The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 12, 1941, Page 5

i | CAN YOU TIE THIS!-1¢s knot funny to Linda John- son, actress, in Los Angeles, as she tries to get her lines and tackle into some kind of order—at least by April 16-19, when she'll reign as queen of Escanaba, Mich., smelt jamboree. [ BIBLES IN SERVICE, TOQ—special “Service” edi- tions of the bible which the Gideon society is sending to U.S. soldiers and sailors on land and at sea are stacked up at a Phila- deiphia plant, where a workman is giving them a last squeeze. The society plans to send-out 1,000,000 copies, bound in brown for the army, blue for navy, white for the forces in Hawail TURK—Each nes Balkan b crisis adds to the already-delicate diplomatic burden carried by Sukru Saracogly (above), Tur- key’s foreign minister. Turkey is pro-British. HOMESTEADS IN TH Mindaneo island of - the Philippines live in these simple houses land-=part of the 213,000 acres being homesteaded under the Philippine government’s superyision. The farmers are trying to raise rubber, peanuts. Some 6,000 settlers are already there. NEWS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE_Perseverance didn't bring its usual reward to this determined sparrow who for several days fought the shiny hub caps of a new automobile in St. Louis, Mo. Steadily the bird would fly at the hub caps, fighting the bird he saw reflected there. The auto belonged to Adam Schneider. The g sparrow finally gave up its futile attack, s ey E PHILIPPINES —Homesteaders in fertile Korondal valley on and spend their time farming plots of : i y HAVEN'T | SEEN YOU BEFORE?_stiftness and formality were soon forgotten in the national collegiale wrestling matches such as this 121-pound event at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., in which Calvin H. Melhorn (his are the legs that start at the left) pivots around Merle Jennings, a Michigan State wrestler. Melhorn is from Oklahoma A. & M., which later won its fifth straight national collegiate wrestling championship., However, this Aggie lost his match to Jennings, though you can’t say who's aheud here. INFORMED_porsey Gass- away Fisher, 34, a Kansan, has been named second secretary of the American embassy in Letie don. He's peen in state dept,, ‘RAID-CONSCIOUS SINGAPORE_Concrete and brick bomb shelters stick out of the division of current iaformation.., eSS _‘lr‘ound at Singapore as Britain’s “Gibraltar of the East” prepares for possible future air raids, COMMISSIONER-Ray C. Wakefield, 45, new member of the Federal Communications t of the Asiatic unit of the French navy as it returns to its base in Saigon, French " L8 D serving on the » successful engagement with Siamese craft. The Frenchmen in mhl'ro::- x.'fi“.u:"f:fi.':.'.':'.'é Citheriie Commiission - "Vihy orders. have been disputing territorial claims with Siam, which is now called Thailand. S l;::' “u“':ln':“‘;’r_'. sovens s STEEl MILLS DRAW ATTENTION AS NATION STEELS SELF TO GREATER DEFENSE EFFORT: STRONG AS STEEL_For 20 years Dominic Monda, 51, father of five children, has worked at c?rrle which send w-ii-hot pig/iron to nearby. Carnegie-I! sipel wvarks at Home- . slead, Pa., for conversia. lofo. ingols, JJ¢ Kel3 89 cents'an hou PIPES OF PROGRESS—These seven stacks are Carnegie-lllinols “stoves” which vreheat air to Pa be shot into.blast furnaces wherein ore, iimestone-and coke are melted to . S H - H - H !_silence is not only golden, but essential to de« ” fense efforts, warns this pomter . ¥ 4 at entrance gate of the Carnegie- llinois steel mill in Homestead, It cautions the workers against pleasant strangers “irye it ing to-pump you." THE BEGINN I NG—Rusty-colored fron ore like . “from Mifinesota mines is basis of steel. Ore is melied into which; te-heated with scrap to 2,900 degrees fahrenheit, is uiclien o ino ~enoughifor pouring inte precious steel ingots. 55 i prodwee pig iron. When it off throwghrsand filled troughy