Vernonia eagle., May 21, 1937, Image 4

VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA. OREGON
Congressmen Inspect Heavy Artillery Trains
Bridge Builders Drive Golden Rivet
During a recent visit of 220 congressmen and senators to Fort Monroe, Va., they inspected the artillery
railway trains of the Fifty-second coast artillery as shown above. On the gun car in civilian clothes is
chairman of the house military affairs committee, Representative Lister Hill of Alabama, accompanied by
commanding officers of the Fifty-second railway coast artillery.
The last rivet was recently driven in the Golden Gate bridge at San
Francisco. With many notables witnessing the ceremonies, a crew of
iron-hatted riveters drove a golden rivet into the span, signalizing com­
pletion of the structural steel work.
Family Has Four D. A. R. Generations
“Attractometer” Takes Guesswork Out of Love
Pictured on their way to visit with Mrs. Roosevelt are representa­
tives of four generations of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Left to right are Mrs. E. J. Cowen, seventy-eight, great-grandmother;
Mrs. Gary E. Walters, fifty-seven, grandmother; Mrs. Seymour Thomas,
All the guesswork has been taken out of love by a group of M. I. T. students at Cambridge, Mass., who
thirty-four, mother, and four-year-old Joan Marie Thomas. Joan is hold­ have invented what they call the “attractometer,” which received a thorough workout at the Walker Me­
ing corsage which was presented to Mrs. Roosevelt. All are residents morial building recently, when the "5:15 club" gave a dance. Above photograph shows Phyllis Purcell of
of Washington, D. C.
Quincy, and E. Miles Brown of Norwood, Mass., taking the test to learn who loves who, and how much.
RULES ON SECURITY ACT
Judge Scott Wilson of the United
States Court of Appeals at Boston.
Mass., who wrote a recent opinion
holding the unemployment insur­
ance and old-age benefit provisions
of the federal social security act to
Amelia Earhart, famous aviatrix. as she examined her plane at the Lockheed factory In Burbank, Calif.,
be unconstitutional, on the ground where it was being repaired in preparation for a new start of a round-the-world flight. A previous attempt
that they violate state's rights.
ended when the landing gear of her plane collapsed during a take-off at Luke field, in the Hawaiian islands.
YOUNGEST DEAN
Mss Frances McLaughlin, twenty-
one, assistant dean of women at the
University of Pittsburgh, is one of
the youngest deans in American col­
leges. Two years ago. a leader in
many campus activities, she was
Alma Mater Queen. She has charge
of the women’s placement bureau
and women's fraternities.