The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 5, 1941, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1941. ASSOCIATED PRESS PICTURE NEWS 0y 4 500 BEAS Fisher, 6-year-old “youngest exhibi‘or,” in grooming Molly, his 200-pound sow, brought reward at a livestock show in Rocky Mount, N. C. Molly won second prize. Molly's one of thousands of hogs raised on North Carolina land withdrawn from tobacco and cotton cultivation as South develops interest in livestock-raising. GHT THAT FAILED_Untimely death ended the career of this eagle, which » the windshield of a car being driven by Fred M. Kline near his home at Aveondale, id the eagle, eating a rabbit at the side of the road, became frightened, made & sharp circle and dived into the auto. The bird was fatally hurt. but Kline was not injured. 4 THEIRS A HYMN CGF HOPE_Rapt in their hymns as they get ready for Easter services— and the traditional cantatas expressing joy and hope and rebirth—Robert Mitchell’s boys choir ef St. Brendan's in Hollywood rehearses with good will. e ] [§ GENERALLY SPEAKING_military matters at Camp Blanding, Fla., engross Maj. Gen. J. C. Persons (left), Maj. Gen. J. F. Williams (center), National Guard Bureau chief; Maj. Gen, M. B. Payne of New London, Conn., new head of camp. mies _make no ia, whén Sandy for their Los An- paster, Chester Kinnamon. HIS IDEA_Rep. Robert F. Rich (above), Pennsylvania Re- PREGNANT THOUGH T—swifter knowledge of expec- tant motherhood may accompany the discovery by Illinois scien- tists, Dr. V. C. Freda (left) and Dr. Frederick H. Falls, of a new one-hour test for pregnancy. In the test colostrum, a watery fluid secreted in the breasts during pregnancy, is injected into skin; a pregnant woman shows no reaction, no inflammation of skin, "DEAL 1S SEALED_George Halas (lefh), coachi’of Chicago Bears, clinches illéle-l with Sid Luckman, former Columbia gid star, who has signed a 1941 contract to play quarterback with the Bears. And feels that passing arm, too. . N EW_starry-eyed Jean Dick- enson, opera soprano, shows off her new spring coiffure, best for the starry-eyed ‘ species, Petal curls pile on top, flat eurls cling {0 the neck. - CAN BAER BEAR THIS?—From the looks of this, Lou Nova, the California heavyweight conte ', may intend to frighten Maxie Baer out of his wits when ‘#hey meet April 4 in New York’s Madison Square Garden. But Novaintends to do more than make funny faces at the Livermore flash. and is training at Lake Waullenpaupack near Scranton, Pa., in this helmet and beard. CHINESE STREET''SCENE_Thiough Shanghal streets move members of Shanghsi Beneo volent Cesmetery association which during 1940 picked up 29,440 bodies—mos tly those of starved infants. publican, told the Hquse he had a plan for solving the world crisis and asked a $5,000,000 ap- propriation which he would use HE WALKS WITH MUSIC—Ralph Veady, ‘30, a jeweler in Bellflower, Cal., tunes in some music on the radio in- stalled in one of his two artificial limbs. Legless 12 years, Veady has taught himself to swim, bicycle, ride a surf board and horse. “to get ten red-blooded Ameri- cans to go over and get Hitler,” KNITS TO FIT—Efficient Betty Atkinson, acrobatic fce skater, figured out one way to carry her knitting around: she wears it, and with these needles handy it won't take long to trans- form the hat into socks—if the soldier isn't too fussy. PAIR. OF IRISHMEN_Frank' Aiken . (left), Ireland's minister for defense coordination who has come to U.S. to examine the possibiJity. of buying milifary supplies and wheat, chats ai the Irish‘legation with Robert Brennan, Irish minister to U.S. REACH_Bob Kahle, six-fe third baseman with the Athletic gives out with that long arm the A’s west coast camp. 25, of Newcastle, Ind., isa rookls . - up from Hollywood. £