Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1931, Page 96

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.—GRAVURE SECTION—JUNE 7, 1931 Looking down and looking up—as the Nation’s fighting planes passed over the Arlington Memorial Bridge during the great Memorial day demonstration of the Army Air Corps armada. ©Associated Press and Underwood & Underwood Photos. Lou Schneider, one-time Indian- apolis, Ind., motor cycle cop, who won the 500-mile automobile race there on Memorial day. It meant about $40,000 in prize money to him. . CAssociated Press Phote. Fort Myer, Va., boasts the first mounted Boy Scout troop. Patricia Hurley, 10-year-old daugh- . ter of Secretary of War Hurley, is seen presenting A squadron of Army bombers s the troop colors to Curtis George, son of Maj. casting their shadows on the Potomac X v '] George and grandson of Vice President Charles . Cmis. # ©Underwood & Underwood. as they fly in the massed Air Corps maneuvers here of nearly 700 planes. ©Associated Press Photo. President Hoover delivering his : ' ; Memorial day address to a great : i 3 2 > . throng at Valley Forge, Pa. The s - G ; p : > President called upon the Nation . , g~ A { L g i ¢ to lift itself out of the present & “ r ' ’:u Lk K J 3 “Valley Forge” of economic de- s P - - pression by courage, patience and The balloon which took two German scientists to the highest altitude ever reached by man—more \ than 52,000 feet, according to their instruments. ©Wide World Photos. : ’ ? d My word! Even the ladies are At right: Prof. Auguste Piccard (right) and his % '3 wmun::.gmtthfimnghge:::u?::r:; assistant, Charles Kipfer, who made the record-break- ! E with a perfectly good monocle ing balloon flight to study the stratosphere. They X \ 2 poised in her right eye. She wore the padded baskets as a protection against R e ; e to see the joke, OAssociated Press Photo. head injuries. ©Wide World Photos. T