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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1936)
Pay Day on the Makale Front, and No Cafe in Sight As in most places, pay day is the best liked day on the Italians' Maknle front in Ethiopia. 1 lien coins are stacked In neat piles and handed out for services rendered, provided, of course, that the soldier lias not been killed or wounded between payrolls. One of the few disadvantages Is the fact that there is no winery or cafe in which to spend the money. Weight Thrower Sets New Record in N. Y. Meet Irving Folswurtshny of Rhode Is land, who set a new National A. A. U. record for the 35-pound weight mwsmsmm throw witli a throw of 58 feet 1 inch at the Squadron A armory in New York city. The old record was 57 feet 9 Indies. The college record of 57 feet IV* inches wus made by Torrance in 1994. “Father of Half-Tone” Still Alive •X-v.v.v. v. .. ^ Frederic E. Ives, at eighty, Is a kindly, white-bearded old man, whose mind is undimmed by the years, and whose interest in the things which have made his life—the photograph, newspaper illustrations, and the like—is as alive today as I1 was back in 1878 when he patented the first practically successful process of halftone engraving. Mr. Ives is shown in his laboratory carrying on experiments in color photography. Fires Further, Weighs Less, Costs More Major General Upton Blrnie, Jr., chief of the field artillery of the United States army (left), and Lt. Col. Jacob L. Devers, commander of the First battalion, Sixteenth field artillery, are standing beside one of the army’s new 75-milllmeter field guns that was demonstrated nt Fort Myer, Va. The firing range 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 tliaL 7,500 pounds. The new 75’s weigh only 2,000 pounds and can be drawn by horse or tractor. First Marathoner to Carry Torch in Olympic Games S. Loues, a Greek shepherd, who won the first modern Olympic Mara thon ran In 1 SIX* in Athens, was designated by Greece to curry the Olympic symbolic torch, which will burn in the Berlin stadium during the games next summer. Not a Passenger Was Injured in This Wreck When this Rock Island passenger train, bound from Chicago to Kansas City, left the rails near Excelsior Springs, Mo., and rolled down a 30-foot embankment, fortunately not a single passenger was injured. T»re« Pullman cars and one diner went into the ditch, and the only person hurt was a brakeman Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—Churl Machida, appointed finance minister of Japan to succeed Koreklyo Takahashl, who was assassi nated during the recent military revolt. 2—Summer homes in the Kankakee river valley in Illinois threat ened with destruction hy Ice jams and flood. 3—Group of Japanese ••fascists” who were responsible for tiie fu tile uprising in Tokyo. Gets Washington Award for Industrial Research Directs Quest for More Comfort in the Home The Washington award for the year 103G was presented to Charles Franklyn Kettering for his high ehlevements in guiding industrial research towards the greater com fort, happiness and safety of man kind in the home and on the high way. The Washington award Is conferred Annually on outstanding members of the engineering pro fession who are chosen for the honor by an award committee of 18 members representing the five na tional engineering societies In the United States. Working Day and Night on Grand Coulee Dam mb 1 1 .wn !■ .. .» ■< - ■ ■ ——«—* Here Is a pretty scene at the site of the federal government’s huge power project on the Columbia river as work Is rushed to complete the Grand Coulee dam, to harness the river and to supply electric energy to the countryside. Nightfall does not bring a halt to work, as banks of lights illuminate the excavation. Firestones on a Tire-Less Vehicle These members of the Firestone tire clan are in Madeira enjoying a ride on a vehicle that has no tires—not even wheels. They are “skidding” from a high point to the valley guided by two natives holding the ropes. Left to right on the vehicle are: Mr. and Mrs. llarvey S. Firestone, Jr., of Akron, Ohio, and Roger S. Firestone. Comm. Bastedo Is President’s New Naval Aide Commander Paul H. Bastedo, U. S. Navy, who was appointed naval aide to President ltoosevelt, effec tive in May. 1030. Commander Bas —iinmnnr ••••• mmmmw.y.Tt'-msMk ;-aiiiiii ..