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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1936)
THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 193« THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. 1936 Grand Circuit Season Opens in East Scenes and Persons in the Current News ■ " — 1.2 fid# Trotters swing into the stretch with their smooth stride eating up the ground during the running of a heat in the Rio Grande trophy race, one of the events at the opening of the Grand Circuit meeting at Goshen, N. Y. “I Christen Thee McDougal” SHRINE POTENTATE 1—Gen. Edward Rydz-Smigly, who has been proclaimed Poland’s first citizen, a post which virtually drops him into the boots of the late Marshal Pilsudski. 2—Tanks rumble through Spain’s cities, as the le Its government tries to crush the military revolt. 3—Veterans of the Second division dedicate a memorial to their fallen comrades in Washington, D. C. Perry Is Tennis Champ for Third Time FILLS FARLEY’S POST I I. $9 ‘th i *7: , 5/ J Miss Caroline McDougal Neilson of Springfield, Mass., shown about to smash a bottle across the bows of the U. S. S. McDougal, 1,850-ton destroyer, launched in a shipyards at Camden, N. J. Miss Neilson is a great-granddaughter of the late Rear Admiral David Stockton McDougal, after whom the vessel is named. HELD BY NAZI Judge Clyde I. Webster of Mos lem temple, Detroit, newly elected imperial potentate of the Shrine. The Masonic body held its annual convention in Seattle, Wash., and voted to continue its program of care and treatment of crippled chil dren in Shrine hospitals. Bursting Water Main Floods Station William W. Howes, who is acting postmaster general during the leave of absence of Postmaster General James A. Farley, who is directing the Democratic party’s Wimbledon, England.—Baron Gottfried von Cramm of Germany (left) campaign to re-elect President congratulates Fred Perry of England, who defeated him in straight sets Roosevelt. Mr. Howes’ regular to win the men’s singles at Wimbledon for the third successive year. post is first assistant postmaster general. The German, however, injured a thigh muscle in the first set. GIVES ALL TO CHARITY Skipper of Yawl Wins Honolulu Race $ + 1.. * ...2 .. . •2, so Photo shows workmen trying to clear tracks at the Union station in Arrested in Hamburg more than Chicago of a flood estimated at three to ten feet deep. A 36-inch water a year ago on a charge of possess main burst putting 14 railroad tracks out of commission. The water ing anti-Nazi documents, Lawrence also flooded portions of the new post office. Passengers from sub- Simpson, seaman on the U. S. S. urban trains were forced to alight from inbound trains about five blocks Manhattan, has been placed on trial. from the station. Damage was estimated at $200,000. Speed Work on Mississippi Navigation Dam s In a momentous decision based on “divine inspiration,” Elsie Janis, one-time popular stage star and “sweetheart of the A. E. F.” dur ing the World war, has disclosed plans to dispose of her worldly pos sessions and to devote the proceeds and her life to local charities. “You’re first to finish!" James Wilder, judge, tells James Flood (left) owner of the 51-foot yawl Dorade, at the end of the longest yacht race in America—2,225 miles from California to Honolulu. The Dorade, of San Francisco, crossed the finish line with an elapsed time of 13 days 7 hours 46 minutes and 53% seconds. The Circe, of Seattle, was second. Civilians and Their Dogs Parade in Gas Masks / One-third of the great navigation dam across the Mississippi river at Alton, Hl., has been completed and work on the remaining section of this the longest and highest of the 28 dams projected to aid navigation on the Mississippi between here and St. Paul, Minn., is progressing swiftly. The dam’s 30 gates will be the largest of their type in the world. The dam proper will be 1,724 feet long in addition to the width of an already completed lock on the Alton shore. View shows a general view of the dam project with the completed gates Tokyo.—Civilians and their dogs parade through the streets of the Japanese capital wearing gas masks in a in the foreground and a coffer-dam in mid-stream, in which the second aeries of gates will be built. demonstration of the preparedness of the civilian population for a gas attack when and if the next war comes.
