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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1928)
' i I a"BS Events of the Week in Pictures . OFF. FOR PERU JNRUBBER:bOAT) ! l;; ; - J BIRDSEYE VIEW OF STAGE SETTING FOR ANNUAL SHRINE CONCLAVE a r1 . : - - : ; 7k- TOOK LINDY ON HIS FIRST FLIGHT r -v If ; 3 i I A r f W """te JBJjt; ; t 3L4'.'. , Jji i . crf-" tr, ,fin tinifrei-Tuhber boat with a bright orange fail two young ; ,'Cfmuiu hare let oat from Cincinnati, 0., down the Ohio river en ; ot to Peru, Sooth America, a 6,000-mile trip. The youthj, WiMiam Bockhockcr, in the bow of the boat, and Otto Gray, in the tern, are ahowrt at Louisville, Ky., on the way south. They plan 'to lira animals and jungle life in South America. " HEADS WORLD METHODIST MEET 'More' than 100,000 Shrir.erj are to gather at Miami, Fla., May 1-3 for the fifty-fourth Imperial Council ression of the order.T Thli photo ahowi nmc of the preparations made for tiieir entertainment; a birdieye view of tht Garden of Allah and Biscayne boulevard, at Miami, where the convention parade will be held. Spectator atands have been erected in the center of the double parkway. m - Saves Dog From Ice ' FRENCH ENGINEER DESIGNS ICE-BLOCK LANDING FIELDC If K,nu:!R BADGES I I err isr v IT! , ' f ' , &2P5f3 Lt ! fV ' Fl'' . . A French engineer, Gaaton Mc lA'ai . TtiWr " j J f : ! atlcntic planes. By a system of yT - " ' fv 4 '.fy 111" - - : s t 1 t ' - - ?K Mi Al Smith's Choice ' ra w V-v'7y ! ', .J m - 1 : 77 v ( V. - i , ii 1- - ram - art w. .1 P- TtMKD TO BJI"; A go ''-1 TKE COMMITTEE I WIJ. (TAKE OPrHD MILUDH3 REUOMJ3 ItiiXS, I ' 1 i . -i 1 : : : ... - . ... ... .. " , ,. . .. ! i HrlM p fefe5-4 ' "i-J;;: fill 1 tt j : : : : " ' A French engineer, Gaaton Monrlaque, has designed this unique scheme for landing fields for trans it : atlcntic planes. By a system of amonia pipes, leading to the ocean bottom, huge ice blocks are farmed I' upon which the landing fields can rest. This photo shows a drawing of Mourlaque'i icheme. ; , V7:7f 7 U. S. PILOT GREETED IN ORIENT - . - -' ' o , y Bishop Joseph F. Berry, senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, has opened the quadrennial conference of Methodists in , Kansas City, Mo. a convention lasting through May and with Methodism's leaders from all parts of the world registered. Ui.ihop I Berry has reached the retirement ago and his successor will bo appointed by the conference delegates. . When Policeman George Lane, of Duluth, Minn., was unable to reach a little terrier that floated out on a cuke of ice on Lake Su perior, with, a net, ho plunged waist-deep into the Jcy waters and brought the terrifiid terrier ashore. Lane and the rescued pup are shown above. Lane had been the subject of unfavorable comment during a recent raid on dogs in Duluth when he did his duty in shooting unmuzzled ca nines as a prevention of rubies. High Commissioner i DAWES' WORK AS BOY SURVEYOR Choice of George JlAVan 1 Namce, above, New 'iork public j service commissioner, Dy Gover nor Alfred E. Smith as his prc convcntion manager, is believed in Democratic .circles to fore shadow his choice as the next chairman of the Democratic na tional committee should Smith I forces be successful. '"f-hr-ii . i 7 ) -nr- tho Ohio River and Western railroad, nrar i Bellairo, 6., on which Vice President Charles G. Dawes worked us a ' aurveyor years ago. Ihvestigation of the nnrrow gaUfre road-by th, Ohio utilities committco has been begun, the rti'.road seeking to abandon the rtad because of its failure to pay dividend. Origin ally this trestle was straight, but a landslide converted it into a If l ' ter "S" So perfect was tho survey made that the structure has remained intact, without repair, Xer rr.or than 20 yu Will-o-the-Wisp ! . Colonel Arthur A. Goebcl, winner of the Dole flight, San Fran ' Cisco to Honolulu, snapped on his arrival in Tokyo, Japan, at the start of a tour of the Orient. He is shown among a welcoming crowd at the Japanese capital. Back in the days when Charles Lindbergh was a student of engi.' neering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he took his first airplane ride with Pilot Russ Overly, right, a wartime flyer. Over ly now is a tire salesman and hasn't taken a flight in two years, while Lindbergh well, the world knows the story. Lindy is shown to the left as he appeared while a student of aviation shortly after leaving the university. Below is Overly's plane the ono in which . Lindbergh bgan his air career. ' : . 1 NATURE STARTS LEGAL BATTLF h.t - " .. . . m ' ; Uky , Whether scenic beauty and a batliing beach, or the production of oil is more important is the question raised in California courts -where Nature has given this stretch of beach near ScaclifT, Cal., both gifts. A hot battle is in progress betweett thos4 who seek to bar oil drilling and those who want the swimmers to go elsewhere. The derricks are erected right on the shora line an.d .U is beir.f taken out by rigs which, at high tide, are lapped by the waves. ' PENSION BRINGS WEDDING BELLS " Sir William H. Clark, appointed Great Britain's first high com missioner to Canada,1 bogan his career in public service as a derk In the trade department of th government in 1899v . -1 -- 1 Fred .Dillon, above, has been chasing lights for the past year and a half. ' He's superintendent of 'the U. S. lighthouse sen-ice, and is' shown on arrival at Los Angeles, Cal.. after completing a trip in, which he visited every lighthouso in the United States and its possessions, including Porto Rico, Alaska and Hawaii. It has taken him 19 months to fc.lfc.'S-- ZiXKli Vluf ttCKii x i iii v j u m- ."'f II I U X Yl s v' Tf TV I S - - - i 1 1 i - r r--l I' .Si ' v BIS , . O T -7 il Jit s n - u ml- itfty i? ss1S1sl. 1 :z: A view of the model of a new Lincoln memorial to be erected at Lincoln City, Ind., on display at Indianapolis, Ind. Designed by Thomas Ilibbcn, New Vork and Indianapolis architect, inset, it is tho first monument, other than a 'marker, to be erected by Indiana at Lincoln City, where Lincoln's mother ia buried at Nancy Hanks Memorial parlu. " , Andrew Jackson, 84? Camden"."" N.Tj.; Civil war veteran has bai oui v TZ T is Tng for -ldi p" l2 t m 6n h" h0UM due' Jackson hM ! Wh f 1,1 ,0,;frc,sma? h0 hM '"ceeeded in obtaining $65 a now, and Mrs. Amanda Boulton. 86, hi, housekeeper, hai prapoMii .ht they rnarrjr. - "if, ic,p year .. ,h eeper " PP?
