NEWS OF THE DAY
IN PICTURES FROM FAR AND NEAR
Hongkong
Telegraph
PHOTONEWS
THURSDAY, FED. 27, 1936.
HAPPENINGS AS SEEN BY
'THE CAMERA'S EYE
Performing a "great mission for the Lord," Almce Semple McPherson, famed Los Angeles evangelist, plana a tour of the United States with a theatrical pageant along the Hues of the one shown here. She introduced the idea to a crowd of 2,000 enthusiastic followers sa part of the Four Squaro Church con- vention.
Occupants of "Jungletowns" in lowlands of the Sacramento River Valley in Northern California
flod to safety when the river rose and flooded vast areas of river bottom-land Mfany
of the paper.
and wooden shacks were crushed or swept away by the swollen Sacramento River, although actual
damage wan counted as slight.