The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 14, 1940, Page 2

& THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, DEC. 14, 1940. ASSOCIATED PRESS ROYAL ONCE- OVER_The Duchess of Windsor seems to be looking on anxiously as her royal husband, the former King Edward who's now governor of the Bahamas, inspects war relief articles produced at the Red Cross center in Nassau. OLD TIMER_After Balti- 5 more and Ohio directors spurned & it k " 4 his retirement suggestion, Daniel yw . . - . ; ! o 4 ] Willard (above) was re-elected i president of the railroad, marke- HANDLED WITH CARE_with patient, steady hands ing t year in that office. MORE RECRUITS FOR PATROL DUTY_uncle Sam's trim new destroyers and L p g . ‘naval craft might shame these veterans in a beauty contest, but these four wooden sub-chasers Elizabeth Monterio attaches a gas mask face piece to a breathing He's 79, Ssl');’r-n railroading for Ive iver, Mass., factory where army masks are being years. tied up in the Mississippi at St. Louis are heading for patrol duty in the Guif of Mexico. They stop- vilve ab s WL Ve S ved in St. Louis while en route from the Great Lakes. In the upper left is the showboat, Golden Rod. P produced. About 300 girls are busy making masks there. D THE ‘BIGC FOUR’ IN MOSCOW _Russia has been described as a “besieged fortress” covering one-sixth of the world by );/“l:\l hl‘l 5 inhlfie‘rIPEtKin C“I? :::lElusna: Esoa li\'?‘s:‘(:ll"l.(g d:‘:(fiz;?:::‘: Michael Kalinin (second from left), who adds that “the other five-sixths of the world are our irreconcilable enemies on principle.” irain operated by state agriculturists and the U. of Florida This phote, made during a Moscow review celebrating 23rd anniversary of the Bolshevist revolution, shows, left to right: Josef Stalin, reaches their town. About 1,300,000 caltle graze Florida rauges. Kalinin, head of all-Russian central executive committee; Army Marshal Voroshiloff, and Fremier-Foreign Commissar Molotoff. % | WHAT TO WEAR, BAYONETING _Showing - proper get-up for bayonet practice at Camp Beauregard, La., is Robert Barendse of Grand Rapids, Mich. Included in the outfit is ®» fencer’s padded suit, gloves and mask. Wooden gun is used. HIS SIDE OF STORY_—Chairman Martin Dies (D-Tex.) of the House committee investigating un-American activities talks with reporters. Dies (right) has pledged “fullest cooperation” with President in fighting subversive elements, LOOKS LIKE A CINCH_Give Orpha Ohlsen (above) » chance to be “Miss Sunshine” and represent Long Beach in southern California’s all-winter sun festival and she'll be happy ~she says. She's just rehearsing for role, on Long Beach bearh. REST CURE—_To recover from the strain of his unsuc- cessful campaign for New Jer- sey senatorship, James H. R. Cromwell is resting at Palm' Beach, Fla., estate of his mother, IT'S ALL IN YOUR SYSTEM—_Fie on atmosphere balloons and meteorological devices, thinks Coston Franklin Whitaker, 59, who's been weather forecasting for 50 years, chiefly by means of a skyward squint of his eyes. He forecasts at Memphis, claims to be right nine times out of ten. He recommends that vegetables always be planted in the dark of the moon. NO DISGUISE NEEDED_Those “specs” and that tiny skull cap didn't hide the identity of this miss, who watched 2 New xork prize fight. She's Brendz Frazier, debutante glamor girl, seen with John “Shipwreck” Kelly, her reported beau. SENAT O R-Named by Nevada's governor to succeed the late Sen. Key Pittman, Berke- ley L. Bunker (above). 34, state assemblyman from Las Vegas, will fill out a term end- ing early in 1841. He’s a bishop in ihe Latier Day Saints church. SACRIFICIAL: GOAT_ Duke,” the pet goat of Richard (left) and Robert Delaloye, had te be auctioned in Missouri along with other St. Charles county, Mo., pessessions being cleared out to permit building of an $11,000.000 TNT defense plant.