The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 28, 1940, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, DEC. 28,/1940. AMERICA'S NEWS An Associated Press Picture Eeview i e A o CHANG Philip Mur- ray (above) became CIO chieftain at Atlan- tic City convention where John L. Lewis on Nov. 18 for y resigned, sticking to a pre-elec- tion pledge that he'd aquit ¥ Franklin D. Roocavelt wow ‘GALLOPING GERT'E' GOES Wind-blamed crackup of 2,800-foot center span of the new $6,400,000 Narrows bridge at Tacoma, Wash.—third longest single suspension in world—put an end Nov. 7 to the shimmying andulations that gave the bridge its nickname, “Galloping Gertie.” Nature’s fury in 1940 was also re- u sponsible for earthzw:zkes: in Turkey (January): Peru (May); Rumania (November). 2 - — » . . ; : “,Q,(”M‘,,w»mfiw %':, i (0 LD J \ J 3 - 5 . 5 » : ‘TH IRD TERM’ PRES'DENT Victor in a spirited election that broke even the Third Term precedent, President Roosevelt waved greetings from the White House Nov. 7, along with Mrs. Roosevelt (left), Vice President-Elect Henry Agard Wallace, Mrs. Wallace. F.D.R. accepted re-election as an endorsement of policies which in 1910 led to: Huge defenss program, peacetime draft, trade of 50 over-age U.S. destroyers for British bases, western hemisphere defense sollaboration with South and Central American republics, “all possible aid to the nations that still resist aggression.” THE WAX CASE Deprived by court action of a girl's wax-preserved corpse that he'd kept in his bedroom seven years while busy with life-r: - ing experiments, Karl van Cosel, 70, studies her death masl West, Fla., commission found him sane, discharged him Oct. 10. H AV E :"Voar:most among refugees who reached the Americas’ hos- ble shores was Crown Prin- cess Juliana (above) of The Netherlands, U.S. greeted thou- sands of refugee children and such celebrities as Paderewski, Former Empress Zita of Austria. BOMBERS BY THE YARD Symbol of the faster tempo of U.S. production of planes and defense weapons are these four-motored, long-range bombers, so big they're assembled in yard at San Diego plant. Along with Sperry bomb- sight, planes like these were released to Britain in line with government's policy of giving ald. SA FE RETUR But for alert Cecil Wetzel and Elllsb Woods, two lumbermen who stum- bled onto the kidnaper and boy, there might not have been this reunion between Count and Countess Marc de Tristan and their son, Marec, 3, Sept. 22 at Hillsborough, Cal. Wilhelm Muhlen- broich, an alien, is serving a life sentence at San Quentin on kidnap charge. The little boy was held captive for 48 hours. i cboD NEIGHBORS Uncle Sam’s courtship ;)l western hemisphere na- tions pushed ahead when Vice President-Elect Henry Agard Wal- lace traveled to Mexico City for Dec. 1 inaugural of Pres. Avila Camacho, and paused en route for this chat with a Mexican farmer. Also entered in neighborliness ledger is granting by U.S. of millions in credit to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Ecuador. g i ; s % CAMPAIGN TARGET @ i IT’S No' 158 Eyes of 17,000,000 men who registered © Chicago Daily Timer From this brush with egg-tossing Chi- cagoan Oct. 22 Wendel! L. Willkie, Republican presidential can- didate, emerged to carry on a fight that netted him some 22,000,000 votes in .the country’s bitterest political battle. The campaign even set a new high for vegetables thrown. on Oct. 16 turned Oct. 29 to above drawing of first number in mation's first peacetime draft, in Washington. It was 158, drawn by blindfolded War Secretary Henry Stimson. Draftees are from 21 to 35, are being called DEATH AT THE BEN Close to 30 persons were killed when a Chicago-bound express piled up at this bend near Little Falls, N. Y., April 19— TS s dee Tall ot Natetie s l? Ap the same month in which 212 Negro men and women burned Jaly 31 st Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, which killed about avy in death toll was the heaslon collision of a commuters’ train and a freight 0'persons, Sen. Ernest Lundeen of Miuncsota was among 25 killed in Aug. 31 plane erash at Lovetisville, Va. Mine caveins at Bariley. W. Va., 8t Clairsville, 0, and In Penosylvania cost thie lives of several score’ miners, GON ary of Sen. William E. -Borah (above), Idaho Re- publican, took a veteran legis- lator from Senate’s ranks that before 1940 ended were to lose Sen. Ernest Lundeen, Minnesota; Sen. William Bankhead, Ala- bama; Sen. Key Pittman, Nevada. The death in Janu- according to drawing of serial numbers issued by local boards, P SOLDIERS' LIFE FOR THEM Fiusands ot men shouldered arms as United navy, an adequate air force, sent draftees and volunicers to army camps that mushroomed into being. The defense commission named by F.D.R. in May and including such leaders as William ln-bnl: Sidney Hillman, Edward Steitinius, Jr., and Ralph Budd helped co-ordinate nation’s defense efforts,