Vernonia eagle., December 11, 1936, Image 4

VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
Fifth “Philadelphia” Is Launched for U. S. Navy
Franklin D., Jr., Engaged to Be Married
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The Philadelphia navy yard, appropriately, was the scene of the recent launching of the light cruiser “Phil­
adelphia"; fifth naval vessel to fly the U. S. flag under that name. Mrs. George H. Earle, III, wife of the
governor of Pennsylvania, sponsored the new craft, that is seen here sliding into the water for the first time.
Golf Champs Try Out Florida Turf
Three golf champions try their hands at Florida’s latest crop of turf
for the string of coming winter golf tourneys at Miami. Left to right.
Ralph Guldahl, Western Open title-holder, and Lawson Little, Canadian
Open champion, look on as Johnny Revolta, the reigning P. G. A. king,
putts in an informal match.
FOR WORKERS’SECURITY
Forms for the gigantic social se­
curity law set-up have been printed
at the rate of a million a day by an
eastern printing concern. Thelma
Mae Myers is shown holding up a
strip of the blanks as they came
from the presses. It is estimated
that 26.000.0<M) forms will be needed
to keep the records of the workers
in the United States.
Ethel du Pont and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., son of the President,
shown at the home of Ethel du Pont’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
du Pont, here, during a week-end visit of Mr. Roosevelt, Jr. The en­
gagement of the couple was announced by Miss du Pont’s parents. The
wedding will take place next June.
American Workers Stage “Stay-In” Strike in Plant
Emulating the example of industrial strikers in France a few months ago, approximately 1,000 workers
in an automobile parts plant in South Bend, Ind., held the fort during a recent strike. While the operations
of the plant were halted, wives, sweethearts and friends passed food into the workers who chose to remain in­
side the plant.
New “Meter” Hunts Out Bodily Ills
HEADS “CINCY” REDS
Dr. Harold S. Burr of Yale university, shown with the vacuum tube
microvoltmeter which he and Dr. Cecil T. Lane and Dr. Leslie F. Nims
of Yale perfected. The instrument measures bodily electrical charges
as small as five-millionths of a volt. It may prove to be the forerunner
of a victorious assault in the war against cancer.
Warren C. Giles, new general
manager of the Cincinnati Reds
baseball team, who succeeded Lar­
ry McPhail. Giles is already on
the job preparing the Reds for the
1937 season. He entered baseball
in 1920 as head of the Moline team
in the Three-eye league. Since then
he has headed numerous other
teams. He was president of both
the International league and the
Rochester club when named to his
present position.
HONOR LATE SINGER
Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink.
whose recent death at the age of
seventy-five brought sorrow to mil­
lions of Americans. The famous
star of the opera, concert stage,
radio and screen had endeared her­
self to the American people as have
fev. public personages. She first
appeared before an audience in this
I country in 1898 in Chicago.