Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1924, Page 17

Dr. 1. A. Jagger, director of the Hawaiian volcano observatory, who made a personal study of the Japanese earthquake, now in Wash- ington. National Photo. Zella Lynch, a Washington girl, ... 4 mer pupil of Stafford Pembertor, who has a prominent part in HEAVIEST AND MOST POWERFUL GUN OF ITS KIND. United States Army experts ini is newe 5 Thite's %S, - A .S ) MOS 2 1 S ND. § es Army experts are of the opinion that this newest w bu_ars_«.‘i‘huc s “Scandals.” a local death-dealing instrument in the world. It is capable of hurling an armor-piercing projectile of 15360 pounds a distance e Slear, Frte: It ‘can be mounted on wheeled carriages and drawn along railway tracks and it i« handied by electric sver (0 MACHINE MAKES PHOTO AT DISTANCE OF FIVE MILES. The Duke of Sutherland, undersecretary of the British air force (at right), inspecting th newest high-altitude camera developed by Sherman M. Fairchild and the United States Army service. The camera makes a perfect picture at a distance of five milee. Cant. M. G. Christie, air attache of the Br embassy, in center. and Mr, Fairchild at left. B i o g WHEN A ONEMAN STREET CAR RAN WILD. The car left the tracks at 1lth and K streets yesterday o after it collided with a taxicab; then it hit this automobile and halted after knocking down a tree. This v i e machine was owned by O. R. Donohue of 1017 K street northwest. Washiagton Star Photo. ARMY CHAPLAIN RETIRES AFTER LONG SERVICE. Rev. Edmund Banks Smith, chaplain of Governors Island for the past twenty years, retiring from the service yesterday. He is bidding farewell to Col. Charles Gerbardt. = Wide World Photo, - ; z ; ~ 2 VEET % HE WILL TRY TO LAND ON FIRPO. Farmer Lodge. Minnesota o ! heavyweight, leaving New York for Argentina, where he meets Luis Angel Firpo in a fistic encounter. Lodge is to receive $3,000 and ex- penses, which_include an installment for all funeral arrangements. His manager, Fred Scars, at left. By Cnited News Pletures Miss Emily A. Holden, the first woman sea-going _stenographer. She hits the keys aboard the steam- ship Aquitania, even when the waves are high and the ship rolls. L. Plemmons has charge of the new station at 17th street and Rhode Island avenue northeast. Fifty- By Capitol Photo Service. Wide World Photo. WASHINGTON'S NEW POLICE STATION, OPENED ON NEW YEAR. Capt. C. one men answer to the daily roll call, and the lieutenant is €. H. Bremerman. ENGAGEMENT TO CHAMPION IS ANNOUNCED. Miss Mary Peck, now at Miami, Fla,, whose engagement to Gene Sarazen, champion golfer, has been announced. Sarazen, some time ago, was reported en- gaged to Pauline Garon, movie star. Wide World Photo. MAKING A DRIVE ON THE “WETS.” A heartfoheart talk at the Capitol between two “dry” members of Congress—Thomas L. Blanton . UNCOVER BOAT BURIED ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO. The hull of this ancient boat was HE LIFTS A MOTORDROME WITH EASE: Sigmund Brcitbart, a Polish strong man, giving a private ex- hibition of his strength on the stage of the New York. Hippodrome. He supported a motor track weigh- G et Williorm D, U e G partly_uncovered by New York workmen Saturday while excavating for the New York telephone build- Copyrgint by Underwood & Underwood. de nails hold the timbers together. It is estimated that the boat is.at least 150 years old. ing 3,500 pounds, en his B Wide' World Phote, York witnessed the stunt. o The motordrome is thirty feet in diameter, Ncwu‘plg‘r‘. mvel::fl‘ol' New /