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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA. OREGON Chicago’s “Perfect” Driving School i Flying Bell-Hops Are Air lines’ Latest Feature Trim and snappy as West Pointers, the first squad of flying bell-hops makes its bow before one of Eastern Models of street intersections with dense traffic are used to teach j Air Lines’ big planes at Newark airport, Newark, N. J. The men, pioneers in their field, are the first ever to traffic regulations to students at the safe driving school of Lane Tech- I be placed aboard airliners as male servants. They will fill positions on Eastern Air Lines planes which are nical high school. * held by stewardesses on other lines. She May Wear the Crown of England Recent photograph of Princess Elizabeth, ten-year-old daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England. With the ascent of her father to the throne on the recent abdication of King Edward VIII she is next in line. Should she eventually ascend the throne, she will wear the crown last worn by Queen Victoria. JOINS TREASURY STAFF Arthur H. Kent, of Chicago, who was recently sworn in by Secretary Morgenthau, as new assistant gen eral counsel of the Treasury depart ment. He fills the office made vacant by the recent resignation of Clayton M. Turney. Wallace Gets Farm Bureau Medal Alfred Pfeiffer, former salesman, whose invention of a machine to cover plants with paper coats on the approach of freezing weather is seen as a boon to winter truck farm ers. Pfeiffer, a native of Comfort, Texas, got the idea for the machine in 1932 and worked to perfect it un til last summer. The American Farm Bureau federation conferred on Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace its highest honor—the award for distin guished service to agriculture. The presentation was made by Edward A. O'Neal, president of the organization, before 7,000 farmers gathered in Brookside park, Pasadena, Calif. Tennis Helps Keep Movie Beanties Slender Under the expert instruction of Dick Skeen, fllmdom’s favorite tennis pro. film beauties of Hollywood take daily lessons, for the purpose of keeping their perfect figures Left to right: Betty Jane Rhodes, Mar tha O'Driscoll, Barbara Read. Nan Grey, film beauties, shown with tennis instructor, Dick Skeen. OPERA TRIUMPH AT 15 Betty Jane Schultz, fifteen-year- old Chicago schoolgirl who made her debut recently, singing the role of ‘ Mimi” in “La Boheme.’* Blonde and petite, the girl who uses the stage name of Betty Jaynes, was accorded an ovation at the end of her performance which critics hailed as a triumph. Her debut was with the Chicago City Opera com pany.