" of the Baltic
to Uie American side of tbe Atlantic
being performed In upper New York
bay as the new Gdynia-America motor
liner Batory arrived on her maiden
voyage from Gdynia, Poland.
Helen Hays Receives a Medal
Helen Haya, who plays the title role In "Victoria Reglna," receiving from
Daniel Prohman, veteran theatrical producer, the Delia Austrian medal for
distinguished acting. The award was made at a luncheon of the Drama League
of New York.
CCC Workers Fighting New Jersey Forest Fire
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Members of Company 12SM of the Civilian Conservation corpa shown starting backfires to help check the spread of
the main blue which devastated more than 80 squire mile* of pine woodland near Tuckerton, N. J. It was In starting
on* of the** backfire* that Ave'CCC y oaths were horned to death and nln other* were Injored. .
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American
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By Elmo Scott Watson
"She-Money"
A MONO bank-tellers two-dollar bill*
are known as "she money." To
most people they're a synonym for
"bad luck." This superstition Is usual
ly attributed to race-track men and la
said to go back about a half century.
According to one story, a certain
bookie lost everything but bis shoes
on the races and traced his bad luck
to the day when he wagered a two
dollar bill on a certain horse. That
story got around and soon all race
track men began believing that these
bills were Jonahs.
Another story traces It back to
Pythagoras who more than 2,500 years
ago declared : "The number two Is the
symbol of diversity, or Inequality, of
division and of separation. Two is an
evil principle, a number of bad au
gury, characterizing disorder, confu
sion and change."
Anyway, few people like to be
given a two-dollar bill. The excep
tions are paymasters in mills, factories,
etc., who pay wages such as $12, $14
and the like. A paymaster who pays
off a lot of $12-a-week workers can
save himself a lot of extra motion by
reaching for a $2 bill Instead of two
ones to add to the $10 bill or two
fives. In fact, with 1,000 workers he
saves Just 1,000 extra motions. So pay
masters are about the only people who
ask for these bills at banks.
Few banks will give you $2 notes un
less you ask for them. One reason is
that they are easily confused with $1
bills and handed out as such. That's
why they're called "she money" ? they
confuse you and cost you money!
Annoyances
WHAT annoys you most? If your
reactions are similar to those of
more than 200 people examined by Hul
sey Cason, professor of psychology at
the University of Rochester, the most
annoying thing that can happen to you
It to have a person cough In your face.
Next Is the sight of a dirty bed, next
Is to hear a mosquito near you when
you are trying to go to sleep and the
others. In the order of their importance,
are:
A young person showing disrespect
for a much older person.
Flies.
A person continually complaining
about something.
To have a hole In your stocking or
sock.
A person continually criticizing some
thing.
A salesman trying to force yoo to
boy something.
A person behaving as if he (or she)
thinks he (or she) knows It alt
A person being inquisitive about
yonr personal affairs.
To be disconnected while talking
over the telephone.
To have to wait for a person who la
late for an engagement.
To hear a person eating soup noisily.
A person continually talking about
his (or her) Illnesses.
To see a boisterous person attract
ing attention to himself (or herself) In
public.
A person giving you a good deal of
advice when you have not asked him
(or her) for It
A person putting his (or her) hands
on you unnecessarily.
Buffalo Trackers
THE buffalo have long since vanished
from east of the Mississippi bat the
state of Indiana has three official "buf
falo trackers." They are George R.
Wilson of Indianapolis, John Chappell
of Petersburg and Lew O'Bannon of
Corjdon, appointed by the governor of
the Hoosler state, complying with an
act to search for "the buffalo trace"
leading from the Ohio to the Wabash
so that the trail may become a state
memorial.
The law says that the buffaloes, in
their periodic migrations from the Ohio
to the Wabash, made a trace that was
used by Indians, explorers and pioneers
and It "should be preserved as a lasting
memorial to the daring and notable
achievements of the pioneer settlers of
the state." Messrs. Wllaon, Chappell
and O'Bannon have the power to ad
minister oaths and compel the attend
ance of witnesses, even though It Is
doubtful if anyone who saw the move
ments of the buffalo Is alive today.
Anyway, the commissioners are to
use any means In their power to de
termine the exact route of the vanished
herds and make a report to the gov
ernor, accompanied by maps and draw
ings. The trace will then be taken
over by the highway department and
Indiana's "buffalo trackers." the only
officials uf the W!nd"Tinbe country, will
fallow their ghostly game Into oblivion.
C Western Newspaper Union.
RICHES IN OLD STOCKINGS
"To my sister-in-law, I bequeath four
old stockings which are under my bed
to the right" So runs an Item In the
will of the famous old miser. Tolam.
"To my nephew, Tarles, two more old
stockings ; to Lieut. John Stone, s bine
stocking and my red clock ; to my cous
in, an old boot, and a red flannel
pocket ; to Hammlck. my Jug without a
handle." According to this anybody can
write a will, for the poorest of us have
old stockings. In the story of Tolam,
however, Hammlck kicked over the Jug
and found It to be filled with gold
pieces. The old stockings were crammed
In a similar way. There Is the famous
clanse In Shakespeare's will reading:
"I gyve onto my wief my second best
bed, with the furniture, nothing else."