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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1922)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1922 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, - OREGON PAGE FIVE oo e o Photographic Review of the World's ews o ... fimcAW.ftV . , ' f 4 1 FROM THE DEAP LETTER OFFICt 4 . X r ,v ! Ir rrsrt fiUJ ? . Si. V 1 ,tit iff JOT rfWbWK AWF? , lllllll-JiM.'mXfcJfamwr ' ( ; - - , Every year, at Christmas tune, the post office system is swamped with the flow of Yuletido presents, Millions of packages are mailud, some so carelessly they never reach their destination, or, if they do, with all their contents ruinea. inis year tne postoitica slogan is "BUY EARLY AND MAIL EAELY!" Post piai'ter Edward M. Morgan is shown in New York examining some of the poorly-wraped parcels that will neer reach their" destination. 6,.' .'iii t!j"i my J ii'nT t . li 1. 11 111 11 .1111 1 n .1 111 iwiih. 1. si-.. .-. , i'i. :v -.1. -.s ....r: vyiv'- :i: jStfiiii w 1R Mill. fc Proof that America was inhabited thousands of years before its discovery by Columbus has been found in the Hines Cave, Wayne County, Ky., by scientists of the University of Kentucky. A succession of ash banks at various levels indicate that the cave was occupied by Indians in differing stages of civilization Near the ash banks were found awls1, pipes, needles, and skinning knives. Eight or nine skeletons were found, all being buried with the knees doubled up and the heads turned to one side, as was the Indian cus tom. Folded in the arms of one woman was the skeleton of her baby. The skeleton here shown had an wrowhead in itj probably the cause of death. Mix Tlnllnra Ano-nll hoiress to the $20,000,000 estate of the late John W. Gates, of Chicago, posed nrninl artist, of St. Charles. 111. Her wiia me lamiiy oi aer )ruat:i;tiv uw"iuj - fiance's father is an undertaker. L I Q fill (i . JK. ' 'A " 1 , r , ij 1 UK to go to the United States Navy dryaocK in uosiuu, docked in of new ei.hteen-t.on r,roDellers. which, it is believed, will make her the-fastest hip afloat bha was 0 c the record time of forty minutes,-and almost dreds of men were scraping her befouled sides. f before the pumps had gotten the water out of the dock him- 1 " 4-f Dr. Sackville Stoner, founder of the National Educational movement in England, guarantees to teach any normal child over eighteen months to read, spell, punctuate, speak good English and memorize within ten days. So successful is her method, that her dagghter, Winifred, at the age of ninetoen, is the author of seventeen books, had mastered seventeen lan guages before she was twelve, had written her first hook before she was fivo and taught the ex-Kaiser Wilhelm Esperanto. i - - , ' 't . 1 Dr. Hewrt elivtf Dr. Hendrik Shipstead, Minneapo lis, Minn., dentist, has been elected to tho U. 8. Senate on the Farmer- Labor ticket. He was strongly sup ported by Senator La Follctto. Countess Marie A. BiUie-Brohe- Sclby, one of the best known mem bers of the Danish nobility, is now on board the S. 8. Bolandia, in the Orient, as a common sailor. She shipped to serve a term as electri cal apprentice, In which work she is deeply inteersted. JF ' ; I :"v fr .1' 1 1 i ' 1 rr . ' s i:-. I James Eolph, Jr., Mayor of Han Francisco, put on all his foreign decorations when he was decorat ed azain this time bv Consul-Cen- eral Fileti, of fntty., who pinned on him tho Order of the Crown. 1 1 r a j MtffHathcrina Force. Miss Kathcnno Force, sister of Mrs. William K. Dick, tho second Mrs. John Jacob Astor, is now re ported engaged to Major Lorillard Spencer, a hero of the A. E. F., who was recently divorced. Some time a'o Miss1 Force's engagement to Henri Harnickoll, of New York, was announced, but it is now re ported to have been broken. 4 . 4 ! Arctic ?ftCS 1 ' 1 r-r -rrv ,.0I1fined in the Mc- - Thi, is exceUent likenes, of Dorothy Gordon, Bon heuess, before u free Lean Insane Hospital by order of her guardian, and in Arrow pointg to her room in the hospital. " c.., .nUnnallv known American business men plan to fly to the ....-. ,f .m,or. in scven'.v-two flying hours, in quest of the walrus . . . . . . . .1 ..1.1 inlra urankl 1 11 IS and polar bear. The trip, by uoat ana siea, - photograph shows the seaplane in which they will travel, i built at Keyport, X. J. I. M. Uppweot, President of the Cadillac Motor Car company, and Charles F. IWdden, President of the Aeromarme Air way., Ind., are shown together in front of the plane. They with H. E Coffin, H. H. Emmons, J. W. Inches, W. E. Metzger and C. F. Red den, will make the trip. E IV"1; 4 i "7 r 4 I V niM. .;''iiw.:;L- . 4 t 1 .z7- 1 k - -.- , k .: jat,EtTOfi(t duet j Ci.ay- tAHft. f 1 ,ii- rv Vrofessor Edward Chiera, Assistant Professor of Assyriology in the Lniversity of 1'eiinsy uama, has completed deciphering of many Babyloninn tablets, some of them dating from 2100 B. C. Most of the tub- lotg are in tho Sumerian language and were taken from the excavations of the Library of Nippur. Tha smaller tablets are Babylonian leases, with some geographical data. The larger tablets contain an account of tho fall of man, in many ways paralleling the account contained in the Book of Genesis, in tho Bible, especially of the banishincnt of Adain and Eve from Eden. (.. - L -v Irs i J - A ' ' ifi ( I y ; ; !..- k imii n....i.i.- 1 f s . I Hgfejft H 4 Hero are tho first pictures to roach America of the new members of Premier Andrew Bonar Law' British Cabinet. Sir Robert Sanders is Minister of Agriculture. W. Joyiuon Hicks is a member of tho Overseas Trade Department and G. Locko-Sampson is Charity Commissioner. Sir C. Schuster is Secretary to Lord Chancellor Viscount Case. Major Tryou, World War veteran, lias been appointed Minister of Pen sions, whilo J. C. C. Davidson is secretary to Premier Law. Troville Chamberlain is the new Postmaster General and Sir Buird is First Commissioner of Works. X entrance Belou) at lefts TnifflptoiTLnticl At ririiifcHys. drauIiclVcssnte. 'It t 5 J iv,rf f ! 4 fV . i,iu ' r, r .r if Ax, " v,C,.U,..;'.V!' - , 'I Alii I if H f . . 7 Tho grcnt Simlon Tunnel under tho Alps, connecting Switzerland and Italy, on which work was be gun twenty years ago, is Hearing completion. It is one of the greatest engineering feats ever attempted, running twelve and one-half miles long, 10,000 feet under the lop of tho Alps. The tunnel reaches from Breig, Switzerland, to Isello, Italy, liifitead of a double truck boro two single track excavations have boeu made, sixty feet upart. The boring was done with hydraulic pressure. , S 'tut. - . MS,' -1 . - l vl; fKcilly wine -ciltVa.ff'citvj i. - "" This photograph shos ni:. ne., and friends crowding around the mouth of tho ReiUy Mine, at Spaugf ler, Pa., here more than eighty men lost their lives in an erosion.