— jw— smm tedo succeeds Capt. William Wilson Brown, who resumes sea duty fol lowing his assignment to the White House. BRISBANE THIS WEEK Maybe Peace, After All Building in a Big Way A Level .Headed King One Strike Method The real war news from Europe —It sounds like peace news- -Is that Arthur Hrlahanr England has re fused France’s request for im mediate assist ance In forcing Germany’s arm ies from the Rhineland. Eng land even hints that France may be partly to blame. France appeals to all members of the League of Nations “in a fight for peace.’’ mu, wun r.ngiana holding hacs. other signers of the Locarno pact are not inclined, in the language of the day, to “stick their necks out.” The United States is doing and spending In a big way. The Public Works administration says more than *1.000,000,000 worth of proj ects have been completed, with $2, 200,000,000 of other work still under construction. Twelve hundred mil lions have been spent for materials, h!1 Involving labor; *639,000,000 for wage payrolls, hy PWA. Organized labor presents a building program of $.'100,000,000 to occupy tlie Idle building trades. If money holds out, and the Infla tion bonds keep their value, this will he remembered as the building nge. A level-headed young man is the new Eugllsh king. After seeing the new giant Cunarder named for Ids mother, walking seven tnlles up and down in It, he visited the slums of Glasgow, culled the worst and “red dest" In England. Some ultra “left wing" city councilors refused to lie presented to Idm. “That’s perfectly all right," said the king. “Tell them I’ll come and have tea with them Instead.” This lie did. Two thousand ship workers cheered and called him "Good Old Teddy.” The king, who visited Individual tenements, knocking at the doors, /uittlng haliies on the head, keeps M> witli (lie times. No English king li«l Unit before. There are different ways of han dling strikes, depending on public officials. At Akron, Ohio, a strike of milk drivers disturbs consuming families and producing farmers. Herman K. Werner, public prose cutor, says coldly: “Anyone who In terferes with milk deliveries will face guns, and the order will be •Shoot to kill.’ ” Akron has 16,000 men out of work; too many, at one time, for ■hat sized place, and the city Is tired of it. How many millions would be killed, gassed, bombed, ripped to pieces by shrapnel und machine gun fire before Hitler or the na tion back of him could be persuaded tiiat be is not u reincarnation of Frederick the Great, or Napoleon? This time a murderous war would be deliberate. No grand duke heir to an imperial throne lias been mur dered to supply the spark. The Department of Commerce cannot explain the Arkansas air crush, on January 14, that killed 17. It says some passenger "may have Incapacitated the pilot or In terfered with controls,” The local sheriff says somebody Inside the plane tired a kind of oistol. Bullet murks were found. Let air passengers before em ourklng pass before the electric de vice that reveuls instantly a pistol ?r any other metal object. No de cent passenger would object. Guns ind knives might be “parked” on rutering a plane. Japan is the question mark in -.he war situation, but Japan would lot deliberately autagonize all her mstomers and friends in western ■Surope by striking at Bussia, In i wur Interesting to all of them. it is probable that Japan this Ime, as in the last war, w ould send ‘observers,” thoughtful and silent, o watch the white races cutting »ach others’ throats. Mrs. Akeley, who used to help ter husband hunt lions and gorillas >efore he died, has been in Africa m her own account and reports hut in Southeast Africa natives :liug to their old ways and meth ods; nothing will change them. The chief who is sick wants a witch doctor to come, howl, dance and tell him that he has been be witched into swallowing a small crocodile, which Is biting his in sides. The treasury finds that in the first eight months of this fiscal year it has accumulated a deficit of $2, 410,000,000. The country took in $2„'148,000,000 and spent $4,758,000, 00(5'. In prosperous times the coun try’s total income is $90,000,000,000; but when will those “times” come buck? • King Fatbira* Synjlc%i«, liM, WXO Servlo*.
