New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1930, Page 18

Comet, owned by Ole ss and without a single person aboard, is exhibited at navy show, Portsmouth, England Graham of Hays, K: makes a sensational 115,000 persons in three day ts in two ye: UNUSUAL PHOTO OF POPE— This unusual photograph of Pope Pius XI shows him in civilian clothes when leaving the Vatican during a recent heat wave. ve sent water pouring over icken farmers. gan and rain ¢ to drough MAN RECORD-BREAKING PLANE—Robert Brown, left, radio announcer (wearing parachute) and Captain William 8. Brock, noted pilot, man record-breaking plane of Powel Crosley, Jr., in non-stop air derby from Los Angeles to Chicago, starting Aug. 27. Breck cstablished the present round-trip transcontinental record from Jacksonville, Fla., to San Diego, Cal., in this plane last June. Red Comet has won § T s FAIR COMPETITORS—The nation has been observing the flight of women flyers in the national air derby, from Los Angeles to Chicago. The competitors, left to right: Jean La Rene, of Chicago; Ruth W. Stewart, of St. Louis; Ruth Barron, of Hollywood, Cal.; Gladys O’Donnell, of Long Beach, Cal.; Mildred Morgan, of Beverly Hills, Cal.; Margery Doig, of Danbury, Conn. Miss O'Donnell and Miss Barron are holding baby Patsy Du Ree, of Long Beach, mascot. WHOSE BODY WAS BURIED?—George J. Packard, of Spring- field, Vt., with his first wife, Catherine, who disappeared more than a go and returned as he was on a honeymoon with an- other w nderment as to whose body Packard identi- fied at his wife's, and which was buried as hers. ENOUGH FOR A BANQUET!— Eight pounds of mushroom in one plant—that's the prize df John Casicllo of East Boston, Mass. The huge fungus was grown at Groton. 8 SCHOOLBOYS JOIN DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN—These schoolboys in Bom bay, India, remain away from school and form a procession calling for the boycott of forcign goods as a protest against’ British rule, MEXICAN CATHEDRAL REOPENED AFTER FOUR YEARS—This is an interior view of the Cath- olic cathedral in Mexico City, following its reopening with settlement of controversy between Mexican government and the church, ~a! PLANT * EATS BUGS — Miss Miriam McGurr of Salem, Mass., displays a carniverous plant which attracts insects by the gay colors of its blooms. The insect drops into a fluid which dissolves it into a palatable substance for the plant. WCULD SELL SELF—As a means of aiding her family, Miss Gertrude Schrader, 19, of Pitts- burgh, would “marry a man, 35, or under, of good character and good health who will pay her $8,000 in cash.” An eye injury has kept the girl's father out of work. She herself has been un- employed for five months. Miss Schrader is five feet, three inches tall, has chestnut brown hair and brown eyes. TROLLEY RACES PLANE—A speedy new type of interurban trolley car races a plane at 90 miles an hour near Dayton, 0. \\ IS IZISTZISEZ NS CZIS T ZIS T ZIS T ZIS 1T ZIS. 1T 78]