The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 8, 1946, Page 6

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1946 PAGE SIX PRECIOUS ’'CELL O S-Eamund Kurtz, Russian-born virtuoso, holds two valuable musical instruments—a Stradivariuy ‘cello (left) and a Montagnana, The Strad is one of 17 in’ thiy country and 50 known in the world. in Pittsburgh study a work by Thomas Hart Benton, showing a farmer strumming a guitar for his Jittle girl. It won the prize as most popular picture in the exhibit, 4 JECOY LANDING CRAFT—_This collapsible pnenmatic rubber craft, built by U. S. £ ' Rubber company for the Army, is typical of “decoy” boats sed to confuse the Germans., MEETINGC ON Seated in row of the conference on reintegrating veterans in their communities, held at Mitchel Field, N. Y., are (left to right): ¢ Carl Spaatz, Gen. Omar Bradley, Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, iz . 4»2'5’5-, R i DOVES FOR YULET!DE-Joan Carroll (leit) Sharyn MofYett of the films decorate a Christma: f outs of white doves, to a peacetime Yu from Elizabeth, N. J., Sharyn from Alameda, C. SVELTE_Martha Stewart, motion picture actress, strikes a pose for a new full-length pine up portrait. TANGERINE QUEEN — Eighteen-year-old Lorraine Davis of Orlando, Fla., poses in New York suite with a quan- tity of citrus fruit to justify her title of : queen,” wen in a staiewide beauty contest, et EISENHOWER ENGINE_with fitting ceremony, this streamlined locomotive was named the “Dwight D. Eisenhowes™” in honor of the U. S. general by the British railways, 2 o % & DANCER — jo-Ann Su LABOR LEADER AT HOM E_walter P. Reuther, vice president of the United Auto Workers (CI0) and moving spirit in the strike against General Motors, and his wife, Mae, play with their, three-year-old daughter, Linda, in the nursery of their Detroit home. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS IN PICTURES SIGHTSEERS iIN _F AR EAS T—_vLiberty boats from the U. S. Seventh fle~t approach the landing near Shanghai's Bund, whose buildings rceomble considerably thosc back home. mer (above) hails from ihe South but s in New Yoik. Her family Ii in Dec2tur, Ala. ETING HONORS LAD-ira Mosher, president of tue National Association of Manufacturers, pins a convention badge on 8-year-old Jackie Shea of Arlington, Mass., in New York City. The convention honored the boy and his late father, Comdr. \ohsi Joseph Shea, who wrote a famous father-to-son letter. BIG LEAGUE PILOTS—_Charlie Grimm (left), mane ager of the National league champion Chicago Cubs, and Joe Mc- Carthy, pilot of the New York Yankees, talk things over at the conference of minor league clubs at Columbus, O. MARCH OF DIMES BOOK — President Truman (center) receives from Nicholas Schenck (ieft), national chiirman of the March of Dimes for the movie industry, and Basil O’Connor (right), president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, a book containing signatures of state chairmen in the March of Dimes drive. Other workers look on. b i