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The Atlantic fleet in Guantanamo bay. Photograph taken from deck of U. S. S. Delaware. Fighting ships in the background are the Arizona. Pennsylvania. Florida and Utah. Wldr Wiirtil |>Ih>Iu. M iss Helen Duncan Jame son, a fourteen-year-old New York girl, whose poster won a $500 prize in the international flower show poster contest. M iss Jameson defeated more than one hundred professional artists. ^ A UihIchioimI. Gurnee Munn, jr., and his pet dog; Mrs. Gurnee Munn of Wash ington and Philadelphia, and Rodman Wanamaker, 2d, on the sands at Palm Beach. U.\ Internalion:iI Film ^ivur. "Swcetbriar" boudoir pajamas, the very new est idea in fashions. The costume gets its name from the color design, and the material is satin panne. Ity International Film Service. Three hitherto unpublished photographs of Gen. George H. Harries, who was presented with the French decoration of com mander of the Legion of Honor for his work as creator of the rhilitary port of Brest. At left: Mr. Harries about the time he went to work as a reporter on The Washington Star. Center: A reporter dressed as a tramp and arrested in order that he might investigate conditions in the local workhouse. Right: Wearing the decoration of the Legion of Honor. An article telling of Gen. Harries' work at Brest is contained in another section of today's Star. "Babe" Ruth, base ball's highest priced attraction, showing Mrs. Ruth how to hold a base ball when pitching. Photo snapped at Los Angeles. Ruth was sold by the Boston Americans to the New York Yankees for a sum considerably in excess of $100,000. ?. i<iiilrr\\cx)d ?V UniirrHMd. ' "Sapphire." adjudged the best cat at the recent cat show in New York. This beautiful specimen of feline aristocracy has won the same honor five times. He is owned by a Bogota. N. J., woman. \Vide World |ih?lo.