The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1941, Page 5

y RAFT Tor the U at the ri FOR TWO MEN—_m production at Aicron, Ohio, S. navy are inflatable rubber lifeboats s The raft, of two-man capacity, can b saving of plane erew members forced down ai sea. A "holds a deflated boat packed in a duffle bag. WEW TRICK UP ARMY'S SLEEVE—Over the Smoky Hill river near Fort Riley, Kas., swings a seven-ton army truck going for a ride on a new type cable bridge devised by Lieut. Col R. B. Lord. The truck is supported by rope baskets, and power is supplied by a2 winch mounted on a truck on the bank. “Ferrying” service starts three hours after bridge construction begins THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, ASSOCIATED PRESS HERE'S A SOUTHPAW SPUD-PEELER—_How Private Hoyett Pruitt can peel potatoes ox, 4. 8o fast at Panama City Fla,, affer a march from Fert Benning, Ga., surprises Wilhelmina M WM ODE_A noseray of camel. t bustle draping of her pear] and PSR ¢ wWere worn vby Hika Clase al a Washluglon party. SEASIDE TRAINI!NG_Traces of past sailings are chip- ped away by Bruno Osti (lefi) and Raphael Lupardo, two lads learning 2 seaman’s {radc at ihe National Youth Administration’s work experience center in West New Brighton, N. Y, Some 700 youths are busy in the center's three floating drydocks and shops, tri’uing for jobs that may be wital to the national defense. APRIL 1941, neuvers escape the sharp eyes of Maj. Gen. A. R. Chaffe mander of the nation’s newly- organized Armored Force. 'lllL\ Force is busy perfec power tactics and technigue o 1941 warfare, THE INTERMISS10N_Rarcly-seen Mrs. Andrew Car- negie (right) chats with Clare Boothe, playwright, at a New York funcheon for Viscountess Halifax. Miss Boothe, one of speakers, wged American women to greater “sacrifices for the democracies,” S SPRING PRI NTS—As soon as Science—in the person of Harry J. Myers (left), Pennsylvania criminologist—was served, vy licked off the ink used to get her fingerprints at Philadelphia. Similarities, if any, to man’s prints, will be studied. HERS ARE HEALING HANDS—_in these hands of Mrs. Idella G. Manisera of Los Angeles is 2 canary who's going to take some medicine whether he likes it or not. As a child Mrs. Manisera hozd to become a doctor but fate ruled otherwise so she now ministers to birds, with special etas phasis on ganaries. Once, she even sewed feathers bn(k oh a canary scalved b.v another bird. NEWCOMER—_LIoya Spencer (above), 47, farmer and self-styled country banker, is the new senator from Arkansas cucceeding John E. Miller who resigned to become a federal judge. Spencer’s appointment is for a term of almost two years. JOCKEY FROM TOKY O—_Around Bowle, Md., Harry Takara (above), 44, who's believed to be the only Japancse awnl"'-' trainer-jockey in U.S., is quite a figure, known as Toki. He says he’s a little old to jockey and figures on retiring to one of his two farms in Virginia and New York. He came to U.S.A. in 1916 after having been on tracks in China, South Africa, Argentina. \ LATE SNOWFALL _Unseasonable snow flurries might have produced this frothy swirl that passes for a hat suitable for cockiail parties and weddings but instead it's the werk of John «¥»>derics, who used 10 yards of doited chenille, v SR WSS A el ARG e BRITONS INSPECT ARR RIVAL FROM AMERICA—“Somewhere in England” is a long-range bomber, built for Britsin by Consolidated and given the | ~ mame, “Liberator,” by the Britons. Four-metored bombers of this type fly from San Diego to New York 2,700 miles nonstop. Noke size of men beneath plane,