The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 18, 1941, Page 5

v AT THE ASS OUT OF THE WEST—As comely a lot of cowgirls as ever rode N. Y. ranges will appear in Madison Square Garden rodeo. Left to right, and all contest winners: Marion Ada Perner, 19, Miss Arizona; Jean Claussen, 18, Miss Northern Californi Muss Southern California: Marcellaise Rich, 19, Miss Texas; Mary Mercier, 19, Miss Sun Valley. Gk h, 18, Miss West Betty Goodan, 17, YOU SHOULD SEE THEM IN WAT ER_—Heading for the sea off Dunedin, Fla,, several Roebling amphibian tanks prove they're landlubbers, too. The rough-riding tanks can earry 40 men, operate in mud, water and on land. Donald Roebling invented them. PROOF OF THE FISHING_For 36 minutes Gilbert Schneider (left) battled this 171- pound marlin swordfish off Santa Catalina, using rod and reel. Lyle Bagnard (right) was gaff n. GOOD INFLUENCE Because 27 pigeons in the US. Signal Corps exhibit at the Civilian and National Defense tion in N. ¥, were pining, Mac (above), Corps’ handsome zed checker homing pigeon was sent from Fort Monmouth, N. J, LAW CHOICE_walter P. Armstrong (above), 57, who has been practicing law in Memphis, Tenn., since 1908, is new presi- dent of the American Bar Asso- ciation, named at its convention in Indianapolis. He succeeds acob M. Lashly of St. Louis, FIRST TIME Two new assoclate justices, Jamés F. Byrnes (left) and Robert H. Jackson (right), took -their places on the U.S. Supreme Cotirt benéh for' the tirst time Oct. 6-when the court’ fall session began, with- Harlan. Fiske Stone as chief justice, ¥is oo PREPAREDNESS POLICY_window Cleaner Al Oromaner (standing), who scales sky= scraper heights in Rockefeller Center, N. a8 window ledge 20 stories up, but that doesn’t mean Oromaner isn’t prepared. He’s a ju-jitsu expert in his spare time and can handle almost any opponent. This is but a practice session. . never meets any thugs who want.to argue with him on v TAPS BY BOJANGLES—_To the tune of “When That Man Is Dead and Gone,” Bill (Bojangles) Robinson tap-danced on a coffin at a rally staged in N. Y. by Fight for Freedom, Inc., and attended by 17,000 persons who in the course of the evening saw the swastika-marked mock funeral procession, went through a mock air raid, and heard speeches by Willkie, Knudsen, LaGuardia. ‘DOGWATCH® AT PINE CAMP_No place in the n at Pine Camp, N. Y., home of the Fourth armored like to fzay, the duck, as the big suction hose. ¥, the pup, are mascots of the fire station, noceros made footprints that have just turned up in this 600-pound sandstone slab unearthed in the Hat Creek basin near Lusk, Wyo., by a paleontological field party of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. The “rhino” is now extinet, say scientists. Left to right at the 3lab are Jon Dixon and Edwin Davis, _ % 5 ROM A N C E?—1vnis is Thur- kel (Turk) Greenough, 36, the rugged. -rodeo xider from Red Lodge, Mont., whose name has been linked (by Sally) romant. cally with that of Sally Rand, EXTRA SPECIAL_when Leslie Norman of T 'acoma, Wash., saw some sailors walking through the front gate of a movie studio in Hollywood he just followed them in, and what happened? He got on the set of 3 navy film, played in one scene before being discovered and even coliected above handsome pay for his work a3 an “extra” from Barbars Slater (left), Katherine Booth, QU E E N—california fig grow- ers had a queen, shapely Dolores Hunter of Fresno, to reign dur- ing California Figarden Day, as part of the jolly events at Fresno,