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Memorial brought a check of SSOO to William L. Drake, Jr., of Mil
waukee, Wis. The check was presented to young Drake in the White :
£ ous *\ £ hot °S ra Ph shows, left to right, Mrs. Henry L. Doherty, who
donated the prize; William Drake, receiving the award from President
Roosevelt; Admiral Carey T. Grayson and Senator F. Ryan Duffy of
Wisconsin. The essay contest was the eighth annual In memory of Maj.
.Gen. William C. Gor*as.
Their Invention Aids the Law
William B. Spooner (left) and Frank F. Heitzler, both of Boston, the
inventors of a new third dimension diamond camera by the use of which
photographs can be made through a diamond to show all defects and
cuts so that a stolen stone can he identified in a matter of minutes by
police departments, are shown. Without their camera it is impossible
to make a positive identification of a stone after it has been in use for
•any time. The diamond is recorded in much the same way that finger
.prints are recorded.
America’s First Aerial Tramway
A diagram showing one of the cars of the type which will be in use
'.over the first aerial tramway in North America, which will be con
structed up the side of Cannon mountain, about a mile and a quarter
'from the famous “Old Man of the Mountain,” in New Hampshire. Cars
like the one shown will carry 25 passengers at a time up the side of the
mountain ir six minutes. The tramway is expected to be completed
about July 1, 1938.
Russ Airmen in Epic Flight to U. S.
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Above, the rea-winged single-motored monoplane which brought three
Russian flyers from Moscow to Vancouver, Wash., via the North pole in a
non-stop flight taking 63 hours. Left to right are shown Alexander Delia
kov, navigator, Valeria Chkalov, pilot. George Qaid.vtk.ov, co-pilot.
PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO. N. C
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Mrs. Mary Norton, congress
woman from New Jersey who has
become the first woman to hold a
chairmanship of a house committee.
She recently accepted the chairman
ship of the house labor committee.
She was elected to congress in 1924,
the first Democratic congresswom
an. She was also the first to in
troduce a resolution for repeal of
the prohibition amendment.
CINCINNATI MANAGER
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Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, who re
cently accepted appointment as city
manager of Cincinnati. Colonel
Sherrill was formerly president of
the American Retail federation. He
will succeed C. A. Dykstra, who re
signed to become president of the
University of Wisconsin.
BRITISH GOLF CHAMP
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A close-up of Robert Sweeny,
handsome Anglo-American,with the
cup emblematic of the British ama
teur golf championship which he re
cently won in a 36-hole final match
with fifty-year-old Lionel Munn at
Sandwich, England. The twenty
five-year-old American-born Lon
doner won by three and two.
STRIKE MEDIATOR
Charles P. Taft, son of the late
hies justice of the Supreme court,
ho is one of the members of the
iiree-man mediation board appoint
:d by the U. S. Labor department
it President Roosevelt’s direction to
>rlng about peace in the steel in
lustry. The other members are
Lloyd K. Garrison, dean of the
law school of the University of Wis
consin and Edward McGrady, as
sistant secretary of labor and the
department’s ace trouble shooter.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
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I—Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., pictured before the joint house-senate "committe*
investigating federal tax evasion. 2—Workers of the Bethlehem Steel company’s plant at Cambria, Pa., 1
leaving the premises after Governor Earle ordered state martial law during the steel strike. 3—Premier Paul
Van Zeeland of Belgium, who was a recent visitor to the United States. I
Frederick B. Snite, Jr., of Chicago inside the “iron lung,” or respirator in which he was brought from
China. Stricken with infantile paralysis more than a year ago while on a world cruise, young Snite owes his
life to the iron lung. He has been brought to the United States for treatments which, it is hoped, may result
in his eventual recovery. . '*■'
Ten of the thirteen children of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fifield of East Thompson, Conn., who recently becama
tht proud parents of their sixth set of twins in little more than a decade. The first set of twins, a boy and 1
a girl, were born in 1926. Twin girls followed in 1928 and 1929. Another mixed set came in 1932; twin*boyi'
m 1935 and the current boy and girl recently. Picture shows ten of the thirteen children in the Fifield famliy,!
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Scene at the recent world’s heavyweight championship fight in Chicago, as Champion. Jim Braddock sinks
to the canvas under the knockout blows of Challenger Joe Leu's in the eighth round. Inset shows the new
champioi after his victory. Only twenty-three years old, Louis has been in the professional ring three years,'
SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1937