Southern Oregon Miner
SUCCESSOR TO JACKSONVILLE MINER
EIGHT PAGES
ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 21. 1935
“Corkscrew” Airplane Built in South Dakota
COMICS AND FEATURES
Battleship Salvaged Upside Down
This corkscrew nha(x><t airplane Zeppelin, railed the Aeroxep, la scheduled to make Ita test flights this sum
mer at Itnpld City mid Its Inventors, Itev. C. 1!. I-ocke and Lorrin Hansen, expect it to show a speed of 300
miles an hour. An all meta) dirigible, with vlines running around it. the contrivance revolves In a steel frame
1,000 times a minute, it has wings like an airplane and a large rudder.
New Bonus Army in Los Angeles
CHUMMY WITH WALES
When the German battleship Bayern, scuttled by her crew in the
waters of Scnpa Flow after the armistice, was salvaged, she came to the
surface upside down. She is here shown as sbe arrived at Rotyth, Scot
land. to be broken up for scrap metaL
Together in College and Congress
War veterans In Los Angeles responded quickly to a call for the
formation of a new bonus army to go by automobile to Washington and
plead for Immediate bonus payment. In the picture Royal W. Ilobertson—
at right, wearing a veteran's cap—is seen enrolling members of the army.
For a time there was a mystery
about the Identity of this new friend
of the prince of Wales who danced
frequently with him In Paris. Then
It wns learned she is an American,
the former Mrs. Wally Simpson,
who Is now the countess of Gar
rick. She was well known In Phil
adelphia. before her marriage, as
Marlon C. Donaghue.
Smallest Bus Worries the Police
Here are three classmates of the University of Alabama, now in
congress, talking over the good times they used to have. They are, left
to right: Senator Bankhead of Alabama, Congressman O. H. Cross of
Texas, and Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee.
TEST OF NEW BALL
What Is believed to be the smallest bus In operation Is running
around the streets of St. Pau), Minn., and Into the hair of traffic po
lice. The miniature transport, built by L. F. Wright of St. Paul, seats
nine children and a driver. It Is 11 feet long, three wide and three high.
The power Is derived from four 24-volt batteries and a maximum speed
of 18 miles an hour is obtained. It can travel 50 miles without recharging
and the state license costs
Here Is a tratllc officer holding up the
small bus for an Inspection,
Miss jRnet Rutter, twenty-five, of
Washington, was admitted to th»
bar of the United States Supreme
court, and she Is said to be the
youngest member of her sex per
mitted this honor. Miss Rutter la
now ‘an attorney In the office of
George Peek, special foreign trade
adviser to the President.
Alex Ednle, pro at Shelter Rock
Country club, Long Island, recently
drove a spun latex ball through a
phone book almost an Inch thick,
containing more than 500 pages.
Standing the book on end without
support 4 feet in front of the tee,
Ednle sent the ball through with
such force thnt It carried and rolled
100 yards beyond. Traveling at the
rate of approximately 114 miles nn
hour, the ball wns averaging 167
feet a second when It hit the book.
The drive, declared impossible by
golfer and non-golfer alike, was
made to test the new spun latex
golf ball, a United States rubber
product.