New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1930, Page 26

By means of this co sending and rec modern airmail- can keep in touch W stations and likewise tz ground by turni the instrum: T R S NN N N S SEAPLANE VISITS ENGLAND — The huge DO-X, largest seaplane in the v bservation tower of Calshot upon its arrival in England from Am- sterdam, Holland. “MR. A" CONF ng the round tat Maharajah of Kashm RS—One of the most picturesque figures attend- conference on India, in London, has been the | Singh or “Mr. A" He g a sensational blackmail i world-wide at ion. He is nd is vn, right. MODEST MAN—A marine insurance man, who refused to give his name to the press, makes a perilous journey via breeches buoy to the freighter Harry Bowen, on the rocks off Montauk Point, L. L. BEDS FOR WEARY SOULS—These beds—1,500 of them—in- «talled by the New York department of public welfare, are taking care of impoverished wanderers at East Twenty-fifth street pier. Superintendent Joseph Mannix is seen supervising installation. T — FIRST LADY VISITS SO > Herbert Hoover recently put aside social duties, in Washington, to visit her son, Herbert, Jr., who is recuperating from a tubercular infection in Asheville, N. C. She is seen here Fred L. Seely, Jr., of Asheville, a son of a friend of the Hoovers. CHECKS ON 70,000 STARS— Professor Frederick H. Seares of the Mt. Wilson Observatory. Uni- sity of California, completing years' study of celestial spaces, has counted and classified approximately 70,000 stars. HOME RUN KING HOME— Lewis R. (Hack) Wilson, of the Chicago National league team, home run king, makes the final run of the season to his home in Martinsburg, W. Va,, following a vaudeville tour. He is shown with 20-inch trophy presented to him by proud townsmen. G5 o LEARNING HISTORY FIRST HAND—Bluejackets from the U. S. S. Northampton gaze at Italy’s famous Bridge of Sighs, in Venice. the prisons across the way. ten were obliged to cross the span. It was built, in the sixteenth century, to join the ducal palace with Prisoners tried before the council of Their sighs of utterly abandoned hope gave it its name.