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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1936)
Thursday, December 10, 1936 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Scenes and Persons in the Current News Fire Breaks the Sabbath—and Ruins a Church Firemen are shown battling the blaze which gutted the African Baptist church of Freeport, N. Y. The fire started at 10:30. Four firemen were overcome by the dense smoke, as the entire village turned out to watch the blaze. • Veteran Models for New Half Dollar CUNARD COMMODORE 1—Wearing new uniforms and specially designed steel helmets, a battalion of the Red army parades it Moscow. 2—Edward F. McGrady (standing) confers with labor and transportation officials in San Francisco to provide food for Alaska, shut off by maritime strike. 3—M. Max Dormoy, appointed to the French cabinet post vacated by the suicide of M. Roger Salengrol. TO WED “TEDDY’S” KIN Expedition Sails for South Seas James P. Sankey of Pittsburgh, who served with the Pennsylvania Volunteer Roundheads in the Civil war and Sculptor Vittor, who is de signing the commemorative half dollar to be minted in memory of the battle of Gettysburg and for which Mr. Sankey, now in his ninetieth year, was chosen as the model. PRO GOLF CHAMPION Reginald V. Peel, who was ap pointed commodore of the fleet ol the Cunard White Star line to suc ceed the late Sir Edgar Britten. The appointment indicates that Cap tain Peel will become the perma nent commander of the S. S. Queen Mary, flagship of the fleet, which he is now commanding. He joined the Cunard line in 1900 and has com manded several big liners. Miss Mary Lowe Gaddis of Mil ton, Mass., whose engagement tc Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., grandson ot the late President Theodore Roose velt, was announced by her moth Members of the Denison-Crockett expedition of the Academy of Nat er, Mrs. Avery Gaddis. Miss Gad- ural Sciences of Philadelphia aboard their schooner “Chiva” before sail dis, who made her debut last win ing from Gloucester, Mass., for a study of anthropology and zoological ter, is a sophomore at Radcliffe college. specimens on seldom visited islands of the South Seas. * University of Iowa Tries Out Dry Night Club Youngest Commerce Body Member 7. 2. Pe a fievi N | feote P Denny Shute, professional of the West Newton, Mass., Braeburn club, with the cup he won in the national professional golfers' tour nament. Denny defeated Jimmy Thomson 3 and 2 in the final 36-hole match of the P. G. A. champion ship tournament to win this cup, and the national pro golfing title. First nighters at the latest educational experiment, the University of Iowa sponsored liquorless night club When ten-year-old Warren Rapelje received his Chamber of Com established so “that students would have home-town entertainment and would remain off dangerous high merce membership card recently at San Gabriel, Calif., he was wel ways over the week-ends.” Called the Silver Shadow, the club had its premier recently with a complete floor comed into the organization by George Constant, the president. Young show and even a wandering troubadour, Donato Petruceelli, law student, shown above. Rapelje became eligible for membership in the San Gabrici C. of C. a short time ago when he opened his own model airplane supply store GRAIN GROWING KING in his room at home. Beard Growing Champions of Japan Tractor Is Used to Launch Coast Guard Boats 1 i A new method of launching coast guard boats Into surf is demonstrated on the coast of Holland. equipment includes a tractor with caterpillar drive and a special truck for the boat Herman Trelle of Wembley, Al berta, Canada, who won the grand championship for both wheat and oats at the International Live Stock exposition and Grain and Hay show at Chicago. This is the second time in history Trelle has performed this feat, winning both titles in 1926. The Since then he has won each title several times. | Proud contestants posing after the judging in the national beard “championships” at the Koraku restaurant in Tokyo. Some of the con testants are wealthy. Some Japanese believe that long beards bring monetary good luck because the men shown on Japanese currency all have full beards.
