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VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA. OREGON Taxi Cab War Flareup Terrorizes Chicago Sights like this were not uncommon in Chicago’s downtown ‘'loop” section as "wrecking crews” of strik ing cab drivers attacked vehicles still being operated by loyal employees and strikebreakers. One passenger was reported shot and many ducked flying glass from cab windows shattered by missiles thrown by the strikers. He’d Walk Mile (Up) for Sonja Life a la 1937—Baby Born in Trailer That the auto-trailer has really become home sweet home in America is indicated by the above photograph which shows one of the first babies to be born in a trailer. Anna Abbey, the newcomer, who was born in a Sar asota, Fla., trailer camp, is pictured here in her rolling home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Abbey, of Buffalo, and her brother, Lyle. Southern Belle May Play Role of Scarlett O’Hara Debutantes Win in Preliminary Test for Film With their Detroit hotel crippled by strikers, Sonja Henie, famed ice skater, and her actor boy friend, Tyrone Power, walked up seventeen floors. Then because Papa and Mama Henie were hungry, Power walked down and up again with food. Oldest U. S. Mother Was Born in 1832 One of these three southern deb utantes may play the role of Scar lett O’Hara in the moving picture version of “Gone With the Wind,” novel by Margaret Mitchell which took the country by storm. Select ed after preliminary tests of more than a thousand southern girls, they are, left to right: Susan Falligant of Atlanta, a University of Georgia student; Louisa Robert, of Atlanta, and Alicia Rhett of Charleston. Few books in history have created as much interest in so short a space of time as has "Gone With the Wind.” One of its most amazing aspects is that it is the first novel that Miss Mitchell has ever done. So widespread has been the interest in the book, its characters and lo cale that thousands of visitors to Atlanta and the surrounding areas in Georgia seek the houses and plantations which the imagination of the author created. Eleanor and Billy Pick Exposition’s “Aquabelles” PRIZE ORCHID Meet America’s oldest mother! She’s Mrs. Mary N. Rice, of Mem phis, Tenn., and she celebrated the one hundred and fifth anniversary of her birth recently. She was born in Gadsden county, Fla., in 1832. Her age is thoroughly authenticated. Galapagos Islands Cattle Cattle are not native to the Galapagos. They descended from live stock aboard buccaneer and whaling vessels whose masters, at various times, used the islands. What fair lady's heart couldn’t be melted by the beauty of this cym- bidium orchid, owned by Ed A. Manda, of West Orange, N. J.t It won the gold medal at the twenty fourth annual flower show sponsored by the Horticultural Society of New Billy Rose, promoter, is aided by Eleanor Holm Jarrett, former world's amateur backstroke swim York and the New York Florists champion. >n selecting shapely "aquabelies" who will grace the Great Lakes exposition in Cleveland this ' club at the Grand Cmtral palace in summer. A feature of the show will be a water carnival, with Eleanor as the principal attraction. Manhattan.