VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
Scenes and Persons in the Current News
Touring the Country by Dog Power
1—Scene at Lakehurst, N. J., when the great German dirigible Hindenburg arrived. 2—Armored cars of
Troop A, First armored car squadron, United States army, taking part in "cavalry” maneuvers at Fort Rus
sell, Texas. 3—Mustafa Nahas Pasha, leader of the Wafd party, who Is the new premier of Egypt.
Stream-Lining Is Taken Up by Japan
Forced by ill health to live outdoors, Karl Lindauer is seeking recov
ery by traveling 25,000 miles in a “covered wagon” drawn by dogs that
he has befriended. Lindauer started with two animals and now has 11
“huskies” to pull his cart. This photograph of him and his equipage was
made at San Gabriel, Calif.
Roosevelt Starts Buddy Poppy Drive
This is the recently completed streamlined electric locomotive of the Japanese government railway which
will run on the Tokaldo line from Tokyo to Numazu. It is the first of such locomotives built in that country.
Gen. Pershing Visits His Old Home Town
The annual sale of the buddy poppies by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars was officially started when President Roosevelt received the first
poppy from little Miss Iria Arlene Hildebrant of Eaton Rapids. Mich.
She came from the home for widows and orphans of ex-service men.
Scotland Yard Men Fingerprinted
To the older residents of Laclede, Mo., Gen. John. J. Pershing is still ‘‘Jack,’’ and they greeted him warmly
when he recently made what he called his last visit to his home town.
Barber for 72 Years
Bars Women From Shop
Melrose, Mass.—“No women
allowed" reads a sign in eighty-
four-year-old William T. Klrmes'
barber shop.
Klrmes. a barber for 72 years
and claimant to the title of the
oldest active barber In point of
service In Massachusetts, bars
women from his shop because
"they are only 25 and 5O-cent cus
tomers." "Each one brings a
crowd, monopolizing the shop
and driving away better trade.“
No. 1 Fire Chief
Is GranteJ Award
by U. S. Chamber
Chief O. J. Parker of the Atlanta
fire department has been granted
the national grand award In a coun
trywide contest for excellence in fire
prevention work. The award was
made by the United States Cham
ber of Commerce. A plaque in rec
ognition of it was presented to
Chief Parker in Washington by
President Roosevelt.
Greatly impressed by the modern methods of crime prevention and
detection as exemplified in the routine of Los Angeles city and county
authorities, high ranking officials of Scotland Yard In England are shown
as they were voluntarily fingerprinted when they visited the local identifi
cation bureau.