The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1937, Page 5

By WILSON HICKS Associated Press Executive Assistant in Charge of News Photo Service The news camera’s function is to tel a news story. The more dramatic the action, the more dramatic the picture and the better it is liked by newspaper readers. The best news picture is a human drama in one static scene. Picking the best news pictures of 1936 ‘does not mean, therefore, se- lecting the pictures which best il-; lustrate the tant news | stories. It the pictures which stand o own feet as the best narrators incidents which : make those who look at them feel | as if they were present when the most imp ther, selecting | their | of | means, in life; pictures incidents occurred The function of The ASSOCii\[(‘d: Press news photo service is to pro- vide an impartial camera record of world-wide events. It remains, however, that pictures, probably more than words, produce emo- tions in -readers. Pictures Stir Emotions This factor has been taken intc @ceotitt in sclecting the year's best news j.otures, because pictures are ‘best” when they stir the imagina- vividly and forcefully. But anie: ful to those who see it certainiy it- is not a “best” picture. The second yardstick used in this selection :is spontaneity. Many times a spontaneous news event reaches its climax before the pho- tographer arrives. He then must do what he can to recapture the scene by recording its remaining tangible evidence. | Chance Plays Its Once in a wnue, brilliintly, a cameraman is on the scene when a “spot” event is in actual proc- ess of happening. The photogra- pher knows well in advance that the President is to leave from Charleston for South America and | is there to record a “spontaneou event. But when something occurs which no one could have predict- ed, and the cameraman is there,| the picture becames a “best” on its own intrinsic merit. ot FLOOD AT HARPER'S FERRY— Because, though it isn’t unusual usual for the camera to catch that moment. . . . is recorded all the fury of the mad. By Alex Malashuk of the MRS. SIMPSON AND CHAUF | CANDIDATES MEET— o it epitomized » “woma angle” in tt sh royal | : | B G B Lo e N Ifl““lh roval | Because of the rarity of the occasion it records—rival candidates | i A s e e l‘“[ 1% | for the Presidency meeting in good fellowship during a campaign. | icture of M Simpsor ear tl gi g he revelations g X psture o) impson near the 'beginning of” the Tev . One of the big picture moments in one of American history's | of her relationship with Edward VIII. | @ news pleture is meaning- | B8 ZIONCHECK OUSTS LANDLADY— Because it isn't often a lawgiver has such an informal moment, | less frequently that a cameran Rep. Zioncheck did, and Charles P. Gor Press Staff, Washington, D. C., was there. and still does. for a bridge to go out, it is un- Because here usually peaceful Potomac gone Baltimore Evening Sun. most interesting voie contests. CRUCIFIXION, 1936— dramatisally of Taken by a Paramount News ecution” of a statue of Christ. is present when he y of The Associated | an SCHMELING KAYOES LOUIS— Because it tells a story of victor and vanquished—in an unusual compogition of this familiar theme. . . . Because it gains unusual effect by stressing the third man. By John Lindsay, Associated Press staff photographer, N. Y. HAUPTMANN DEATH WATCH— Because, by implication, the st .y of Hauptmann's execution is told in a picture whose dramatic effectiveness really suggests more than the scene outside the death chamber. By John Lind- say, Associated Press staff photo e, Sport [ But he's a native Oklahoman and grapher, New York. should be a popular new chieftain for the Sooner football forces in a State that has a lot of pride in the achievements of its own boys such as Carl Hubbell, Pepper Mar- dians dewn there, too, the Kkind who wear blanets even when KING EDWARD THREATENED— Because, with millions lining miles of streets, the camera found the needle in the haystack—George Andrew Mahon (at point of arrow) as police closed in on him just after he had slithered a pistol at Edward VIII (mounted, left). Haskell, which for a time seemed West team in the annual East- destined to become a modern Car- West all-star persuaded Roebuck lisle in football but which later and Stidham to play with the was so restricted in scope that it:Wutemers. They were in there all |ceased to be a gridiron menace. but two minutes and they smashed Such names as John and George the Eastern offense so consistently Little Rabbit Weller, penter are still remembered by tSlants |tin, etc. There are a flock of In-|Levi, Tiny |that the West came off with a 7-3 | Roebuck, Mays McLain