THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1936
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
Loyalists in Firing Line at Guadarrama
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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First Meeting
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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.