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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1936)
VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA. OREGON King Edward Likes Scotch Kilts and Bagpipes England’s monarch is very much -t home in kilts when he visits his estates in Scotland and is fond of bagpipe music. On a recent visit to Balmoral cattle he was welcomed by kilted highland troops. The king is seen in the center, with his brother, the Duke of York, and Major D. W. Hunter-Blair. Fingerprints to Prevent Kidnaping As an aid toward the prevention of kidnapings, such as have recently occurred, the Macomb County Sheriff’s office has fingerprinted more than 400 children. This will make possible a complete record of all children for future identification. Photo shows Identification Offi cer Patrick O’Grady finger-printing Kathleen Arnsby, four years old and her brother Bobby, two and one-half. Giant Flying Boat AV ill Carry 32 Passengers Coach Leonard Sachs of Loyola university moved a piano onto the playing field to see if he could put some “swing” into his backfield. His contention is that football is a matter of speed and timing, and timing is a matter of rhythm and unison, so Coach Sachs pounds out a little swing music as his players practice punting and broken field running. VETERAN LOYALIST Jose Hugues. seventy-three, a vet eran of the World war and of past Spanish revolts, shown in the front line during the present Spanish civil war where he is fighting with the Loyalist militia. Giant Douglas flying boat, built at a cost of $330,000 for experimental purposes, pictured as preparations were being made for its launching at Santa Monica, Calif. The plane is equipped to carry 32 passengers, has a wing spread of 95 feet and is 78 feet long. It has a maximum cruising range of 3,300 miler. Speed Work on World’s Largest Earth-Fill Dam SECRETARY OF WAR Harry H. Woodring, new secre- | tary of war is actively engaged in his new duties. Woodring, former Democratic governor of Kansas, i was appointed by President Roose- I velt to fill the vacancy in the cabinet I caused by the death of George Dem. Cheerful Sunflowers The modem sunflowers vary from dwarf types that attain a height of Construction work is proceeding rapidly on the intake portals of the four big diversion tunnels for the three or four feet to the giant that world’s largest earth-fill dam at Fort Peck, Montana. With its initial construction financed by $49,881,000 rises eight feet above the ground. Master Difficulty Write down difficulty as some from the Public Works administration, the big dam on completion will irrigate 50,000 act/s of parched land There are as well both annual and thing to be mastered. 1 and control floods on the Missouri river. i perennial varieties.
