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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—President Roosevelt shown as the guest of President Varges of Brazil on his recent South American tour. 2—German and Japanese diplomatic representatives in Berlin signing, treaty agreeing to combat com munism, an action which Russia believes is aimed at the Soviet government. 3—Portrait of Pope Pius XI made before his illness. Plan Dodger Campaign for 1937 Conference between Burleigh Grimes, recently-appointed manager of the Brooklyn baseball club, and the "front office” is pictured here. Grimes, who was signed to a year’s contract at an unannounced sal ary, is shown (left) conferring with John M. Gorman (center), business manager, and Judge Steven W. McKeever, president of the club, on plans for rebuilding the team, which finished in seventh place under the man agership of Casey Stengel in the 1936 season. Patterned After the Grey Goose Fire Destroys Rubber Plant With $400,000 Loss Here is the "Grey Goose,” an airplane that has been evolved by J. E. Caldwell after years of study of the flight of birds and particularly the flight of the Canadian grey goose after which it has been named. However, the plane uses the rotating action of cylinders and blades in place of the flapping of birds’ wings, and the motive power is generated by a 96-horsepower engine. A frame of duraluminum that is about 16 feet long and 25 feet wide, with small wings on each side and with two rotating metal cylinders that have rotating horizontal blades on each side, make up the Caldwell plane. Firemen pouring water into the old factory of the former Candee Rubber company plant in New Haven, Conn., after a fire started in the plant and completely destroyed the building. The blaze was one of the most spectacular in the city in many years and threatened to destroy an entire block. How Arc Your Complexes Today? San Francisco Bridge at Night SON OF ZAHAROFF? An extraordinary night picture of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge at night, looking toward San Francisco from Yerba Buena island, the middle link in the great bridge. To the right are seen some of the fireworks that illumined the sky as officials touched them off from the site of the 1939 Golden Gate International exposition. FIRST FOR PENSION He has a long way to go before he becomes eligible, but John David Sweeney, Jr., of New Rochelle, N. Y., shown here, became the first to be enrolled for old age pen sion under the social security act. Sweeney, a twenty-three-year-old graduate of Princeton, drew card No. 1 from the first thousand forms tabulated at the social security board headquarters in Baltimore, Md. Like to learn all about your inhibitions and things? Get one of these birdcage affairs, demonstrated at the recent inventors’ congress at Port land. Ore. According to the demonstrator it instantly measure« 32 relative areas of your brain. • 1 Pictured at his last in his South Kensington shop in London is 67- year-old Hyram Barnett Zaharoff, shoemaker, who claims he is the son of Sir Basil Zaharoff, munitions king who died recently. Shoemaker Zaharoff, who plans to claim the Tailor Too Accurate fabulous munitions fortune left by The Chinese tailor is always the “merchant of death,” says he mathematically accurate, reproduc has documentary proof of his par ing even the faults of anything he is given to copy. entage. t
