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12 MUSCATINE JOURNAL AND NEWS-TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, MAY 2 NEWS ALL THE WORLD, TOLD WITH PICTURES MOROCCO AMAZES RIPLEY ANEW Robert L. Ripley, who has astonished more persona than any other man alive through his "Believe It or Not" cartoons, finds that the curiosities he'has reported always amaze him anew. During his present trip through northern Africa he saw for the second and third tim.es such strange things as shown in the pictures. In Marrakech, Morrocco, for instance, he discovered the Scorpion Eater (center inset) and (left) the Mohammedan sacred queue, the lock of hair left on the head by the faithful so Mohamet can jerk them to heaven when they die. At right Ripley is shown in the tomb of St.

John the Baptist at Oudja, Morocco. Mohammedans worship the saint as Sidi Yahia. 'ANCIENT AND MODERN WORLD MiNGLE IN NEW CHICAGO MUSEUM Scores of experts are literally manufacturing a museum In Chicago. They are reconstructing all kinds of specimens and models for the Museum of Science and Industry, the gift of Julius Kosenwald, millionaire merchant. A model of the sailing ship "Pamir" now plying between Germany and South America is shown at left.

It cost $9,000. Top, center, is one of the first street cars used in Chicago. A model of a pile driver of the Roman era being examined by Joseph Gibbons is shown in circle, tipper right is a simple scientific exhibit showing' conversion of rotary movement to vertical. The Kellogg telephone switchboard of 1893, lower right, gave the operator plenty of opportunity to read. V.

S. TO HAVE BIGGEST AIR TACHT The largest amphibian plane in the world, built to accommodate 46 passengers and fly 129 miles an hour, is nearing completion Stratford, Conn. At right is a view of the fuselage of the giant air yacht, and at left, Ivor Sikorsky, its designer, is shown standing inside the partly finished cabin. Powered by four motors and with a wingspread of 114 feet, the craft will be given tests in July before being put in service by the Pan-American Airways. FORMER ORDERLY WELCOMES PEKSHING It was a meeting of old their ranks were far General John J.

Pershing (right) was welcomed on his arrival in Paris the other day by Harry Cohen, his former orderly. They are seen together at a railroad station. General Pershing is in France to dispatch his duties as head of the American Battle Monuments Commission. CHOSEN TO REIGN AT STATE Royally pretty Certainly. And Queen of the May, too, is Anna Melling-er, above, of Lancaster.

Pa. She'll reign over the May festivals at Pennsylvania State college on Mnv 0. SHE'IX BLOSSOM FOKTH AS QUEEN Crowning event of the annual apple blossom festival at Winchester, will be the cornation of smiling Patricia Morton of Winchester, England, as 'Queen Shenandoah VIII." Here you see her as arrived in New York en route to assume her throne. TO DARE SEA ON HOP TO DENMARK Early voyagers of the forthcoming trans-Atlantic flying season, Otto Hillig (right) and Holger Hoiriss have announced they will attempt to hop from Newfoundland to Copenhagen, Denmark, some time in May. They were photographed in Washington, where they obtained data from government meteorologists.

BOYS FILL ROLES IN ANDES EXPEDITION One of few lucky Boy Scouts who have been included in exploring parties in recent years, 19-year-old John. Enfiejian, of Syracuse, N. is shown at the left as he returned to New York with the Syracuse Andes expedition. Those are ring-tailed monkeys he holds in his The expedition, which penetrated the Andean jungles of Venezuela, was headed by Dr. Parks H.

Struthers, zoologist of Syracuse university. -Members of the expedition consider 13-year- old Pedro Fernando Rondon, of Venezuela, not the least of their finds. Pedro, who'll be educated in the United States at the expense of members of the expedition, is shown at the right holding a macaw as the exploring party arrived in New York. TACKLES BUSINESS It's a run of a few yards on the ticker tape instead of a long run on the gridiron that now most interests Benny Friedman, former University of Michigan backfield star. Here you see him in the Wall street brokerage house where he is a full partner.

He also, holds down the post of a coach at Yale. HIS BUSINESS IS DROPPING One hundred and ninety parachute jumps, one from a height of 16,000 feet, another a dive of 11,000 feet before the'chute was opened ThoM are some of the outstanding feats of Howard F. Klein (inset), director of the parachute school at the Valley Stream, Long: Island, Naval Reserve aviation base. The picture shows the parachute jumping champion landing, the 'chute still ballooned out, afUr recent leap. ROYALTY'S "VAGABOND LOVER" SOON TO GET HIS CROWN Two women still pJay leading parts in the life of King Carol II of Rumania, Europe's romantic royal vagabond, wjio is to be formally crowned on May 10, just 11 months after his dramatic return to his country that he had quit for the love.of a red- haired mistress.

Here is a recent photo of the king in all his regal splendor, while above is his wife, Queen Helen, below is Ma- eloped apd with whom he is said to be still on very friendly terms, dame Lupescu, the titian-tressed charmer with whom he once GUNMAJV SOUGHT AS LOVE THIEF Jo'seph Filkowski, above, ex-convict desperado who carries a powder puff and wears chic dresses, marcelled hair and makeup to elude capture the shooting of a Cleveland, policeman, now is being sought on a. new piracy. George Kekic of Cleveland told police that the gunman eloped with Kekic's wife, Mary, and his daughter, Marion, 2, who are shown here. Filkowski also had his pug nose straightened to hide his identity. U.

S. ABMY GIVES THE HIGH SIGPT A side of New towering Empire State building'-afforded a lofty screen for lighted United States army recruiting sign seen in this striking' night photo. The illuminated words and shield were projected from another skyscraper. Note, at the peak of the building-, lighted dirigible mooring mast which is visible for scores of miles in all directions. SAYS TOTH HUBBY WAS ALT, WRONG Ten times a bride, three times a widow and six times divorced, Mrs.

Caroline McDonald-Walters- Bronson-Burgess-Chavallier- Garden-White-Luigi-Hatfield- Willis, above, wealthy oil woman of Alexandria, is now contemplating a seventh divorce against J. W. Willis, her tenth husband, with whom she has just parted. "In the winter, he said it was too cold to work and in the summer he said it -was too hot," she says. DOES TWO OPERATIONS.IN ONE Here is the U.

department of agriculture's latest machine to cut farm labor. It is a "culti-mulcher," which prepares the seed bed and sows seed in one operation. It was recently tested by Assistant Secretary of Agriculture R. W. Dunlap, at the department's experimental farm at Arlington, Va.

REFUSED TO FALL BUT IT ODD! Boom! A powerful blast of dynamite. Bricks hurled in air. Smoke belching forth. But the obstinat smoke stack at the right refused to be budged. However another charge did the trick, as is sh own hi the unusual photo above.

See it crumbling going down. The scene of the blasting operations was Cumberland, Md..