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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.