THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Workers Dig Deep for Mammoth Dam
Thursday, November 12, 1936
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
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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
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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
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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
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Women Fire "Laddies" Fight Blazes in Russia
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peace which she wore at the fiftieth
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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-
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tached to the vehicle with stout hooks. Note man at left
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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.