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The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 7

Publication:
The Fresno Beei
Location:
Fresno, California
Issue Date:
Page:
7
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Pegs A THE FRESNO DEE FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14 1941 Photos Tell News On War And Home Fronts Nazi Plane Attack On Iceland Brings Warfare Close To SAgreenland NORWAY ICELAND 2WifiaU GERMANS SAY THEIR PLANES STRAFE BRITISH IN ICELAND THIS IS THE CLOSEST GERMAN WARPLANES HAVE COME TO '4 NEW YORK I rl- Atlantic Ocean BRITISH ISLES Expert An authority on engineering problems is Dexter 8 Kimball above newly named tools and equipment priority executive in the office of production management the defense group He teas Cornell engineering dean from 19iOSe A 4 ft s' This first picture from the scene of fighting on the Greeco-Albanian border region shows a Greek artillery unit high on a mountain in position to fire on Italian troops near Tepelini An attack on German planes on Iceland shown above in this map brings World War II closest to the United States it has been since its start Maxis sources said plane machine gunned British ships on the ground at Reykjavik only lflOO miles from the North American mainland Under tutelage of Sergeant Herman Brittman of the San Diego Marine Corps base members of the newly organized Ban Diego Navy Wives Defense Corps study battle formation as part of the program of training to aid in America's defense program Swedish Beauty runs in the family of Princess Sibylla of Sweden whose husband Prince Gustaf Adolf is a grandson of St year old King Gustav Her daughters are left to right the Princesses Birgitta Desiree and Margaretha 'V -i WhN Ski Jaunt Ski fans meet Ed Borders S4 University of Alaska student who is making a 1J00 mile solo ski Jaunt from Fairbanks Alaska to Haselton Carrying food camera and sleeping bag he hopes to do it in ninety days Orchids To Spring is already on the calendar for pretty Ggy Hayden smart New Yorker who has given her pale green afternoon crepe a festive look with the regal orchids The soft epaulets call attention to the natural shoulder line Navy Honor A navy patrol bomber model holds the attention of the three top ranking men of the United States naval academy midyear graduating class which numbers 400 midshipmen Left to right William Nicholson of Pasadena Calif who teas the "honor man" Frank Sanger Jr of Wilmington Del second highest Francis Cuccias of Wood-haven third OMPpPAN1 Coy Boy! It is plain to see that romance is in the air for Blanche Brewer who turned up with this idea for day The muff boquet is made of roses snapdragons carnations and cornflowers which are repeated in the tiny hat FV Drama Of Their Own When Broadway paid tribute recently to the forty years Ethel Barrymore right 61 has starred on the stage Heim llayes left another first lady of the theater added her good wishes too Above the pair is listening to broadcast greetings from two other Barrymores John and Lionel Ethel now has Welsh schoolmistress role in a New York hit Twenty Candlepower Warfare! Billowing clouds of smoke released from twenty candles laid down the chemical screen through which these masked bundled up soldiers emerge at Camp Upton Long Island They belong to the 198th Coast Artillery and were taking part in some chemical warfare maneuvers staged by Major Monroe A Blumensteil chemical warfare officer at Upton In Bronze Scabiscuit turfdom's greatest money winner of all time posm in the flesh alongside the life size statue of himself unveiled in Santa Anita Park Los Angeles The Biscuit's biggest money race was the SlOOfiOO Santa Anita Handicap won in March 1940 With the Biscuit is his owner Charles 8 Howard The statue is the work of Tex Wheeler A Cat's Error Almost Cost A Because the family cat apparently mistook it for a mouse this toy Pomeranian dog almost did not to take an hourly feeding from a bottle The pup which weighed one and one fourth ounces at birth was grabbed by the eat two days later Owner Mrs Jack Barclay of Shelton Wash believes it the smallest puppy ever to survive In the wake of Britain's fast advancing army of the Nile ruins of Tobruk with nibble rov erei streets and shell marked buildings are left behind Here is the first picture from Tobruk with long lines of Italian naval prisoners on their way to British eonerntratum camps i i.

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