The Hermiston herald., September 10, 1936, Image 2

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
Minnesota Farmers Fighting Forest Fires
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Farmers are shown fighting a fire which swept over hundreds of acres near Markham, Minn. Orchard
sprayers were used to prevent the flames from sweeping across meadows and stubble fields and wiping out
more farm homes in the area, in which fifty farmers were burned out.
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1—Crews of two Japanese warships paying their respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington
cemetery. 2—King Edward VIII of England, vacationing in Yugoslavia, enjoying a motorboat ride with Mrs.
Ernest Simpson, one of his guests. 3—Generals Goded and Burriel, captured Spanish rebels, at the court mar­
tial trial that resulted in their conviction and execution.
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Clara Katherine Van Horn,
twelve, of White Cottage, Ohio, who
was awarded the annual gold medal
by the Army and Navy Legion of
Honor which awards the medal to
the American boy or girl who per­
forms the most heroic act during
the year. Last winter Miss Van
Jim Bottomley, first baseman of the St. Louis Browns baseball team,
Horn saved two boys who were
coasting into the path of an ap­ milks “Fielder’s Choice,” which was given him by admirers, after pre­
proaching express train by throw­ sentation ceremonies on “Jim Bottomley Day” at Sportsman’s park in Gen. Nicolas Rodriguez, leader of
the Gold Shirt movement in Mexico,
St. Louis. The cow was Bottomley’s own choice as a gift.
ing herself under their sled.
which was officially banned recent­
ly by the government, shown on ar­
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Five years ago, Merlin Andrews, life guard at Lake Pontchartrain,
ported by plane from Mexico City.
The political refugee predicted the New Orleans, rescued Miss Elsie Hagner from drowning in the lake.
possibility of a civil war similar to The other night he took her back into the waters of the lake and mar­
ried her before a huge audience that lined the beach.
that raging in Spain.
Wiscasset s Ancient Fire
Lumberjack Shaves With an Ax
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One of the oldest fire engines in the United States is this one exhibited
during the recent "open house” day at Wiscasset, Maine. Equipment
for the fireman who manned the engine included “two leather buckets,
two cotton bags, and a bed key ” The latter article was used to dis­
mantle old-fashioned beds so that they could be removed from the
premises. The bags were used to hold small articles picked up in the
burning house.
Because of the unusual interest in
the Presidential campaign this
year, P. W. Litchfield, president of
the Goodyear Tire & Rubber com­
pany, has completed arrangements
to broadcast three times weekly the
result of the Literary Digest Presi­
dential poll.
Tin Can Tourists of World Hold Convention
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Margaret Eleanor Connors of
Jack Wallulis, lumberjack who works among the giant firs of Ore­ Bridgeport, Conn., has become the
gon, shown shaving himself with a double-bitted ax which has one country’s first G-woman. Attorney
blade ground to a razor edge. He has shaved with an ax for three General Homer Cummings has an­
years without an acc’dent.
nounced her appointment.
Big Airport Which San Francisco Will Build
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First official sketch of San Francisco's new municipal airport, to be opened in 1940 at Yerba Buena
Shoals. The 430-acre site, now under reclamation by army engineers, will be the scene of the Golden Gate
International exposition in 1939. Part of the exposition program is the construction of the three permanent
The Tin Can Tourists of the World, folks who have put wheels under parlor, bedroom and bath, assembled structures shown in this oil painting—the Administration building, embodying the most modern design and
2,000 strong for their summer conclave at the Erie County fair grounds, Sandusky, Ohio. From all the high­ equipment of aeronautical engineering, and the two hangars. The three buildings, financed by PWA grants,
ways and byways of the North American continent, they poured into the fair grounds.
will cost more than $1.600.000.