The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1938, Page 5

Y SPEEDING MADLY ON THE SEIME RIVER, to set a new world record for 800-kilogram boats. Splitting the water at full speed, approaching camera here is one of the competitors. Scene of the agu, i Sartrouvilie. Strange was the contrast between the roaring craft and ordinary water traffi WATER WINGS [ Chesapes d BI1G APPLE FANS were Warren Pershing, son of Gen- era! John J. Pershing, and his fiancee, Muriel Bache Richards, at a MODEL-WIFE for Siam’s Prince Birabongse, a sculptor of fame, wilt be Miss Ceril Hey- cock (above) who madeled for him before their engagement o was announeed recently. PICTURE NEW e Bay as DEMAND THE LION'S SHARE when these two cubs, Max and Climax, are fed at London’s zoo. They're shown squabbling over a piece of meat at Junch time. Born in captivity, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 13, 1938. ASSOCIATED PRESS French powerboat drivers strov er & on the ¢ speed event was a stretch of Seine, moving the commerce of inlang towns. FOR SOVIET COMMERCE settle ¢ ound Hying boat aligais | wing a suce 1ger trans-oced $500 W ORTH ol smile is exhibited here by 9-month- old Jimmy Coughlin of Brook- lyn, N. Y., whose picture won that amount in a national photo- graphic contest. Smile that one off, Jimmy seewms to say. party in New York City. *hey are tame as house cats. SHE HAS ROOSEVELT'S NUMBER not politically but * ‘phaneticalty,” as the terephone number of the President’s old Nev York town honse now belongs to Mrs. John King Roosa (right). ‘ She and a friend. Bette Tonart (teft), have fun telling Republican iokes to Democrats who think they're calling Roosevelt. A GOOD SCOUT for motion picture musical talent, Mary Garden, forme BIG STEEL' MAKES B!G unching of the first iron ore ¢ A STOREHOUSE OF D forces evacuating their positio behind them are hand grenades of the “potato masher” type. On other fronts, Japanese seized aban- S i T O P in singis German colora- in the U. S. stax of op- returned to G ates ‘o their g the bombing of the town of Lerida, OUve EDALS . but the d a grad ol in Lerida o SPLASH with the 1ilt on the Great Lakes since William A. Ir ter the U ecl Corpora- t, the vessel slides broadside of the ways at the L of Lorain, Ohio. Lake A FLOOD OF LIGHT FOLLOWS A FLOOD OF WATER inaLondon street after a worker’s pneumatic drill had punctured a water main, sending a geyser spouting 60 feet into the air. A repairman with aceteiyne torch works far into the night. ik I it A DESTRUCTION was found by Japanese troops in North China when they eame upon this supply of land mines and hand grenades, leit behind by Chinese in haste In the foreground are land mines of (wo kinds, while piled doned machine guns, cartridee belts and other armament. {A'S MEAVENS DEATH FALLS as this mission over Shar panese aerial bomb ed nosing dowanward. i. The eamera caugit it just as it sta noke from the burning cily. Below PUBLIC CONVERSATICONALIST NO. 1 in Ger- manv is teicusfuehrer Hitler who is reported to wield as much in- fluence in the drawing room s be does on the balcony. Here he chats with Italian Ambassador Attolico (center) and Interpreter Magis- at a banguet celebrating the anniversary of the Japanese-Ger- man anti-comitern pact at the Japanese embassy. INTO THE ARCTIC WINTER to resume search for six Russian fliers went Sir Hubert Wilkins (left) shown eonferring with Rudy Heuss, veteran northland pilot, in Edmonton, Alberta. 4