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Show -------S ENTINE L'S WEEKLY FEATURE PAGE OF LATEST WORLD EVENT NEWS PICTUR ES----- - Republicans Gain • Ill State, City Elections I Republican and Democratic political strength is apparently more on a par than it has been for many years according to results of the recent off-year state and city elections. GOP candidates won not only the posts they were expected to get but also soml"J they were not expected to get. Three of the victors are pictured above. Left: Walter E. Edge, Republican, elected governor of the State of New Jersey. Center: Joe R. Hanley, Republican, elected lieuienant-governor of New York state. Right: Simeon S. Willis, Republican, elected governor of Kentucky in a tight vote battle. Kentucky had not elected a Republican governor since 1927. The recent election was said to have been the closest in that state since 1915. In Philadelphia, Pa., Mayor Bernard Samuel won over his Democratic opponent, William C. Bullitt, former ambassador to Russia and France. Four Typical U. S. Fighters of the South Pacific Claims Extortion Wounded, Captured Yanks Come Ho1nc r Nicholas M. Schenck, president of Loew's Inc., as he left federal court in New York, after testifying that he was forced to pay extortion maney to a ring of racketeers. Eight men were on trial for the extortion of more than $1,000,000. Is the Sky the Limit? 7 Wounded American soldiers, who were among the first to be exchanged under an agreement arranged with Germany, are shown as they arrived in the United States. Left to right: Staff Sergt. Lester E . !\-tiller, Tech. Sergt. John H. Gardner, Staff Sergt. Norman C. Goodwin, Staff Sergt. Milton K. Williams, and an unidentified soldier. Exchange is based on mutual repatriation of seriously ill or wounded men who cannot 1·eturn to combat. Learning to 'See' Through Their Fingers Wearing oxygen masks and cold weather flying gear, these men participate in an experiment to determine heights to which fliers can safely ascend. This is one of the tests being conducted at the aeromedical laboratory, Wright Field, Ohio. Left: U. S. A. of the U. S. N.-that's U. S. Aarnham, 24, a yeoman of the United States navy, pictured inspecting a box of junk jewelry on an island in the South Pacific. The jewelry was collected in Los Angeles for trading with island natives. Center: Sitting on top of their sleeping quarters are two marine anti'aircraft gunners who have shot down many enemy planes during the 140 raids they have helped to disperse in two months. They are: Pfc. Frank D. Dollard, 19, (left) and Corp. Robert Wolf, 23. Right: George Asimakis, 29, a machine-gunner with the coast guard who took on a Jap in the jungle and scored with a left hook to the jaw. But he was forced to resort to firearms when the Jap drew a knife. Carrier Transports, Supplies Tank Mountbatten in India Wear and tear on our tanks is cut down considerably by this tank recovery vehicle which carries the tanks up to battlefronts. Thus, they 1enter an engagement with cool engines and full fuel tanks. The carrier is 58 feet long and weighs over 4t tons. It is armed for protection against 1enemy ground and air attacks. It carries enough ammunition and rations to enable the crew to operate independently for four days. The army has labeled this new craft the M-25. 1 British Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten {right), supreme Allied commander in Southeast Asia, is greeted by General Sir Auchinleck, commander in chief in India, as Mountbatten arrived in New Delhi. This will be Mountbatten's headquarters. Postwar Dream Girl I ,:~.;;:. ''''''WITI ':· ·:< .... ... Mourning Dolores Moran, Hollywood, Calif., holds a picture of a soldier's postwar dream girl painted by Private James J. Fagan, Brooklyn, N. Y. Men of the 134th ordnance depot base voted that she most closely resembles the dream girl. relatives gather around the fresh graves of 16 Italians who were killed by the Nazis in retaliation for the shooting of a German soldier. The soldier had stolen a chicken from a local family. Inscription on the cross :reads: "They died from the forces of Naziism and Fascism." According to reports from Italy, this scene is common in many towns through which the Nazis are retreating before the might of Allied armies which were steadily rolling toward Rome and Berlin. Source of Vitamins ro:rn'"' L 16 Italians Die for Shooting of Nazi ! I,,,. ....· ~-- The King Is Peeved; the Queen Dignified Opens CIO Convention Norman Nelson beft) 15 months old, appears to be on the verge of a hearty howl as he poses for the cameraman after being named "Master Chicago" at an annual baby contest sponsored by the Women of the Moose. His attitude draws a look of disdain from the queen of the show, Jacqueline Clark, 29 months old (right), who dignifiedly accepts the title of "Miss Chicago." Students at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, Bronx, N. Y., prepare to write a composition on the subject of "Why I Like a St. Bernard Dog." They are getting impressions of their friendly subject through their fingers. The patient dog is "Shag Boy" owned by Mrs. Eleanor Reiff who is holding him. Soldiers Dine on Reverse Lend-Lease Food ........ ~·· Philip Murray, president of the ~e demand for. vitamins ~as Congress of Industrial Organizations, cod fishinlf at Gaspe, stimulated opening the CIO's sixth annual cQn· Jean Colombo Canada.. Q'!-ebec, vention in Philadelphia, Pa. CIO a 50-pounder fnend a shows {right) members now number 5,285,000. he has caugh~ I ,:;Pfc. Paul ~:. Cannon, Worcester, Mass., and Donald W. Stanton of Indian Lake, N. Y., who are stationed in England, dine on food obtained from the Briti-h via reverse lend-lease. Rarest item on their menu is I the egg. Com·Jat crews of the air corps are the only ones to rate this; protein. !:!:_nd-.ease credits pay for this food. |
