The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 8, 1941, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1941. ASSOCIATED PRESS D SPRING'S IN THE A IR—On the lighter side of winter's picture are the “Skippy Queens,” a i : i [ ly. “Henny" Johnston leaps ris’ softball squad at New Orleans, where spring training is taken seriously - ] f(‘)\\:r:ioa blse,qbeafin: a toss by Pitcher Betty Breaux (background). Belly.’l‘hiel (right) waits for throw. Last year the Queens were runners-up for state titlh R /) T ALK S_nis customary silence was broken by Sen. Wil- liam J. Bulow, South Dakofa Democrat, to attack lease-lend bill, claiming it “puts too much power in one man’s hands.” This *was his fourth speech t 10 years of senzia service, MODELS: NEW GIRL, OLD PLANE_When air travel was in its swkward infancy, miniature plane motors were clumsy, too, as is apparent in the old style miniature plane motor (right) -being examined by Greta Clement in Philadelphia at the annual exhidit of Association of Model Builders. At the left is the newest and smallest gasoline motor for a model plane. - ¢ BOY SCOUTS REVIEW A-B-C OF SAVING SCOUT RESCUE CROSS—of their own in wintertime rescues is the Boy Scout rescue cross being démon- strated. The cross, made of two 12-foot lengths together, offers two arms to drowning person’in-iey water. - GLORY NEVER OLD_pore than one citizen who made a Feu. 22 pilgrimage to above Washington monument in the na- slon’s capital may have carried away this memory of Old Glory— whipping to a constantly-new glory—athwart the tall spire. i Sk S i, LOOK OUT FOR THE BIG WIND_Almost completed at Wright Field near Dayton, Ohio, is the army air corps experimental station’s new $2,500,000 wind tunnel, where a 50,000-horse- power electric motor will produce wind velocities up to about 400 m.p.h, The tunnel, 790 feet long, will accommodate a model plane with 15-foot wingspread. Tunnel was begun year and half ago. € O A C H—pewey- “Snorter” Luster, new head football coach at the University of Oklahoma, is the first Oklahoma graduate to be named to that job. Hc's » . backfield expert. S THEY SET THE DATE_wedding ceremony April 12 will unite Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, @id her English-born fiancé with whom she’s shown at Dedham, Plass. He is Edward Procter Elliott, an architect in Virginia. 7 IS THERE ABOY SCOUT ON THE 1CE?—Because winter 3 BB iedn for use of spruce hed T i o pecially ice ;hlln.;‘.h r:day‘ heut .h ll‘:e. :he Boy S;MIII rehearse rescue procedure snd study accident prevention often. Scout rescié of a “vietim” who'd cr: rough ice is shown here ik i % the Scouts Wriggling out in 8 human chain, thus distributing their weight over & greater surface. Boy Scouts’ equipment for rescue op- TR s s suing. helng. I8 Sol: caanc of & pers® erations includes five or six-inch spikes, & 20-foot length of Y4-Inch-rope, strong muscles and a cool head. ICTURE NEWS RICE IN A RACE_These are the pistons that drove J. Gregory Rice, former Notre Game dis- tance runner, to a new world three-mile indoor record of 13:51 at 53rd annual A.A.U ~nampionships in New York. Rice finished in a dead heat with Don Lash, the catch being that Lash ~vas a full lap e~ hind. Rice THE SPACE ACE_Torger Tokle (left), 22-year-old Nor- wegian ski ace, tells how it felt to soar through a snowstorm 243 feet and 238 feet at Lake Placid, N. Y., to shatter an Olympic 65-meler jumping record set nine years ago at Lake Placid, “Tokle’s skis are three-grooved. Some 4,000 persons saw the jumps which were on concluding event of Lake Placid Sno-Birds’ meet. the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Rice of Missoula, Mont. ) RODEO RULE_-A Tucson high school girl, Louise Priser, ruled over La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, annual rodeo staged in quite rip-roaring fashion at ‘Tueson. Ariz. ‘GETTING THE DROP’* ON ENEMY_Closeup of an Australian Air Foree plane in service near Britain shows bombs moved out on their mobile racks to “action position” under wings. LIVES WHEN WINTER SPORTS ADD HAZARDS s 2 i LONG REACH TO SAFETY—a five or six-inch llen into water, He drives spike into ice, pulls self up Walst high, then brings a leg up over the ice.