and Car-victory. Bu PLP’ ! v Down at the University of okln-:‘ they're not sitting in the football {stadium on a chilly day. At one time, Oklahoma wanted .t His Line K football fans who saw Haskell in| g, gopen ye;:: ‘;'iik"hf,';“’ built action in the '20s and early '305. lynes for Dick Hanley at North- At Haskell, Stidham played tackle western—and you remember those homa, they have a new “part-In- to hire another of the great Indian‘under Dick Hanley and he captain- lines! They stopped Minnesota cold dian”, eoaching regime to follow up‘ where Maj. Lawrence M. (Biff) | coaches — one William H. (Lone (ed the undefeated Indian team o!l Star) Dietz, who at the time was|1926. The Rambling Redskins, as {in the 0-0 draw game of 1933, one of the tic stigmas on the Gophers Jones left off when he was recalled |at the Haskell Indian Institute,|they were tagged by a wide-awake |great march that stretched clear to Army study at the staff and turning out high school teams that ! pale-face publicity man who trav- command school, Fort Leaven- slipped up and tomahawked a good eled with them from {many college teams that consented coast, scrimmaged against Pop| worth. back to the 1932 campaign. And so Oklahoma is going to have one of those Stidham-built coast to As a matter of fact, zw-pound}m cross the warpath of the Diez Warner's Stanfords one day while|lines, which is bad news to the Tom Stidham, who learned most men. But somehow that proposition |tuning up for an of his football under Dick Hanley,|fell through. . . . is one-sixteenth Creek Indian—and Played Under Hanley | intersectional | Big Six, including dominating Ne- game with. the University of Ha-|braska. wali out West: Stidham drafted another Okla- j Stidham himself is a product of| The wide-eyed coaches of thelhqman who has enjoyed signal suc- e this picture from Spain—one of the first on the ecivil unjeashed by war. it shows the “ex- the passions photographer, l rROSE BOWL, SucarR 8owt, SUN BowL, ORANGE SowcL. , CorroN BowL, £re —B8UT WO BOWL FOR ME | S /S 17 POSS/BLE | Ay HAVE BEEN OHERLOO) BUMPER %f Cves LISTED 2, “WILD BILL"” CASSIDY— HICKS, OF ASSOCIATED PRESS SELECTS YEAR’S 10 BEST NEWS PICTURES Because here an unscheduled news story no photographer could have planned to cover was caught while it was occurring. . A freak accident picture, one in a million. By Associated Press Staff Photographer Wallace W. Lowry, Pittsburgh. PRESIDENT AND GRANDDAUGHTER— Because a baby picture, always good, is doubly so when the baby is the President’s granddaughter. places is news. . . . Because informality in high Made at Hyde Park by W. E. O'Haire, Associated Press staff photographer from Washington, D. C. TEXAS CHRISTIANS O GREAT FASSER TOSSELD WS TEAM RISHT NTO. A Mew YEARS LPAY z GAME WHEN HE BEAT SINTA CLARA BAvcH HAS PITCHED RASSES FOR GAINS TOTALING OVER WO MILES TAT ANY WTERESTED TEAM CROP OF % |cess for his backfield tutor. He is} Dewey W. (Snorter) Luster, quar-| |terback and end who captained Oklahoma’s last all-victorious el- {even in 1920. Luster was a light- |'weight, but one of the toughest ever to wear the Sooner livery. He has been coaching Norman High School, in the university |town, and he and his boys can /have anything they want as com- pensation for the record they have /made. All-victorious last season, ;the whole Norman squad was giv- (en a trip to the New Orleans Sugar Bowl game. All-victorious |again this year, they're being sent to the Pasadena Rose Bowl. MEN’S DRESS 52.95 SHOES and “BIG VAN OXFORDS Front Sports Briefs. ... Little Jimmie McDade of the Miltrose A. A, New York City, has made a record for consistency in distance running. McDade ha been a member of six pAtional cross country championship teams and of eleven other naticnal championship teams al distances of ten to twen. | miles. He therefore has shares iu seventeen national team titles. Just leave it to John L. (Tarzan) Taylor, Marquette University’s col- orful football line coach, to origin- ate scmething new in coaching tac- !tics and thus relieve the drudgery of tedious workouts. When Mar- quette linesmen arrayed themselves across the field in practice charging, !the “Go"” signal was given by a] wiggle of Tarzan's ears! Phil Edwards, dusky Montreal runner, was awarded the Norman H. Crowe memorial prize as Can- ada’s outstanding athlete and sports man of the year recently. ~HELL GET OVE MORE CHANCE TO All Rights Reserved by The Associaied Press {‘hold an edge over Michigan in a longtime football series. Penn has { won 8, lost 5 and tied 2 of the Wol- | verine-Quaker battles. Date for the opening of football practice by Coast Conference teams in 1937 was set by