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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1936)
** ° V V t: N 1 *■ K 1> A M O II |{ o X I C L E TH ItEE Fires Further, Weighs Less, Costs More Pay Day on the Makale Front, and No Cafe in Sight Major General Upton Iiirnie, Jr., chief of the field artillery of the United States army (left), and I,t. Col. Jacob L. Devers, commander of the First battalion, Sixteenth field artillery, are standing beside one of the army’s new 75-millimeter field guns that was demonstrated at Fort Myer, Va. The firing ran Be of the new guns Is 13,500 yards, roughly 5.000 yards more than the old 75's. This is equal to the range of the 155's, which weigh more than 7,500 pounds. The new 75’s weigh only 2.000 pounds and can be drawn by horse or tractor. The new guns, which cost approximately $.1,000 more than the old 75’s, were taken to Washington to be shown to the military affairs committees of congress. Jubilee on IIis Firfet Birthday Not a Passenger Was Injured in This Wreck V? ' t u tsm kb *UN I ¿ZT W-V': *\y'' 1 ) 7 ■ if* ■ ~ «r.- *** ‘ •> £"^* rna* 55; ■:**? ,«8L t * * . t ' , v-JX A X Ml IN .Jl ; !l- . lay. at th- j y '; ’ when this Rock Island passenger train, bound from Chicago to Kansas City, left the rails near Ex- HI« » Jtk e r, Boo Boo , springs, Mo., and rolled down a 80-foot embankment, fortunately not a single passenger was injured, r Hutu. r Here ». y T an;1 “ b? ' ; Z M m Z w Z 1 i t L l ’ulman cars arul one diner went into the ditch, and the only person hurt was a brakeman. Iloo Iloo Is teaching her offspring to eat Dlrtnu.ij case. SETS NEW RECORD B L U E B O N N E T G IRL Boastful Diary of Xerxes Discovered in Iran mm j * sl /*r A. »tnrW- ■m: sum • Î ài? y y M . ~ . ."van,- r' lns> l,'i>lwartahny of Itliodc Is- ,nf "*ln Sf*t a new national A. A. v rf<,,r,l tor the 35-pound weight nch" n ^ row ° f feet 1 Te® v ,lle S(lun<*ron A armory In "ik city. The old record wus ‘ fe*t 0 Inches. «V . .. J Winner in a contest of more than GOO girls for the honor of being Dallas’ most perfect photographic model, Irene Caldwell, twenty-two, became the official “blue bonnet girl" of the Texas Centennial expo sition. As such she will be official nostess of the exposition when It opens June 6. The “blue bonnet gown" she wears in this picture was designed for formal official occa sions. The hat carries a sprig of blue bonnet, the Texas state flower; the dress has blue bonnets delicate ly traced upon it, and the gloves are “blue bonnet blue."