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Altoona Tribune from Altoona, Pennsylvania • Page 8

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Altoona Tribunei
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Altoona, Pennsylvania
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8
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v. Instinct is animal strength-Daniel Webster. 8 Friday, Dec. 4, 1936 The Altoona Tribune ORLD NEWS FEATURE PICTURES ARTIFICIAL BREATHING SAVES BABY Here's To Our Health It's Pretty Good 'Gloomy Gil' Dobie Hurt In Bridge Crash 4X I 4 1 Jr I 1 i vr ajs. IP 1 4jjfe I I If ili GUmrur (Gloomy Gil) Dobie, right, Boston College football coach who for several years at Cornell, and his assistant, Frank Murdock, were seriously iniured when their car (shown above) crashed into a bridge abutment at Boston.

(Associated Press Photo) These three girls and three boys toasted one another with milk after they were adjudged the healthiest young persons in the nation at the annual 4-H club's congress in Chicago. Left to right: Mary Flvnn Sellers. 16, Letohatchee, C. A. Abbott, 17.

Blairs. Martha A. Ekberg. 16. Wisconsin Dells, Roy Graves, 20, Porter.

Margaret J. Topovski, 16, Wooster, Ohio, and Jerry Cowan, i Mo. (Associated Press Photo) Eight-pound Shelby Claudette Scott gurs 1M happily in an Atlanta, Ga, hospital, unaware that a miracle of artificial respiration had saved her life. Her lungs filled with water when she was born, the infant didn't draw her first breath until three hours later. She ii shown with her mother, Mrs.

C. Scott (Associated Press Photo)J si Iff lr It I 1st ii Ms XXI Ml Sir 0 MMMt Cfv I 9 a. -ill t' W. W. Radlophota DESTROYED A roaring sheet world-famous Crystal Palace in molten glass and lead.

This ra-of flame towered so high it London was burned in a raging dio picture shows the fire at itt could be seen for miles as the inferno of twisted girders and height BIG PFSH FOR ARTISTS More than 200 men and women were forcibly ejected by the police from WPA Federal Project quarters in New York, after the artists had determined upon a "stay-in" strike against impending dismissals from work relief rolls. Here the New York bluecoaU are giving them a "big push. Men and women locked arms and fought fiercely until arrested. SHE ANSWERED AN AD Blue-eyed Lillian Porter needed money to help her finish her high school course, so she turned to the advertising section of her hometown paper. There, reasonably enough, she found a "want ad" for dancers.

She answered ii. Now she has a long-term contract in the movip 1 1 i LJii 5t ifl 'MJsL E3WB FEMINISTS IN ARGENTINA Inter-American Peace Commission women as they met on arrival in Buenos Aires. Left to right: Mrs. Juanita D. de Mercoli, Argentine Suffrage vice president; Maria Burmeister, executive member; Mrs.

Matilde de Lemos. Mendoza delegate; Carmen Barreda, Argentine Suffrage vice president; Davila Home; Marta Vergara, Chilean member; Carolina Bar-jeda; Mrs. Ana C. G. de Zucal and Miss Doris Stevens, chairman of the Inter-American commission.

SPUDS FOR THE STEJKXBS While peace negotiations progressed for settlement of the "sit-down" trike of 1,900 in the Midland Steel Products Company plant at Detroit, wives and sweethearts prepared meals for the strikers, as above. Meanwhile an automobile plant reported suspension of some departments, because of shortage of majerial from the Midland plant AT THE POWER SHOW More speed and greater power in automobiles are indicated by this new machinery arrangement exhibited at the power show in New York. Here, Ralph de Palma, former champion motor racer, is shown with a new type of caterpillar piesel engine already used in airplanes and dirigibles. 1 mh Mill p-s. jj wmmmMmm' 14 DIE AS MOUVTAIX COLLAPSES Heavy in the mountains behind Juneau.

Alaska, caused 14 deaths with more than a score ef injured wh i landslides plunged down a mountain into an apartment house district Above, relief crews dig through mud. rock, and shattered tirubers to rescue entombed jersgrfs- in some places ihs mass was. 4flifift deep. Ordwaj's, from.W. W.

AS BIG AS HERSELF Little Carol Williams shows how thrilled she was when permitted to hold a doll as big as herself, at the dell and toy show in New York. The Shirley Tempi influence li seen in many at the show. OUTPOST Rebel soldiers lie in accordmg to reports, had ar- Alcazar are in background at wait in an outpost overlooking rived within striking distance of upper left. Toledo, Spain, for Loyalist who, the city. Ruined towers of the.

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