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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1937)
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—Members of the Sailors Union of the Pacific Coast as they cast ballots to end the costly marine strike. 2—Speaker William B. Bankhead (center) shown with Congressmen Hatton W. Sumner of Texas and U. S. Guyer of Kansas studying the President’s proposal for reorganizing the Supreme court. 3—President Roosevelt, who recently recommended to Congress legislation reorganizing the federal judiciary and the Su preme court. U. S. Army Demonstrates Its Landing Efficiency First equipment brought ashore by the U. S. army, taking over Cabrillo beach, near San Pedro, Calif., in preliminary landing exercises, included tractors, trucks, field and machine guns. Photograph shows a tractor and trucks being put on the beach to demonstrate with what efficiency the army can disembark its troops and gear in the event of hostile attack upon our shores. Auto Industry Ready for Peak Year as Strike Ends Salute of Daggers for II Duce With drawn daggers, his personal bodyguard salutes Mussolini dur ing the celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the Blackshirts. This dagger-salute, incidentally, is supposed to date back to the arrogant emperors of the ancient Roman empire when, to show off the loyalty of his men, a general or an emperor would swagger be tween files of his men who, at attention with drawn daggers, would ig nore the invitation to assassination. De Forest’s New “Dynathern” Fights Flu Dr. Lee De Forest, wizard of radio and talking pictures, took a look at the influenza epidemic and decided something ought to be done. So, he offered his latest electrical invention in Los Angeles, the ‘‘dyna thern,” to a world suffering from coughs, sneezes and aching muscles. Built on radio principles, the dynathern uses ultra-short waves over a small field. The patient is placed within the range of these impulses. Meet Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Johns 1—William S. Knudsen, vice president of General Motors, who signed the agreement for his company which ended the costly motor strike. 2—Last vigil of the “sit-down” strikers before they marched out of the plant in Flint, Mich. 3—Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan, who conducted negotiations that led to solution of strike difficulties. Mrs. Eunice Winstead Johns, nine-year-old bride, is shown here seated on the lap of her six-foot, twenty-two-year-old husband, Charlie Johns, Sneedville, Tenn., farmer, and holding her doll in her arms. The doll is the gift of the husband to his flaxen-haired bride.
