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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1936)
Jj “Electric Eye” Telephone Invented for Airplanes Messages Between Air and Ground Are Easily Made Communication between ground and airplanes and between under- j water submarines by means of invis ible light in two-way conversation will be made possible with an in vention perfected by A. A. Arnhym. a member of the Illinois National Guard. A photo cell of the type used for television pickup is the main feature of the new equipment. Arnhym, who is a German-born sci entist, states that the electric eye weapons will he the major factor in the next war. The photograph shows Mr. Arnhym receiving a mes sage from a plane, with It. D. I,on> gini, who nlded him. <? Man Is Improving Men with the dignity, common sense and simple greatness of a Lin coln are rare; but as time goes on the average rises. Germany’s New Zeppelin on a Test Flight From an airplane flying above it, this excellent snap of the LZ-129 was made, as the great zeppelln that was built for passenger service over the Atlantic, from Frankfurt-am-Main to Lakehurst, N. J., was maneuvered over Lake Constance on its first test flight. NEW MOVIE HEAD Portrait of H. H. Cochrane, for mer vice president of Universal Pic tures corporation, who succeeds Carl Laemmle as president. The latter sold his Interest In the company. Where the Floods Were Worst Map of the general area in the eastern United States that was swept by the recent destructive lloods. The shaded areas mark the rivers along which the devastation was most complete. Campaign for Early Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Forty years ago this spring joke smiths were making the world laugh at an amazing news item from Wurzburg, Germany. A pro fessor of physics at the university there had announced the discovery of a ray which permitted him to see through solid objects. When 4 he asked what it was he said he didn’t know—it was invisible. lie had proved it was not light, yet it would take a photograph. He frankly called it an "X” (unknown) raj. The local scientific society voted that the new ray should be called after its discoverer. So to te, day it is called either the X-ray or gt the Roentgen ray, after William V&,Koara<3 Koentgen. The National ||ttiTuberculosIs association, which is W conducting throughout April an “Early Diagnosis Campaign,’’ has for its slogan, “Fight Tuberculosis With Modern Weapons,” and calls attention to the fact that the X-ray and tuberculosis test are the weap ons It means. The illustration shows the necessary apparatus and a por trait of the immortal Koentgen. The National Tuber ulosis usso ciation’s early diagnosis campaign is receiving the aid and support of health officials, physicians and sur geons in all parts of the country. Persons who have reason to sus pect that they have contracted the disease are urgently advised to sub mit themselves to the tests, which may be given in Innumerable cities and towns in all the states, both in private laboratories and in those maintained by municipalities. Cure of tuberculosis is now comparative ly sure if treatment Is begun in Its early stages, so no time should be lost in determining Its presence. Digging Themselves Out From Flood Debris Throughout the eastern anil New England states, ns the great floods receded, the people In the devastated regions speedily began the hard task of cleaning up their cities and towns. Characteristic scenes are here pre sented. 1—WI’A workers clearing the mud and wreckage from streets In Pittsburgh. 2—View in Johnstown, Pa ns citizens were digging out the debris. 3—Man and wife In a Pittsburgh suburb doing their “spring house cleaning" after the waters had left their bungalow’. Sergeant Morgan Is Rewarded for Heroism Alaskan Flier Showed Bravery in “Flu” Epidemic Tlie Soldiers’ medal, the army’s highest peace-time award, was pinned on the breast of Master Ser geant Stanley Morgan, Alaskan flier, by Col. Henry A. Finch, com mandant of Fort Lawton, Washing ton. Morgan received the decora tion for his heroic work during the Influenza epidemic that ravaged an Alaskan settlement some time ago. He also aided in the recovery of the bodies of Wiley Post and Will Rogers. Takes First Air Trip Across U. S. at Age of 84 From covered wagon across the Indian-infested plains of the Mid dle West to luxurious air line travel Is a far cry and covers a lot of time, but Mrs. J. II. Pierson has enjoyed that experience. In celebration of her eighty-fourth birthday Mrs. Pierson flew one of the United Air Lines’Overland Trail transports from Chicago to San Francisco. It was her first flight and she liked It so well that she immediately formu lated plans for Hying across the con tinent, which she crossed hack In 18G7 in a covered wagon at the age of fifteen, two years after the Civil war was over and before the com ing of the railroads to sunny Cali fornia. View Plans for “Perfect Air Field” Philadelphia is pointing the way for the rest of the world In aerial transportation, with work being started on what will be the “perfect air terminus.” Facilities for air, rail nnd water transportation and accom modations for the mooring of lighter-than air craft are planned. Mayor S. Davis Wilson of Philadelphia, right, is seen here with Admiral King, center, head of the navy Hying corps, and Maj. A1 Williams, the navy’s speed ace, ns they inspected the plnns. Congress Discovers Leif Eriksson This gift of the Norwegian friends of America to the congress of the United States, "Leif Eriksson Dis :overs America," a copy of a larger painting by Christian Krobg in the National gallery in Oslo, was un relied the other day in Statuary hall In tho Capitol. Later it will be hung in a gallery in the senate wing, GOOD STRIVING Failure after long preservation la much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.—George Eliot yil i fTdPI Finds Relief W Safe, All jpVegetableWay She had Riven up hope of anything but partial relief until ahe learned of famous all-vegetable NR Tablets (Nature'* Remedy! But now after years of chronic consti pation and biliousness—whatachange! New pep —new color and vitality—freedom from bowel sluggishness and intestinal poisons. This all vegetable lamtivs gently stimulates the entire bowel, gives com plete, thorough elimination.t.rl mt*tl\8,1 n 25c liox. 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