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About The Hermiston herald. (Hermiston, Or.) 19??-1984 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1937)
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Auto Industry Ready for Peak Year as Strike End Thursday, February 25, 1937 Scenes and Persons in the Current News • / i *. . ili 1—William S. Knudsen, vice president of General Motors, who signed the agreement for his company which ended the costly motor strike. 2—Last vigil of the “sit-down” strikers before they marched out of the plant in Flint, Mich. 3—Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan, who conducted negotiations that led to solution of strike difficulties. Salute of Daggers for II Duce TO WED ERIN’S ENVOY 1—Members of the Sailors Union of the Pacific Coast as they cast ballots to end the costly marine strike. 2—Speaker William B. Bankhead (center) shown with Congressmen Hatton W. Sumner of Texas and U. S. Guyer of Kansas studying the President’s proposal for reorganizing the Supreme court. 3—President Roosevelt, who recently recommended to Congress legislation reorganizing the federal judiciary and the Su preme court. G. B. Shaw Sits for the Sculptor CINDERELLA HEIRESS Th 4 y - Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady of New York, widow of the utilities mag nate, whose forthcoming marriage in Rome after Easter to William J. Babington Macaulay, Irish Free scocc-s -, State minister to the Vatican, was revealed by friends recently. It was also reported that the ceremony probably will be performed by Car With drawn daggers, his personal bodyguard salutes Mussolini dur dinal Pacelli, Papal secretary of ing the celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the state, who was a guest at the Brady Blackshirts. This dagger-salute, incidentally, is supposed to date back mansion at Manhasset, L. I., during his recent visit to this country. to the arrogant emperors. = th RESCUED FROM MINE Peter Robert Johnson, thirty-six- year-old coal mine operator, who was rescued alive from the Pitts- vein mine at Flemington, W. Va., after he had been buried by a cave in for a week. CCC workers and other volunteers, aided by the en tombed man’s dog, worked 18 hour shifts, 24 hours a day to save John- son. The mine operators rescue was regarded as one of the most amazing feats on record. Lillian Elifsen, maid in a West Englewood, N. J., home, took a day off to visit New York when she heard that she had inherited $600,- 000 from her fester father in Nor way, bat she is going to hold her job until the fortune is turned over to her. Lillian’s family name is Petersen and she was born in the United States, but hen she was George Bernard Shaw, British playwright and caustic critic of mod two years old she was adopted by ern life (left), pictured in London with the sculptor Sava Botzaris and a Norwegian shipbuilder and was the bust the latter is making of him which is to be cast in bronze and gilt. taken by him to live in Norway. Ür it. De Forest’s New "Dy nathem” Fights Flu KING’S BIRTHDAY Snow Queen Statue Wins College Cup King Farouk I of Egypt, whose seventeenth birthday recently was observed throughout his nation by his subjects. The only son of the late King Fuad and Her Majesty, Queen Nazli, he acceded to the throne last April upon his father’s Florence Allen, of Birmingham, Ala.. Queen of the Snows, presents death. a cup to Joseph Fogarty, of Newburg, N. Y., representing Delta Tau Delta fraternity, which made the best snow statue, picked by judges at the annual winter carnival here. The statue shows the founder of Dart mouth greeting the carnival queen. Dr. Lee De Forest, wizard of radio and talking pictures, took a look at the influenza epidemic and decided something ought to be done. So, he offered his latest electrical invention in Los Angeles, the “dyna- thern,” to a world suffering from coughs, sneezes and aching muscles. Built on radio principles, the dynathern uses ultra-short waves over a small field. The patient is placed within the range of these impulses. It attacks the organs internally, relieving congestion. Two Men Escape Uninjured in Freak Accident U. S. Army Demonstrates Its Landing Efficiency 1 I ■ 11 » I pt - • 1 First equipment brought ashore by the U. S. army, taking over Cabrillo beach, near San Pedro, Calif., in preliminary landing exercises, included tractor«, trucks, field and machine guns. Photograph shows ■ tractor Two men in an automobile crushed between two street cars luckily escaped injur, in a freak accident and trucks being put on the beach to demonstrate with what efficiency the army can disembark its troops and in downtown San Francisco. John A. Toso, driver of the machine, said he attempted to get ahead of a streel gear in the event of hostile attack upon our shores. I car. Another trolley car coming from the opposite direction cut him off with the result that he was rammed between them.
