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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1936)
WEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. fEDFORD, OREGON", WINNERS OF OLYMPIC BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT HUGE TRESTLE SPEEDS GRAND COULEE CONSTRUCTION COOGAN IN DEATH SUIT 4 All of these members of the Universal Pictures team of Hollywood will oe on me Mnn representing the United States at the Olympic Games, for they won the Olympic cage tournament at New York by defeating the highly rated McPherson, Kas.. Oilers 44 to 43. Left to right: Sam .Baiter A t Mollner, Carl Knowles, Frank Lubin, Duane Swanson, Don Piper and Carl Shy. (Associated Press rhoto x At 3 iJlirr?1 Winter's coia over, pouring of concrete at the Grand Coulee dm project on the Columbia river In Washington has been speeded. The trestle here, nearly 200 fee. high, Is only a temporary structure for use during the pouring. Mixed concrete Is hauled In huge buckets on flat cars from the "House of Magic" mixing plant to the "hammer-head" crane atop ths trestle and lowered into the rectangular forms. (Asso ciated Press Photo) 1 ' , Defending himself against a $300,000 damage suit brought by rel atives of his friends, Trent "Junior" Jurkln and Robert L. Horner, writer, Jackie Coogan Is pictured as he described In a Los Angeles court the automobile accident In which they and his father, John Coogan, were killed. The film actor denied accusations that his father, who drove the machine, was Intoxicated. Associated Proas Photo) STORM VICTIMS GET FIRST-AID THEY'RE RECONSTRUCTION DAYS AT JOHNSTOWN NOW BLAST LEAVES ROOF, BUT NO WALLS Hers Is a tragic scene In the Methodist church at Tupelo. Miss, hastily converted Into a hospital after a tornado struck the town, kill ing more than 180 persons. A mother (upper left) Is shown watch ng her child dying, while a physician and helper treat another victim, (Associated Press Photni Six thousand workmen shoveled away at the streets of Johnstown, Pa., under the eyes of 1,600 na tional guardsmen as the city went about the gigantic task or repairing tne widespread damage done by the recent floods. This picture tells the story. (Associated Press Photo This was the freak result of an explosion, apparently caused by an accumulation of gas, at tht horn of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Burris at Kansas City. Although the blast blew out all four walla of the home, It left the roof Intact, supported by the room partitions. Neither of the occupants was seriously hurt (Asso ciated Press Photo! CAMERA CATCHES DEATH 07 STEEPLECHASE FAVORITE FALSE ALARM PUTS FLOOD VICTIMS TO FLIGHT . txt n ml 1 ff ii AIMEE'S DAUGHTER DENIES ROMANCE &KfV fc & When reports spread that the dam above Johnstown, Pa., lad broken aa It did In 1889, the people of ths city scurried for the hills and safety on foot and any other means of transportation available. But tht alarm proved false. (Universal Newsreel. copyright 1936 from ths Associated Press) TWO KILLED IN FAST EXPRESS WRECK ;:eYL killed. Persian oun n; ,i,ivv han at Alntree. England. Aveng of him. The horse broke his nsck and was on the ground. (Associated Press Photo) Reports of her engagement to her mother's attornay, Jacob Moldel, were declared "a little premature" by Roberta Ssmple, daughter of Evangelist Almse Sample McPherson. Moidel and Miss Semplo ar photographed here together, (Associated Press Photo CAR SINKS IN FREAK CRASH 1 jrj;,--i LJ, ThUwaa the freak result of what ordinarily would be a v.ry-.impl. sort of an accident. The automobile struck and broks a f re plug on Kansas City street. The ensuing flood from the broken plug washed t deep hole Into which ths car sank. (Associated Press Photo) NAVY'S NEW FLOATING FLYING FIELD LAUNCHED 3W These are the wrecked locomotive and baggage ears of a fast eprese train which sldtswlped a frslght train at a eurve near Manor, Pa., with a wrecking crew clearing away the debris. Two engineers were killed and two flrsmen Injured, but none of the train's passengers was hurt. .(.Associated Prebs Photo). Hsre It an air view of tht new aircraft carrier Vorktown at the slid down the wsyt at Newport News, Va. Utr being shrltttntd by Mrt. Franklin D. RooetvtJfc lAtsoclated Press Photo)
