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
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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.