VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
Air Chief Inspects Low Cost Plane
Eugene Vidal (left), director of the bureau of air commerce, and
Test Pilot James Hurst, inspecting the power plant of a new-type air­
plane to be developed for the bureau from a standpoint of utility, cost,
comfort and safety, in its program for the improvement of privately
owned aircraft. The ship, an Arrow Model F low-wing monoplane, is
powered by a V-type, eight cylinder automobile motor.
Drouth-Stricken Farmers Get Government Aid
Their crops seared and withered and their farms reduced to dusty stretches of sun-baked soil, these
North Dakota farmers are forced to turn to work projects as their only means of avoiding starvation for
themselves and families. They are being put to work on water conservation and irrigation projects to re­
claim their once fertile land from the grip of drouth and barrenness.
Loyalists in Firing Line at Guadarrama
RICHEST IN JAPAN
mo Limited Partnership; director
of the Sumitomo bank and the Su­
mitomo trust, mine, warehouse and
life insurance companies.
DECATHLON WINNER
An excellent closeup view of the firing line during the attack on Guadarrama, Spain. These leftist rifle­
men aided in checking the rebel advance on Madrid at the mountain town.
Fulton Market Falls Into River
View showing the twisted mass of timbers after a 125-foot section
of the Fulton Fish Market, for many years a landmark of the lower
Manhattan waterfront, collapsed into the waters of the East river. This
is the place where former Gov. Al E. Smith worked as a young man
before he entered politics and began his famous career.
Japan’s richest man, Baron Kichi-
zaemon Sumitomo, who paid an as­
sessment of 800,000 yen on an in­
come of 3,000,000 yen, the highest
made in Japan in 1936. He is 25
years old and has been head of the
house of Sumitomo since 1926. He
was graduated from Kyoto Imperi­
al university in 1933, and a year
later married his cousin, the grand­
daughter of Prince Saionji, the last
Glenn Morris, Denver clerk, who
of the elder statesmen. Baron Su­ won the Olympic decathlon at the
mitomo is president of the Sumito­ games in Berlin.
Officers of Screen Boys’ Club
Limited to youngsters under eighteen years of age who have at
least three feature motion picture roles to their credit, the Screen Boys'
club was organized at the home of Director W. S. Van Dyke with a
nucleus of 15 charter members. It was a hilarious session—as witness
this meeting of the officers. Left to right, they are: Freddie Qartholo­
mew, president; Mickey Rooney, first vice-president, and Jackie Coop­
er. treasurer.
CHARITIES’CHIEF
James Fitzgerald, Detroit attor­
ney and secretary of the Detroit
Vincentian council, was elected
president of the National Confer­
ence of Catholic Charities at the or­
ganization's annual convention in
Seattle.