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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1937)
FRIDAY, JANUARY ii«, t i m T H E B O N N E V I L LE D A M C H R O N I C L E THREE Mail Planes Used to Reseed Burned Forest Land Nation Hails President's Birthday One of the form er mail planes used by the government which is now being used to scatter seed over burned-over forest land. The compartments once used for m ail have been rebuilt as seed bins with trap doors in the bottoms which can be released by the pilot. The planes carry about 800 pounds of seed. These two youngsters who have been helped in their fight against infantile paralysis, joined with Col. Carl Byoir, general director for the President’s Birthday ball, in wishing the Chief Executive a happy Jan uary 30. New Navy Chief Assumes His Duties Passengers Sail Strikebound Ship From Hawaii When the 31 m embers of the crew of the British steam er Limerick struck at Honolulu in sympathy with Admiral William H. Standley, (left) who retired recently as chief of American m aritim e strikers, six passengers en route to New Zealand on the steamer took over the jobs and naval operations, greets his successor, Admiral William D. Leahy, the Limerick left on schedule. Here are three learning about the compass, facing two hour shifts at the wheel formerly chief of the bureau of navigation of the Navy department. night and day. Left to right: S. Denize, Capt. A. Norton, A. D. Vickers and F. Hardy-Webb. GOLF STAR MARRIES Miss Joyce Wethered, the noted English golfer, who was m arried in St. George’s, in London recently, to Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, whom she met on the links at Hoylake last year. Many golfing friends attended the ceremony. Chinese Armies Clash in Kidnaping Crisis Animosities between rival war lords in China which led to the kidnaping recently of General Chiang Kai- shek, leader of the Nanking Nationalist government, by the rebel General Chang Hsueh-liang at Sianfu, Shensing province, resulted in clashes between the factions. Above is a section of the nineteenth route army Spacious Tropics Forty per cent of the earth’s sur which remained loyal to General Chiang. It distinguished itself some years ago in the defense of Chapei against the Japanese. face lies within the tropics. WINS SCIENCE AWARD Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, thirty- two-year-old chemist c * the Rocke feller Institute for Medical Re search of Princeton, N. J., who re cently received the $1,000 prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was awarded the prize for his discovery of the nature of the disease-produc ing viruses that cause influenza, in fantile paralysis and common colds.
