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
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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.