The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1937, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1937. r r -k PICTUR L RS AND WALTZES. eh she must dance with apparent gaiety, this little Chinese t dancer in Tokyo was heavy-hearted as she scanned the “Gogai” or newspaper “extra” to read accounts of death and destruction in the Sine-Japanese conflict raging in her native land. TONGUE GETS A BITE. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger laughter of the President, accompanied her husband on a salmon shing trip on Puget Sound, near Tacoma, Wash. She is seen here biting her tongue, waiting for fish to bite. She got no salmon. i | Ti{E BATTALION BEAUTIFUL. With Japan's war fever d. front. Here is a group of soaring to new heights, even women and girls offer to go to the battle ailor girls” partieipating in rifle drill in Tokyo. They are reguired to attend lectures and drills in national defense, handling of rifles, use of gas masks and administration of first aid. They look toward the China war front unafraid. CAULIFLOWER CHIEF. Mike Jacobs now holds the reins of the fighting industry, proba- bly even more securely than the late Tex Rickard. He's leased Madisen Square Garden. His next big match is the Louis-Farr scrap August 26. GRANDMA TAKES A CUE. Billiards is a favorite form of recreation with these two elderly Russian women at the home for the aged in a picturesque spot on the shore of a lake in the Kalinin region. The two shown here are P. A. Ashminnteva, 82, who worked 62 years before retirin: and L. L, Uspenskaya, 67, who worked 25 years. Residents of the home receive living quarters, boar and medical treatment. TRIKE FODDER. Strike-affected steel plants in Ohio were zumming with activity, but CIO leaders insisted that hundreds of men still were refusing to work. Here is one of them fl'_wrying a bex M food from a commissary maintained by the uni. . in Cleveland, SEEKS RELIEF. While congress rushes through legislation seeking adjournment, Speaker Bankhead swelters and ~aeks relief from heat, AMERICA DISCOVERS COLUMBUS. Evelyn Townley, 18, of Columbus, Ohio, was the winner of a New York physical culture contest to find America’s most beautiful weman, BIG MAN, LITTLE PANTS. Attired in an old pair of grey flannel shorts and an nx:n-necked shirt, King George visits the annual boys’ camp of which he is the patron. The British' mon- arch appears highly amused as he and one of the camp leaders watch an “action song.” OVERLOADED STORK. This baby boy, born to Mrs. Valentino Amosocoto in a Brooklym hospital, weighed fourteen pounds, eight and a half ounces, according to the scales—and the purse kept her band off the balance beam. His mother weighs 325 pounds, COOL KONOYE. Battle fever rises in the Far East, but Prince ana Prime Min- ister Konoye remains cool and relaxes in native dre:s, MESS IN CHINA. This detachment of Japanese warriors took a lunch stop after an engagement in North China. They Ieen ready hands upon their guns. l"eelimg| against the presence of the troops mounted higher after the fall of Peiping and its rich farming conntry. WAR GOES HIGHER. Soaring above the clouds, the army’s new sub-stratosphere plane is put through its paces at Dayton, Ohio. The fighter’s cabin is seales altitudes ranging to 25,000 feet. The chief tactical advantages expected from the new to permit sea-level comfort at ip are in speed and greater invulnerability to attack. GRINNING GABBY. One of the tops in National League batting, Chicago Cubs’ Catcher Gabby Harinett is a grinning favorite of the fans, He'’s being talked as a Cuhs’ manager of 1938. Charles, as he was dubbed by his parents, has been on the receiving end for a long time. MRS. T. R.'S CAKE. Mrs. Edith Roosevelt, widow of Theodore Roosevelt, is shown here with Archie Roosevelt as she cut @ cake on her seventy-sixth birthday anniversary, celebrated yll) a group of friends at Bayville, N. X, JUST KIDS AT HEART, Ellil]-lnl}r-yelr-nld Edward Ashdown and his 60-year-old son, Ted, are ardent tricyclists. The: Elizabeth Ashdown, before re shown here l-ylnf goedbye to the 79-year-old wife and mother, ing out for a spin at Paddock Wi Kent, England. The road was clear and there were no speed cops in t