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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1936)
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Thursday, November 26, 1936 Scenes and Persons in the Current News Street Cleaning Truck Can Battle Poison Gas an , $ **? i -d h - n * ’ ye t "$ The latest development in military defense against gas attack makes use of the ordinarily Itreet cleaning truck. An auxiliary apparatus, attached to the truck, throws out jets of water poison gas in the air, and also sends out fan shaped sprays of water to cleanse walls and roofs been contaminated by poison gas. A demonstration of the new equipment is shown in London with of the truck clad in gas proof clothing, complete with mask. Iowa Farmer Shows Rivals How to Be Corn Husking Champ un-war-like to disperse which have the “crew” Velvet Lined Bathtub Is Latest 1—Mounted troops of General Franco’s rebel army crossing a bridge on the march on Madrid. 2—Pre mier Nahas Pasha of Egypt at celebration in honor of the recent Anglo-Egyptian treaty giving further inde pendence to Egypt. 3—General Chiang Kai-Shek, commander in chief of China’s land forces as he appeared at National Chinese Boy Scout jamboree. Franklin D., Jr., Engaged to Be Married Carl Carlson, thirty-eight, of Aud ubon, Iowa, who won the national corn husking championship recently 7 y FOR WORKERS’ SECURITY gï $ Barbara Beck, pretty Broadway dancer is the proud possessor of the Ethel du Pont and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., son of the President, near Newark, Ohio. He won the first bathtub in New York to be covered inside and out by mohair velvet. shown at the home of Ethel du Pont’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene title by husking 21,039 bushels in 80 The picture shows her with the newest item of modern apartment house du Pont, here, during a week-end visit of Mr. Roosevelt, Jr. The en minutes on a rain soaked field. equipment. Interior decorators predict a popular future for this new fad. gagement of the couple was announced by Miss du Pont’s parents. The wedding will take place next June. , Captain Jimmy Keeps Breaking Records Seattle Attorney Wins House Seat of Late Zioncheck NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Golf Champs Try Out Florida Turf a a Warren Magnuson, recently elect ed congressman from Seattle, who will take the seat of the late Marion I J 1 Eugene O'Neill, playwright, who has been awarded the 1936 Nobel prize in literature. O'Neill's most famous plays are: “The Emperor Capt. James (Jimmy) Mollison pictured at Croydon airport, London, Jones,” “Anna Christie.” and following his recent crossing of the Atlantic in record time. He brought his plane “Dorothy Ward” to earth after being in the air 13 hours and Zioncheck. Magnuson was former “Strange Interlude.” Mr. O’Neill is 13 minutes on a 2,100 mile flight from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to ly prosecuting attorney of Kings , a native New Yorker. county, Washington. London. The British flyer has a number of records to his credit. Plans Speeded for San Francisco Exposition Forms for the gigantic social se curity law set-up have been printed at the rate of a million a day by an eastern printing concern. Thelma Mae Myers is shown holding up a strip of the blanks as they came from the presses. It is estimated that 26,000,000 forms will be needed to keep the records of the workers. Three golf champions try their hands at Florida's latest crop of tur for the string of coming winter golf tourneys at Miami. Left to right. | Ralph Guldahl, Western Open title-holder, and Lawson Little, Canadian Open champion, look on as Johnny Revolta, the reigning P. G. A. king. ' putts in an informal match. New San Francisco Bay Bridge Carries Traffic - * Thia is the first official view of the Golden Gate International exposition island, as it will appear in 1939 A view of the recently completed San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge as seen from Yerba Buena island The view is from the shore of Yerba Buena island, looking north. Preparations for the exposition are being The city of San Francisco is in the background. Steadily increasing motor traffic is using the bridge across speeded. San Francisco held one of the most successful fairs in history in 1915.
