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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1936)
Thursday, October 1, 1936 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Italian Army Tank Carries a Bridge Scenes and Persons in the Current News 298* ... at 6 1 as (i j* 10 it. This is a new Italian tank which carries a bridge for transporting soldiers over small rivers. It was dem onstrated for the first time at the huge Italian war maneuvers held near Avellino recently. Musk Ox on Its Way to Chicago Leahy May Be Operation Chief 1—Lewis O. Barrows, Republican, who was elected governor of Maine. 2—German flying boat Eolus in New York harbor after its flight across the Atlantic. 3—Spanish loyalists from Irun and San Sebastian taking refuge on French soil. Mellons Receive Chemical Award Spain Appoints New Minister of War Admiral William Danie Leahy, In the reorganization of the Span now commanding the battle force of ish cabinet the post of premier was the United States fleet, is expected to be named as the new chief of 4 : •I • 1 ■ 1 i i 4 —-I Chester G. Fisher, chairman of the Pittsburgh section of the Ameri can Chemical society, presenting to Andrew W. Mellon, center, and his nephew Richard K. Mellon, right, the society’s bronze plaque “for out standing service to chemistry.” Young Mr. Mellon accepted in the name of his father, the late R. B. Mellon. — — given to Francisco Largo Caballero, left Socialist leader. Now Britishers Join the Army on Trial naval operations, succeeding Ad miral William H. Standley, sched uled to retire in December. Leahy, Dr. W. Provence of Franklin, Ind., feeds Amelia, one of the two- who has a distinguished naval serv months-old musk ox calves who arrived at New York on the schooner ice record, will have almost two and Effie M. Morrissey. Captain Bob Bartlett, veteran explorer of the far a half years of service remaining, north, brought back these denizens of the frozen regions for the Chicago if appointed, before compulsory re tirement at the age of sixty-four. Zoological society. — : * r 1 SETS WORLD RECORD Makes Golden Gate Bridge Job Safe ))) ' -, -..res 2.3 : % ' sr) iris - V Wawat ever 155" THE New weil mm ? t il An army recruiting officer in London explains to some young recruits “The New Idea” of his majesty’s army. The new idea is the army's supplementary reserve trial scheme. A recruit may join the supple mentary reserves for six months. If he likes military life, he may join the regular army. If he does not, he may return to civilian life, but is required to come up for 14 days of training for the next five years. He is given a bounty of six pounds a year and pay while in training. Is Chosen for Palestine Post A typical leaterneck in appear ance is Marine Gunner Henry P. Crowe of Lincoln, Ill., who is pic tured after he had set a new world's marksmanship record at Camp Per ry, Ohio, outshooting 1,570 riflemen. Pictured here is a section of the great net which has been swung be neath the Golden Gate bridge at San Francisco to insure its being “the safest job in the world.” The net, first of its kind to be used in construc tion history, has been swung thirty feet below the bridge and is designed to prevent workmen plummeting to their death from the dizzy heights of the bridge in the event of a fall. Lieut.-Gen. J. C. Dill, director general of military operations and intelligence at the British war of fice, who was appointed as the new Temple in Iraq Four Thousand Years Old Il Duce Greets . Mothers and Their Children Fecundity being the most desir able feminine virtue, in the eyes of Premier Mussolini, these Italian mothers at Potenza brought their offspring with .nem when they gath ered to meet II Duce. Premier This unusually well preserved temple of sun-dried bricks, of the age of Abraham, 2100-1900 B. C., was dis Mussolini is here shown chatting covered by the Iraq expedition of the Oriental institute. University of Chicago, at Ischali, site of an ancient with a group of mothers, during Babylonian city northeast of Bagdad. The recessed niches on either side of the doorway leading into the his visit to Potenza. sanctuary are ornamerted. The brick seat in the sanctuary, rear, was for the cult statue. For several years, Mussolini and I I | | I 1 his Fascist government have urged the rearing of large families. Vari ous government funds have been appropriated to give financial aid to families with several childre., and the result has been a gradual increase in Italy's birthrate. Germany under the Hitler govern ment has also used similar schemes to check the declining birth rate and to increase the population. The war and the recent financial dis- tress in European countries has caused a falling off in the popula- tion figures, and looking to the fu ture, the militaristic governments have used every means to increase the population. supreme commander of military op erations in Palestine to break the Arab general strike by force. At the same time a division of 10,000 troops was ordered to Palestine. Starting Argaments “Arguments kin often start,” a lot o' folks jes’ natchelly like to said Uncle Eben, “not so much be cause sumpin’ is wrong as because argue."
