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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Ballet Dancers Arrive From La Belle, France A group of French balle; dancers pictured aboard the S. S. lie de France on their arrival in New York. They formed an unusual treat for the eyes of ship news photographers. BOY ORATOR IN SENATE Representative Joshua Bryan Lee, A.B., M. A., LL.D, author poet, artist, farmer and Sunday School teacher and ardent supporter of the New Deal, who was elected to the United States Senate from Okla homa in the recent landslide Demo cratic victory at the polls. Familiar ly known as Josh Lee, the former boy orator who became public speaking professor at the University of Oklahoma, the new senator-elect had served two years in the house. Old Masterpiece Shown in Chicago Here is the old master, known as “The Education of Cupid” by Titian, which was put on exhibition at the Chicago Art Institute re cently, when it was revealed that the painting had been purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Worcester of Chicago. The purchase price was not disclosed, but there are only three such pictures in this coun try, one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art being valued at $1,000,000. Turkeys Fattening for Thanksgiving Feasts A million turkeys are being fattened by the Northwestern Turkey Growers in Utah who supply a great percentage of America’s holiday birds. At this time each year, pretty Utah rancherettes help to feed and round up the choice birds which will soon grace Thanksgiving tables. Fair trio are seen feeding turkeys from 'he water wagon on a large Utah turkey ranch. Model of Giant Telescope Exhibited James Siokley, director of the Planetarium at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia shown with a one-tenth scale glass midel of the 200-inch disc, and a model of he telescope mechanism, three-eighths of an inch to the foot, which is being constructed for the California Institute of Technology. SPONSORS CONCLAVE “STENO” TO SCREEN Last week an office girl, this week on the way to Hollywood with a two year contract in her purse. That is the unusual leap to screen fame of Helen Bucsko, nineteen- year-old Hamtramck, Mich., stenog rapher who a few days ago won the title of “Queen of the Fall Festival” in her home town. Mostly because of winning this beauty contest but mainly because a movie scout de cided he had a “find” Helen is on her way to Hollywood. Test Masks on “Jersey” Front Wearing gas masks, a group of officers check their position during a demonstration of modern methods of defense against tear gas and the His Grace, Most Reveren Mich employment of troops under cover of smoke screens, in which members ael J. O'Doherty, D. D., archbishop of the Three Hundred and Third Chemical regiment of the organized of Manila, and primate of the Phil reserves and the First battalion of the One Hundred and Fourteenth ippines, sponsor of the International infantry. New Jersey national guard, participated. The maneuvers were Eucharistic congress which will be held at the regular army post of Camp Dix, which is located near j held in Manila, P. I., February 3-7,« Wrightstown, N. J.