The Hermiston herald., December 24, 1936, Image 6

THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
Work on World’s Largest Dam Progresses Rapidly
Thursday, December 24, 1936
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
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View showing the progress made on the Grand Coulee dam project in Washington. The waters of the
Columbia river swirl about the partially-completed west bank foundations as the river is being diverted from
its course, so that construction may be carried on in mid-channel. It is expected that this task of diversion
will take four months.
Bob Servis Wins Florida Golf Prize
POTATO QUEEN
1—Georges Bonnet, former minister of finance, now slated to beeome French ambassador to the United
States. 2—Ceremonies in London at which the Duke of York was officially proclaimed King George VI of Eng­
land. 3—Generalissimo Chiang-Kai-shek of China who was recently kidnaped by rival war lords.
Chicago’s “Perfect” Driving School
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Former King Edward VIII of
person of petite Ellen Härkönen,
Bob Servis, (left), Dayton, Ohio, low amateur and winner of Henry twenty-two years old of Pelkie,
England who abdicated his throne
L. Doherty trophy at Miami Fla., examines his prize with Ralph Guldahl Mich., far away in the Upper Penin­
that he might marry Mrs. Wallis
(right), Western Open champion from St. Louis, Mo., who scored 281 sula, was crowned in Detroit as a
Models of street intersections with dense traffic are used to teach Warfield Simpson, former Baltimore
to take first prize of $2,500 among professionals in the Miami Biltmore climax to a banner crop year of traffic regulations to students at the safe driving school of Lane Tech­ beauty. Edward was succeeded by
$10,000 Open golf tournament.
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his brother the Duke of York,
nical high school.
How Are Your Complexes Today?
A SON OF ZAHAROFF?
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Cage Season Calls College Stars
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Kensington shop in London is 67-
year-old Hyram Barnett Zaharoff,
shoemaker, who claims he is the
son of Sir Basil Zaharoff, munitions
king who died recently. Shoemaker
Zaharoff, who plans to claim the
fabulous munitions fortune left by
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the "merchant of death,” says he birdcage affairs, demonstrated at the recent inventors’ congress at Port­
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Arthur H. Kent, of Chicago, who
was recently sworn in by Secretary
Morgenthau, as new assistant gen­
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ment. He fills the office made
vacant by the recent resignation of
Clayton M. Turney.
With basketball succeeding football in the interest of athletic fans,
leading college and university fives are entering a strenuous season.
Photograph shows Coach Arthur "Dutch” Lonborg of Northwestern uni­
versity, Evanston, Ill., as he diagrams plays for his first string squad.
Left to right, standing, are: Voights, Trankle, McMichaels, Smith and
Vance.
Night Turned Into Day on Golden Gate Span
Even Tiny Switzerland Keeps Its Military Fit
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Impressed by growing armies, navies and air forces of the nations that border it, Switzerland is not to be
caught napping by a sudden invasion. Its tiny, but well trained military force is put through periodic
paces sich as the above cavalry drill during maneuvers recently, near Geneva.
The world's largest sodium lighting installation, the first completed section of the Golden Gate bridge to
Oakland, looking toward San Francisco from Yerba Buena island. Nine hundred and twenty-four sodium
lights, the equivalent of 35 full moons makes the highway so bright that car headlights are unnecessary.