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4 TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN rORTLAXD, MAT 3, 1944. HIGH LIGHTS IN NEWS OF WORLD ARE CAUGHT BY CAMERA Revenue Cutter Seneca Finds Huge Icebergs President's Niece Appears in Suffragette Pageant Anne Morgan Pilots Working Girls on Visit to Steamer Imperator. mmmmrm. rm. . mm -mysal? - , ; If v , ' ' ' 'i ' - " f . A , f - . . : - ro kI-A - ; , , . . f - - - ; - - I - - - , - th-f f v-?? 2r 1 The United States revenue cutter I " . w ' S -B ' 'ff ' f f ' ' If .(t .. . fii: 1 1- ii mt M mdir n. ? rS-'i rf - 'Jl 4 i) . hi ti V: IfiU V - :f J . - - - i f v , - , , H t - I KW YORK, May 2, (Special.) The United States revenue cutter Seneca, which Is patrolling tbe Korth Atlantic, recently reported, two huge Icebergs moving: rapidly south ward In tbe path of ocean steamers at longitude 44:53 and latitude 48:28, and immediately sent out wireless danger i signals to all nearby steamers. From ! water-line to top, these icebergs rose to a height of over 125 feet, and the Beneca appeared nothing but a pigmy of tbe sea in comparison. The Gov ernment la using every precaution to vert another Titanic disaster. w Miss Margaret Vale, the- niece of rresident Wilson appeared In the suf fragette pageant at the 71st Regiment Armory here on the night of April 17. Three thousand friends of the cause turned out to see the woman's part in the life of this country, past, present and future, as presented under the auspices of the Men's League, for "Wo man Suffrage. m m Come pretty clever playing nixed with mighty fast work was the feature of the opening ot the practice games between the Red ana Blue, made up of some of the old guard of the polo team. Rapidly the players are getting into trim, so that they may be pre pared when the time comes for choos ing the make-up of the team which will meet the crack players from Britain, who are practicing In Spain, in anticipation of a bard tussle. A statue of William Pitt, First Earl f Chatham, is to be presented to the Capitol at Washington by a committee of prominent American women living in England. The Idea originated with Lady Arthur Paget and associated with tier are the Duchess of Marlborough, Mrs. Hungerford Mackay. Mrs. Louise W. Carnegie, Mrs. Iloadly Dodge, Mrs. Frederick Guest, Mrs. Ava Astor. Mrs. Mary Harcourt and Mrs. Ceceline W. Paget. -The sculptor selected was Der went Wood, whose father, Alpheus Baylies Wood, was an American sub- Sect. He Is a descendant of Kzektel Wood, born In London, who emigrated to the United States in 1715. Mr. Wood has done a great deal of sculptural work for the Henry Phlpps house in Fifth avenue, and the bronze gates leading to his courtyard are Mr. Wood's work. Miss Anne Morgan's pet philanthropy Is the organisation Known as the va cation savings fund. Fully 2000 girls whose salaries range, irom is to 130 & week, and who are taxpayers or de positors In this fund, accompanied Miss Morgan recently as she piloted them about the big Bteamer Imperator. Never before has the great vessel s decks re sounded to the tramp, of the feet of so many pretty girls as followed In the wake of the "Ulg tolster," as Miss Mor gan led them about on the tour of in tipectlon. In the two years of exist ence 1128,000 bas been saved by th 16.000 girl members and 196,000 has been drawn for vacations. The average deposits are not far from 12200 per week. The Headquarters or the Vaca tion Association is at 88 West Thirty ninth street, where there Is & restau rant and all the accessories that go toward the comfort and happiness of the members, and here at the weekly dances Miss Morgan, the treasurer of the organization, may be seen in regu lar attendance, enjoying herself as thoroughly as do the girl members themselves. The taxpayers are the girls who pay 11 a year for the privi lege of using the headquarters of the organization as a special center for themselves, and the depositors are the girls who put aside In the savings fund what they want to save toward their annual vacation. Moving pictures of tbe girls and Miss Morgan were made, and these were shown at the ball given by the organization April SO. exhibition of surgical apparatus and The International Surgical Associa.- appliances. Tbe Inventor of n artitl- tion met recently in New York andicial arm demonstrated its effectiveness some of the most famous surgeons in in his own case. Though be nad only a the world were in attendance. Part of five-inch stump left on one of bis arms, each day's session was devoted to the I be was able with the artificial member Wanicarz ZJa7ic -force., Cjocr) of r J- City, Col. I prise 15 miles of trackage. The station was designed by Jarvis Hunt, of Chi cago, who drew the plans for the new Union passenger station at Kansas City . and the general passenger terminals at Chicago. The work on it Is to be com- I pleted in 18 months. The station will be 283 feet long with a depth of 135 feet. A bridge will carry the passen gers over the tracks to their trains. Arrangements have been made so that the capacity of the station can be doubled by additions at any tlmo. The sealing steamer Newfoundland, of St. Johns, N. F.. according to report brought in by the steamship Florazel, of the Red Cross line, which arrived here with 50 rescued sealers, was lost n the blinding blizzard that swept the coast recently. The men who were lost were far from the ship itself. In the ice floes In search of the seal which abound here at this time. The steamer Bellaventure is bringing in another So survivors and 58 bodies. It Is feared that the Southern Cross, from which- no word has been received, has also been lost with all aboard. Mayor Lois Weber, one of the few women Mayors in the world, presented a medal to her Chief of Police, the only female police chief in the world, in the presence of the 25 members of the female police force. This is the orig inal, bonafide. "woman's sphere." where women do all the bossing and where mere man is just tolerated that's all; Just tolerated. There probably is no other town In the world where all the officials mayor, chief of police, alder men and corporation counsel are wom en. Universal City, or the City of the Movies, is-located about five miles from Los Angeles. Its population is made up of actors who build tue Universal Film pictures, and was incorporated under tbe laws of the state, soon after the women of California won the fran chise. The '.'queens" of the movies were not slow to grasp the opportunity and nominated such a strong ticket that at the elections, the male ticket was sim ply annihilated, and Miss Lois Weber was elected, to fill the Mayor's office. Miss Stella Adams is the beautiful Chief of Police. The uniform of the women police force consists of caps, blouses. short skirts and black sun stocKings with 13 gold buttons down the side. It is said that the young police women are doing a thriving business in selling souvenir buttons. Great Britain is hurrying ships toward Rio da Janeiro to protect Brit ish interests during the progress of the revolution which is now going on In Brazil. to cro through the motions necessary for eating and drinKing. writing nis name, lighting a cigarette, buttoning his shoes, picking a coin from the floor and holding a traveling bag so tightly that two men could not pull It from his arraso. A mechanical respiration appa ratus similar to those used by the Gov ernment to restore life to partly Buffo cated persons was demonstrated on i living subject. Dallas. Texas, is constructing a 5.- 000.000-dollar terminal and station. The building alone will cost 1950,000. The terminal will be used by all tbe rail roads which enter Dallas, It will com Black Tulip Jfarly Accomplished. LONDON, May 2. A black tulip, which has been a dream of horticul turists ever since Dumas wrote of such a mythical flower, has been nearly realized. At the flower show in Hor ticultural Hall a specimen of tulip has been shown which has such s, dark plum color that It might at first glance be mistaken for a black flower. Its growers declare they will be able to exhibit a specimen almost coal black next year. The first flag to fly through tli Panama Canal will be that th Daughters of th Ajuerlc&a - Revolution.