The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 20, 1941, Page 5

THE WOGNDER WORKER—_Pulled from the Cardinals’ Hous- ton farm . am'’s pennant drive, Piteher How- let, is rated best rookie prospect since : as much. A New Orleans Jad, Pellet, ; his earned runs-a-zame n‘('(lrdl was 1.08. ¥ i i THANKS, MISTER !—0n behalf of sclf and girl friend, ©Oka; Makako acgepts a banana at Bronx, N. Y., zoo which hopes these new, young mountain gorillas will break z00's bad luck with goriilas: one died in 1911, another in 1914, each after a brief stay, and the late Janet, who came in 1928, was a chronic cripple. BOLT TRAP_copper spikes top 585-foot-high stack at Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Anaconda, Mont., to coax light- ining down shaft to measure in- tensity and duration. THEIR AGE NO SECRET_piim Actress Sigrid Gurie, who has Greft ‘Danes; rabbits, fish, and ocelots at her Hollywon‘d ~home, scolds her pet macaws, Mac, 90, Dumpy, 45, 4 SSOCI SENIOR AND JUNIOR_Here’s at least one mother- and-daughter team that borrowed the “Sr.” and “Jr.” from a man’s world, and made it stick. At Hollywood: Cobina Wright, Sr., and Cobina Wright, Jr. Junior is an actress-singer. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 20, 1941. ATED PRESS NEWS [N PICTURES AERIAL ELEVATOR—There's no stopping for floors when a construction worker at the Friant dam being built on the San Joaquin river near Fresno, Cal., descends. This fellow rides the hook of a traveling crane being maneuvered to pick up a load. SENATOR_James O. East- land (above) is the new senator from Mississippi, succeeding the late Sen. Pat Harrison. e Mass., 'Who ‘éxi DOUBLE FEATURES AT THIRD BASE—_In this third base tableau during a Cardinals-Cubs game in Chicago, Cards’ third baseman Jim Brown (top) gets the sad news that the Cubs’' Bob Sturgeon, who slid back face down, is safe with hand on bag. WOULDN'T WORK NOW_An ancient weapon of warfare—the bow and arrcw—was used by Rear Admiral K. Perada of the Japanese navy to show Chinese lads enrolled at the Nanking naval academy how it was done in the old days in Japan. The academy is on the outskirts of Shanghai and was set up by th‘e Japanese-controlled government of Wang Ching-Wel. v/s ol HOPES FOR SCHOOL PADE-_Plucky Carl Mason (second from left), 11, of Pembroke, pected: o start to school ‘this fall and even studied up with-aid of brothers, John (left), 5, Clifford, 2, Donald (right), 6, is back. i hospital. Bedfast A tadis v Carld nld'kd enough to be ready to.enter fourth grade this fall. He learned to walk a vear ago. almest since birth with spinal tuberculosis, PAUSE FOR ‘PAWS’_Mighty John Wyhonic, the 197- pound Alabama right guard, will probably look like this tower of strength to gridiron opponents. He was elected alternate captain, i$ expected to give a good account of himself this fall. UNFINISHED BUSINESS—A few more snips of the barbers’ shears and this British soldier in the western desert will Jbe completely bald—a hair style favored by desert fighters be- cause if’s so much cooler and keeps sand out—and off. oy, SHOD BY MARS_Trust a Paris designer to turn even & wartime shortage of leather and silk into something chic. These straw shoes (not recommended for winter wear) appear with. hand-knitted cotton stockings now worn by some Paris women,