The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1941, Page 5

ASSOCIATED PRESS who had seen the Baldwin Locomotive Works company i Eddys medium tank to the army inspected the tank—but it w v, spectators one, Pa., turn over its first M-3 only an outside view that they got since the inside workings constitute a military secret: The heavily armed tank weighs about 28 tons. o (above), publisher of the Jersey Journal in Jersey City, was elected president of the Ameri- can Newspaper Publishers Asso ciation at recent meetings in N. Y. He succeeds John S. Mc- Carrens, a Cleveland publisher. OFF WITH OLD, ON WITH NEW-_Two soldiers at Fort Benning, Ga., show how the 1918 vintage steel army helmet (left) contrasts with a new, 2!¢-pound helmet (right) undergoing tests, The new helmet consists of a steel shell fitted over a protective fibre lining:—the latier for use as a field hat; it affords greater protection to the front and back of head. ADD ENTGMAS_Aiways prominent in each new bateh of wartime ors about $pain is Generalissimo Francisco Franco (left), sh ‘w ‘hisiariiy “migister, . José Varela, reviewing - troops onthe day Spain-celebrated second-anniversary. of peacs, ' pai sler arsenal for Uncle Sam, rammed through this e tank, carrying four machine guns and two alls toppled when a new M-3 medium tank, one of the first house. during tank’ 'mi-automatic cannon: s being ,000,000 Chrysler arsenal especially built to handle government defense orders. BRAND FOR L1 F E—One rebel balks before branding as Texas cowmen start spring roundups, after a mild winter. and hail their prospects as brightest ever for the catile kingdom. CHINA-BOUND-_pr.Quo Tai-Chi_(above) is the newly- named Chinese foreign minister who stopped off in New York on his way to Chungking, seat of the Chiang Kai-shek government in China. Dr. Quo had been Chinese ambassador in London. DOG'S BEST FRLEND=cwith te help of:this carriage / Skippyrean get.exereise despite paralyzed hind legs. thanks to Dr., Lebish (sboxe);N; Y. veterinarians | i prevent injury from egptact with the groun Boots on the dog’ rear £ 3 'SWISS HONEYMOON_Dr. Hialmar Schacht, 65, Ger- man financial expert, and his Hungarian-born bride, the former Manzika Vogler, 34, spent their honeymoon in Montreux, § Schacht’s first wife died in May, 1940, after a long 4 ON ‘HOME LEAVE’'—pe's “back for the usual twe months’ leave of absence,” says Jefferson Patterson, on arriving in N, Y. with Mrs. Patterson aboard the Dixie Clipper, He's been first secretary of the U. S. embassy in Berlin, ¥ i Wi SCOUTS DID THEIR GOOD DEE D‘S—Ynuu “g:bl.” :oo yoyng for lll;h rhky. ‘:eed: ot valer; ions .newly received by these Boy Scouts from the Bermondsey section o - '“-.‘g':.“m::‘d.vouon to duty during enemy. air attacks, Sir John Shea, scout com- % -nissioner for. London, presented the medals. At the feft is Sroul;naster Ernest Burgess. S5 2 QUILL WITH A WILL_ termined brown quill thrusts itsell lengthwise through this jaunty “boatee” made of a woolen pl ial and designed by Elfriede London, Note the swe rtime coiffure of the blonde English model. "IN THE OLD DAY S_Mrs. Hugh Junkin—at the pump— and Miss Perry Winkle Parker demonstrate a device believed to | be one of the earliest shower baths, manufactured about 1830,/ ; thinks Mrs. Theodora Marshall of New Orleans. The same water ! could be used several times since the pump was used to lift water from the catchbasin where the bathor stood to the overhezd fank TOIL_Not only does Walter W. Head of St. Louis direct & large life insurance company but he also heads the Boy Scouts of America as president, a rank he s held for 15 yeal lis 2 ing schedule is 14 hours daily, six days a week, .