The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 16, 1937, Page 5

FLORIDA WRAPPER. It’s tobacco harvest time down in Dixie, and here’s some nati produce, First, there’s Marian Thompson, pretty Danville, Va., miss, who illustrates how large the celebrated Virgi leaf grows. Only two leaves are required to clothe her attractively and medestly. GO ‘WA, EIGHT EALL. Heavrweight Champior 3 anG some sparring partners and startec ou! doing dailr dozens anc fight with England’s Tommy Farr a table. Louis [ OH, MISTER SHAW. George Bernard Shaw is shown as he received the hearty congratulations of a lady admirer on his eighty-first birthday at Malvern, Worcester, England. The play- wright celebrated by watching the first performance of his new play, “The Millionairess.” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1937. PICTUR THE GOLDEN WEED. In Georgia and North Florida tobaceo markets the first of the 1937 bright leaf tobacco c:op sold briskly. “Golden weed” farmers of the two states expected more than § 00,000 for their cron. Here's an HARVEST SCENE. It’s a long, back-breaking stretch from the tiny shoots of the seed bed to the cured, marketable “hands” of tobacco leaves. Here, J. D. McLelland, Valdosta, GA., grower, is doing some post-harvest shop- uis pickec uy his traion ozens in preparation for s title v Yorl or Augus’ 2¢ Herc he’¥ relaxiry'z little over 2 poo’ i¢ training a! Pomplor Lakes N J suctioncer (hand upraised) and buyers ai the Melter, Ga., market. tackie F. D. R.'C FPRIENT Michigan's r2d-hai.ec Gov. Frank Murphy. efter clussiied as a potential presidential nom- inee. set off new olitica® ru- mors when he cruise * ou Chesa- peake bay with the President. THE FLAHERTYS FOUGHT. Two of them wounded, the Flaherty brothers of Boston returned to their home after fighting with Spanish government forces for several months, The three left to right, Frank, Edward and Charles, are shown with their father (seated), William J. Fiaherty. Frank and Charles were wounded in action, ] SHIRLEY & CO. Shirley Temple, the child film star, and Ler rarely photegraphed parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Temple, are shown aboard the liner Malolo as it sailed from San Francisco n route to Honclulu where the Temples will spend their vacation, VANDENBERG STEPS OUT, Sen. Arthur H. Vanden- berg (R-Mich.), often mentioned as a possible presidential nominee, created the newest congressional stir. He proposed to place the sen- _ ate on record against a récess appointment to fill the supreme court vacancy. ping after.trading his “long brown” for some “long green.” PLANTATION PALS. An interested pickaninny watches N. 0. Taylor, 59 and blind for 20 years, as he gathers tobacco at Hartsfield, Ga. Taylor follows. his crop from the seed bed to market. He said he could tell by the “feel” when his plants are diseased and when they need to be sprayed. HOW GO THE WARS? 'R«iflenh of New York’s famous Chinatown ,kcei; n;em;oe:;u posted on’ the Jatest war bulletins’ from the Peiping front through these ters in native dii preminently displayed on the streets. Although many of them were born in this country, younger 4 Chinese manifest an avid interest in the hostilities in the land of thefr ancestors. GABLE IN SHAPE. Ready for the Venice. Calif., Mardi Gras was Clarh Gable, - but not in person. Shapely. Fay Wilson, with the aid of a head mask, impersonated him. ROLLING THEIR OWN HOOPS. It'sacheap war to a dizzy spree if you're not used to it, but His Majesty’s jack-tars didn't get upset. This was part of a spectacular aero-exercise wheel demonstration at the Chatham naval observance in England. Merrily they railed along, as shown, in hair-raising hoop maneuvers, i NO SILVER THREADS. Walter Johnson, “The, Big: Train,” entered big-league baseball at Washington, D. C., 30 years s ago this month as the fast ball sensation of his day. Now he's a Mary- ' Iand dairy farmer, and he proves to his mirror there's no gray in erown. i BLOND FRIEND. Jane Withers, young lady of the movies, has appeared ml:{ times in public with a new gentleman fi E He’s & blond, decidedly, and his name is “Fuzzy-Wuzzy." y shown in an affectionate pose, g