VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA. OREGON
Battle Infantile Paralysis Wave
President Roosevelt Visits a County Fair
President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt pictured as they stopped on their drive through the grounds of
the annual Rhinebeck-Duchess County fair at Rhinebeck, N. Y., to admire a prize-winning cow and her
calf entered in the stock show.
They Don’t Want to Wait 72 Hours
Preston Springs, Ont.—One of the most serious infantile paralysis
epidemics in years has struck the United States and Canada. Science is
testing the efficiency of zinc sulphate nose sprays as a preventive among
5,000 children in this Canadian town, where there was a dangerous out
break. Dr. John Hauch of the Hagmeier clinic is shown treating one of
the district children.
Shanghai in Ruins as Bombs Rain From Planes
City Clerk Michael Cruise of New York shown putting up the sign an
nouncing that in the future marriage licenses are not valid for 72 hours
after their issuance. Prospective brides and grooms who sought to beat
the law are shown in line as they await their certificates and quick
ceremonies.
View of the international section of Shanghai after bombing from the sky by Chinese planes. Ruins of
the Cathay hotel are seen, as fires sweep over the bombed area. With bombardments from Japanese war
ships in the Whangpoo river, untold damage was caused in the native sections of the city.
First “Trailer Widow’’ Seeks Lift
Typist Sets New Record for Speed at Exhibition
Retains His
Professional Title
at Toronto Meet
Writing 8,656 words in an hour
with only 31 errors, George L. Hoss-
field of West Englewood, N. J., sue- 1
cessfully defended his world’s pro
fessional title at the International
Typewriting championships held re
cently at the Canadian National ex
hibition in Toronto.
Talk of Pupils Recorded
to Gauge Improvement
Beloit, Wis.—Phonograph records
measure improvements in students’
voice and diction in the speech de-
partment of Beloit college. A re-
cording is made of speech by each
student at the start of the public
speaking course. Another at the
close of the course is made on the
reverse side of the record. By com
paring the two the instructor can
[ judge each student’s improvement
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Revere, Mass.—Mrs. Sadie Hahn, fifty-six, believes she is the nation’s
I first “trailer widow.” She married Paul Halm, fifty-five, last year in a
Dilworth, Texas, trailer camp, and spent their honeymoon in a trailer.
Recently he deserted her here, taking the car. but leaving her th.
I trailer in order, perhaps, that she might pick up a “lift" home.