The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 3, 1939, Page 5

% UGH WILL ROGERS’ commented some of the hométowners at Claremore, o el g 1e new postoffice and aroused citizens to protest “It's < Bridwell, president of a study club, said the painting “fails to cap- s Claremore saw it.” Rogers is at center. near horse. peared in 100 much hodgepodge. S, turs ¢ awhav-philosopher’s OLD AND NEW 'HANDS', [ 4 . LJ ? SELF-STYLED ‘FIFTH WHEEL’ John Nance Gar- ner who, at 69, is entering his 35th year of congressional service, tackles his job at the vice president’s office in Washington, D. C. Poker silence shrouds the topics on which Vice President Garner and President Roosevelt recently talked for almost four hours. Political observers say the talk probably hinged on party harmony in the coming 76th congress. 4 2 - HE LiKES PEOPLE and lhst, in-the oplnion ot ¢ tion’s youngest congressman, Lindley Beckworth (above), 25, is one good reason why he’ll enjoy his work as r in-Wash- ington. The representative-elect from Gilmore in Texas—home state of another le; tor wha'’s & veteran in the nation’s capital. ve, Mr. orth settles in a borrowed office. £ . Topping; iruiat Paim Beach, Fla, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 3. 1939. 5 _THE DALY A A e DEB'S DEBTS don't worry Wilma Baard who's being given a free debut in N. Y. by 14 “uncles” bent on satirizing the gold-plated debuts of debutantes. A model, Miss Baard woars Moboken gown, used to live on a Hudson River ho=rn AMONG HIS SOUVENIRS of that 15-round bout with Tommy Farr, Lou Nova (above), the €alifornia heavyweight, cherished two fine “shiners”—which didn't cut into his enjoyment of this dance at a New York night club. The model, Peggy Badey, was one of a party helping Nova celebrate victory over Welsh Tommy Farr; Nova's celebration was limited to milk-drinking. DISPLACING A MAN, Juan Remos, as head of the women'’s civil rights group at the Pan.American conference, Mrs. Elsie F. Musser of Salt Lake City is presiding at Lima, L bwgol.! H UG for her hait- rother, Alfred Gwynne Vander- bilt, 'e:vn :l’f-mmuv made - ‘by the f s Baker after wedding. . Henry CUSE g the final 50 seconds, higan's cage su- premacy in this game at White Piains, N..¥, Michigan won, 39-37, McMillen and Rae (9) of Michigan are staging above battle. THE BOYS FROM SYR _v TO GAPE AT APE may be a favorite pastime for visitors y of Natural Sciences where this ith a nine-foot arm span and 5'% chest, it is believed the world’s largest gorilla. to the Philadelphia Acade pound male now stands. h ACTING HEAD of the department of commerce from which Secretary Daniel Roper resigned will be pipe-smoking Col. J. Monroe Johnson (above), senior assistant secretary of commerce. He'll serve as head until a successor is appointed. layed amazing ASSOCIATED PRESS \ICTURE e —————————————— T T 7 —. 4 S EWS f oo LEARNING THE HARD WAY, Frances Langford of the Hollywood film colony masters one of the elementary lessons in skiing—how to look when about to start one of those long glides that frighten the amateurs. The scene is California WITH A LIFE AT STAKE—though it's but a calf’s life instead of a human's—Charles I, Manners carefully puts an 80-pound Holstein heifer under an oxygen tent at the Jewish Consumptive’ Relief society sanitorium at Denver. The calf was sick with double pneumonia, and doctors and nurses watched attentively as Livestock Superintendent Manners handled the patient. : & s ROYAL VISIT DREW ROYAL RAZZING at Washington, D, C.. when the news: paper women there staged their annual razz session with even the king and queen of England as tar- gets for their jests. Mrs. Homer Cummings, impersonated (right) by Campbell, is showing Mrs, Henrv Wallace—played by Vesta Cummings—how to curtsy when Brl ’s rulers arvive next vear,