The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1937, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1937 5 SPOTLIGHT Opportunity to become the youngest President ihe U. 8. nas ever had 1s knocking at the door of Massachusetts’ 35-year-old senator, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (left), according to Patrick Hurley, ex-secretary of war. Super-speed is the business of Ab Jenkins, who i¢ tuning up his revamped Mormon Meteor for new HERE'S ONE FOR THE FIGHT FANS' \ rether as when this pugilistic platoon climbed into the ring at the match betv Johnson former heavyweight champion: Jim Braddock, former heavyweight weight; Benny Leonard. former lightweight champion: Lou Ambe b former heavyweight champion: Mickey Walker. form: iddie dieweight champ: A attacks upon *'SCRAP' BOOK, for never in boxin n Joe Louis arfd rtfm existing NO EGGS were put in all these baskets, but it's a good trick just the same. It's a contest neld in England for a prize of- fered by Charlie Chaplin, ro M ez, un Bempaay former hoavywe t title Lislders, auto records. : Mareel Thil, n.id- For two days and pights he plans to drive at an average above 150 miles-an-hour. | “Nonsensical,” declared Robert W. Bingham, American ambassador to Great Britain, of reports he would not rceturn to his post BULL PE catching held following a 2 GUEEN SILVIA VILI hisosh.ancehgs ::vrvglillgr,et;‘ec;nuz‘ll: Washington. i.' the title of blonde Jane cfu«e," is the costume worn by magnetic Miss Elmina Hymphreys, flgndllilrll: nllg pi?(’yl;rr,? has bee‘n He Insisted ho . :,’,,,fi:{’ ?"Ji;';le::fiéz;rg'f;:s: to preside as Radio ()ueeri’ at an Eh_glijsh expflsls:'i(m of ra &ne ufvihek hi‘z‘reqfiun; :‘:r 1‘_| 2 would return festival this year. modern electrical devices. E:é!rl:elism!%:‘;s the name of the elaborate oW lu‘;rue .lkfffLerx:f..f or to Court of St. James within two or three weeks. While most of his senate i Yz colleagues BOY! WHAT-A-MELON, exclaims nine-year-old Earl George of Dallas, Texas, holding tightly to a fine east Texas water- ere vacationing, melon (hat weighs twice as much as he does. Can he eat it all? “Yas, suly Ah think Ah’'m up to the job,” says Earl, anlici?ating.lhe l_east. The photographer didn’t wait to see whether the little pickaninny £ earried out his threai—or was it a prom Pat Harrison of Mississippi pufied his cigar, worked on in Washington, THE SWISS NAVY isamyth, but Sir Malcolm Campbell, famed auto racing driver and holder of the world’s speed record seeking aid or land utilized the lake at Locarno to seek a new speed boat record. He is shown here trying for a record. Although he reached a for top speed estimated at 140 miles an hour, a cooling system failure halted his quest temporarily. cotton growers. He it was who lost senate leadership by one vote. DOGS OF WAR, cager to get into the thick of things are these highly tra’aed German wolf-hounds used by the Japanese army in its excursion into North China. Dogs like these rendered invaluable aid in France during the World War. DON'T LOOK NOW, butyourenotseeing double. Neither is this a two-headed circus freak. It’s merely twins, Mrs. Mary Kafer and Mrs. Frances Tooker, ganging.up on eaeh other at the annual doubles convention, held this year at Ft. Wayue, Iodiana. A COASTING ON AIR is rapidly becoming a popular sport in England and other European countries. This scene of a 'lr:er hovering in a clouded sky was taken at the first Angle-German glid- ing camp, where soaring cumpetltinrhwu scheduled to continue for & monf CHINA'S WALL in modern times is mot of stone, but barbed wire, as constructed by the Japanese, These Nipponese sol- diers, stripped to ‘the waist under a blazing North China sun, fence a cornfield. But it's wire for war and not to keep cattle from going astray in the fields,