Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1924, Page 16

FEBRUARY 13, 1924, St T ‘WHERE WALLS WERE BLASTED AND GUARDS SLAIN IN PRISON RIOT. The return of convicts caught following their escape from the Western Penitentiary, Pittsburgh. During a riot in the prison a deputy warden and a yard sergeant were killed in a desperate fight with the convicts, many of the latter escaping, only to be recaptured. By United News Pietures. LEAVING FOR NEW YORK. The President, Mrs. Coolidge and C. Bas- SECRETARY AND HIS GRANDCHILDREN. Secretary of War Weeks com Slemp, the President’s secretary, leaving the White House yes- with John and Martha Davidge, children of Mr. and Mrs. John W. terday for the Union station, where they took a speeial train for New Davidge. Mrs. Davidge is a daughter of the cabinet memb York City. Natlonal Photu Nationsl Photo. MEXICAN TROOPS PASS H THE UNITED STATES. En route to battle, this was the second detachment of federal troops of Mexi- ¢o to pass through a part of the United States. The photograph was taken at El Paso, Tex., when a move wa being made against the revolu- tionists just across the border. « ight by Underwood & Underwood. LOCAL GOLFER IS A CHAMPION. Chris J. Dunphy, member of Co- SRM PRESIDENT. Cyrus P. Keen. a Tumbia Country Club, who recently won the south Fiorida golf cham. e e Ame ee seeking to raise ten million dol- pionship, played over the Palm Beach Club’s course. : d German children, talking with President Ebert of Germany ! v Vorla. 1) rearding the work of the committee. Wide World Phote. Towa girl, Miss Helen H. Barker; re- cently awarded a_scholarship in Nehw York competition for the best g ;,:;,";g:,:";;g;:,':;:"':m;,}; CRUISER TACOMA ON ROCKS OUTSIDE VERA CRUZ. This recent photograph shows the Navy cruiser be- Tl inlaaTe ek ing dashed against a reef a short distance from the lighthouse of Vera Cruz harbor. The shi o s on the rocks and the captain and three radio men lost their lives. The v Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. can harbor when the accident happened. Coy Bust of Samuel Langhorne Clemens g 3 (Mark Twain) in the village of Y 2 Florida, Mo., near the little farm < L L ke house where the author was born. INTERIOR OF THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND'S DOLL HOUSE. Queen Mary has a royal palace, which is only S e five feet high, built on a scale of one inch to a foot. The house contains many rooms—this is a view of the ey Unlbcsiont A v i library—and it will be exhibited at Wembley Park, London, within the next few weeks, Wide World Fhoto. e v WASHINGTON SOPRANO IN POLAND. Miss Emma Redell, a_local INTERESTED IN. AN INTERNATIONAL . PEACE. Thesé women, Mie SHOWING THE BATTERED DECK OF ‘THE UNITED STATES CRUISER TACOMA. Smashed turrct and wreckage on the deck of the Navy's Elinid Prys and Mrs. Griffiths singer, who is spending the winger abroad, enjoying a sleigh ride at Pry of Wales, arrived in New. York - .- ship which went agronnd on a reef outside Vera Cruz harbor, Mexico. The captain of the vessel and three radio men lost their lives, and the i ian' Poland, Miss Bedell, who has appeared on the sta it i i Tatest ntio al-bravery of the commanding officer, who lost his ofin life in order that members of his crew might be saved.