The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1941, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 1, 1941. ~ ASSOCIATED PRESS LOCOK OUT BELOW !—_An eight-story concrete building comes tumbling down in Philadel- phia under the heavy blows of a swinging steel ball. Engineers used the ball, hung from a 70-foot crane buera and swung like a clock’s pendulum, to raze the building for a new housing project. In this “angle” shot, a workman watches results. o NS TO DIP—Former Governor Alfred E. Smith (right} of New Yus tries his hand at dipping candles during Christmas sale of articles made by the blind, in New York- Two Smith-made candles brought $6.00 at auction. His instructor, Paul Esemplare, 28 (left), who is blind, judges each candle by the weight of the wax as he dips. ROYAL TOAST IN TEA_princes {center), president of England’s Y.M.C.A, C; # the success of four new mobile war canteens which were pure chased with funds donated by Girl Guides of the Empire, STS TRY WAR PAINT_Proving that ca- ag has become “art,” students at Kansas City Art In- arn the fucdamentals of industrial camouflage. Director nd with the surrounding terrain. A handful of dirt sprinkled oigr thal—then just try to spot these tanks from an airplane. PUTTING IT IN INK—vLov Salica, world bantame welght champ (left), and Tommy Forte (right), challenger, sign in Philadelphia for 15-round title bout Jan. 3. Leon L. Raing (center), is Pennsylvania athletic commission chal S N | P E R—Scottish highland deer stalkers and game keepers suggested this idea In camou- flage, demonstrated by British sniper at a sniper school. Idea is to blend into landscade. B & : BOTTLE FOR BUNNIES_A dog killed ti:tir cxame, so these bunnies are being raised now . @2 a bottle—for Chicago’s International Sporismex’s show. Feb, 22-March 2. LEADER _Harry Fitzpatrick (above), Springfield, Hlinois, is 8,250,000 MEM BERS—_nhave enrolled in the Americar. Red Cross this year, an increase of 1,100,000, Norman H. Davis (right), chairman, reported at annual meeting of board of in- eorporators. With Davis in Washington is Charles Evans Hughes, chief justice of the United Sfates. The organization, founded in 1881, annuallv spends millions for relief or susfering. STATISTICS—are all i the Jay's‘work for Col. Leonar .yres (above), statistics znch direclor in the Wa Department. Preparedness driv has. brought busv.dava.for him + England, worms her way through barbed w GRIM BEAUTY IN HAWAII_Bombers mike a trim—but business-like—picture above Diai mond Head, Honolulu, in striking photo from 18th air base, Wheeler field, Hawait. vy THE MAIL COES THROUGH _Lish, an 8-year-old British dog-of-war, in {raining. in e with a message (in the tin can). Her trainer, Leslie Oliver, claims dogs are “as good as humans”—and better at some jobs. Lish wears a gas masv gver Ner. apuzzle.'Barbed wire would have taken a man with clippers several precious minutes to ¢ ph naton’s leading trotting horse driver of 1940. He won 48 races and took the honors from Dr, H. M. Parshall, Urbana, Ohio, for 11 years the leader on the nation’s fracks. TELEPHONE SERVICE COMING UP—_witr o reel on ber back, Floss, being trained in England for war uly lays & telephone cable. across a seciion of bomb-pitied, Laibe wired ground. Cable vays oul from recl, . 2 NATIVES OF CRETE—These bearded men are natives of Crete, the island whose fierce hill-men are reported by the Greeks to have been thrown into battle against Italians in Albania. The Cretans prefer long knives to fixed bayonets in close fighting. K. - i C HE CK U P_william (Billy) Jurges (above), Giants infielder, “beaned” June 23 by Pitcher Bucky Walters fn game with Cincinnati, has gone to a New Xesk bospital for checkup, - DIPLOM AT _Gregorio Ob- regon (above), Colombian minis- ter to France, landing in New York on his way home, said the food situation for France's willions was critical. -