faculty members for September 9, six days earlier than this year. ! The famed “Tony” Lazzeri, sec- |ond baseman for the New York Zankees, has filed suis for divorce against Maye D. Lazzeri, charging | cruelty. Four National Football League coaches never directed collége teams namely: Steve Owen, New York Giants; George Halas, Chicago Bears; Curly Lambeau, Green Bay Packers; Miles Creighton, Chicago Cardinals. - The swastika, generally interpret- ed as a sun symbol, is one of the most ancient and widespread of all ornamental forms, appearing in both hemispheres. : By Pap e In Japan, it is said, two years are necessary sometimes to have a telephone installed after the order “l Pennsylvania is the only school toj'is given, PIGSKINS TO FLY;CONTESTS ' ARE ON TODAY Four Bowlames Sched- uled in Various Parts | of Country SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 1.— Pigskins will fill the air today from | Pasadena to Havana as college grid- iron stars clash in a series of “bowl” games, The University of Washington |meets Pittsburgh in Pasadena’s Rose Bowl this afternogn. Santa Clara clashes with Louts- iana State at New Orleans in the Sugar Bowl. Duquesne meets Mississippi in the Miami Orange Bowl and Texas Christian meets Marquette in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, Texas. Villanova takes on Auburn at Havana as the climax of Cuba’s week of sports. — e EVEN ‘LITTLE OL" NEW YORK CAN MISS ONE Chaser AE.Five-Alarm Midnight Fires, One of Those Mentioned By GEORGE TUCKER NEW YORK, Jan. 1. — It isn't true, the saying that you are for- |gotten when the dice roll against Yyou: or you move away to some other town, New York really misses its sons and daughters who, for various reasons, adopt other professions that take them out of the public eye. When the talk in a late hour coffee shop got around to this the other night, we remembered a doz- jen such ones—an author who runs a mission on the west coast, an editor who became a coffee mer- !chant in Brazil,—people like that whose names and faces will always iremin a part of the fabric of New York. v | “THINGS CAN'T GET WORSE” There is, off hand, Leo Casey, crack trial reporter, who went to Washington to become director of 'publicity for the G.O.P. When I |first knew Leo he was chasing af- |ter five-alarm midnight fires, scrib- {bling subway accidents, swearing &t |false news tips, and Interviewing financiers on the decks of ocesn liners (before they made up their minds not to issue statements to ithe press). It was the Hall-Mills case, with its “pig woman"” episode, that es- tablished Leo’s reputation as a trial ireporting expert. The next thing New York knew he was authoring | political editorials for the New { York Evening Journal, which later “loaned” him to the Republican (party to help out with the late campaign. Now he has gone to Washington to see what can be done about a situation that is very, very bleak. | “Things,” he snapped cheerfully, ‘“couldn’t be worse, and when they get worse, they must get better. Don’t forget the 16,000,000 . . . ™ | Quite incidentally, Casey has an- | otHier qualification for this new post. Remember Vermont, the state that teamed up. with Maine? Casey was born in Burlington, Vt.! | ESCAPE FROM MANHATTAN After too many hours of smoky |night clubs and jittery entertain- iers, a columnist was advised to go to the country to quiet his nerves and acquire some rest. Scheduled for an absence of two weeks, he was observed back in his old haunts three days latter. “I couldn’t stand it for a number jof reasons,” he explained. “First, so much fresh air at once strangled me. It went to my head and made me dizzy. Then the place was too quiet. Whole hours passed with- out a single .disturbance, and the stillness got on my nerves, “I stuck it out for awhile, but 1 got so nervous waiting for some- body to start something that I got the jitters. That brought on chills and fever and I knew then that I was a sick boy. So here I am. I've come back to New York! To re- cuperate!™ The Staten Island Ferry isn't nearly so crowded since the tem- perature dropped. In summer this 10 cent ride is a favorite excur- slon with young people who are in love. Walter Huston’s intentions of playing “Othello” for five years is an ambition one hopes he will abandon . . . A year, yes, but not five . . . He's too versatile to waste on one production. — When President Willlam Henry (Harrison died in the White House in 1841, people in Ohio, his own state, didn’t learn of it for five days. — e — It's going to be a mild winter, says George Dietz, Chardon, C. farmer and trapper, because caterpillars were light brown and corn husks thin,