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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1936)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1936 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Scenes and Persons in the Current News Loyalists in Firing Line at Guadarrama ? %. . .7. % An excellent closeup view of the firing line during the attack on Guadarrama, Spain. These leftist rifle men aided in checking the rebel advance on Madrid at the mountain town. Richest Japanese Is Young Man Miss Congo Is Taken for a Ride . -i. wie • s Japan's richest man, Baron Kichi- zaemon Sumitomo, who paid an as sessment of 800,000 yen on an in come of 3,000,000 yen, the highest made in Japan in 1936. He is 25 years old and has been head of the Air Chief Inspects New Airplane 1 : • 1. ------ > ■ . Eugene Vidal (left), director of the bureau of air commerce, and Test Pilot James Hurst, inspecting the power plant of a new-type air- plane to be developed for the bureau from a standpoint of utility, cost, comfort and safety, in its program for the improvement of privately owned aircraft. The ship, an Ar row Model F low-wing monoplane, is powered by a V-type, eight cylin der automobile motor. !l I » I o’ i V Spider Army in House miss conce Lodi, Calif.—Workmen engaged in moving a house here claim to hold the world’s record for killing black widow spiders. They killed 213. It was a question of killing them, they say, before moving the house, or being bitten in the operation. .s" J * -Ses Miss Congo, the smallest gorilla ever to come to the United States, and one of three lady gorillas in the whole country—there are seven gentleman gorillas scattered around in zoos—is taken for a ride by her trainer, Sam Parratt, at the Brookfield zoo, in Chicago. Miss Congo was the last of her kind to fall into the hands of man before the recent international treaty forbidding the export of gorillas from Africa went into effect. DECATHLON WINNER 1—Rev. Charles E. Coughlin being interviewed at the Cleveland convention of his National Union for So cial Justice which indorsed Lemke for President of the United States. 2—Coast artillery of the Illinois Nation- al Guar 3 turning on a giant searchlight during the war maneuvers in the Middle West. 3—Portrait ot “en Francisco Franco, commander in chief of the rebel forces in the Spanish civil war. house of Sumitomo since 1926. He was graduated from Kyoto Imperial university in 1933, and a year lat er married his cousin, the grand- daughter of Prince Saionji, the last of the elder statesmen. Baron Su mitomo is president of the Sumito mo Limited Partnership; director of the Sumitomo bank and the Su mitomo trust. As Baseball Was in the Beginning Fulton Market Falls Into River la) s a I E - All dressed in the resplendent uniforms of 1876 these modern baseball players from the New York sand lots helped the New York Giants celebrate the sixtieth birthday of the National league. They played under the rules of 1880, and adopted the names of stars of the era of flowing mustaches and burnsides. View showing the twisted mass of timbers after a 125-foot section of the Fulton Fish Market, for many years a landmark of the lower Glenn Morris, Denver clerk, who Manhattan waterfront, collapsed into the waters of the East river. This won the Olympic decathlon at the is the place where former Gov. Al E. Smith worked as a young man before he entered politics and began his famous career. games in Berlin. WAR BRIDE Experts Attend Elood Control Conference “a I ! i 4 , ) f . - s % . %i k $ 14 st) Screen Bovs Organize • New Club First Meeting Proves Hilarious Limited to youngsters under eighteen years of age who have Experts attending the flood control conference called by President Roosevelt are shown at the White at least three feature motion pic House. Left to right Frederick A. Delano and Abel Wolman, both of the national resources board, H. H. ture roles to their credit, the Screen Bennett, director of the soil conservation board; Maj. Gen. Edward M. Markham, chief of army engineers, Boys' club was organized at the home of Director W. & Van Dyke and Aubrey Williams, federal relief administrator. with a nucleus of 15 charter mem bers. It was a hilarious session— as witness this meeting of the offi cers. Left to right, they are: Fred die Bartholomew, president; Mick ey Rooney, first vice-president, and Jackie Cooper, treasurer. Ends Long Service Athol, Kan.—Mrs. Laure Came- rin, forty-five, one of the five reg ular women rural route carriers in I Kansas and 15 in the United States, recently finished 30 years' service. i She made her first trip when she | was fifteen. In the last 15 years she has missed only two days from duty. Her route is 73 miles long. i Mrs. Constance Collins Wortman, bride of Copt. Volney Wortman. Six- ty-first coast artillery, instructor at the University of Illinois spent part of the honeymoon watching the war games of the second army. A piece of field artillery furnished her a seat.
