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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1935)
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—Italy'* Tower of Faith In Home, where Fuscist soldier* refteut the oath Inscribed near the top, pledg- Ing their live* to the country and Mussolini. 2—View of the Inundated village of Coshocton during the disas trous floods In eastern Oh l<x 8—New York strikers ngnlnst the security wage paid by Wl’A demonstrating In front of the office of (Sen. Hugh 8. Johnson, administrator for that area. Governor Portrays His Ancestor Gov. Wilbur Cross of Connecticut, In light cloak, standlug at center of table. Is shown ns bo portrayed one of bls ancestors. In the pageant celebrating the state's tercentenary on the campus of the State college nt Storrs. Starting Work on Homestead Project Workers are shown digging a water-line ditch, ns work started on the housing project nt Helghtstown, N. J., where 200 subsistence homes ars being erected on a 1,270 acre plot by the Federal Housing adminis tration. Map of the Land II Duce Covets This map of Ethiopia shows the wild terrain which. In case of war, the Italian army will have to master to conquer the loyal troops of Haile Selassie. Valuable deposits of minerals and oil are guarded by lofty mountains and dry, oven-like deserts, which In the rainy season become dripping and morass-llke. Itoads are few and there is but one railroad. Like a Ceremony in the Middle Ages This religious spectacle may well have taken place in the .Middle ages. Wearing black robes with face hiding hoods, these penitents are leaving the cathedral at Furnes, Delglum. after the mass. Carrying their crosses. they took part in a religious procession that followed. FOR WORLD COURT Big Contest for Draft Stallions Although three years ago the League of Nations condemned Japan for her outreach Into Manchuria, 2b of 30 nations now represented at Geneva have nominated llaraukazl Nagaoka, a powerful figure In Ja pan's offstage diplomacy, as judge of the world court at The Hague. The world’s first stallion pulling contest offers farm entrants $1.500 in 10 cash prizes, for the best three-year old stallions. "This will be the greatest pulling contest ever staged." says Wayne Dinsmore, secretary of the Horse and Mule Association of America, which Is sponsoring the contest, for October 12, at Lincoln Fields racetrack, Crete, III., 30 miles south of Chicago on the Dixie highway. The practical object of these contests will be to discover the best pulling sires In the country, so that "horse power" on the farm can be greatly Improved, just as It has been In the motorcar. The team of stallions shown in the illustration won last year's pulling contest at the Century of Progress.