The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 28, 1941, Page 5

% & THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1941 PHILOSOPH I CAL NOTE_socrates, the philosopher who drank poison hemlock in 399 B.C., seems to be trading stare for stare with these Nazi soldiers in conquered Atlens, Greece. NAMED CHIEF JUSTICE_This is a new: photo of Marlan F. Stone, 68, a Republican, named by F.D.R. to be Chief Justice of the United States, to succeed Charles Evans Hughes, r~ -iemed. Stane has been an Associate Justice since 1925. 3. PUTTING ON THE FEED BAG?—Any resem- blance this photo of gunners putting a canvas “hat” on the muszle of a Singapore coastal defense gun bears to a picturé of two men hanging the feed bag on a horse is purélv coincidental. POR T—Typical “Aussies” caich their first glimpse of : Bingapore, Britain’s major Far, East base. BOOST_Robert Jackson (above), 49, named by F.D.R. to the Supreme Court to fill the place . vacated by elevation of Justice Harlan F. Stone to Chief Justice, has been U.S. attorney general. He ‘was ‘ born near Jamestown, N. Y., grew up in that sections O COURT_An advocate of “a common sense interpreta- tion of the constitution” is Sena- tor. James - F. Byrnes (above), 62, of South Carolina, named by F.D.R, to the Supreme Court to fill a vacancy created by retire- ment of James McReynolds. ASSOCIATED PRESS PICTURE NEWS MAN TRIES HIS HAND AT WIND-MAKING—_in the cockpit of a glider staked down but in sim: ulated flight, thanks to a 45-mile-an-hour blast from $he wind machines, is Glider Pilot Stanley Corcoran, who demonstrated the principles of gliding at the Frankfort-Lewis soarine echaal in V.acknart 111 r VIGIL OVERHEAD_Repeatedly successful attacks on enemy shipping are attributed by ° British sources to above Bristol Beaufort, a torpedo-bomber of Brifain's coastal command, f S . i %5 finanssaegimuuss SagREIanE xu:a;;';;““ sEagasdaness ® A sk nan 8 TNy RING ON HER FINGER—_That toothy chap—mascot of the 36th pursuit squadron at Mitchel field, N. Y.—looks as though he’d like some credit for the diamond engagement ring newly ace auired by this New York miss in & cotton gihgham frock. o1 f '(ar«rmim ity P UK NO FLYER NOW-_Pierre Cot. (above), former aviation minister of France, has found 3 haven far from his native land. He’s now lecturing on French politics, as he knows them, to groups of graduate students at Yale university. 44th division halted in a dalsy fiel N. J., to Vivginis for Mu’f';:fl:'l::l‘: arrell of Buffale didn’t like the ‘ides ‘of bav- CLOUDLESS SKIES —Take a pair of baseball moguls, like Billy Southworth (left), manager of the Cardinals, and Branch Rickey, general manager; give them a league-leading team, and such sunny expressions as these will follow. TESTIMONY —More eme phasis on gliding and glider pro- grams was urged for this 2 by Col. Edward S. Evans (above), Detroit industrialist, who testi~ tied before an aeronautical subs committee of the House naval affairs committee.