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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1937)
FRIDAY, MAY 21, H W T H E B O N N E V I L L E DAM C H R O N I C L E THREE Congressmen Inspect Heavy Artillery Trains Bridge Builders Drive Golden Rivet D uring a recen t visit of 220 congressm en and senators to F o rt Monroe, Va., they inspected the artillery railw ay train s of the Fifty-second coast artillery as shown above. On the gun c a r in civilian clothes is chairm an of the house m ilitary affairs com m ittee, R ep resen tativ e L ister Hill of A labam a, accom panied by com m anding officers of the Fifty-second railw ay coast artillery. The la st rivet was recently driven in the Golden G ate bridge a t San Francisco. With m any notables witnessing the cerem onies, a crew of iron-hatted riveters drove a golden rivet into the span, signalizing com pletion of the stru ctu ra l steel work. Family Has Four D. A. R. Generations “Attractometer” Takes Guesswork Out of Love P ictu red on th e ir way to visit with Mrs. R oosevelt are rep resen ta tives of four generations of the D aughters of the A m erican Revolution. Left to rig h t a re M rs. E. J. Cowen, seventy-eight, g reat-grandm other; M rs. G ary E. W alters, fifty-seven, g randm other; M rs. Seym our Thom as, All the guessw ork has been taken out of love by a group of M. I. T. students at Cam bridge, M ass., who thirty-four, m other, and four-year-old Joan M arie Thom as. Joan is hold have invented w hat they call the “ a ttra c to m e te r,” which received a thorough workout a t the W alker M e ing corsage which was presented to Mrs. Roosevelt. All are residents m orial building recently, when the “5:15 club” gave a dance. Above photograph shows Phyllis P urcell of Quincy, and E. Miles Brow n of Norwood, M ass., taking the test to learn who loves who, and how much. of W ashington, D. C. RULES ON SECURITY ACT Amelia Prepares for World Flight Again Judge Scott Wilson of the United S tates C ourt of Appeals at Boston, M ass., who w rote a recent opinion holding the unem ploym ent insur ance and old-age benefit provisions of the federal social security act to A m elia E a rh a rt, fam ous av iatrix , as she exam ined h er plane a t the Lockheed factory in Burbank, Calif., be unconstitutional, on the ground w here it was being rep aired in p rep aratio n for a new s ta rt of a round-the-w orld flight. A previous attem p t th a t they violate sta te ’s rights. ended when the landing g ear of h er plane collapsed during a take-off a t Luke field, in the H aw aiian islands. YOUNGEST DEAN Mss F ran ces M cLaughlin, twenty- one, assistan t dean of women at the U niversity of P ittsburgh, is one of the youngest deans in A m erican col leges. Two y ears ago, a leader in m any cam pus activities, she was Alma M ater Queen. She has charge of the women’s placem ent bureau and women’s fraternities.