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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1920)
TnE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 13;: 1920 A NEWS or WW? .;3?1 'tega M l 1, - . - ! .-1 -.1 UnderwoodtY h SSaw iaiar!ra4iMwiiiMmHMMMi null linn jasacacjr-afcgfcw 1, k S . 1fl J K X WORLD 3 SZENBY:ftWZRA THE L. W. F. "Giant," said to be the largest airplane ever built in America, hecently made a success ful trial flight at Mitchel field, L. I. It Is a biplane equipped with three 12 cylinder Liberty motors, providing a total of 1200 horsepower. It is 106 feet wide from wing tip to tip and has two bodies, each 50 feet long, and a large nagelle in the center capable of accommodating four men. It can remain in the air 16 hours and main tain a speed of 110 miles and will carry 7776 pounds of useful load. War-desolated Ypres. Belgium, was recently the scene of a fine stock show. The Belgian people are return ing to the pursuits of peace amid the ruins wrought by the great war, and the show was organized in honor of the allied agricultural relief commit tee. While preparing for the exhibit of cattle presented by Great Britain, workmen discovered the bodies of 40 British soldiers In a cellar. A motor car-boat. Atlantic City, is motor car capable o an hour on land and be used as a boat, the power off the w a propeller, and it speed of 20 knots water. It is called on exhibition at a fully equipped f making 60 miles when desired can clutch ' throwing heels and starting is capable of a an hour in the "The Sirena." The Shamrock IV, Sir Thomas Lip ton's latest challenger for the Amer ica's cup, was successfully launched at Robert Jacob's shipyard at City Island, near New York, May 26. The craft is reported to have made an excellent showing on her first trial trip. Relatives and friends who Journey to the "American military cemeteries in France to pay a tribute to our hero dead will find a friendly and comforting welcome at the rest houses created by the American Red Cross. The houses, are operated by the Young Women's Christian asso ciation, assisted by sympathetic French women. Jackson. Wyo., commercial and trade center of the Jackson Hole sec tion, once notorious as the strong hold of outlaws, has attained na tional attention by electing women to fill every position in the govern- lent or the town. Jackson is located 50 miles south of Yellowstone Na tional park and though isolated, is a progressive little city of 350 souls. Mrs. Grace R. Miller is mayor and the four council members are Mrs. Mae DeLaney, Mrs. Rose Crabtree, Mrs. Faustina Haight and Mrs. Gene vieve Van Vleck. ' At the Watervliet arsenal. New York, the heaviest gun in the world has been named "Big Sam." It is the first wire-wound rifle ever made in the United States and is a heavy navy type. It is wound with about 280 miles of one-eighth inch copper wire. It can hurl a 2400-pound round pro jectile 31 miles. Each round requires 850 pounds of powder. The gun la 68 feet 10 inches long, greatest out side diameter 64 inches, muzzle veloc ity 2700 feet per second, and it weighs 170 tons. It cost about $200,000. Olaf Bjorkman. American-Scandinavian sculptor, has created an Impres sionistic sculpture of Edgar Allan Poe, with the raven hovering over the head of the great American poet. It is considered one of the most remark able conceptions of the subject. Carnegie hall had an overflow throng when Samuel Gompers, presi dent of the American Federation of Labor, and Henry J. Allen, governor, of Kansas, debated the question of' whether the right to strike is inalien able and a law preventing it is an infringement upon the liberty of every individual workman, or whether the interests of the public are para mount. The Kansas state industrial court is designed to prevent strikes, and the action of Governor Allen in connection with the recent coal strike made him a figure of national in terest. mm Great Britain has selected Herbert Louis Samuel as high commissioner for Palestine. Under the mandate given by the allied supreme council the high commissioner virtually will be a governor. Mr. Samuel has long advocated the establishment of a na tional Jewish state in Palestine. Commercial interests of New York served notice on the representatives of organized labor that the trans portation tie-up. will be broken at any cost. Advice as to method of procedure was received from Fred erick J. Koster of San Francisco, who as president or the chamber of com merce there led the fight for free dom of transportation lines when longshoremen and teamsters threat ened to destroy commerce. --sH 1 'f. a ''1 1 ' ' gf VMarwoa4MY r . - v3av i . ffgW t -JkJ ; - . ij'-a iTa EI ?viwx i. s-s,-x z-if 'Si. .. J 1nderwood A I UndcrwoodJV.Y mi 1 1 1 4 UN, SMs v . f I fr ?r-F?ff lj..?iL. " nlA 1 ill ;?-Vf-f? Vk W 1 " jl F - i r 11 - ' ' Jjr -iv-.ffv- jf I MTBIm i II mm iK-JrT" , S.V III .'wyi; t-- ill ? K ' V 1? v i, kill 1 X is j - - - All " v . .''fii- .o. :. i ' 1 r 1
