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Traveling most of the way around the world for war duty with Britain, William B. Leeds licit), tin plate millionaire, and his socialite friend, Benjamin Finney. Jr.. are shown as they left San Francisco by plane, kcund for Mombassa. East Africa. There they will serw with the unit of fifteen ambularces which Leeds donated to the British. (Central Pre#* French Artistry in Quebec Bourgault. a wood carver famous in Canada for his religious subjects, is shown in Quebec putting the finishing touches on a symbolic figure of the French peilu turning homeward in defeat after war. (Central FressQ, Map Legion Convention The vanguard of the American Legion arrives in Boston to prepare for the veterans' national convention there. The earlycomers are Frank E. 5>amue!, national adjutant, and Mrs. Verna B. Grimm, librarian. Both art from Indianapolis, Ind. (Central Press) Queen Comforts Bomj Widow Queen Elizabeth tries to comfort .Mrs. O'Connor, grief-sri;*;. ;,y i- /.szi bomb which fell on her South London home and took the lives of her hus« band, sister and nephew. The queen's home, Buckingham Palace, also has been bombed. (Central PreitM Capital Pays Bankhead Tribute C. /'. I'honcphoto The casket containing the body of Speaker of the House William B. Bankhead, of Alabama, is borne into the National Capitol to lie in stat« during services in the House chamber. Camp Dix Cocktail ... ............ V. MWS(o»;.v BMNSHiUi WMMO/ v! !• V • acssfi Pnvate Samuel Roccabollc, one of the first National Guardsmen to bo mobilized, gets a drink from one of the water bags at Camp Dix, N. J., where at least 20,000 men are expected to be stationed as Guards vv r. receive their year's training in the regular army. (Central Press) Beauty Mricken Gordyne Sedgwick This photo of lovely Gordyne Sedg wick was made recently when she was named beauty queen of the New York State Fair at Syracuse. Today ihe is in an iron lung at Bellevue Hospital, New York, victim of a rare form of infantile paralysis. She had come to New York on a prize trip. (Central Press) Wife Preservers l—I— n II 9-2Q [ A damp cloth dipped in whiting rubbed gently over finger-smeared places on the paint around door handles will remove the soil without making the paint thin. Rinse with clear water and dry. U. S. Muscle Man mm HETT™ John B. Kelly John B. Kelly, 51, physical culture exponent, is attempting to obtain services, of the nation's foremost sportsmen in his program to "toughen up" Amci'icans for na tional defense. The former world's champion oarsman, from Philadel phia, received the assignment lirect from the President to direct civilian physical training. Saved St. Paul's Lieut. R. Davies A member of the Royal Canadian Engineers, Lieut. R. Davies, 45, di rected thev "suicide squad" which worked four days and nights to extricate a one-ton German time bomb buried in a street near St. Paul's Cathedral and threatening to demolish the famous structure. The bomb later was exploded harm lessly in a swamp. (Central Press) Wife Preservers | gqeo.gi-eeK. 9-V6 QUI If the back of your spoon sticks when you flatten drop cookies with it, take ft small oiled silk cover used to cover food in the refrigerator, slip it over the bottom of a water glass, dampen it and press th* cookies flat with it. DE/M2- MOAhl^DO ALL E^iPLOrEES OF A 1 KRAUT FACTORY look: SOUR- picj-tAEO DOVJO (Sl-ENPON, N.C, C?E/\f2- HOAH= IF SATAN LOST MIS TAIL., COULD HE C5EIT ANOTHEE. WHEE-E THEY R-ETAIL_ SPIRITS T CTim/vue: beentwoe-tM ERIE., PAj send a h&w idea a pay TO NCW. l"' 1 t»i*«iii...ir'* l> ktnr Sjrftiml*. Inc. DEAR. NOAM = WHAT KIND OP FUEL. DOES AN INDIAN BURN To KEEP HI-3 WIG WA/V\ ? R£3AO.IN<S IKE. OAfB-SON CITY, NEV, DEAR. NOAH = IS BABT A WEATHER. PROPHET WHEN HE CRIE1S BECAUSE fT 1-3 DAMP AND CLOUDr ? CUE.TIS MAE-TIN-PEl-Ug:V)U_E:< (IL. A\AIL_ Youe NOTICES Ttt NOAH — Distributed by IfPrtftTM C.-JltcV*, ?»*•. 20 Hurt in Maryland Crash C. P. Phonephoto Twenty persons were injured when this bus collided with a truck on the Philadelphia Road about 15 miles north of Baltimore. Charles Devitt, driver oi the bus, said the truck stopped suddenly, forcing him to swerve, and that the bus skidded. H mmrr-v* f <S' -* --V-: it ^ - *>Jy YoO y "( Yoo&-' ^ m. DEAR. KCAH SAD CAsf. r •-.- - BURM MAKE. y- . VE1RTA-BRAEI - y ''/ES P/-1 A-r CrfAl! 1''V DEAR. HCAH r- IP /> PEi£SOM ATE. A /VET'* • OF GOOSE FFTATl ir ?->* WOULD HE. B>E1 Do .• -i IN "the: Mouth *v PUTH BERGS1ftc/v\ CKLA. CIT f, OK LA Wins in New Mexico Son. Dennis Chavez Contesting for the Dem'.iei-at!c ?*r\ atorial nomination, St.:. /or I). • :.is Chavez piled up a small but con clusive margin over Repr-itm iv« John J. Dempsev. at Albivj! - N. M. Dempsey declare! i 151 agents were investigating the primary. British "Calling Card" Dropped in Gernw The Gorman caption on this picture says this is one of the incendiary disks which have been ! • ■ large quantities on the Reich by R.A.F. pilots. Split open, the card reveals a self-ignitimr phi'^'Wois: mixture. The cards act as miniature delayed fire-bombs, which spring into flames alter they ar ■ <;i; ; causing destruction to crops and other property. Photo radioed from Berlin to New York. Heart of Berlin Bombed by ontisn risers c. r> " rJ This crater was blasted in Berlin's Unter den Linden by a British bomb during the K.A.I' . .. , s on the German capital. In background is the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of the city. v admit the gate and the old Reichstag Building were both hit by bombs. London also clan:- ^ the Potsdam Railroad Station in the ccnter of Berlin, Photo wa& flashed b& rauiio
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