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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1936)
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Workers Dig Deep for Mammoth Dam Thursday, November 12, 1936 Scenes and Persons in the Current News 80s : PWA workmen excavating for the spillway structure of the Fort Peck dam, a project in eastern Mon tana, financed in part by an allotment of $49,881,000, from the Public Works administration. When com pleted, the Fort Peck project will be the largest earth-fill dam in the world, will control floods of the Missouri river and irrigate thousands of acres of now arid land. “REEL” RIFLE Celebrate Telegraph Anniversary 1—Picketers watching a freighter at San Francisco docks during the maritime strike which tied up the nation’s shipping. 2—Baron Von Neurath, German foreign minister (left), shown conferring with Count Ciane of Italy during his recent visit to Berlin. 3—Leon Degrelle, so-called “Hitler” of Belgium, who was recently imprisoned, following the failure of a Fascist “putsch.” “STENO” TO SCREEN Test Masks on “Jersey” Front ORSE : IEGRAPH $‘ $ $ Pretty Maurine Kerns, of Miami, Fla., shown with her home-made harpoon rifle, designed by W. M. Edwards. The gun operates by means of stout rubber bands which discharge a steel arrow tied to a fishing reel line under the barrel. The fish is speared (if the angler is a good marksman) and reeled in. Wearing gas masks, a group of officers check their position during a demonstration of modern methods of defense against tear gas and the employment of troops under cover of smoke screens, in which members of the Three Hundred and Third Chemical regiment of the organized reserves and the First battalion of the One Hundred and Fourteenth The seventy-fifth anniversary of the completion of the first trans- infantry. New Jersey national guard, participated. The maneuvers were continental telegraph line was celebrated recently in ceremonies at held at the regular army post of Camp Dix, near Wrightstown, N. J. New York university. In 1861 the first transcontinental message was transmitted from San Francisco to the White House in Washington. Dr. Howard R. Driggs watches operator S. Brester receive the re-trans mission of the first message. Cops Take "Paw Prints” of Kittens Last week an office girl, this week on the way to Hollywood with a two-year contract in her purse. That is the unusual leap to screen fame of Helen Bucsko, nineteen- year-old Hamtramck, Mich., stenog rapher who a few days ago won the title of “Queen of the Fall Festival.” Autumn Skies Presage Racing Season’s End CHIEF OF SURGEONS ti . I ores Against a background of billowing clouds on a crisp autumn afternoon nine sets of hoofs gallop down the backstretch in the second race at picturesque Empire City race track in New York. Trip to France Prize in Peace Essay Contest The day old quadruplet kittens of Tige, police headquarters cat, have their paw prints recorded while their mother looks on. The daily lineup at New York headquarters was delayed nearly an hour because officials had dropped the preparation of records to aid Tige in the early morning hours when the kittens arrived. Dr. Frederic A. Besley, of Wau kegan, Ill., is the new president of the American College of Surgeons. He was elected at the clinical con ference of the college in Philadel phia. Dr. Besley is a graduate of Northwestern university. He has spent 27 years at the Cook County hospital in Chicago. Edna Falk, seventeen-year-old Pueblo, Colo., girl, whose essay on peace, and the Statue of Liberty, won first prize over 100,000 entrants. Edna is shown wearing a silk print dress featuring the Latin “Pax” for Roosevelt Victory Sets New Record w. 1 Women Fire "Laddies" Fight Blazes in Russia — 4. w : & w em*- ----- peace which she wore at the fiftieth | anniversary celebration for the stat ue recently. As part of Edna’s award, she is making a three-weeks’ tour of France under the auspices of the Federation of French Veter This photograph illustrates better than many words the point reached In Soviet Russia’s recognition of sex ans. In France she will meet prom- equality. A woman fire inspector, M. Dimitriyeva, is shown, brass-helmeted, sitting beside the driver of a | inent officials, including Premier ire engine on the way to a blaze. Incidentally, it is interesting to observe how the firemen are securely at ' Leon Blum and visit shrines of his- I tone interest. tached to the vehicle with stout hooks. Note man at left y atrare Re-elected to another four-year term in the White House in a land slide that broke all previous records, President Roosevelt swept the electoral votes of 46 out of the 48 states. For Roosevelt and his running mate. Vice President John N. Garner, there were 523 electoral votes, compared with 8 electoral votes from two states, Maine and Vermont, won by his Republican opponent, Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas.
