The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 18, 1941, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE SSOCIATED PRESS SATURDAY, JAN. 18, 1941. PICTURE NEWS - Iy one of the world's fastest pursuit planes, the Vought-Sikorsky !llh)hnarq fighter It carries a 1,850-horse-power radial engine in its nose. WITH SPEED AS ITS CREED_Reported (above) is capable of a top speed at critical altitude of more than 400 m.p.h. EARLY BIRD, WITH WINGS_juvenile pastimes don’t interest Edward McFarland, 9, fourth grade pupil at 1:ts- burg, Kas., now that he's learned to handle a plane without assis- tance of his father, E. H. McFarland (right), C.A.A. instructor, Tie boy doesn’'t solo, however. Since he was six months oM, Kdward has flown more than 136 hours as pilot or passenger. TWO HEADS NOW ONE_“1 think we'll be very happy,” said Mrs. Clara A, Barrie, 94, upon her marriage to John Upeneek, 69, at Camden, N. J. Friends for years, they decided to wed because both were lonely. Upeneek is a retired builder, ME ROYAL REFUGEES IN U.S.A._Full meas! # Crown Prince Olav of Norway and his family, who pose ald, 3; Princess Ragnhild, 10: Crown Princ artha; Princess Astrid, 8; Prircess Martha and children came to U.$ of Yankee hospitality is being en in Washington, Left to ri Pri ‘rown Pri Olav. Crown n Legion, [T YV Y 4 CROMWELL_In pensive mood is Christine Cromwell, debutante daughter of James H. R. Cromwell, estranged hus- band of Doris Duke. She wears ermine for Palm Beach partying. NO IDLE HANDS_Time doesn't hang he of Anita Louise, film actress, when her hands a crochet hooks. She’s rated pretty much an expert at crocheting. and is pretty in her own right, as well. S W ISS_Ernest Wetter (above), who's 1941 president of the Swiss confederation, form- erly was a commercial college D — : o G aiariaic hael Ranmonnmonarsd O (2] 'e : \y HAT'S THE NAME, PLEASE? Bearing the name of Russia’s No. 1 man, Stalin, this taux turns toward Red Sauare in Moscow for traditional pageant celebrating 1917 Red revolution. GRATEFU L_nis country's gratitude for_the sympathy ex= pressed by FJD.R. was carried to the White House by, Cimon P. Diamantopoulos (above), Greek minister to US. LICGHTWEIGHT WEAPON_Derothy - Morrls (left) ané Buih Kennedy had no frouble handling a new six and a half- pound sub machine gun at Weorcester, Mass., where the Harring- ton & Richardson Arms Co. expects to produce 1,000 .daily, LOVE GOES THE DISTANCE—Love laughs at such dangers as mines and torpedoes—which may explain the happi- ness of Helen Cederlind and her fiance, Harold Flaata, of Wash- ington, D. C. Miss Cederlind came all the way from Oslo, Norway, to wed Fla; She crossed the Atlantie on the S iboney, had this romantic reunion at the docks in Jersey THE CHOSEN TWO_congratulations were exchanged by Prof. Phillip Badger (left) of New :York university and H. O, “Fritz” Crisler of Michigan university after each was elected to an office during reécent New York conventions.'Badger became presi- dent of the National Collegiate Athlelic association and Crisler, president of American FootballiCoaches association. professor at Zurich and served as head of his country's finance department. He's considered a conservative, politically. MCRE ABOUT LESS AND LESS—in brief, the forecast for 1941 swim suits seems to be: they'll be low-backed, kimpy as in 1940 or skimpier; an inconsequential wraparound skirt is newest “sarong” note for beachwear, d NOT IN DEFENSE PROGRAM_Three scale models of civil war cannons, and {wo works ing models of monkey wrenches—all the work of Arthur F. Hoffman, a telephone company chemisé —were included in a hobby show in New York. Note the dime alongside the cannons, and the carved ivory anvil, also done by Heffman. The smallest of the cannon was nine-sixteenths of an inch.