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VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA. OREGON Sunset Silhouette on California Strand Find Shrub Oil Resembling Whale Oil Coronado s Silver Strand, near San Diego, Calif., is an autumn and winter playground for America’s social register set. In the above photo, three of the younger set are shown on the famous strand at even tide. Dr. G. S. Jamieson (left) and Dr. R. S. McKinney of the Department of Agriculture as they experiment with “jojoba oil” in the Department of Agriculture laboratory in Washington, D. C. The oil, similar to that found in the whale sperm, was discovered by the two scientists in the jojoba shrub. The new “Varivol” plane, invented by Jacques Gerin of Paris, France, which folds its wings while in flight to increase its speed. The maximum speed is 300 kilometers an hour. The full wing surface is 28 square meters and the reduced surface is 7 square meters. The plane weighs 1,300 kilograms. WINS NOBEL AWARD In a colorful ceremony at Oxford university in England, Robert W. Bingham, United States ambassa dor, received the honorary degree of doctor of civil law as a gesture of friendship with the United States and recognition of personal merit. Shown just oefore the ceremony, are (left to right) Ambassador Bingham; Dr. Cyril Bailey, the public orator; and Joseph A. C. Avenol, secretary general of the League of Nations, who also received honorary degrees. New Cotton Picker Works Twice as Fast as Man TO WED “TEDDY’S” KIN JR Youthful Dr. Carl Anderson. Cali fornia Institute of Techonolgy sci entist who was named a co-winner of the Nobel prize in physics. He will share the award and the prize money with Dr. Otto Hess, famous physicist of Berlin, Germany. Photo shows Dr. Anderson examining elec trically-operated camera which pho tographed the disintegration of at oms. Bobbing up as a serious rival to the Rust brothers, fellow-Memphians L. C. Stukenborg, mechanically- minded farmer whose land is near Memphis, invented this new cotton picker, said to be simpler to operate than the Rust apparatus. One of the machine's merits is said to be its cleanliness of operation. It picks cot ton twice as fast as a human. Miss Mary Lowe Gaddis of Mil ton, Mass., whose engagement to Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., grandson of the late President Theodore Roose velt, was announced by her moth er, Mrs. Avery Gaddis. Miss Gad dis, who made her debut last win ter, is a sophotnore at Radcliffe col lege at Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Roosevelt will be graduated fror» Harvard in June.