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.