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[WEEKLY PICTORIAL NEWSH e PRETTIEST BABY BLONDES IN ENGLAND A photographlo etudy of the two pretty daughters or Candler Cobb, who has been appointed American Commercial Attache in London. The children, both blondes, have been described as the most beautiful blonde children In England. Mr. Cobb has studied and practiced law In New York , City and was Assistant United S'afes Attorney in New York during the war.' specializing on restrictions of fereign trade and fraudulent passports. Ho is a graduate of Harvard University and also attended Oxford University. j I NOTED SINGER AT WAR WITH HUSBAND * Mme Car.na Walska Cochran, the wife of Alexander Smith Coebrar., . millionaire carpet manufacturer. Is plannins to strike first in court by de : Banding a divorce from her hu>band. MILLER SCORES FIRST RUN _ Elmer Miller. of the Yankees, scoring the first nrn of the world ser1?s In the first inning at the Polo Grounds. New York. Miller opened the inning with a single, went to second on Peck's sacrifice and scored on "Babe"' -Euth's timely single. A WITH THE GREEK ARMY IN ASIA MINOR | Tho war in Asia Minor hot wren t.lio Turks and t.no Geoks is still ra.ging. with no sijrn of an armistice. Tho ! above illustration, a reminder of the World War, shows the Movcnth Crook Division marching against the Turks, throtuh tho burning village of Kara Moursal. The i?hi?l? h< tow shows machine gunners of the Greek Arnty in j the trenches during the battle of Kizil Dagh. BUSINESS MEN FIBE UNCLE SAM'S BIG GUNS For tho first time in the history of tho United States a group of professional business men constituted pun crews and actually tired the giant twelve-inch coast defense mortars at Fort MacArUiur, which guards the entrance to Los Anaoles Harbor, at San Pedro. California. This group of men have organized what they call the Progressive Business Club of Long Beach. California. Thev have most every professional business line represented In inem-1 bership?even the clergy. They have organized for the purpose of being useful to the go\ernment in some prac- i tical manner in the event of another war emergency. For the months the men have been studying the manipula-, ticn of big coast defense guns. :v I by a recent special or Jet- by the Secretary of War tire club members are now | actually tiring the batteries at targets three and four miles nt sea. Their scores, according to Colonel H. If. Hatch. | Commanding Officer of Fort MacArthur, are most encouraging. Photo shows members of the club in the act of loading one of the twelve-inch mortars. /al ,-Jh- * 'iMt ?' ?* " ' '' J Mastodon Tusks Come From Siberia - -V Ji^ /> ? ,? Jl* .,- yk-. Horn !s a whole pier fx:l 1 of mastodon ui^ks from Siberia, wliicli will be utilized in the I'mted S'ntes for their Ivory, llerentlv the cargo. purchased for Siberian walrus tusks, was unloaded on this wharf at the Portland (Ore.) municipal terminal, when If was discovered that the tricky natives had sub stituted the ancient mastodon tusks for 'he walrus ivory. Scientists and ivory experts have explained, however, that this ivory can easily be utilized for al most every usual use as it Is In a splendid state of preservation, despite its great age. For thousands of years it has In!n buried beneath ice and sod. Noted Statistician's Wife Goes to School Again Mrs. Roper W. Rahson, wife of thai noted statistician ami business export. | of Wcllcsloy Hills, Mass.. Js again a, student in Fehool. She J; taking a ! course in accounting at the P.nbsnn ! Institute.- founded by her liu-bmd. ; Mrs. Babson for years has been ! treasurer of her husband's statistical j bureau. ? Deserts Capital Society foi College Career ^jjpforr ^u.'ti-f"vVaaAcf | .Mi.-s n>:th Wallace, dnnsrhtcr of the St'iTi-'rrv (..f Ap i> ulMir" and Mrs. Wallace, who has deserted society in Washington and entered college in liultimore. Foe of the Apache | f?mur* : : Xvt' "W3iV18W3KW T Jtt. I'VUiliet?! I | M. Ig*ulller. Prpfeet of the Paris Police Department, -who is being high ly praised in all quarters for hLs work in breaking up many of the infrmous j gangs of Apaches in Mie French capl j tal. M. Leullier, on taking office last ! year, said that a Prefect of Pol ion . "should live in the streets." This he lias done, and as the result he is a fa i miliar figure in all Quarters of Paris. ANOTHER THRONE LOST, ? I Quppii Annie Stanley. nnro the rule." ' < of all American cvpsiP*. has virtually j ( 'apt her throne nrnl her followers have | ! lwlndlei) to n few faithful ones whop dwell with her In bedraggled tents nt I i Stlekney. near <*hlcnco. Q ?>.-n Annie J attributes her downfall to the spirit | of ilenio, racy developed among h?r.< people since the war. 11 f WAS RECLUSE MURDERED? Edward Howard Dcf-ntU. Arthur \$Jk<e?, | ? ( A resident of Melhuen, Mass.. has written anonymously to District At lornov Donnell. of Essex county, urging exhumation and an autopsy 6n the 1 body rf the late Edward E. Searles, .aped eccentric, who died In his mansion, in Mrtheun, in August, 1920. Searles left the bulk of his estate to Arthur P. Walker, of New York, for many years secretary to Searles. The letter suggested that Searle3 "had been hasVns^ to his death." The body will be exhumed and examined. The illustration sUows Searles, Walker, Donnell and'a view cf the Searles estate. PEEPABED FOE A HAED WINTER BTWL... .'..'J. tvTgTTvXTC^ WA ?--? / v FW-y'-'-' **>T?T vy.T-y .'J. , m*-. I.'? UW 41 WWK'A JK'W The management of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Is taking no chances as to the brand of weather which may be dished up during the ap proaching cold'spell. In fact, it figures that, as we have had so much mild weather for so many months, a hard winter is probably in store for us. Con sequently it is equipping its engines with this type of snow plow, said to be the most efficient yet devised for clearing snow of moderate depth from the track. Defeats Cecil Leitch in American Golf Cham pionship - ? ^ ^ TiW X.-'i'tj-. I Mr*. Frederick C. Letts, Jr., of the Onwentsia Club, Chicago, who sprung the suprise of the women's national Eolf championship tournament now be-1 tig pla; e<l at the Hollywood Country Club. i>r: I. N. J., by defeating Miss Veil Leitch. Uritl.-h. French and Cana dian champion, by 1 up in the second ' round of the tournament. Miss Leitch I ivas picked by many to annex the j American titlp. i Albert fc.-hticider. ve.irs ot'l. a re- ' virter of New Vork Cite . !s the world's | ihantpion shorthnnd writei and the ,-oungest that has ever held that title. I Schneider recently established the rec trd In a test when he wrote 175 words l minute without making an error. ! New Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R. % - *" -* I Lewis P'rphen Pilcher. Department [ Command, r of the State of New Tork, I G. A. R., who was elected Commander I in-Chief of the Grand Army of the i Republic at the Fifty-fifth National J Kncanipmenf. at Indianapolis, Ind. I Mr. Piicher is a resident of Brooklyn, New York. ? P.sehctor?Man cannot serve tw? mil- M ? i Henpecked?He'd be arrested for 11+ I h... . J